I finally had to hide someone’s status updates on Facebook because they were getting too political.  It takes a lot for me to hide someone’s status updates but they were just getting obsessive.  This person is decidedly conservative while I am normally liberal so we are constantly at odds anyway but I never use my status updates to lament about the way America is supposedly going to Hell in a hand basket.  Our feud, if you can call it that, began when I posted a blog entry, in my own blog, about President Obama winning the Nobel Peace Prize and just how it seems like no one on that side of the aisle can be happy with anything Obama does or says.  Why can’t they just fake a smile and not comment on it?  The Nobel Prize is out of our hands anyway and we can’t do anything about it.  Even if Obama were to refuse the Prize, it wouldn’t matter because it would still be his.

After Obama won, my friend’s status update was “I guess the Nobel Prize now equates to a participation award that you see in PeeWee soccer leagues.”  I’m pretty certain the Prize was given to Obama because he wasn’t George W. Bush.  Obama, in all honesty, had done more to bring about peace in eight months than President Bush did in eight years.  Obama has quickly begun to repair our ties to other countries, something that Bush effectively severed.  The next thing he posted was a comment on my blog post where, I admit, I call most conservatives Bible-thumping idiots who don’t really care about the issues at hand.  Now, I could’ve went the high route and actually posted a well-written and sourced posting but I don’t have that kind of time.  So all he would really have to do is pull one legitimate article from the Internet and prove me wrong.  But he doesn’t.  He basically attacks me and compares me to the conservative Bible-thumpers.  Which I’ve learned is what they do.  They don’t fight back with reality or legitimate arguments, they shout and call you a “poo-poo head”.

That I could handle.  It’s my blog, I can write what I want.  Plus, who’s going to take me seriously?  Most of what I do on there is talk about a bad comic strip.  His next political status update was in reference to his city’s mayoral election earlier this month.  Apparently he went to a question and answer session with one of the candidates and he didn’t answer his question about the budget deficit which he basically equated to “this person can’t answer the tough questions”.  It’s a mayoral election.  In the grand scheme of everything political, mayor is pretty low on the list.  So election day passed and I guess the guy my friend didn’t want elected won so his status update became:  “It’s a cold, dark day for <city>.”  I then posted a Twitter reading “A cold, dark day indeed.  How dare the majority of your town vote for the person they wanted to win!”  That’s another thing I noticed.  Conservatives have become such doomsayers since Obama was elected.  Why do they get their panties in a bunch when a more liberal candidate wins, especially when they actually win by a majority.  Barack Obama beat John McCain by a 53% to 46% margin.  In 2004, Bush won by a 51%-48% margin while in 2000, Bush won by a 48%-48% margin.  I don’t quite understand that one either but I’m starting to think that Republicans can’t handle majority wins because they never get them.  The Republicans haven’t had a majority win since George H.W. Bush in 1988 and I’m sure that’s really getting to them that they can’t come up with an even remotely popular candidate.

The last straw was an update where my friend quoted Obama then called him a hypocrite because Obama said that the health care bill was passed based on partisan politics, which my friend disagrees with I guess.  I finally got sick of reading those updates and decided to hide his updates for awhile.  In the last eight years, I have been growing more and more unhappy about our country and what the average person thinks is important but I have never nor will ever consider a “cold, dark day” if something political go my way.  We live in a democratic society where majority rules, whether you like it or not.