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this morning i was sitting in a hospital waiting room flipping thru the cable news wasteland for something substantive to watch (and finding little) when a 70-something woman was wheeled in.
we started chatting while msnbc yammered on in the background. she said she just wished that two parties could just work out their differences instead of bashing each other. i agreed. we were both obviously tiptoeing, not knowing each other.
she then volunteered that she was from arkansas and laughed about everyone asking her about Clinton. She then bopped him a bit for the Lewinsky matter but said "they all do stuff like that" and he was the only one that paid for it.
At that point i said i was a big democrat and she said she was too. from then on, it was 15 minutes of sharing our contempt for Bush. She started in on the Iraq War and 9-11. She was furious with Bush for the way they handled 9-11.
Seeing an opening, I went for the jugular. "yeah, what's worse is that they were part of it. they made it happen."
She looked at me square in the eyes and said. "You are right about that!"
I was floored. I can't get most of my more youthful liberal colleagues to go that far. But here was this older woman that i know nothing about, already convinced of what many of us here still have trouble accepting.
Then the nurse came and my time there was finished. We parted, wishing each other good luck.
"Spread the word", I told her on the way out.
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