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I rent a small office in my nearby small town, and I actually have to walk through an unrented office to get to my space.
Apparently the gentleman who owns the building has rented the office I have to walk through to the Obama campaign for the last few days of this election season. I shouldn’t be surprised: he has a “Veterans for Obama” sticker on his car and I’ve been unable to get him to change his mind even though he’s rather a moderate (and gun-owning) guy.
The office I now have to walk through, probably today and tomorrow, is full of posters and stickers and lists of areas that the Obama volunteers plan to canvas, knocking on doors, to try to turn out the vote for Dear Leader in this very liberal area.
The earnest young lady who seems to be running the show recently moved here from California. Can’t say I’m the least bit surprised by that.
Colorado is turning from a rational slightly-red state into bluish-purple because of the influx of muddle-headed liberals fleeing California and the Northeast who can’t seem to recognize the fact that they are fleeing the results of electing Democrats and now trying to bring that disease to this beautiful state. That said, I believe Romney will win Colorado by a comfortable margin despite the effort of transplanted leftists.
In the meantime, I’m trying to be polite to my temporary neighbor…though it’s hard when I see her as a co-conspirator in an effort to destroy my children’s future.
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Bob S| 11.5.12 @ 12:01PM
She's not a co-conspirator, she's just a "useful idiot" who's been misled.
Al Adab| 11.5.12 @ 12:05PM
Romney will need FL and Ohio plus one more to eek out a victory. If CO is the one (which I doubt) more the better. Otherwise it falls to IA or even NH to provide those final few electoral votes. It could be a very long night indeed. Lawsuits in FL and Ohio could keep this going for a long time should Romney win. Otherwise we will hear nothing about supression or fraud.
Simon Templar| 11.5.12 @ 2:09PM
Well, we could save ourselves the trouble of 'eeking' and lawsuits and long times if we concede now and just appoint the Fraud as lifetime dictator. Could save a lot of energy, time, money, and aggravation.
Then we could all go back to whining, praying, and losing, and scratching our heads.
In fact, maybe we should all become socialist and be done with it...
Al Adab| 11.5.12 @ 2:23PM
Oh now Simon, you know me well enough to understand that is not my meaning. Tyranny will never quit, and we who value freedom above all else must never surrender.
Bob Grant| 11.5.12 @ 1:16PM
"...he has a "Veterans for Obama" sticker on his car and I've been unable to get him to change his mind even though he's rather a moderate (and gun-owning) guy..."
Individuals like this fascinate me. I would just love to pick his brain and find out why...WHY...he supports obama.
Oldefarte| 11.5.12 @ 1:20PM
Ross, she is perhaps the very defination of.....IGNORANCE!!!!!!!!!!
Oldefarte| 11.5.12 @ 1:21PM
definItion...my computer is malfunctioning today!!!!!
Mike G| 11.5.12 @ 1:52PM
Maybe you should wear a Romney bumper sticker across your chest whenever you pass through the office. You don't have to say anything except,"Go0d morning (afternoon, night). Just wear the sticker and smile.
Butch| 11.5.12 @ 3:58PM
I hope your office rent's cheap, Ross. In the old Soviet Union, you knew you were "somebody" if nobody walked through your apartment to get to theirs.
Oldefarte| 11.5.12 @ 4:42PM
Well I din't live in the "old Soviet Union" but I did live in a house as a child whose additional bedrooms were add-ons-with-no-hallway, so therefore my parents walked to/from my bedroom to get to theirs [talk about lack of privacy]!!!!!
Ross Kaminsky| 11.5.12 @ 4:28PM
That's funny, Butch...and true!
My rent is VERY cheap! So cheap in fact that I'm going to lose my lease next month because he found someone else who wants to rent both spaces and will pay much more than I'm willing to.
Mike G: I hope you don't think me a coward, but it literally makes me sick to my stomach and fairly angry being next to people who I think are hurting my children because of their sanctimonious focus on social issues and "danger" from Republicans. They make me sick, and I say that as someone who is basically a "liberal" (which is to say libertarian) on social issues. What these people think is important is unbelievable.
Butch| 11.5.12 @ 7:34PM
I've been living with commercial real estate for 30 years. What a racket (racquet?)! I hope you find someplace suitable (i.e., cheap, if you don't have to entertain clients).
Occam's Tool| 11.5.12 @ 4:40PM
Ross: Stop. It's not worth it to let the vermin get you down.
I use this space to punch people verbally so I don't do it physically. But rest assured, Obama is toast.
It is amazing, howeve, how many people are OK with our Ambassador being sodomized and murdered; and, in addition, think that raising taxes in the middle of the worst economic crisis since the Carter era is a good thing. Some people are just morons.
That being said, should you ever find yourself up in the Great White North, let me know. I feed people.
Oldefarte| 11.5.12 @ 4:47PM
Ross, for G-D's sakes, don't hang a picture of Adolph Hitler on your office wall, since she'll think it is David Axelrod and will be constantly walking in there and saluting!!!!
Marco2| 11.5.12 @ 5:21PM
Ross, I saw the same thing happen to rock solid, conservative New Hampshire in the 80's and 90's, with the northward migration from Massachussetts. These birds, unfortunately, do foul their own nests. And, like locusts, they'll consume everything in sight, then move on.
Butch| 11.5.12 @ 7:31PM
Yankees have moved to Raleigh-Durham to escape the policies they helped to enact, and then turned around and did the same damn thing there. That's why Obama carried NC in 08. It's a pattern: Ross can tell you; California people move there to escape "California" and then bring the same damn voting tendencies that caused them to leave in the first place. I've wound up concluding that liberals are just stupid.
FastJohnny| 11.5.12 @ 7:38PM
Yeah, well it might even out. A friend of mine fled Massachussetts for Colorado to get away from the great state of DuTaxes, to somewhere a little more conservative.
Ted R.| 11.5.12 @ 11:58PM
Well, we think EXACTLY the same of you, Mr. Kaminsky. And don't imagine for a minute, that the most informed on our side, understand the issues or what's at stake any less, than the most informed on your side.
We simply have different values, different understandings of the real implications of democracy. We belong in different countries... but, we cannot have an amicable divorce. There's nothing for it but to cast the ballots, and accept the verdict.
J.C.Eaton| 11.6.12 @ 11:14AM
Ted, I don't doubt for a minute what you wrote. There is virtue in knowing what the other side believes deeply: in the case of confirmed liberals it's that that you are at war with Conservatives. Conservatives, are rather new to this realization, but we've become quick learners and fully appreciate the stakes. This ain't no party, this ain't no disco, this ain't no fooling around. I'm confident we pull this election out but if not, buckle up. The amiable accommodationist days are over.