Politics at the Thanskgiving Dinner Table--post your stories here!

[Bicoastal]

First off, Happy Turkey Day--or has Bill O' Reilly declared war on that expression as well?

Second--I bring up Bill because someone at tonight's feast got started on how much sense he made about some social issue or other--to which I responded with my "Culture war? WHAT Culture War?!" rant. Luckily, the entrance of the pumpkin pie put an end to what could have been a potentially holiday-ruining confrontation.

Any juicy stories to report from this year? Did someone's comments put you off your appetite? Were you unable to resist strutting and gobbling about this year's Democratic victory? Or, if you've got a particularly potent story from a past Thansgiving, let's hear it again!

[Trajan]

1. We have a strict 'No Politics' rule at the Holiday Table ....

Hell .. at the whole gathering ...

ANYONE brings up politics, and the wives toss them outside into the snow ....

and what's worse ??? ... : NO leftovers ! ....

[CalebHayes]

2. We all pretty much agree on politics... but

We were playing cards and I won by just a small margin so they counted again and I said "my brother is the gov and there will be no recounts! I protest your recount!"

[radfringe]

5. lol

we had dinner with friends

during the dessert course, friend's son was helping himself to a 4th slice of pie

son's wife said "isn't that your 4th piece? don't forget we have to go for another dinner at my parents house"

son: who's counting?

son's mother reaching over to a pile of crumbled napkins at son's seat "the paper trail says you have had 4"

brother-in-law (who is also an local election official) "yeah, this isn't a diebold dinner..."

[alittlelark]

3. This was a first - a casual dinner w/o Father in law

getting all patriotic freeper on us. He was cool... let me tell you, that was weird. He usually baits us. He'll keep baiting until one of us bites and he can go off on a freeper tirade.

It was all cool tonight... but the desserts he brought were inedible.

[Raine]

4. Dinner with my boyfriend, father and brother

we spent some time talking about how great it was the Democrats cleaned the repuke's clock and what a half wit chimp looked like in his Harry Potter robe. :rofl: It was very enjoyable holiday. :bounce:

[bklyncowgirl]

6. No politics at our dinner last night.

George W. Bush converted my father in law from staunch Republican to Democrat a few years ago. Since then it's been peace.

[proud2BlibKansan]

7. Son and I watched a terrific movie about Native Americans

while the turkey was cooking. Does that count? :hi:

[trof]

8. We all agreed that George W. Bush** is a total asshole and then

I got another helping of turkey and dressing.
:-)

[Neecy]

9. I just had my first freeper Thanksgiving

For some odd reason, my sister really wanted everyone to spend Thanksgiving at her son's in-laws this year. I was a little wary because the mother-in-law is a rabid Republican (the father, thank goodness, is a Democrat) but I figured she'd have better sense than to inject politics into the dinner. These people are very wealthy and live in a huge McMansion.

I walked in and the first thing I saw was her brother wearing jeans, a baseball cap and a Rush Limbaugh "Club Gitmo" t-shirt. I steered clear of him and mainly hung out with my own family, Democrats all.

We were standing on an outside deck when the "Club Gitmo" freeper's wife sauntered out and joined us, just waiting to attack. My mother was mentioning a restaurant she likes in San Francisco and this was the opening this crone needed - she started a rant about "San Francisco hippies" and I walked inside, knowing what would follow. I was later told that she used the opportunity to attack Bill Clinton, Democrats, and how we don't have any 'morals'.

The mother-in-law later made it a point to tell me that she's a 'traditional values' Republican and I had to bite my tongue and ask if picking up little boy pages, taking bribes from defense contractors or lying us into an unnecessary war that's killed thousands of our citizens and tens of thousands of Iraqis were 'traditional values' but being more polite than my host or her family I didn't reply.

Her food sucked, too.

What's funny is that this whole Gitmo thing is so *against* our 'traditional values' that you could write a frickin' book about it - but these lunkheads consider themselves uber-patriots and WE are the ones supposedly destroying these 'values' they so cherish. The whole event was Orwellian and highly distasteful.

[Hubert Flottz]

10. I just told my Mother-In-Law that her turkey tasted like shit and I...

didn't have to stay long enough to talk about the other usual nasty stuff! I was outta' there in about 15 minutes and I really felt better than I did on the way over there!

[pdxmom]

11. My first Thanksgiving with a Rush devotee. I thought it would be horrible

but I discovered quickly that if a made a "you lose" buzzer noise every time he tried to blame Clinton for something (I told him that was a cop-out and weakened his arguments), then he was like a deflated balloon. By last night, he was admitting that Bush had totally screwed up Iraq, that none of the "plans" the Repukes had could work, that the "war on Christmas" was a straw man, and that well, okay, maybe he's actually a social liberal.

[Maine-i-acs]

12. B-I-L, former (R): So nice to have the Dems in charge again.

Uncle, old-school (R), to me: "It's been three weeks, why are we still in Iraq?"

Me (lefty punching bag and sounding board): "At least let them get sworn in first!"

Very congenial and humorous conversation. And my Mom (D) won her state Rep election with 68% of the vote.