If your day is anything like mine, the turds are dropping like a blitzkrieg!

[kid a]

Our dinner conversation around the dining room table (yes, we still do that with our last remaining nested daughter, 14) every night has been the battles we face in at our jobs and in the high school hallways every day. Our printer is working overtime with factual back-up to reinforce our daily encounter with the fecal flack being flung from the these fucking angry, RW, freaks!!

My daughter volunteered at high school night at the Obama office and came home encouraged from a few positive calls.
My wife just headed out with Pelosi's speech in hand.

Its a fucking war out there and the shit they come up with is dazzling!

[demnan]

1. What state do you live in?

Because here in Northern Virginia Republicans pretty much keep their mouths shut now, at least north of the Occoquan river.

[Labors of Hercules]

3. Here in NC too...

If they're not talking about supporting BO, it's like they've been langlocked. :evilgrin:

[kid a]

7. Montana - we're down, but not out.

[Bluenorthwest]

13. Montana! I love Montana...

and I've been dying to know how the Republicans there explain the utter greed of Montana, as pointed out by McCain and Palin, taking federal welfare to study bear genetics. Don't they know that Palin needs that money to study crab genetics, and that Palin's requests are legitimate, but Montana is just begging for money to waste?

[blondeatlast]

9. AZ too--and that used to not be the case at all, even here in McCain's home state.

It used to be in a GE year the political talk would be very open as long as it was for the republican.

Now the only conversations I hear in public are about Obama. It's a major change; I've heard not a single conversation about McCain either good or bad. Very interesting.

[Curtland1015]

2. The right have really made our job fun this time.

It's almost too easy to silence the "morans" after all of McCain's bone headed plays.

[zeemike]

4. Sounds like your whole family deserves a purple heart

[fasttense]

5. I know how you feel.

"I'm scarred to death that your boy is going to win." our Lutheran Pastor just told my husband referring to our Obama yard sign.

We have stopped attending his church.

I thought the Pastor was a bit of a right wing idiot but I had no idea he was a racist too.

I wish I hadn't given all that money and time to support this idiot.

[TwilightGardener]

6. Yeah--we've had a formerly-friendly neighbor stop talking to us

as soon as we put our Obama bumper sticker on the car. I knew this guy was an insane right winger from past conversations, and it didn't bother my husband or me (we're used to RWers, being a military family), but apparently it bothers him that we support Obama--now when we see him, he studiously ignores us, where he used to rush up to us like a puppy everytime we were outside. Oh well.

[mrcheerful]

10. Have you noticed the difference in the lutheran church too?

I stopped going soon after graduating in 1975, heck the last time I went I stood outside having a smoke with the pastor. I went to dads funeral at the church ( that dad helped build ), and I swear it was like sitting in a baptist church, yes I have found myself attending one of those once. Greeters and church servants in a lutheran church wt? Old testament instead of new testament? Has the world really turned upside down? I keep hoping for excommunication from years of not attending but so far nothing, I'm still a member.

This is not the religion of my youth, where during the Nam war the pastor kept talking about the salvation of our service members and reminding us that Jesus was against war and good christians turned the other cheek. I think the final straw for me was when Swing Low was my dads final hymn, dad was first generation american and he always enjoyed German hymns, at 51 I learned dad could speak German and read German, things I never knew.

[tanyev]

12. ELCA or LCMS?

I've been LCMS all my life, but we're in the process of looking for an ELCA church we like. I knew the pastor at the previous church we attended was Republican-leaning, but I was surprised when I went back there (in 2004) to borrow some choir music to see Bush-Cheney stickers all over the back of his car. Thankfully, the pastor at the LCMS church we have attended up till now has always been very careful to stay politically neutral when he is speaking, but I'm uncomfortable with some of the general undertones we've been picking up in the congregation for the last few months.

[secondwind]

8. more American families should be like yours. My 9 yr-old

granddaughter volunteers one hour on Sundays at an Obama store with her mom. She has made a beautiful "Free Tibet" poster, and has been a "political animal" since she was four.

We need to teach our kids to be engaged! Obviously, I did that with my daughter, who walks picket lines with her kid in tow

[populistdriven]

11. my 11 yo daughter does 5 hours of data entry for Obama every week