Maybe I misunderstood the "elitist"

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word, used, to my mind, as an epithet. Maybe I misunderstood.

I am waiting to see if I will be permitted to have the five posts I put on my own family's group site.

That is just within my personal family. We are a carefully considerate family, and the manager and assistant manager know I get carried away.

I have one adult child who participated in the vote on American Idol. I have three adult children who participated in the Democratic Primary. I have one Republican, adult child. Not the same one who participated in the American Idol votes.

I have two grandsons old enough to serve in Iraq and old enough to vote. The one NOT serving in Iraq, said "politics is a bunch of crap."

If anybody wants to call me an "elitist" because I believe in an informed electorate, then pardon the hell out of me.

If those who feel contempt for the "elitists" value entertainment above their responsibility to study, think, register, and become informed voters, then you can find my opinion of your values on one hand, and, even more defined, on one finger.

I apologize if I misunderstood the post.

The grandson in Iraq may be dead at this moment, for all I know. It was my request, not to know where he is or his company, or his duties. I have only been happily informed that he is not among those in the abuse scandal.

I would rather him be dead than so involved.

The reason I do not want to know where he is, to which company, to which place, to which whatever, is because I want to feel the grief of every young American life lost. Not that it is unusual for American lives to be lost in battle. But I am old, and this is not Viet Nam. This is something totally and utterly stupid.

I have one grandchild serving. The other saying it is all crap.

I have the democratic mother and father of the one serving, being told they are scum. His brothers are being told the same. By whom?

Apparently not the thinking "elitists." Not even, in our family, would we so denigrate a military server.

Apparently, "elitists" think that voting aged teenagers should do something besides vote for entertainment.

For every republican serving and/or dying in Iraq, I have no partisanship. Never would I insult their family, or their risked lives, by calling them "brain dead."

Never would I encourage any Republican to stop thinking and evaluating.

Never would I insult a Republican family who has someone serving in the military.

And I am sick and tired of having my grandson, and the rest of the family being called un-American, traitors, Bush haters, tax takers, commies, pinkos, terrorists, propals, antisemites, etc. etc. by those right wing elitist nutballs who think they have the right.

[nosmokes]

1. may your grandson

and everyone in iraq be safe.

end the occupation now, and let's do a little regime change of our own.