Mine is 65 and caucused for Obama in MN without witnessing any coercion or harassment on any side.
Yes, my whole family caucused in Texas for Obama. It was a little confusing at first, but everyone pulled together in their respective communities. I love it when I see diaries about people arguing how Texas was illegal and baloney because...sppt...they heard it on a blog. I'm like, whatever, you weren't there.
My whole family (except for me) hates Obama's guts.
Then, you've got some work to do! :) Who do you think got my whole family to vote for Obama? Half of them wouldn't have even gotten off their lazy butts to vote if I hadn't pushed them. It took a few emails to convince some others in my family, but they eventually came around.
i'm working on my sister to support Obama. She's undecided between Obama and McCain. (She votes with her pocketbook or so she thinks).
My mom was on the fence until Bill made that Jesse Jackson crack. Dad was on board after Edwards dropped out. My wife and I jumped aboard after Feingold dropped out. Our cat was smart enough to support Obama from the get go.
Breaking: Obamabots hate blind people.
My family's all over the place and totally defying the media sterotypes of each groups suppoters. My Dad's has spend the last 40 years working on Wall Street, yet he's an Edwards guy. My mother likes OBama, even though as an older white woman, she should be in Hillary's corner. I like CLinton, even though I'm a higly educated professional white male in the upper income brackets.
Same with my 63 year old dad and 61 year old mom. Feminists the both of them.
You think that's bad, I wonder how much gas prices were affected by war in the Middle East. Y'know: AUMF. Hillary: yay!
Exactly. Obama voted for the Energy Bill because it bore legistlation for the deveopment and use of enthanol as an alternativ fuel. Something like 40% of the corn used to produce ethanol is produced in Illinois. Essentially, he voted in the interest of the state he was elected to represent as a senator.
What goes entirely unheralded around these parts is that Obama proposed a number of amendments to the 2005 Energy Act (along w/ HRC) in an attempt to clean the thing up.
Senators are rarely faced with a morally unambiguous vote. Almost every piece of legislation often has both good and bad in it. On the whole, they are often difficult decisions.
That said, the AUMF should have been a no-brainer. HRC goofed that one BADLY, and has righly suffered the consequences for it.
Ethanol is a pretty bad idea...
Actually, I agree. Enthanol certainly isn't the best idea, but in 2005 it was still largely considered a stop-gap measure worth exploring to reduce reliance on foriegn oil.
