Karin Trinko:
Loathe peaceful holidays? Detest the spirit of agreeableness and good will that tends to pervade during this time of year? Well, if you’re longing for it to be ’tis the season of debates, irritations, and shouting matches, you’re in luck: The Obama administration thinks the holidays are the perfect time to gather round and discuss … Obamacare.
Wary about the effect bringing up the most polarizing political topic among your relatives and friends who likely span the blue-purple-red spectrum will have? Don’t be, because President Barack Obama’s Organizing for Action has launched a website with helpful tips about how to have “the talk.” (Here’s my first tip: If any adolescents or preteens are present, you might want to use a different phrase than “the talk” when broaching the subject if you don’t want an instant exodus.)
The tips including asking your family and guests coming over for the holiday to bring the information they’d need to sign up for Obamacare, because it’s absolutely not awkward at all to tell someone you’d like him to bring wine and oh, his social security number and annual salary, too. You’re advised to bring up Obamacare during “family time … downtime after meals or between holiday activities.” Perfect: When your family is curled up in chairs in a turkey/stuffing/pumpkin pie-induced stupor, you can cut off the idle reminisces about bygone days and football and kids saying the cutest things, and launch that super festive health-care conversation that’s sure to have everyone bursting into a rollicking round of kumbaya, despite that pesky little fact that poll after poll shows the country is sharply divided on this issue.
This isn’t the first time Team Obama’s happily invaded realms previously viewed as non-political. During the presidential election, Obama’s campaign e-mailed supporters, asking, “Got a birthday, anniversary, or wedding coming up?” If so, “let your friends know how important this election is to you – register with Obama 2012, and ask for a donation in lieu of a gift.”
More at USA Today
We, as a family (mine and most of my wife’s family) had a “friendly” debate before the 2008 Presidential election. While friendly and respectful, it was fun (for me).
However, as much as I was looking forward to it, no one was (for some reason) up for a debate in 2012. And, boy, was I ready. But, alas, no debate (though my wife’s liberal twin sister has un-friended us both on Facebook).
What I would strongly suspect is that anyone favoring (still) this Abysmal Care Act are in no mood to have a discussion of any kind with anyone that has either had their point of view proven out or those who have, finally, had the scales fall from their eyes. A discussion between supporters and distractors would most likely result in a pumpkin pie in the kisser for someone.
bburris
a pumpkin pie on the kisser,
would it come from you? a TOLERANT CONSERVATIVE AS WE KNOW THEM TO BE,
but not illimited tolerance, yes?
THAT IS LOOKING LIKE A GOOD THANK’S GIVING PARTY TO MY IMAGINATION ,
AFTER A FEW DRINKS OF WHINE, I COULD HAVE JOIN THE PARTY, IF YOU HAD TOLD ME WHERE TO SEND THE PIE AND IN WHAT FACE,
BYE