I am have been away from DU for quite a while due to many personal matters, one of which was losing my beloved Mother after a long health battle while in hospice. She was, for that last 12 years, my steady Dem rock and she was so excited when Obama won in '08. I miss talking about these campaigns with her...but now I am back at DU and getting my daily dose of sanity.
However, I do live in NOVA and my husband I took two small ventures around the area yesterday and today and I took stock of what I saw. While driving the beautiful back roads visiting the wineries in Middleburg and Marshall yesterday, across the gently rolling hills filled with family farms, I casually took note that quite a number had Obama-Biden signs and then there were the Romney-Ryan signs. It seemed that they were fairly evenly divided and it gave me hope. But then today we visited the small Oktoberfest in Haymarket where the local vendors and restaurants had set up to and there was a "beer garden". It was quite nice until we passed the Romney hate-filled tent with some of the most heinous T-shirts for sale I think I've ever seen. I was, to say the least, aghast. My husband who knows how seriously I take this, just told me to look the other way...but I simply couldn't. And the people hanging around that display, spewing their hatred for Obama...it was almost frightening. Perhaps I am naive, I don't know. But I just can't tell you how miserable I felt coming away from there. It was as if these people are so filled with such hatred for the President and I while I know it is most likely based in race, I was horrified at the thought that Romney is supported by these types of people - and that they are my neighbors. It was sickening what we saw and what we heard - free speech? I suppose so...but there was nothing in this small community of vendors that supported Obama. We simply left. Perhaps all of this means nothing in the "big" picture, I don't know. But it certainly left me reeling and my husband, a Navy vet whose seen his share, was stunned. We drove home in almost complete silence. And when we stopped at Buffalo Wild Wings for lunch and to watch a little college football, there on the BIG SCREEN was an NRA ad "vote November 6 and vote Romney Ryan". WTF is wrong with this country anyway?
'nuff said for now...
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