LastDemoInIdaho: As she was talking with a friend on the phone, Wife mentioned that she planned to wear her Obama T-shirt to Bingo at the Senior Center here in CDA. To celebrate a win. Her “friend”, who we know is 
a Republican from past comments, came on very strongly that wife should NOT wear the shirt. It would be rubbing salt in the wounds of the GOP people there. “This is a Republican state, and you might as well accept this, and back off.” Etc. Etc. Wife is sincere in her belief that she wants to wear this shirt to honor our President, and it is not an attempt to “rub it in” to the losing party. She was deeply hurt that a friend of several years came on so strongly, so negatively, over a relatively trivial act…wearing a shirt ! All in all a sad commentary on our politics. Are we wrong? Are we to cower in our home silent and afraid because we are Democrats living in a far-right, Republican-dominated state? (Photo: Cafe Press)
Question: Would you wear the Obama T-shirt, if you were in Mrs. LastDemoInIdaho's shoes?
D.F. Oliveria is a columnist and blogger for The Spokesman-Review. Huckleberries Online was judged the best 2008 Idaho newspaper blog by the Idaho Press Club. And the best 2007 news blog in the Pacific Northwest by the Society for Professional Journalist. Print Huckleberries is a past winner of the Herb Caen Memorial Column contest by the National Association of Newspaper Columnists. The Readership Institute of Northwestern University cited this blog as a good example of online community journalism.
999 W. Riverside, Spokane, WA 99201
P.O. Box 2160, Spokane, WA 99210
Main switchboard: (509) 459-5000 • (800) 338-8801
Newsroom: (509) 459-5400 • (800) 789-0029
Customer service: (800) 338-8801
© Copyright 2013, The Spokesman-Review
Terms of use • Privacy policy • Copyright policy
Spokane7
64°
Get blog updates by email
Find DFO on Facebook
DFO on Twitter
Please keep it civil. Don't post comments that are obscene, defamatory, threatening, off-topic, an infringement of copyright or an invasion of privacy. Read our forum standards and community guidelines.
You must be logged in to post comments. Please log in here or click the comment box below for options.
comments powered by Disqus« Back to Huckleberries Online