My Dad died last night after a long struggle with emphysema. He was a pretty conservative guy. Retired police officer from the Chicago suburb of Wheaton. We had major differences during the Vietnam war and it essentially caused me to leave home at a rather early age. We reconciled many years ago and had become best friends. He absolutely loathed George Bush because he had a highly developed bullshit detector. He could spot a phony a mile away and there was something about Bush's fake cowboy act that drove him nuts. After he retired, my dad moved to the panhandle of Oklahoma and lived out his childhood dream of being a real cowboy.
My Dad cast an absentee ballot for John Kerry last week. I don't really see how we can lose.