WHY I'LL NEVER BE A DEMOCRAT....Okay, I'm doing something totally taboo here, I'm going to talk politics on my blog, but I offer this disclaimer: If you're a Dem, learn from this guy's mistakes, and if you're a Rep, do the same. Otherwise, comment away after you read my little story....Okay, I'm in Virginia, it's about 3 days into a week long intensive seminar on the Constitution and the life of James Madison, the principle architect behind our system of government, and I find myself in what starts out as a friendly conversation over political issue with some fellow teachers. Maybe this is more of a commentary on the quality of teachers these days, but I digress....within about 30 minutes, maybe less, I suddenly find myself sitting in my chair a big tall Democrat yelling profanities at me at the top of his lungs. How did we get to this point, you may ask? Well, after begin accused of watching too much Fox News (the only Fox News I watch is when Stephen Colbert makes fun of them), of being an "extremist," and of voting twice for a man who is the "biggest liar in human history & who stole the last two elections from the American people," I found myself in this predicament. My only commentary up to this point had been to mildly suggest that maybe a President is neither completely responsible nor completely to blame for any large scale situation, be it a war (takes a declaration of Congress I think...) the budget (again, Congress fits in here somehow...) or the opinion of the American public on an issue, such as gay marriage, elections, etc...and that maybe the Democratic leadership are just a little out of touch with the American people as a whole. It was to this suggestion that I was graced with the title of "f*(&ing extremist." Nuff said I suppose :)