FangKC wrote:
Wow, it's obvious that she spends a lot of time listening to talk radio. All are basically the talking points of Limbaugh and Beck--to the exclusion of all other points-of-view or the facts.
I know what you are talking about. There is a lot of fear and intolerance at the base of these belief systems. The mistrust of anyone who holds different political views as the enemy. It reminds me of past times when anyone who associated with blacks as branded a "n-word" lover.
She's not a talk radio person, but believes that Fox News is the only unbiased news source in the world. I'm fine with having a differing opinion with someone else, but I have trouble respecting the intelligence of people who refuse to at least investigate the facts or the beliefs they have. I obviously disagree with her on every point, and I might be wrong, but I've also tried to do at least some research on the subjects. This might be a bad example, but the flat out look of horror on her face when I mentioned that I watch Al Jazeera online was fairly amusing. She didn't say anything, but I know she was horrified that I was using "the terrorist network" as any kind of a legitimate news source. She was also completely confused as to why I was excited that, after the Japan earthquake, that Uverse unlocked a Japanese network to all their customers for free. She didn't understand why I would bother watching the news there, when Fox had better coverage.
I don't understand why she believes what she believes, but I try very hard not to knock it or criticize. She hasn't been balls out offensive to my face regarding my beliefs, which I appreciate, but it's clear that we disagree on everything. Honestly, my main beef with what she believes to be true is that she seems to be simply parroting the bullshit that she gets from the republican party fringe and I find that pretty much impossible to respect. I have plenty of friends who are conservative republicans and I have no issues with the ones who can back up their beliefs and who are willing to have a discussion about the issues.
To be honest, I am entirely unsure how I managed to become a liberal democrat. My mom wholehearted feeds into the conservative, republican, tea-party, anti-Obama thing. During the last election, her email forwards to me got to be so obnoxious and offensive that I finally had to demand that she STFU (this was after asking her nicely about 2 dozen times). Off the top of my head, I honestly don't know a single person in my hometown who is a democrat. They are all highly conservative, staunchly republican, love the tea-party movement, and would be thrilled if someone blew out the back of Obama's head with a .22.
The most amusing thing that I keep discovering is that, besides the abortion issue, their number one beef seems to be gun control. They believe that democrats want to take all their guns away and I adore messing with their head when they discover that I am a democrat, but that I am not only for the second amendment, but that I own guns myself.
FangKC wrote:
Yes, this is what I've been saying all along. Even if Obama was born in Kenya, which he wasn't, he is considered a natural born citizen because his mother was a native-born US citizen. This would also apply to a US-born unmarried mother living abroad.
You beat me to it, but this is what I also have been saying forever and don't understand what the issue is. The fact that the critics are discounting the fact that, regardless of where he was born and the nationality of his father, his mother was a United States citizen doesn't sit well with me.
