Today my alarm played some weird stuff to wake me up. Voices. I was confused, because usually it's an annoying beep. As it turns out it was NPR. I had accidentally turned my alarm to radio instead of... beep. So I shut the boring guy up and rolled back over. But he came BACK! In my mostly still asleep state, all I made out was something about how boring the paperwork is in Iraq in the red zone... What? Who cares. SNOOZE Let's just just say I ended up sleeping in an extra hour and a half.. which I'm in danger of doing again if I don't type faster.
So I'll take this opportunity to talk about politics (i.e. break a promise). First, I officially support presidential candidate Mike Huckabee. Exciting, eh? I was leaning towards him all last week, but today was the tipping point. I won't go into it, that's not what this blog is about.
It's mostly just a vent so I can move on with my life. Public radio playing any story they can find about how the war is bad, even the boring paperwork, reminded me of the (expletive) annoying conversation I had in a downtown bookstore with an extreme leftist nut bar. Myself, Nathan and Julie had the unfortunate experience of being stuck talking to this guy for near an hour about everything from the war, to socialized health care, to terrorism being a direct result of the state of Israel being formed, to me not being in school because the government won't pay for it (I politely suggested I wasn't in school because I bought a jeep instead). Let's simplify this. He was a political science major (I think it's a requirement for graduation that you are liberal), and I am a 20 year old photo editor that has been active in politics for... a year with about a 6 month break in the middle. Let's just say, he should have had every advantage. I would like to say I held my own though. I made plenty of points, and hopefully came off at least intelligent. Not that it matters... he came off as a moron.
The interesting this was how he tried playing us. It was like he had the whole thing worked out beforehand. He probably took a "how to annoy conservatives in a bookstore" class last week. He would ask a question and say "interesting" to our answer. To which I would think "Stop saying that!" He wouldn't answer any of our questions (a quintessential liberal move), and made personal attacks, such as "Are you even Christian?" (also a quintessential liberal move).
So, in the long and short of it, I offer this advise to avoid such a situation.
First, don't go to the political section of a book store, especially in a liberal city such as Salt Lake.
Second, if you do, don't speak out loud. Or just mumble nonsense so they'll be afraid of you.
Third, If someone talks to you, try and end the conversation quickly, either by being a complete jerk, ignoring him, or just mess with his head (preferable).
"So you're a conservative, eh?"
"I saw you"
"What?"
"I saw you practicing"
"Practicing what?"
"Practicing talking to me. Is it going as good as you had hoped?"
Or say things that make no sense that he's never heard before...
"We are in Iraq because we had SOLID intel that it was the Dread Pirate Roberts base of operation."
"Universal healthcare wouldn't be nearly as good as Touchstone or Fox healthcare. Then again, Fox did kill firefly and Universal picked it up. Maybe I do support Universal."
"Hillary Clinton's pant-suits need to be in more flamboyant colors for her to have my vote"
Okay, it's getting late if you can't tell. If you are a conservative, check out Mike Huckabee and tell your friends. I think he'd be the best president for this country right now. If you want, Check out my last blog (the blurb) and watch his interview with Glenn Beck, or play it in the background and just listen like I did. He's a good man. I especially like his view on taxes and the second amendment.
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