My husband and I are approaching political estrangement over these two candidates. We're both as liberal as it possibly gets, but he wants to keep fighting the GOP until they're dead, basically, and then kick them a couple more times to make sure.
I have no problem with that, but they're doing that to themselves right now, so they don't seem to need our help.
What's dividing us is that Kevin thinks Hillary brings the big fight and Obama's all talk.
So let's talk about that.
Kevin thinks Hillary's the better fighter, the proven warrior, the one who's not only perfected the defensive game, but the one nominee who can nail the coffin shut on the neocons and put them in the ground for decades to come. And for a 40-something guy who doesn't like his mother (issues!!), it kind of amazes me that he's rooting for Hillary.
He's taking a lot of offense to the idea that suddenly we're all going to get along, like nothing the GOP did over the last couple decades should be held accountable, like it's all water under the bridge, can't we all just along? He thinks it's naive and ridiculous. The GOP will never go down without a fight so brutal you do not want to be there.
And he's right.
But me, I don't hear appeasement or surrender from Barack. He reminds me of how I felt watching the horrific coverage of Katrina - those people suffering through that insufferable event were our fellow Americans. We are not divided. We are all in this together. We have more in common than we could ever imagine. We are all going to suffer great storms, we are all going to rely on our neighbors at some point. We have to quit wasting our time kicking dead horses and recognize the reality of our future.
Kevin wants revenge, but I want to move on. Is this happening in anyone else's house tonight?