Say Someting if You want, but Stop Staring at Me!

So, the other day I was at a baseball game with the spouse and with a couple who are very dear friends of ours. We are godparents to one of their children. We all have similar political beliefs and I was talking with my friend about a wide range of topics, some of them political. We weren’t being too shy about saying what was on our minds and suddenly we started getting serious stink-eye from one of the dudes in front of us. My friend posed the question about Iraq: “Why are we there, anyway?” He was asking it rhetorically and I responded, perhaps with a smirk, “well, we aren’t there for WMD, we know that much.”

All of a sudden one of the guys in front of us turned around and started staring me down. I pretty much ignored it thinking that I was either imagining things or assuming that if they had something they wanted to say to me, they would go ahead and say it. Well, instead they got up and moved, all three of them, a woman and two men. At that point I noticed that the dude who had been staring me down was wearing a Texas Rangers hat (we were NOT in Texas and Texas was not the visiting team) and I started to wonder if maybe I said something that offended him or them because they moved pretty much after he started staring me down and we started discussing politics. I may have referred to the Current Occupant of the Oval Office as “a fucktard” but I can’t say for sure because I do that a lot and they tend to run together.

Anyway, the end of the game rolled around and these people walked up the aisle right past us and I didn’t even notice but my friend said that they were staring us down and appeared to be looking for us to say something that would give them cause to start an argument. I didn’t even notice them of course, but I have now concluded that they did, in fact, disagree with our political beliefs and chose not to hang around close to us lest our dirty liberal beliefs wash over them and somehow infect them.

Well, on the off chance they are reading this, I would just like to say “FUCK YOU!” Your president is an idiot who is personally responsible for the deaths of thousands of Americans and hundreds of thousands of innocent Iraqi civilians. This man has destroyed any aura of bipartisanship and the fact that you would choose to stare at me when I am with my family and friends speaks very badly of you; if you had something on your mind, you should just say it instead of throwing me dirty glances and thinking of how much you hate me. The Constitution gives me the right to say what I want but it doesn’t give you the right to not be offended. You also have the right to get away from me of I am offending you, but tough shit if I do. Leave. In fact, leave the country because I have news for you: A lot more people are starting to agree with me than with you, you faithless, toothless, cowardly scumbag. If you believe something and you ant to engage me on it, grow a set and talk to me instead of staring at me like the punk coward your president has become. I would be more than happy to talk politics with you or anyone else and I have the courage of my convictions so I am not afraid of anything you might say to me, but by giving me the stunk0eye and refusing to actually talk to me, you are showing me what a coward you are and that you lack the courage of your convictions.