Labor Day cookout with Republicans today.

[Kath1]

Used to bite my tongue and grin and bear it at these things. Came out loud and proud for Obama 2012 today! These people are so brainwashed by Faux News and hate radio it is unbelievable! I'm sure I didn't change any minds but I came armed with the facts and figures and left them speechless. Felt absolutely great to speak up on behalf of the President today. Cousin's college-age daughter asked me if I could get her a bumper sticker or button and I gave her both. I could tell her parents were pissed. Told them to get used to it. OBAMA 2012! We can do this!

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. This is what it takes.

A willingness to be prepared to slug it out with facts and figures, and don't back down.

The time for politeness and backing down, and playing nice is over.

You rock, my dear Kath1!

[Kath1]

5. I did rock!

Stressful, but it felt sooooo good! "The time for politeness and backing down, and playing nice is over." Yeah! We have too much at stake! Forward!

[rurallib]

7. may this be the first of many!

[Booster]

8. Next time tell 'em all they got are lies and old white men. So proud of you for standing up to

them. You're right, we do have too much at stake, especially women. And welcome to DU. You're going to fit right in here. (I like these little guys)

[riverbendviewgal]

2. You go girl!

You did it the correct way...Facts are facts. and smile when you do.

[Kath1]

6. I did it with a smile.

Very cool!

[gholtron]

3. I like to qoute the Great Jack Nickolson when speaking to a Republican

"YOU CAN'T HANDLE THE TRUTH."
And they can't either.

[calimary]

20. Welcome to DU, and ain't it the truth!

Glad you're here, gholtron! We need you!





Now get to work.

[barbtries]

4. i'm glad you did that!

you know they hate facts. you may be omitted from the invitation list next time around, but no great loss.

[Kath1]

12. "you may be omitted from the invitation list next time around, but no great loss."

I could live with that! No great loss is right! I used to sit there and listen to all their crap but I have changed big time. I'm 100% for another 4 years of Obama-Biden and I want to be vocal about it! Peace!

[freshwest]

9. Awesome! Thanks for telling us of your success. It keeps our spirits up.

[Skittles]

10. have you noticed when you knock down one silly talking point

they don't bother disputing - they just come up with another talking point. And they are fed ENDLESS talking points from their dittomasters.

[Populist_Prole]

23. All the frigging time. It drives me nuts.

They are either totally ignorant of any depth of knowledge beyond a talking point tagline or slogan; Or what they do is try to find another issue that they hope would appeal to you. The flag-waving "god & guns" approach seems to be their last appeal or desperate trump card they try to play after you totally rebuff/refute their other talking points. Then they get mad. But of course an angry conservative isn't exactly a man bites dog news event, is it.

[TlalocW]

11. I wish I had a barbecue today with republicans

I just hung around, doin' nothing. Not too bad a way to celebrate Labor Day.

I would have liked to have shown up shouting, "HAIL THE PROLETARIAT, COMRADES!" just to piss people off.

TlalocW

[Cha]

12. I don't know you, Kath, but, I am

so damn proud of you! I can just imagine how you felt before, during, and after this Labor Day Picnic 2012!

Were you apprehensive at all, and then Energized, and Exhilarated!?I

Hopefully, this is a microcosm of what's happening and will happen to many family dynamics across our country.

[Kath1]

29. "Were you apprehensive at all, and then Energized, and Exhilarated!?"

All of the above! Pretty damn proud of myself, too. First time I really spoke up in a family setting. Way too much at stake in this election. I'm turning into a loudmouth liberal and I sort of like it!

[Cane4Dems]

14. YEAHHH!!

Haha nice job!....its up to us people to spread the word...while our campaign may lack in dollars we don't lack in manpower (and intelligence)....thats awesome that you were able to use a family gathering to preach the truth about Pres. Obama and perhaps even gain a voter for him

[NMDemDist2]

15. Welcome to DU Cane4Dems!

[calimary]

21. Welcome to DU!

Glad you're here! We need your help spreading the word, too!





Now get to work.

[Cane4Dems]

33. Thanks!

Thanks guys!...and dont worry- I've been volunteering voters in Florida....we're working hard to make sure that students register themselves properly and unlike what republicans claim the young crowd is gaining excitement about electing Pres. Obama once again

[calimary]

35. Good to hear!

And thank you for your work! We need that extra effort to keep the bad guys from rigging the game.

[ejbr]

16. You came out?

Now are you just for Obama, or do you go both ways?

[tomm2thumbs]

17. slowly but surely, gaining traction is better than spinning the wheels

you done good!

[Marie Marie]

18. Need a Free Obama Bumper Sticker? Got this email with a link to a freebie:

I'm showing my support for President Obama with one of these free bumper stickers.

You should get one of your own:

http://OFA.BO/hnj8iK

[Kath1]

32. I've had my Obama 2012 sticker on the car for months!

Button on my handbag, too!

[LAmachine]

19. 2.012 k

Good job.

Brave.

Change - not always easy.

Hope - for tomorrow.

BO'12

[calimary]

22. Hey! Welcome to DU!

Change is NOT always easy! But we need to evolve - and move FORWARD, rather than go back. As a woman, I WILL NOT go back.

Glad you're here. We need you!




Now get to work.

[nolabear]

25. Welcome to DU!

[nolabear]

24. Wonderful! Obama would be proud of you.

And so am I.

[DemKittyNC]

26. Good for you!

All of my family are republicans. I do not know what happened to me. I swear I was adopted or stolen or something. I speak my mind often and will do my best to put my family in their place when they start spouting the lies they repeat from Fox News and my father's personal hero - Rush Limpballs but really it is an uphill battle and I get smacked down so many times that it is just pointless so it has just gotten to be instead of me trying to make them see the truth to just taunting them and making fun of them which is just sad really since they are my own family and we should love each other and care for each other but instead we just loath each other to death.

[frogmarch]

27. Wonderful, Kath! I am

grinning from ear to ear as i type this. Feelin' very energized by what you did today!

[Kath1]

30. Glad you're energized!

I'm feeling great! Forward! We won't go back!

[MFM008]

28. dont know how you got your food down...

[Kath1]

31. LOL!

I just believe in peace, a woman's right to make her own health care decisions, a clean environment and the rich paying their fair share. That is just common sense to me.

[drm604]

34. Republicans celebrating Labor Day.

Kind of ironic, if you think about it.

[treestar]

36. Good for you!

They don't realize how stupid they come off mimicking the talking points. I'm often surrounded by Republicans, and they can't keep their mouths shut. Democrats don't bring it up if they know people don't agree, but it's just like right wingers to have to shove their opinions in peoples' faces. And they are usually stupid as all get out.

My favorite is a relative who has been on welfare in the past, is on food stamps now, can't shut up, claims she voted for Obama and is "disappointed" (I'll never forgive the left for giving the right this meme to use against obama in this election with the idiots like this relative, who aren't even leftists but sheep) and likes Lyan because he's a "good Catholic man." Stupid wench.

[Guitargirl1]

37. The nerve of some people!!

I almost got into an argument with this nut job at a cook-out last weekend myself. Nut job was telling me how much she adored Rush Limbaugh and the way he laid it on the line. I said, "well he certainly spreads it on thick"!! I must have ended up in The Outer Limits, because it seemed to be a place of clones, clones everywhere, saying the same thing about Romney.How all of these kool aid drinkers loved Romney and that Ryan was really great! What really got to me was this, none of them had any money, they all were poor as dirt. everyone one of them had either got government assistance at one time, or was on it that day. I couldn't understand their way of thinking, especially people who had so little and thought so little of by the republican party. i thought everyone knew how the republicans felt about the poor, especially the ones who get assistance. he, Romney wants to cut out all of those services to the poor and these idiots are voting for him, they are crazy as heck!!

[Kath1]

38. I agree with ya, Guitargirl1!

Thanks, and welcome to DU!