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I'm having a hard time getting my head around the concept underlying today's Democrats.<br> <br> My wife and I retired to East Lower Alabama about five years ago. We came here for economic reasons and found not just a place to live, but a home -- a physical house but also a philosophical home. All the old-timers are Democrats but they're nothing like the shrill, 'rights are determined by your group' liberals (socialists?) who now dominate the Dems. <br> <br> Since I was in my 20s I've been a strict constructionist (now we're 'constitutional originalists.' Tickles the liver out of me), and I vote Republican...but I find that as conservative as I am, my neighbors are much further to the Right than I am -- and they're Democrats...our local Democrat officials are more conservative than McCain...Imagine that.<br> <br> Not one of my neighbors would even consider voting for Sens. Obama or Clinton and they're struggling with the notion of voting for McCain -- he's not conservative enough for them but they'll probably vote for him because he's the lesser of the evils among the candidates...<br> <br> One of my buds here, an 82-year old farmer and retired highway engineer, told me yesterday that he doesn't understand 'them northern city folk.' He said 'we fixed our race problem here about 40 years ago. It weren't as bad here as the civil rights folk said it was but whatever it was, it ain't that now.' I asked him if he could vote for a Black man for President...he said 'I reckon so, but not Obama...he's wild Left.'<br> <br> I asked him about Condi Rice, he said 'smart lady, and tough, too.'<br> <br> Seriously, I think these people here are the real Democrats and the people running the Democrat Party are pretenders who want race to be an issue...they're working against peace, stability and civility just so they can get power...real folks don't think or act like those people. I wonder what planet they're from?
By jColes

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