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I am writing this diary with something of a heavy heart. Tonight I had the opportunity to spend some time with an ardent John McCain supporter and I must say I am I really shaken up by the experience.
It was not news to me that this man supported John McCain, nor was it news to me that this person caries deep racial hatred, but some of the things I was hearing were beyond reason.
Tonight was the first time that I had the opportunity to speak with this man since the election. We were watching some college football on TV and during a commercial break I decided to poke a little bit so I asked a question: Do you think we are now communist country? That set off the fury.
"Damn Right!" was the answer. Followed up by, "That nigger is going to fuck up this country." While it was not new to me to hear an N-Bomb from this man, I didn’t think that it would come this violently. Before long he started throwing the kitchen sink. Here are the highlights:
"Obama denounced his white half by referring to himself as an African-American"
The man was unfazed by my response that Obama is more African than 98% of African-Americans.
"He comes from the 3rd most corrupt political city in the country and he hangs out with terrorists and his racist anti-American Reverend. He also is full of shit about not knowing about his sermons."
I asked if he had proof of this. He had none. I asked if Obama’s "conservative" Judge friends were relevant. He said that they weren’t.
"His economic plan is going to be a disaster for America. He’s not going to give anyone but blacks a tax cut. He’s going to send checks to 40% of the population that doesn’t even pay taxes, which are mostly blacks! He has no intention to help the middle class – only the black class."
I pointed out that those blacks fall into the same tax bracket as he does. I had also never heard of Obama planning to send anyone ad-hoc checks (like they do in Alaska). The man is convinced that Obama’s entire presidency is based on stealing white money and sending it to blacks.
I asked if he was bothered that his 401K has been getting hammered. His response was "Yes, I am bothered. John McCain tried to fix it. Barney Frank, Chris Dodd and those nigger friends of Obama who were running Fannie and Freddie are to blame."
This was pretty much impossible to dignify with a response.
He even decided to break out the flag lapel pin and the thoroughly debunked Khalid al-Mansour – Harvard tuition smear. I pointed out that Obama wore flag lapel pins at all of the debates when John McCain did not. To him this was a sign that Obama has no "principals" because he was simply wearing the pin but didn’t "mean" it. What ever that means.
He then proceeded to go on a rant about how dirt poor he was as a child and how he’s so grateful for everything that he has today and he doesn’t want anyone taking that away from him. He railed about how he makes more money than he needs and said that he doesn’t need a "job killing" tax cut from Obama. This set my off my wife. My wife yelled "Enough! You weren’t the only fucking person who grew up poor. I grew up in a single-wide tin can of a trailer. I had to stick my head out of the window to drive my first car [That I bought] because I couldn’t use the windshield. For you to say that I am ungrateful for what I have is unbelievably offensive."
Needless to say, this conversation was well beyond the heated point by now, but there is more. At one point in the shouting match he said, "I went out and burned my American Flag on Tuesday night because I couldn’t believe that this country has so many mindless idiots who have been seduced by the Messiah."
At this point I informed him that those liberals like Obama are the ones who protect his right to burn that flag and that if it were up to the Republicans they would amend the constitution to make that action a federal crime. He didn’t care.
He then launched into a tirade about how Snoop Dogg will be an advisor to Obama, the White House will have house parties 6 nights a week, and the front porch will be littered with Madd Dog 20-20 and Old English bottles. At this point my wife turns to me and says, "Let’s go. That’s it. I cannot take any more of hearing him talk about him like that. I will be driving off in 2 minutes with out without you in the car." Obviously, at that point the argument was done.
My wife was unable to drive home because of the tears running down her face so I took over for her. She was really shaken up by the whole thing.
The most painful part of this night was that the man is my father. While, I’ve always known him to be something of an unrepentant racist, the stuff coming from him tonight was vile and disturbing.