My two best friends and I met for lunch last week and
current events were on the menu. My friends
are good guys – lifelong friends; but are pretty much (unfortunately at least from
my perspective) liberal Democrats. Residing
in the Portland Metro area, the life of a liberal is actually pretty easy – surrounded
by a massive support system of like-minded people. On the other hand, being politically
conservative can be rather lonely at times.
Nonetheless, friendship can usually overcome disagreements. Let’s see, what did we discuss?
No surprise there, we discussed the primary race and the
candidates. Is anyone talking about
anything else?
On the Democratic side, we all three generally agreed that
Bernie Sanders was the ‘man,’ ah, sorry, the best candidate. Democrats that I’ve come in contact with don’t
readily admit they plan to vote for Hillary.
If, however, she is the Democratic nominee, I’m sure my friends will
give her their vote.
Incidentally, I just finished a book written by Ed Klein
called ‘UNLIKEABLE; The Problem with Hillary.’
If you are thinking about voting for Hillary, read it. OK, OK, my friends will now be searching the
internet for information on Ed Klein.
Tomorrow morning they will email me information from some obscure source
that Klein is a past Nazi sympathizer or member of the Ku Klux Klan, maybe
both. Although Ed’s name sounds like he
might be Jewish which would give me a very solid counter argument.
Ed, if you’re out there somewhere, don’t let
me down on this. Is what you said about
Hillary accurate? I would like to say I
was shocked, but...
I’ve kind of committed to voting for Ted Cruz (no relation
to Tom Cruise and the Scientology connection) – so I’m safe in that
regard. My friends sum-up their opinion
of Ted Cruz as: ‘Just don’t like him,’ ‘Everyone
in Washington hates him,’ and ‘He’s too in-your-face religious.’ OK, got it.
I counter with: ‘Right, well, I hate most everyone in Washington’ (maybe hate is kind of a strong
word). Let’s just say, I don’t care much
about what the Senators and Congressmen think about Mr. Cruz; and firmly
believe our elected officials spend almost all of their time thinking about
themselves and darn little else. Regarding
the religion part, I’m fine with that; but I think Cruz should tone-it-down
just a tad – now that he’s not campaigning in Mississippi.
So what about John Kasich? One friend informed me that ‘no one likes him
in Ohio.’ That might be true for all I
know. As you can see, I’m running out of
good counter arguments, and out-gunned two to one. Although -- it does seem somewhat odd that he
is the Governor of Ohio, but no one likes him.
Maybe, it’s a new thing.
Oh, and
as far as Donald Trump is concerned, we all three agreed that Donald Trump is totally ‘unlikeable.’ Mr. Klein, how about another book called ‘Unlikeable
Too?’ I enjoyed reading the earlier one.
True Nelson
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