My father, a fellow liberal (I actually introduced him to Dkos today) is active on a message board for dentist. Over the years the forum has become very political and a subgroup entirely about politics has emerged, and is dominated by teabaggers. He is the lone liberal in the group and is frequently the target of their paranoid anger and rants. Recently one of the baggers challenged him that if he would answer 25 questions he would donate $50 to the charity of my Dad's choice. Never one to back down, he quickly accepted the challenge. Over the last few weeks, we have had good fun answering the questions and reading the responses from the questioner. After yesterday's question, I decided it would be great to bring this community in on the fun and get insight from its members while answering the questions.
My plan is this: For each question I will post the question and my dad and my initial response. As this community is know to do, i'm sure there will be great discussion which can then be incorporated into the final response. Once the response is good, we will send it to the bagger. Then I'll post their responses to the same diary. I've been having a lot of fun with these questions, and i'm hoping yall will too.
Without further adieu today's question (below the fold)
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