Comments on: An odd moment in a lovely morning

by: mikey

Tue, 04 Nov 2008 21:29:15 +0000

My life experience tells me that Debrah is exactly right in calling BS to Sheila’s comment about overhearing the ‘N’ word at the NC State Fair. My career has brought me in close contact with thousands of rural people over the last 32 years and my reality is this: white people, from the Penthouse to the outhouse, do not use that word. We hear it often from blacks, but not whites and especially in public. Debrah sounds reasoned in most of her commentary and if not for the abortion issue, just might support McPalin. Obama supporters; you may be in for some serious buyers’ remorse.

by: coco

Tue, 04 Nov 2008 17:45:30 +0000

sheila’s a flamer???? sheila???? i find debrah to be the flamiest flame of all. yeah, you debrah. you’re a flamey flame. anyway, my neighbors use the n word all the time and send emails around about obama hating the bible and being a terrorist, communist, etc. these are decent people, a couple of whom i love. this is the attitude they’ve been born and raised with and aren’t compelled to lose. to attack sheila for noting those people and calling her a liar and saying she was full of “bunk” is just a joke. thanks! i feel better!

flame out!

by: Doug

Tue, 04 Nov 2008 14:49:25 +0000

We all have personal experiences that impact our thinking but you would think most of us would be able to temper that with what we see on television and read about the larger world we don’t get to see at the State Fair.

by: Good Grief

Tue, 04 Nov 2008 02:08:09 +0000

Sheila makes very good points and she has not resorted to the pathetic and angry name calling that other posters have. Good grief. Can’t we have civil discussions? I, for one, am always interested in hearing others’ perspectives and they are heightened when people can back them up with their own experiences. Come on people, step up your game and your dialogue. We can disagree passionately without disparaging others.

by: Sheila

Tue, 04 Nov 2008 01:34:55 +0000

I was speaking from my perspective from what I actually have experienced first hand (I actually speak from what I experience, not what I pretend to). If anyone feels the need to belittle me and my opinions, more power to you I guess.
Doug-I don’t think that all Obama rallies are all full of rainbows and sunshine and that Palin rallies are all psycho, racist love fests: I was speking from what I experienced this past week, and all we can truly relay is what we indeed experience. That’s all- no more, no less.

by: Doug

Mon, 03 Nov 2008 19:41:30 +0000

Sheila,

I suspect that my opinion of your posts will replace Debrah’s as meaning the least to you as I suspect I have better earned your wrath and indeed welcome it. Your gratuitous post about how everyone at a NC Obama rally are polite and wonderful people while those that go to a Palin rally are racists was indeed full of ****.

by: Debrah

Mon, 03 Nov 2008 19:27:26 +0000

Sheila–

Sit back and try to imagine—very slowly—how little I care about your “perception” of anyone.

You’re a flamer who operates on the slow button, hoping no one picks up on your rabidity.

Again, your gratuitous second and third-hand reporting of dialogue among strangers is evidence of the brand of low grade kibitzer that you are.

If you can’t name those people, exactly what they said, and in response to what, then understand that you come off as just another Ashley Todd.

Lastly, like the typical Lefty flamer, you assume your way into every gutter in search of momentum.

How does anyone know that my statement below:

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“You’re just full of ****.”
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…………was not “You’re just full of bunk.”

LOL!!!
LOL!!!

by: Sheila

Mon, 03 Nov 2008 19:03:38 +0000

Yes, they are that crude-just as you are for calling me a liar. Your opinion, out of all the people who post here, means the least to me, and your last post confirms my perception of you. Perhaps you should know someone before you tell them they are full of shit.

by: Debrah

Mon, 03 Nov 2008 16:34:34 +0000

I’m not a McCain/Palin supporter. It would be impossible for me to support Palin’s platform because I am pro-choice and do not agree with her on a number of other issues.

I do admire her skills and her ability to be a mother to five children while rising to such career success.

Not many women have ever been able to do this in politics.

She’s a natural politician.

So let me say that I think this is a lot of fabrication and hyperbole:

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“At the Palin rally at the fairgrounds, people in line were pretty free with the n word, as well as ‘communist’ and ‘terrorist’, and no one knew my political leanings. It was a real eye opener.”
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No, in fact, I think it’s just a damned lie invented to try to mitigate what was revealed in today’s post.

I don’t think people are that bold and crude openly and I don’t think that John McCain’s campaign has engendered such responses.

In fact, McCain and Palin shied away from all the red meat they could have used on the Obama campaign.

You’re just full of ****.

by: Debrah

Mon, 03 Nov 2008 16:22:17 +0000

“I have been working at the Obama headquarters in Cary and haven’t experienced any of the racists, anti-semites, or bullies that Debrah has apparently encountered.”
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I didn’t think that my post needed clarifying, but I will spell it out once again.

I’m referring to the well-known and very questionable entourage of Obama’s throughout his career.

Not anyone locally.

I don’t have trouble like this locally.

Since I know how the little rabid Lefties operate like the back of my hand, any “intimidation” from them is instantly nipped in the bud.

Same goes for the zealous right.

Although, it’s funny. Conservatives have never tried to bully me or anyone in such situations that I can ever recall.