"My most recent run-in with a Bush-hater was in a doctor's office. I had to have some blood drawn. . . . The nurse began hauling the needles out of the drawers, and in the hope of 'calming' small talk, I suppose, said, 'Oh, it's just awful what's going on in Iraq.' 'This has been a particularly depressing week,' I agreed. 'All them poor boys getting killed,' she responded, 'when we shouldn't even be over there in the first place. Just 'cause Bush wants everybody to think he's tough. We don't need no cowboy for a president. And then they go do those awful things to those poor prisoners, so bad those other people cut off that man's head.' 'Well, you know,' I said, 'Daniel Pearl's head was cut off just because he was American and Jewish. I seriously doubt that the prison abuse had quite as much to do with Nick Berg's death as the media would like us to think.' She made the tourniquet a little tighter and looked at me. 'We got no business being over there just to give the president his big ego,' she said. I gave up. 'There is no way I'm going to argue politics with a woman who's about to stick a very large needle in me,' I said. 'Good choice,' she agreed." -- Belinda
"Last night, I attended a concert by Linda Ronstadt (former girlfriend of Jerry Brown). About 15 minutes into the show, she dedicated a song with the lyrics 'Get out of town' to George Bush. The boos began immediately -- almost a shock wave -- no one believing that this nice concert, complete with orchestra, could turn ugly so fast. Screams of 'Shut up and sing!' interrupted the boos. It was totally out of place, and the crowd let her have it. Sadly, she was clueless, seemingly not caring." -- Ernie
"Recently I was attending a regional sales meeting. After dinner, several of us wandered into a local bar for a few drinks, and we started speaking with two young college women. One girl looked at us and asked if we were Republicans, and we replied, 'Yes.' She then went on a strange rant saying that we're crazy if we plan on voting for Bush, and that only sane, normal people will vote for Kerry. . . . I asked this girl if she could answer a few questions, and she said that she would. I asked her why she will vote for John Kerry. Her answer was that 'He's done great things for our country.' I then asked her to name his position in government, and name two things he's done to help our country in the past five years. And the funny thing was that she had no idea that Kerry was a senator and sat there looking like a deer in the headlights trying to come up with an answer to what Kerry has done lately. Later that night, the bartender came over and started laughing, saying that if he had a dollar for every person that walked into his bar mouthing off like that girl, he'd be spending his days sailing." -- Neil
See you in November!