[Dont Mention the War]

So true. I was traveling on business in July, and in the Holiday Express continental breakfast line, an old lady (a Florida resident, of course!) and I were chatting; she asked me where I was traveling from and I said Washington, DC. She immediately and breathlessly informed me that she "was doing everything she possibly could to drive George Bush and his cronies out of the White House before they destroy everything this country stands for." I backed away, slowly. It was bizarre. She had not the slightest idea what my political views were. There is not even the pretense of polite conversation among strangers with these people.

You should have replied, "Well, I'm Karl Rove, and as soon as I get back home I'm going to have your Social Security canceled, you old bat!"

[longtermmemmory]

I got much the same attitude at a recent conference of lawyers. One viet nam era lawyer assumed everyone was anti-bush and considered himself the resident military genius.

Just plain angry, ignorant, and impossible to reason with. He refused to accept the concept that failed 9/10 theories would not work in a 9/11 world.

Much like the old lady, just assumes the leftist view is the actual reality of the world.