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[Plucketeer]

I too, live in a blood red area of my state (CA). To my dismay, I was talking to my neighbor this morning - the same neighbor I'd shared my liberal views with a couple of months earlier and had been tickled to was registered as a Democrat like the wife and I are - and listened while he told me that he couldn't abide an Obama/Biden ticket.

"Nope!" he sighed "It's gonna be one big welfare nation if it comes to him winning. We'll be payin' taxes to support every unwed N****r mother with 3 or 4 little ones! Handing out money to rebuild every shack that Katrina blew down - blah, blah, blah....."

Well, he's my neighbor. I wasn't just gonna jump in his shit and call his notions stupid. BUT, I did counter it like this.....

"Pal, look at what we're doing NOW! We're BORROWING Billions to rebuild a nation that we blew apart for NOTHING! Billions that WE, our KIDS, and THEIR KIDS are gonna hafta pay back WITH Interest! So WHERE would you rather our handouts to go??? HERE or Iraq??? Here or Georgia? Here or India? Here or a bunch of banana republics?"

He shrugged his shoulders and changed the subject. I'm glad he did so. I want to be able to have a good neighbor relationship with him. He's one of the few on our drive that isn't a blithering GOP devotee or Bible-thumpin' fundamentalist!