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Politics : President Barack Obama -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: nigel bates who wrote (43556)	11/6/2008 3:26:48 PM
From: Mac Con Ulaidh	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 149317

1 - I said fiscal conservative. I think to try and work with someone to spend less money, or to spend money spent more wisely, to be far easier than to convince someone to give up a lifelong prejudice against a group. One is simple practicality, the other is something far deeper. As to the use of traitor... I use that word rarely and with meaning when I do. If the republicans would deny human rights to gays, then someone supporting republicans can be considered a traitor. That is not 'tribal' as you call it. It is reality. But perhaps you have to be in a group who has been and/or would be denied human rights to understand the depth of what it means to truly betray another. It is not a light thing. It is not saying Palin sucks. It is not saying Obama isn't liberal enough. It has to go to a depth... the party Sullivan supported and pushed forth for so many years is the party that made it clear that I would never exist as a full human being to them, ergo he was accepting that I was not, ergo he does not exist to me. He turned his back on me. I can persuade a party to spend less money. I can not persuade a bigot to not hate. It is simple to me.