Divisive Thanksgiving, Thanks to Obama and the liberal democrats

By Douglas V. Gibbs

The Associated Press came out with a story about how Thanksgiving is not so good this year, with the partisan politics going on, and all.  In fact, the title of the piece reads: "Voting for Obama Keeps Families Away From Each Other For Thanksgiving."

My grandmother used to go home and leave everyone at the table speechless if anybody brought up Bill Clinton, and spoke about him in a negative manner.  I had a friend in the Navy that refused to speak politics because any nasty words about Jimmy Carter upset him too much.  My "I Read The Constitution for the Articles" T-Shirt has elicited a number of middle fingers and foul language pointed towards me when I wear it in public.

But all of that was supposed to be over, wasn't it?  In 2008 Obama ran a campaign on unity.  There are no red states and blue states, he told us - there is only the United States.

So why the division?

Thanksgiving, according to the AP, is supposed to be about togetherness.  Instead of family joy, the Thanksgiving table this year is a battleground.

The divide between the left and the right has been exposed, and political banter has become more than mere discussion.

I am expecting food fights, to be honest.

Arguing politics through email, or on facebook, is one thing, but now the families have to sit together, look into each other's eyes, and play out the political game.

In some cases, things are so bad that some families are forgoing the normally festive gathering.

In my family, everyone knows where I stand, and most of them are right there with me.  But there is the cousin in San Francisco who is a hard left Gnostic who has actually stopped talking to me because I am "Too lost to spend time talking to," and my brother who has outlawed Fox News in his house.  Interestingly enough his son is a clone of me, right down to his love of history, and the Constitution.  The kid is a regular conservative dynamo.  The political battles in that household gets interesting.  Today, I am taking my nephew a Constitution Quest T-Shirt.

I am figuring politics will come up, and when the subject brushes across the Thanksgiving dinner table, my brother will excuse himself to go have a cigarette.

Some families, however, will not handle the time together so easily.  The ardent Obama supporters pretty much hate conservatives, and those that reject the socialism the democrats are trying to force upon this nation sees the current political atmosphere as a war against the founding of this nation.  If ever there was a recipe for fireworks, this year's Thanksgiving is heaping with it.

God help us if religion is brought up, too.

Thanks, Obama, and the liberal democrats, for dividing America.

Enjoy the turkey, or the tofu, depending on where you stand.

-- Political Pistachio Conservative News and Commentary