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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Grainne who wrote (87956)	10/28/2004 9:27:59 AM
From: Sidney Reilly	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 108807

I'm glad to hear you were not sick after all. Amazing how rumors can get started so easily. Someone posted that to me a long time ago. The Republican right has captured the Christian vote through mostly lip service and now that is helping Bush. Not all though. Some Christians think Bush is the greatest evil and are actually moving to Canada because they expect our freedom to evaporate soon. With the Dept of Homeland Security developing a biometric national ID system it can't be long. England is now going to issue a biometric national ID card to every citizen. The US is only one terrorist attack behind the English. And Bush is promising we will get that attack. So much for him doing a good job when he can say it will happen. Message 20691766 I shouldn't be increasing your anxiety though. There's always Xanax!

To: Grainne who wrote (87956)	10/29/2004 6:13:15 PM
From: E	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 108807

<For example, a Bush supporter tried to run our car down in a parking lot, I assume because we were flying two beautiful, fluttering Kerry/Edwards flags.> That reminded me of this, from a group email sent out by a friend of mine who, with her husband, has taken a year off to work for Kerry: I am not a brave person. I hate confrontation. When I was young and single, I’d change jobs and cities rather than deal with the end of a relationship. So actively campaigning in a swing state at a time when the country is so deeply divided and my own feelings are raw and close to the edge is a real challenge for me. A couple of days ago at a Home Depot in Denver, a man looked at my Kerry/Edwards button in disgust. He grabbed his wife and children pushing them away from me with hatred on his face swearing he wasn’t going to stay around any #@*%! Liberal... Waiting for an elevator in a motel a well-dressed woman rolled her eyes after staring at my button and then dramatically stepped back when I entered the elevator announcing with contempt in her voice: “I’d prefer to wait for the next one.” A young man accosted me in front of a restaurant screaming about Kerry’s not being a real hero because – as far as I could make out the argument – he hadn’t spilled the required amount of blood. “Let’s see,” I said “Kerry’s walking around with shrapnel in his leg and did two tours of service in Vietnam. And Bush did…?” Tonight Sam and I were having dinner in a crowded bar with a table of Bush supporters next to us. One of them asked how we could support Kerry. I turned to him and asked him to pick an issue, any issue, that concerned him and I’d tell him why the Democrats would be better for him. As I did this, I slightly touched his arm. It’s something I often do when talking to people. “Don’t you touch me,” he snarled.