And what's really weird is that while doing it, the guy kept calling me socialist.
I was in a wealthy suburban town yesterday morning, on my way into my office when I popped into a corporate coffee house to grab a coffee. I had just been on a morning run, and I'm feeling good. On my way back out to my car, I notice a Sean Hannity look-alike standing next to a Lexus SUV next to my car (which it should be noted is festooned with a few bumper stickers, one of which is the MoveOn Obama sticker).
So, coffee in hand, I'm walking to my car when Brother Hannity throws me a Nazi Salute.
I'm thinking to myself, "what the f*ck?" And I mutter, "Okay..."
The fella stammers out "You're a socialist, aren't you?"
"Look, pal, you don't know me, and that's not terribly appropriate for you to be calling me a socialist."
"If you like Obama, you must be a socialist."
More Nazi salutes.
"Since you're a socialist, why don't I just give you some of my money?"
"You can leave me alone if you want, you can do that for me."
"No, you want my money, here take some."
I really should have taken him up on it, I mean, he's got a real nice car and everything, right? Instead, typical whiny liberal that I am, I continue to tell him to go away, and as I'm pulling out of the corporate coffee chain parking lot, he's standing next to my car, yelling and throwing his hands up.
When I got to my office, I pulled off the sheets of paper he'd stuck under my wiper blades and read them. They were basically a bunch of quotes fro Sean Hannity, Prostitute Toe-Sucking Dick Morris, and the like, all talking about what a socialist BObama is.
The frightening thing was one passage which called on people to go to the FEC site that allows you to search by zipcode to find out which of your neighbors gave to BObama--that way you can go to them demanding money to help you out during these hard times. After all, if these neighbors were willing to pony up for a socialist, they should be willing to pony up for you too.
Frightening stuff.
Now, this is not an especially right-wing town I was in. People are pretty well off, but still Midwestern nice.
Just weird.