My dumbfuck Sister-in-law

[Postman]

According to her, It's a great move by McCain to pick Palin. She's a woman, she's younger than Obama and she has MORE experience than Obama and she's just the VP....

She says Obama is arrogant (code for being black) and of course, she's a Fox News watcher. Needless to say, she's lost at sea when it comes to issues...

She and her husband are what I would classify as upper-middle class.

[Catch22Dem]

1. Dumbfuck sounds about right (n/t)

[Maccagirl]

2. So the whole world can go to hell in a handbasket as long

as she and hubby have their nice home, SUV and pool in the 'burbs eh? They have no idea what lies ahead for them...dumbfuck indeed.

[Postman]

9. I shutter to think...

of a McCain Presidency. But if it were to pass, I would pray for a reinstatement of the military draft just to scare the shit out of them. They have 2 boys of draft age.

I believe all they care about is their own financial investments and whatever Fox News tells them to care about...

[driver8]

17. That pretty much describes most rethuglicans that I know...they don't give a fuck

about anyone but themselves.

[El Supremo]

3. Sounds like my dumbfuck sister-in-law.

A "financial adviser" in Colo. Springs.

[Postman]

6. I stay away from political discussions with these people....

It's like talking to infants.

[ourbluenation]

4. there's no net gain or loss with palin. it was truly a weird pick...

this will be base against base and our base is bigger.

[MrModerate]

7. But now she has to campaign. What's the likelihood that she's going to . . .

Put her foot in her mouth? High, I'd say.

[Codeine]

19. It was weird,

but I see some of the logic. It took the news cycle right out of Obama's hands right after the greatest acceptance speech of my lifetime while softening some of the perceived "rough edges" of McCain. She may also prove difficult to attack in the debates without coming across like a bully or a Neanderthal.

It's also just possible Biden could slip up and make the equivalent of his "Clean, articulate, bright" comment about her.

On the whole, however, she brings nothing to the ticket but an appeal to evangelicals, and those goofy bastards were going to hold their noses and vote McSame anyway.

[BulletproofLandshark]

5. I'm sorry you have to have family like that.

The level of ignorance in the mainstream is staggering, in no small part due to your SIL's favorite propaganda outlet.

[southerncrone]

8. Typical neocon-loving economic group

They make more money than most people they know, so they think they are automatically members of "the big boys club".

When the "big boys" are playing them like fiddles. They always buy into the "Dems will raise your taxes" (i.e. take your money away & give it to poor{lazy} people). There's never mention of giving it other countries or corporate big shots.

I believe they are the most gullible & arrogant group out there.

[Postman]

10. She is a secretary for a law firm...

her husband has a gov't job. (a CPA for the state)

Get most if not all there news from mainstream sources.

[ourbluenation]

11. her husband must be in a union. and he's a rightie. I'll never get that one. n/t

[Postman]

13. People don't get a political education in the US

and if that is the case, the default setting in this country is center-rightwing.

And when you limit your news intake to a propaganda arm of the republican party, your default setting is right-wing.

[stillcool]

12. She should be VP!!

[bluedeminredstate]

14. I have a step-sister and brother-in-law like that

They are so far right that it wouldn't matter if McCain sacrificed small children in a satanic ceremony on national TV, they'd never vote for Obama. They don't actually use the word uppity, but that's exactly what they mean. "Condescending" and "haughty" are a couple of their favorites. They are so lazy in their thinking and let Rush, O'Reilly and Drudge do their work for them. Talking politics to them is like having a discussion with the Sunday Fox roundtable.

Of course both of them stand to inherit major money in the not-so-distant future and looooove the idea of the inheritance tax being done away with. They'd vote for a retarded chimpanzee if they thought they'd get more tax-free, unearned money to spend on things and more things. They are furiously buying future landfill deposits and large items that will eventually rust, but hey! Life is good when you have money to burn and clever ways to avoid paying the taxes that the average working stiff has to pay.

Do I sound bitter? Um, yeah...just a little. My B-I-L and I had a major blowup on November 4, 2000 and I haven't gotten over it yet. He told me he didn't care if Bush cheated to win as long as he won. Stealing the presidency is something no one should get over.

[zonmoy]

15. That is interesting

my rightwing family is going on and on about how obama promises everything while mccain is making no promises. I wonder what promises to what groups both foreign and domestic has mccain made behind the peoples backs.

[a la izquierda]

16. Feel your pain. I have visits to my family and...

my husband's family coming up. My mom is voting for Obama, thank god. Hubby's family and I, however, do not see eye to eye on anything political. I am saving many of these very salient threads as ammunition for the arguments I will undoubtedly have with my SIL.

These trips could be disastrous. I will most likely be praying to get back to Mexico (if only I didn't have to leave my man behind).

[lonestarnot]

18. I have a crazy motherfucker brother that doesn't try to hide his despicable bigotry.

I hate his ways. We have spoken for months now. Suits me just fine. He has a goofy wife too. I feel sorry for my niece, but she's about old enough to go her own way.

[DCKit]

20. Six degress of separation: I think we're all related to the same people. n/t

[mnhtnbb]

21. I have a dumbfuck SIL, too. I broke off communication with her

last month over the BS e-mails she kept sending me full of lies about Obama. Although, I have to admit,
the break has been building for years.

I'll bet she thinks Palin is great, too, although my SIL is pro-choice.

Both my brother and his wife are upper middle class.