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<blockquote data-quote="hubrat" data-source="post: 817541" data-attributes="member: 869">Re: Obamanomics&nbsp;It is a futile effort. Time and conversation would be better spent finding our similarities and working out problems from there. I will Always be liberal to my core. It&#039;s how I was raised and it&#039;s how I live and no one is going to change part of my belief system. I tried the &quot;other side&quot; out some when I was in college. It just isn&#039;t, never will be part of me. I am not wrong if I am content, successful, happy with who I am and not hurting someone else.It is also clear that you feel just as strongly on your beliefs. And I am sure they serve you well and you are dead set in them. Well that is the best, most mature way to be. I respect that and wouldn&#039;t waste time trying to change you. Hopefully I&#039;ll act responsibly and hear where you&#039;re coming from and speak easily, rather than throwing arrows, and wait for you to hear me. If we can figure out in this &#039;environment&#039; how to get along well we&#039;d sure know a lot more than those boys in Washington.People that don&#039;t learn quickly that they can&#039;t change someone&#039;s political alignment, I&#039;m sorry for them cause they seem to miss a lotta life. Now your kids are a little different even though they are free thinkers. They may test the water on the &quot;other&quot; side out but will most likely come back to the way they were raised. If they don&#039;t, well you&#039;ve got yourself one courageous trail blazing kid there. They will be well-rounded. They will enjoy their lives and give to others And give you huge reasons to be even more proud than you are now.I know some ppl who won&#039;t consider opening their minds up for anything. And I&#039;m not knocking them. I had some advantages. It is not a matter of intelligence or really even maturity. It&#039;s a level of self-authentication that IMO some people need to be taught about, at least offered the opportunity. I mean you may like your steak medium rare but there is a point at which it&#039;s a tiny bit undercooked.Or I could just be catching whatever Charlie sheen has. I learn something from everyone I meet, about myself, my family and friends and the world we live in. Sometime it&#039;s an effort to recall what I learned from some creepy person. Then again I generally stay away from creepy ppl.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="hubrat, post: 817541, member: 869"] [b]Re: Obamanomics[/b] It is a futile effort. Time and conversation would be better spent finding our similarities and working out problems from there. I will Always be liberal to my core. It's how I was raised and it's how I live and no one is going to change part of my belief system. I tried the "other side" out some when I was in college. It just isn't, never will be part of me. I am not wrong if I am content, successful, happy with who I am and not hurting someone else. It is also clear that you feel just as strongly on your beliefs. And I am sure they serve you well and you are dead set in them. Well that is the best, most mature way to be. I respect that and wouldn't waste time trying to change you. Hopefully I'll act responsibly and hear where you're coming from and speak easily, rather than throwing arrows, and wait for you to hear me. If we can figure out in this 'environment' how to get along well we'd sure know a lot more than those boys in Washington. People that don't learn quickly that they can't change someone's political alignment, I'm sorry for them cause they seem to miss a lotta life. Now your kids are a little different even though they are free thinkers. They may test the water on the "other" side out but will most likely come back to the way they were raised. If they don't, well you've got yourself one courageous trail blazing kid there. They will be well-rounded. They will enjoy their lives and give to others And give you huge reasons to be even more proud than you are now. I know some ppl who won't consider opening their minds up for anything. And I'm not knocking them. I had some advantages. It is not a matter of intelligence or really even maturity. It's a level of self-authentication that IMO some people need to be taught about, at least offered the opportunity. I mean you may like your steak medium rare but there is a point at which it's a tiny bit undercooked. Or I could just be catching whatever Charlie sheen has. I learn something from everyone I meet, about myself, my family and friends and the world we live in. Sometime it's an effort to recall what I learned from some creepy person. Then again I generally stay away from creepy ppl. [/QUOTE]

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