The Right Wing at Wendy's.

Again, I'm not going to apologize for my opinions or for expressing them, but hey I don't go out of my way to offend folks.

So my wife and I are sitting at Wendy's tonight, rehashing, as usual, our views on the upcoming election and the state of national politics in general. (See I come from a family of pretty die-hard Republicans, so it was rather nice to marry into family of Democrats, including my wife herself.) If you can't guess, yes I'm voting for Obama. At some point I'll get into why, but that's not the point of this post.

So we're sitting at Wendy's tonight, having a burger after I got off work tonight. We're talking about Governor "I was for the Bridge to Nowhere before I was against it" Palin and John "Hey did you hear I was a war hero?" McCain. Don't get me wrong, I have respect for both of these individuals as fellow human beings, I just disagree with their policies. We were speaking in particular of the "Troopergate" issue with Governor Palin, and also the fact that she did support the bridge to nowhere in her campaign for Governor before she decided she was against it.

Anyways, a rather ornery looking couple behind us started giving us really nasty looks, I was quite sure the guy was about to say something when we got up and left. It's weird after living in Florida for awhile to come back here and get the stares and dirty looks when I wear my crucifix or talk in an unfavorable light of Republicans and their policies. Everyone's entitled to their opinion, sure, but after listening to several public political conversations over the last weeks, I'm pretty sure this place could use some liberal conversation to balance out the air molecules a little.