Barack Obama

They're all from Baltimore and I knew most of them were racists to one degree or another, but I was still shocked by their increasingly rabid hatred of our president.

The worst of them have been transported to some mythological land where our Muslim, foreigner, power-mad, illegal president has stationed tanks in their streets with armed thugs who are taking away all of their freedoms and will any second now take away every last one of their guns.

Their marriages are endangered by the fact that some gays somewhere are getting hitched, their safety is threatened because a "homo" man might be in the men's room with them, and their religion is in peril because some revolutionaries are trying to separate the church from the state!

Not that I had seen that much of any of them since I'd moved away many years ago, but I pissed most of them off by having the nerve to challenge the so-called facts in the batshit crazy RW chain emails they insisted on sending me, or having the unmitigated gall to ask them to stop sending me that vile nonsense.

I feel very fortunate that my parents and 2 of my 4 siblings are pretty liberal. I'm not that close to the other two sibs, and we pretty much steer clear of politics when we do see one another. I have actually come close to disowning self-described "staunch Republican" sister, but, mostly for for our parents' sake, have kept things superficially peaceful between us.