I love my Mama. I can’t stand my Mama’s politics.
My mother is a gregarious, welcoming woman who always had a few more potatoes and a little more meat to throw into the pot if unplanned guests were to do her the honor of dropping by. There are few people whose life she hasn’t touched for the better.
But, love her as I do, she is still a wrong-wing, fundamentalist, born-again, arch-conservative, RayGun-loving, Republican. She is convinced that Barack Obama is evil and is part of a conspiracy to take the United States straight to Hell. And, she lives, eats, and breathes anything her hero, Bill O’Reilly, has to say.
Her latest rant to her card-carrying, bleeding-heart, liberal Democratic son involved the secret regulations Obama "buried deep in his healthcare plan that forbid the government to pay for some special pills that will cure macular generation unless the patient goes completely blind in one eye!"
There is no use arguing with Mama and no deluge of facts will wash away her made-up mind. But, I decided to do some research to find the kernel of truth upon which a rumor often rests.
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