So, Who In Your Life Will Be Gloating The Hardest?

[Plaid Adder]

Now that You Know Who is safely in the bag, who are you totally not looking forward to talking to about it?

Personally I dread being taunted by my brother, though of course I'm used to it. Anyone else? Who are you so NOT looking forward to discussing this news with?

C ya,

The Plaid Adder

[JohnKleeb]

1. I thinks the hawks I debated in history last year about it

But they arent in any of my classes and suprisingly it wasnt brought up today by anyone. To rant we was watching 1776 in history, and I wonder, are we at a point like that now.

[LiberalVoice]

2. My manager.

He is a right-wing nut and doesn't know his ass from a hole in the ground.

[ewagner]

3. It's not just one person

I posted this earlier this morning but thought it might apply here too.

Ran into a little bit of it again with a co-worker this morning on the phone.

Yesterday morning I went to the local "warehouse" grocery store to do my normal shopping. I almost went crazy.

When I was waiting in line at the Deli, a guy in a Packer sweatshirt turned to me and asked if I had heard the big news. (I knew SH had been captured but I played dumb). He told me all the details about SH's capture and said "They should have just put a bullet in his head". I countered with "..things probably aren't going to change much. The Sunnis still hate the Shi'a and the Kurds still hate the rest of the Iraqis. Saddam doesn't have anything to do with that." He just mumbled something about Iraq being better off without Saddam.

Later, I ran in to an old client of mine who was joyfully eplaining to anybody who would listen that it was "A great day for America". When she went into detail about Saddam's capture, she took particular pleasure in describing how he was check for lice. I was one of athree people she was talking to and the other two were alternately obsessing on the lice and what a great day it was. I let them go on for a few minutes and then asked, "Did he have all those WMDs on him too?" There were blank stares all around. My clinet just said "Oh, you're just a big poo" and went off to spread the "good news" to others.

I'm still pretty depressed about it. Nobody appears to be paying attention. They seem to be reading the headlines but not the story. They seem to be buying whatever Bu$hco is selling without reading the label.

[Zero Gravitas]

4. Don't worry

reality will be rearing its ugly head soon enough. Let them gloat! The higher the expectations are the bigger the crash down to Earth will be. Nothing has changed significantly. Getting Saddam is big symbolicaly but doesn't change the underlying problems with Bush*'s reckless policy.

[thom1102]

5. My brother...

I was all set to gloat this christmas, and even bought a book called "Where's Saddam" a children's style picture book with W in a 10 gallon hat, looking for Saddam, and in each picture, there is a "window" that you open with a picture inside. It was the perfect gag gift for my brother, and now the joke is on me... Oh well, I will still give it too him.

[Zero Gravitas]

7. There's always "Where's Osama"

and you can make the point that if thay hadn't diverted resources away from going after real terrorists in Afghnistan toward this PNAC fantasy in Iraq, they might have actually caught Osama bin Laden who, unlike Saddam, actually poses a threat to the US.

[elfin]

6. My sister and brother in law AND....

we have to STAY with them over Christmas!!!!! Bah Humbug!

[AnnabelLee]

8. My stepson already called to gloat about it

I wasn't home, so I heard about it from my husband. I had just a few days earlier told my stepson that he could find out who had given money & how much to political candidates at opensecrets.org, &, according to my husband, my stepson said on the phone, "Bet ya won't find that on opensecrets.com", in a really snotty tone of voice. So, here we have a 21 year old young man, who fastens on the name of a website I mentioned, & thinks he's being clever by throwing in back at us...only he got the name of the site wrong, & apparently didn't feel it was a stupid thing to say in light of the fact that opensecrets is only for searching donations, not news stories.

Why he feels the need to be unkind to us is a mystery to me. Even though we are against his deployment to Iraq, which he says is going to happen in February, we've never been anything but supportive of him, & we've certainly never resorted to snottiness or sarcasm when discussing politics with him. My husband said he told him that one day he will come to understand that things are as they have always been...rich men/arms dealers build up boogeymen, turn around & say, "Oh, look, there's a boogeyman!", & send the sons & daughters of the poor & the working class off to die for corporate profits.

I'm so disheartened over this latest episode with my stepson...it is breaking my heart that he is unreachable.:-(

[Plaid Adder]

11. That must be hard

especially knowing he's going to be suffering for all of this in the spring. But look at it this way: since he is about to be deployed, it would cost him an awful lot, psychologically speaking, to acknowledge that the sacrifice he's about to make in terms of disrupting his life and putting himself in harm's way might not be in the service of some greater good. Knowing this war is bullshit depresses me plenty; if I were actually going to have serve in it I'm sure I would be searchign pretty hard for a way to believe that good would come of it.

Good luck, and I hope he comes back safe,

The Plaid Adder

[Skittles]

9. NOBODY GLOATS TO ME

BECAUSE THEY KNOW I WILL GIVE THEM THE FACTS

[GOPisEvil]

10. And then kick their asses!

;-)

:hi:

[Skittles]

19. I would, ya know?

Tombo's dad voted for Bush but he very much regrets it. And his mom is a Democrat, so dinner with them ain't so bad!

[GOPisEvil]

22. Except they are boring.

;-)

[Cheswick2.0]

12. no one in my life would have the nerve

most of them are liberals anyway.

[Kamika]

13. none

Most of my repubco friends have more or less behaved like me.. a "It wont really change much" attitude.. But my repub friends aren't sheep like most seem to be

[SammyWinstonJack]

14. Don't have to worry about that

Luckily I don't know any Chimpy gloater types. :bounce:

[mlawson]

15. No one. Everyone I know hates the * regime. n/t

[grannylib]

16. Brother here too; he was just here Saturday for an early family Christmas

and bragging about his ornament from Chimpy and Pickles (sent out to the contributors) and he was in DC recently pushing for the energy bill; he's waaaaaaaaaaay out there on the wrong wing.
Love him to pieces, but hate hate hate his politics.

[RebelOne]

17. One of my Repug co-workers, who is a Bush lover and ex-Marine

And also a couple of my pro-war neighbors.

[Booberdawg]

18. Just ask them, where is Osama been Forgotten?

Since he was the one behind 911 anyway. Hmmmm??

[geniph]

20. Nobody would gloat to me

I mean, I'm glad he's found too. I wish they had found bin Forgotten before they went flying off with wild hairs up their butts into Iraq. They will only embarrass themselves and create international incidents, because you know perfectly well they won't be able to resist "trying" and executing him themselves, rather than letting an international court handle the matter.

Besides, the one family event we're going to, the sister that's hosting it knows John and I will walk out if people get abusive.

[ScreamingMeemie]

21. My brother in-law.

:puke:

He's a blue collar blind man.

[HuckleB]

23. Gloating?

Who would do that? I mean, what took so long? And so what? What now? What's different?

Nobody gloats to me. They don't want to have to defend a gloat with that many holes in it.

[HuckleB]

24. Oh, I get it, you thought I was a Tampa Bay fan.

Nope. I hate the Bucs, though they're not out of it yet.

[Plaid Adder]

25. Gloating update

Strangely, I talked to my brother the other day and he didn't even bring it up. Is the high over already?

C ya,

The Plaid Adder

[Blue-Jay]

26. Screw that.

Hussein's recent capture, although a good thing, does nothing to legitimize the failures of the shrub administration. It was only a matter of time anyway. I still have the upper hand with my Republic** relatives, based on the failures and lies of the BFEE. This is but a mere bump in the road to our victory next year. Truth will win, Jebus willing.

** Footnote: If they can call us the "Democrat Party", I can refer to them as "Republics". Idiots.