Imagine having to sneak behind your parents' backs to listen to the POTUS.

[Raven]

I daresay, we're fucked as a country if this has traction with anyone other than the wingnuts.

[robo50]

1. Thankfully, many children of wingnuts know their parents are screwy

by the time they are in High School.

Of course, some of these kids turn out nuttier than their parents, too!

What can you do? Censor parents?

[gateley]

2. I think it's only the wingnuts. Everyone else is incredulous this is happening. nt

[Raven]

3. Can you picture some poor kid huddled under the covers in his bed

with earphones? I used to do that so I could listen to Arnie "WOO WOO" Ginsberg on WBZ... a forbidden thing in my house.

[gateley]

4. But I bet you wouldn't have had to do that if it was the President giving a speech!

This is just fucking in-sane. Truly, I feel like I'm in a Twilight Zone episode or something.

[Raven]

6. No, I wouldn't have. In my life, I have listened to Ike,

Nixon, Kennedy, Johnson, the Bush clan, Carter, Clinton...I have learned something from every one of them. I guess the next thing these schools will do is leave Obama out of the history books.

BTW, I had a far right wing builder/contractor thank me and tell me today that he is finally getting back on his feet thanks to "the stimulus that your President put in place." He meant it too.

[gateley]

9. Ditto. And regardless of who was in office, whether my parents voted

for him or not, there was respect and acceptance that this person was the leader of our country. (It wasn't until Reagan won my mom over and my dad and I thought she was nuts, that any dissention occurred in front of the TV :))

That is WONDERFUL about the builder -- is he looking at Obama through different eyes now?

It's been my hope (fantasy?) that those opposed will benefit from Obama's actions, think -- hey, maybe this guy ISN'T so bad, then slowly come around to supporting him.

[satya]

15. Thank you for that little ray of hope.

The wingers do love their money so maybe some of them will be able to put 2 and 2 together once they see their own finances improving.

[Raven]

7. No, I wouldn't have. In my life, I have listened to Ike,

Nixon, Kennedy, Johnson, the Bush clan, Carter, Clinton...I have learned something from every one of them. I guess the next thing these schools will do is leave Obama out of the history books.

BTW, I had a far right wing builder/contractor thank me and tell me today that he is finally getting back on his feet thanks to "the stimulus that your President put in place." He meant it too.

[valerief]

5. I remember Arnie. I've got a picture of me taken with him somewhere around here. nt

[Raven]

8. And look, we both survuved crazy Arnie!

[valerief]

10. Well, whenever I hear someone say, "Woo woo," I start to do the Mashed Potato.

Aside from that, I'm fine.

[Manifestor_of_Light]

11. Obama will be as attractive as a girlie magazine to a straight boy.

Sounds good to me. The wingnut strategy will backfire. If momma and daddy don't want the kids to see it, they will find a way, because it MUST BE GOOD. :D

[Jennicut]

12. My parents are conservatives, there is no guarantee that these wingnuts will keep

their kids from becoming liberal or even apolitical anyway. I sure didn't listen to my parents...we have been fighting over politics since I was 17!

[tblue37]

16. My father's whole family is conservative, and so was he. My mother wasn't

very political, though she did date Ronald Reagan briefly in Iowa the 1930s (true story). (She voted against him in both presidential elections, though.)

[Jennicut]

17. OMG, now that is an incredible story. Did she say what Ronnie was like?

[tblue37]

19. No, but Grandma did. She said "Ronnie was a nice boy, but he

wasn't very smart." She also told me she was glad that they didn't have a long-term relationship, because, as she said, she always wanted smart grandchildren.

(Mom was a pretty blonde 17-year-old waitress in a coffee shop thet "Dutch" used to frequent when he was a sports commentator in Des Moines. He was, I think, about 9 years older than she at the time.)

[AwakeAtLast]

13. Next, they'll be listening that dadgum rock-n-roll music!

The horror! :scared:



;)

[Cha]

14. I had to sneak around

to go to parties.

[Control-Z]

18. I was the child of an

extreme wingnut. My daddy was a card carrying Bircher. By age 7 I was questioning the vile, vicious BS he spewed. By 10 I had no doubts.