Reply #54: I woke up to the news the following morning, my 50th birthday [View All]

Actually the night of the 12th I was driving with a couple of very attractive women in my car, and we were taking a tour observing the Christmas lights on the houses in a couple of neighborhoods. And I had a classical music station on, which we were enjoying. So that night was very pleasant and enjoyable for me, other than the fact that I was in the middle of having a cold at that time.

It was the next morning, December 13, 2000, my 50th birthday, that I heard the news when I woke up.

I already did not like *, and had worried earlier that year about the possibility of his becoming the pResident, and I was definitely unhappy and upset that morning that he was the one who was going to be the occupant of the White House. However I had no idea that day either that * was going to be as bad as he has turned out to be, or that the Supreme Court action was as wrong and as criminal as I would later learn that it was.

My mom took me out to a special dinner for my birthday that night, along with my sister and her husband. They had all been for * that year. They particularly despised Clinton, especially after his affair; they couldn't forgive him for that. My mom at one point made a toast to the new pResident. I did not join in that toast. My mom said "you may not like who he is, but aren't you glad we have one?"

At later times I have let my family know of my feelings about *. At a family gathering in 2002 I wore an anti-shrub t-shirt at a family gathering.

In recent years I have avoided discussing politics with the family members mentioned above, except some with my brother-in-law, who I am close to. My brother-in-law was somewhat happy about the Democrats taking control of Congress recently, as much out of concern for one party controlling all branches of government as for any other reason. I do not know my mother's or my sister's present feelings about *, and I don't know if either they or my brother-in-law voted for him in 2004.