It's been a really good day! I had an interesting discussion with a 55-year old, white, working class former-Huckabee supporter today at my kitchen table :)
Really. I can't make stuff this good up.
He's my boyfriend's stepfather.
He's a former Viet Nam veteran and a Teamster both. We were talking about Barack winning the election, and he expressed a grave concern about Barack being able to win the white, male, middle-aged working-class vote. I looked at him and said, well, given the choice, are you planning to vote Obama or McCain? I squinched my eyes up as I was windexing the table.
OBAMA OF COURSE! He said, before absolutely railing about the insult of the gas tax holiday.
I walked over, tapped him on the shoulder, and said, I think Obama just won the white, middle-aged, working class, male vote you know.
He was blustery.
"But, but..."
Look, I said. Are your friends going to vote McCain, he's going to wreck our economy and our health care. Do they know that.
"Yes," he said, and added, "all my friends are going to vote Obama, but I'm afraid some people in the country aren't going to vote for a black person."
I asked him if he thought they'd rather vote for a very old person who appeared to be going senile and told him about McCain holding the microphone upside down yesterday.
I said, look, they'll have two choices: a smart black man or an incompetent man after 7 years of George Bush. Are you really nervous about this?
"No!" he said, suddenly getting it.
Next thing I know, we're dancing around the kitchen and he's saying Obama's going to win! Obama's going to win!
Okay, maybe you had to be there, but that man is secret weapon number one.
Secret weapon number two requires a photo:
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That there is another former Huckabee supporter, a lifelong Republican evangelical Christian with a heart of gold. That is my very dear Grandmother, as white as can be, from America's heartland, 80-something and the daughter of a popcorn farmer.
This year, for the first time in her life, she's voting Democratic.
For Obama.
She thinks he's just like JFK.
Whom she regrets not voting for.
She's NOT racist and never has been.
She's a good Christian woman.
And she, and Rick will both be voting Dem their first times ever: for Obama.
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