Last week I received the mass email below from the Barack Obama campaign. Looking at the email a second time, I guess I didn’t follow directions all that well.
This past weekend I went to visit my parents seeking impartial advice regarding my career plans. En route to breakfast in my dad’s Chevy Tahoe we stopped to get gas. Frowning because he was about to drop $80, my dad moored us beside a fuel pump. The moment made me recall the above email–I burst out:
“Oh yeah, Barack Obama wants me to convince you to vote for him; so will you?”
“Oh really…that’s hilarious.” [translation from polite Lutheran Elder]: “You gotta be shittin’ me.”
“Yeah. He’s much better in tune with the problems and injustices of our health care system than tax-credit McCain.”
“I doubt it. Obama’s alright though. Biden is a real piece of work.”
“What!?! How so?”
“[He] Does nothing but toe the party line. Anyway, if they’re elected, all their grand plans will be blocked by Republicans. You’ll see. Partisan politics doesn’t work and hasn’t worked for a long time.”
This populist outlook I never expected from my dad who, just two years ago, imbibed Fox News on a daily basis.
“Oh. I actually agree with that.”
“I used to be passionate about politics. Then I realized life’s too short to spend on things you have no control over.”
“Apathy does no good either.”
“So true.”
In this theme, in case you haven’t seen this yet…
