I work at a Financial Planning firm. I am the assistant to the top planner/producer in the office. He is the greatest boss a woman could hope for...and he is a fellow Democrat and Obama supporter! There are 15 people in our office (5 for Obama, 1 undecided, and the rest for McCain)
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This morning my boss and I were having a conversation about Joe the Plumbers interview on Faux News where he was "questioning" Obama's loyalty to America. We were also discussing the new Wright ads going up in Pennsylvania as well as here in Florida (I saw one this morning). Along comes another one of our wing-nut co workers (and as it happens he is close friends with my boss) and he says "I can't believe the way the media has "raped" this guy, it's all liberal bias" We were both like WTF?! Of course I piped up "Dude, he put himself out there. John MCCain made him a campaign surrogate, so therefore he is fair game. Nothing the press has reported about the guy isn't true (i.e. that he has defaulted on his taxes). You want to talk about lies being told, look at the campaign McCain and the Repubs have been waging against Obama. It has bordered on slander at some points and out right lies. Then this person goes into the hysterical "Obama is like Hilter. Hitler was a great speaker and adored by the Germans. We are turning into a fascist goverment where the Messiah can't be questioned. Obama is going to have a wide berth of power like no other President before him. He will control all branches of government, etc. etc. He will have a mandate to do as he pleases once he gets elected." I asked him what about W having a majority in Congress back in 2004 when he was reelected? What happened then? It wasn't the end of the world. He then said that's becuase they governed from the middle and W didn't have a filibuster proof majority at that. At this point I about spit my coffee all over my key board. What alternate reality has he been living in the past four years?!
They hysteria of the right wing is bordering on comedy at this point. I honestly thought this guy was going to have a friggin' coronary.