I watched some of Barack Obama's speech at the DNC and he seems like a stand-up guy. Well spoken, intelligent, funny, sincere, good voting record, full of good ideas...the better candidate in my opinion.
Living here in god-forsaken Georgia, it's tough to be to the left politically. I was at a neighborhood party over the weekend and the HOA president (who is quite a character - worthy of a whole post dedicated solely to her someday) said, out of the blue, in her extraordinarily thick southern accent, "Obama is Satan."
Obama is Satan.
Sheesh. What does one even do with that? How to respond? I'll tell you how. Total silence. As soon as she said it, silence fell over the group. You know that saying, "heard crickets"? Well, we actually heard crickets as we stood there on that warm August evening. Even the Republicans (meaning all of the other people standing there besides me) just stood there and stared at her. It seems that the strong religious convictions of the crowd superseded their Republican passions and calling someone Satan, even if it was a Democrat, was taking it just one step too far.
It'll be interesting to hang out with all of my Democrat friends next week during the RNC. I can secretly play a game of "Top That" in the search for the winning commentary on McCain. It'll be hard to beat calling someone Satan though. But...then again, maybe not...for McCain, simply calling him a pacifist or something like that would probably be just as insulting.
It's going to get good people.
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