Last year my (former) friend Pat sent me an email with Obama's face on a monkey. I knew Pat supported the Tea Party but I got mad and told her never to send me an email like this again so she completely stopped sending me emails and won't speak to me. Believe me, all I said was that I supported President Obama and resented getting emails like the one she sent me. Thinking maybe she got over it, I sent her a Thanksgiving emailed card but she didn't reply nor did she email me a Christmas card. Therefore, I felt that she no longer wanted my friendship and have not communicated with her.
Tonight another friend, Diane, who has been sending me anti Obama emails (which I always debunk on Snopes) sent me another anti Obama email and I just emailed her back to tell her not to send me emails like this any longer.
I have known Pat and Diane since we were children. We grew up in the same neighborhood, went to the same schools, laughed with each other and cried with each other. Pat and I were especially close along with her twin sister who passed away the same day Elvis died. We were brought back together thanks to Classmates.com and also a Yahoo Group dedicated to the neighborhood we grew up in started by another friend from there (you can only talk about our lives back then, the music we listened to and other friends that we knew - no politics or anything not related to life in the late 50's and 60's).
I know I could have just deleted Diane's email but you know what, I felt without letting her know that this type of email bothered me and asking not to have them sent to me I was doing myself and her a disservice.
10:22 PM PT: Diane just emailed me and said she appreciates my telling her I didn't like the anti Obama email and she'll no longer send me political emails but will send others like she always has.