No Marxists in the White House!

Nobody reads this so I can write whatever I want! It's liberating! This past weekend, I attended my husband's sister's wedding. It was opulent. She was stunningly beautiful. Her groom cried as he told her he loved her. It was wonderful. I like Steve's sister. She's as liberal as the rest of her family (sans Libertarian Steve), but unlike the rest of them, she respects other people's opinions and feelings. Sadly, Steve's aunts are just plain rude. In fact, they are more rude than I ever gave them credit for. On the boat ride to the island (did I mention this was a destination wedding? Cha-ching), we sat down and within a couple minutes they started making comments about how since Steve and I were from Ohio, it was our responsibility to make sure Obama gets elected. Steve and I both told them we were not voting for Obama. They were shocked. "Well, you're certainly not voting for McCain........are you?" Steve actually told them he was the 'Conservative Wing of the family." They went on a bit more and I kept my mouth shut because they are Steve's relatives and I really want to like them.

We got to the rehearsal dinner and they started up again. Katy came over at one point and her aunt said "We're talking politics." Katy when white as a ghost and said "Oh NO! Don't do that! Please!" But that didn't shut them up.

Of course the next day was the lovely wedding. Really NOT an appropriate place to talk politics (although I find that 99.9% of Liberals think they have the right to talk politics no matter what the venue or who is in earshot. and they just don't talk issues, they make nasty comments about people who don't agree with them. I say 99.9% because I do have 1 friend - Communist, actually, who doesn't do that.) Sadly, they started in again at the wedding reception. I kept trying to find common ground. I talked about organic food, and alternative energy and doesn't Katy look lovely in that dress, etc. Over dinner they started dissing people from small towns and rural people. Okay, that's it, asshole, now it's getting even more personal and I really can't take it anymore! I tried to be diplomatic. I told them how I identified with those small town rural people and frankly, I am that type of person they are complaining about. I figured if I let them know that they were starting to tread on my toes that they would finally stop talking politics at a wedding. They did. They also stopped talking to me altogether.

Then we gave Katy's friend a ride back to her hotel. She spent the WHOLE time bashing the Republicans and Conservatives and Clueless Country Hicks. Steve was just horrified about the whole thing. He apologized to me several times. His family and friends were WAY out of line and he felt bad. I don't blame him. He tried as hard as I did to change the subject both with his aunts and Katy's friend. These people would not be diswayed from their opinions.

But on a positive note, Steve felt so bad about his rotten family that he took me on a carriage ride, a trolley tour of Savannah and lunch at Paula Deen's restaurant! We also fell in love with Georgia. The people are WONDERFUL. 20 year old black guys holding doors open for me and saying "have a nice day, mam." Are you kidding?! Not just once but the whole trip everyone was so friendly. In Cleveland people just shove you out of the way. In Georgia everyone, no matter their ethnic background, was so friendly. If it weren't for the heat and the bugs, I could live there. I sure wish the Georgians would move North.