My mom was doing the contradictory thing as well. "They're saying that I have to vote for him or else I'm racist!" (this after she referred to him as "that black man" and I said, "Mom, don't say that." And then she went right to, "and he's not black anyway, so I don't know what the big deal is!"
Yeah, I wish those kids had reined in their idiot tendencies. If I were a conspiracy theorist type I'd suspect McCain supporters trying to drum up sympathy, but I doubt that's what was happening. They were just young assholes.
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Date: 2008-11-03 10:56 pm (UTC)Yeah, I wish those kids had reined in their idiot tendencies. If I were a conspiracy theorist type I'd suspect McCain supporters trying to drum up sympathy, but I doubt that's what was happening. They were just young assholes.