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By this I mean when you're at your party talking to the Obama supporters, your task isn't necessarily to change their minds, but instead just plant doubt.
That's funny. Because after they said Obama will win by a landslide, I said something like "we'll see what the Tea Party or Sarah Palin have to say about this" and that sort of hit a nerve with them.I'm curious how they feel now because O's popularity and approval ratings have plummeted since the beginning of July.
That's funny. Because after they said Obama will win by a landslide, I said something like "we'll see what the Tea Party or Sarah Palin have to say about this" and that sort of hit a nerve with them.I'm curious how they feel now because O's popularity and approval ratings have plummeted since the beginning of July.
Your hypothetical response: "A absolutely see how what you say would have been true had the next election taken place on January 21, 2009. But that's not the way our political calendar works. Right now he's swimming under 40% in the polls, his political capital has already been spent, he hasn't been able to turn around the economy (and has actually made it worse), and even black poverty is ballooning under his watch. So while your positive thinking may be leading your view of what will happen in 2012, I am paying attention to the realities of political and economic developments taking place now."
Actually the rest of my reponse was not said out loud: “yes, that's a typical reponse from union workers” I should have asked if they would still support O once all the coffers are empty and their retirement money is non existant.
One was a woman and the other was the boyfriend of my friend (that reads Ayn Rand) who invited me, so I had to be good…but I did ask him for tea after I mentioned Sarah ;D He's generally a good guy and kinda funnny. They were more concerned with offending me than I was them. Apparently my friend warned them I was a right winger and to be good. Most of the time when they said something I just said “I guess so” and they saw by my facial expression that I was in disagreement.
Well, FWIW…I was at a party a couple of weeks ago and I was talking to two people and one of them brought up the comments that Matt Damon made about teachers. I had seen the clip before and thought to myself how the ideas that Matt Damon said sounded stupid and elitist (like when he rips on the cameraman). A girl at the party, though, was talking about how awesome Matt Damon's comments were. I tried not to be really confrontational (I have to work with this person and she's otherwise quite nice) but I did raise one distinction that I thought was being missed because I didn't want to simply “agree” that what Matt Damon did was “awesome”. So I brought up the fact that while yes, teachers may get into teaching because they love what they do rather than job security, but they are ultimately being paid by taxpayer money – not some private corporation. So to compare teachers with other kinds of employees at private companies simply doesn't work perfectly.Once I said it it kind of changed the direction of the conversation. It was a way of putting my foot down on Matt Damon praise without making myself out to be radically opposed to teachers' unions.
Too many government employees forget that they work for the taxpayer. That phenomenon occurs among both DA Civilians and as much as it pains me to admit it, soldiers as well. Everyone getting paid on the taxpayer dime should never forget that ultimately we serve the rest of the productive taxpayers. I have tried hard to keep that in mind during my military career, it is the main reason I am uncomfortable when people try to thank me for my service. I joined because I wanted to kill people and blow stuff up and the American taxpayer has been kind enough to pay me to do it for 20+ years. I should be thanking them for giving me the opportunity to live my dream job, and by and large I have enjoyed every minute of my career, even maybe even especially my time in combat.Liberals just do not get that, they think that the public serve the government and not the other way around.
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