I just received an email from my republican father. I love him dearly, he's 84. I made the mistake of going online when my father was turning 80 and having Bush send him a birthday card. (Hey a birthday card from your president is a big deal, so sorry). Now he spends a lot of time trying to convince me to vote republican (so, so, sorry).
One of our biggest communication problems is Faux news. He gets all his 'ammo' discussion points from there. He sent me this email today. I know it doesn't seem like much but it is clear that faux is going after all the dems down ticket. And my father is passing along the 'scary' prospects to me.
(Do you think I could get Obama to send my dad a card?) My dad's email:
"I just was watching Fox news..Yep,,,,fox news. They aired the entire speech of Obama at one of his rally's today.
He said that McCain said he would lose if he stayed on the ecomany so now
all he does is attack me...Then he proceede to run McCain down one side
after another. What a hypacrite.....
Fox said the way it looks now is that the democrates will gain 30 seats and the white house. They went on to say that if this happens the republicans will not be able to stop any programs or get any of theirs through. It will be a one party system.
love from dad that listens to fair and balanced news even if its bad news."
- Okay, for any who doesn't have a republican father slyly trying to convince you to change your bluish ways, a quick translation;
#Fox news shows Obama's whole speech so they are fair and equal.
#Obama doesn't talk about the economy either.
#Obama is very negative and mean about McCain.
#It looks like the 'bad guys' might win everything and then they will always get 'their' way.
#A one party system of government is bad! BAD!
#If you must vote for Obama at least vote republican the rest of the ticket.
I know a lot of people in my hometown that will buy this logic. The all one party is bad thing - I don't know exactly how to fight that because I sure did think having the republicans in complete control turned out BAD.