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I think it is rude too, jumping in on a private conversation, no matter how much you disagree. I hear stuff often that makes me want to roll my eyes and/or puke but I mind my own business.
My mother is 70. She seems to be more easily influenced these days by what she hears on the radio and it's annoying. She is always sending me emails that reflect some nonsense she heard and has been twisted to meet a political agenda and whereas she never would have blindly followed stuff ten years ago, now she does. She is still able to admit to an error if I show her facts, but then later accuses me of being arrogant because I "think I am so smart". Can't win.
you know what? I can admit, though I am liberal, my mom is also very easily influenced by what she hears and then, often, misinterprets on MSNBC. she is in her mid 60s. I've had to correct her a few times on some things she heard or thought she heard on tv.
So, am I missing something here? They don't have the right to express their own personal opinions?
And, like it or not, ALOT of what they said is true. If any liberal on this board is saying college isn't slanted to the left and there aren't more left leaning college professors, well, I'm not quite sure what too say. You don't find alot of conservatives who go to school at UC Berkeley.
Bet these comments can be said about anyone's grandparents no matter what year/age you select.
Bet you will be saying things along the same line when you get older and see how the world is changing. Been going on since the cave men and their kids.
You are entitled to your opinion. The other posters who do not feel that veterans are special are entitled to their opinion. I am also entitled to mine, so get off it.
My husband served in Vietnam. My youngest son served in Iraq.
You can think as you wish, but in the eyes of the government, veterans are still just citizens.
Restaurants are ideologically driven now? Only liberals allowed at 'liberal' restaurants and so forth?
In a Democrat's perfect world- where everybody is placed in a box and sorted by color- I guess that's how it would be.
For the record unless those vets were talking so loudly that it disturbed other people's meals I think it's rude for sanctimonious strangers to interrupt a private conversation that had nothing to do with them.
The vets were the ones who owned the restaurant. The ones way to the left of anybody the author of the thread knows
Later that day those two seniors were spotted at a Tea Party rally, railing against that Commie Socialist President Obama and demanding that he keep his hands off their Medicare.
lol. I've been in restaurants all over the country with them. For a variety of causes. Including restaurants in Little Saigon (Westminster, CA) where the owners are still fighting the commies. I've gotten a smog check in places with anti-commie posters in Orange County.
Dang, people. Do the conservatives on this board never get out of the house?
Posters of your heritage are far, far different from being 'political'.
Heritage: Posters of "Beautiful Saigon"
Politics: Posters that say "Death to Ho Chi Minh".
Mercy. The conservatives really need to expand their horizons. There's more to America than the annual trip for the 4th of July patriotic t-shirt contest at Miss Melly's All U Can Eat Buffet in Branson.
Right... that's why so many of the richest and most successful people in the nation are liberals.
And why are so many conservative? And why does this country suck now since the left has taken the reigns for the past 20+ years? Neocons =/= conservatives so don't go there either.
I'm a recent product of the public education system. There definitely is a nudge to the left. My 11th grade English teacher never hesitated to make her leftist leanings known to the class and go off on diatribes about homeless people and gay rights for 20 minutes. Same with my 12th grade lit teacher. I can only imagine what university would be like.
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She is still able to admit to an error if I show her facts, but then later accuses me of being arrogant because I "think I am so smart". Can't win.
Restaurants are ideologically driven now? Only liberals allowed at 'liberal' restaurants and so forth?
