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MikeZPU	Aug 15 2008, 12:38 AM
Posts: 1,496 Group: Tier1 Member #92 Joined: Apr 28, 2008	Just getting over the exhilaration of seeing Nastia and Shawn receive the gold and silver medals, respectively ... wow ... tears in my eyes ... It's very difficult to achieve full conversions, but one can win small battles that may help to win big battles. An example: My mother-in-law, a die-hard Democrat her whole life, never voted for a Republican presidential candidate her entire life ... until the last election. I was flipping through the channels on May 4, 2004, and stumbled upon a press conference live on C-SPAN: "The Swift Boat Veterans for Truth Conference." This was before they ran any commercials, this was well before the DNC that nominated Kerry. If you felt the emotion in that room -- and witnessed first-hand the psychological damage that Kerry callously inflicted on these men with the garbage that he spewed after returning from Vietnam (all for the purposes of seeking publicity for himself.) These were men who thought that they had served their country well in Vietnam. Instead, one vet recounted how his wife and daughter approached him one day and wanted to know if he had done the awful things Kerry accused them of in his book. I ran to the TV and quickly popped in a videotape to record it. You can listen to the audio via a link (4th link under "Other video clips) at the web site below: http://www.wintersoldier.com/index.php?topic=Documents Several months later, I was at my in-laws and mentioned the press conference. My mother-in-law says to me "You know, there are some who believe that Bush is behind all of that (the Swift Boat Vet movement.)" I asked "Do you believe that?" And she responded "Well, frankly, I do." I think she saw how despondent I looked. I asked if she would watch the videotape. She agreed. And that November, she voted for the Republican presidential candidate for the first time in her life ... and where does she live? In Ohio (Dayton), the state that gave Bush the election. My brother did the same thing for his father-in-law in Columbus, Ohio -- same basic story, same end result. Of course, I did not convert either to the conservative side. BUT it was something. Edited by MikeZPU, Aug 15 2008, 09:19 AM.


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