I was on a business trip in Germany during the last week of October of the ’08 election. I remember sitting around a table in a restaurant in Bexbach, Saarland, Germany when the German project manager asked me how I liked Obama. This was asked with a big smile and was supposed to be a drawing-together point. I still chuckle over the way the conversation got very, very quiet and uncomfortable when I said I hated him, I thought he was at the best a Socialist and at worst an absolute Communist, and that I feared he would wreck my country. (Queue the crickets now…)
While there were occasional one-on-one light political chats after that, nobody asked any more political questions in group settings except one time shortly after the election when I went back again. They asked me what I thought about Obama now. I quickly shut down *that* line of conversation by assuring them he still sucked, maybe even worse than I had thought before. lol
@ 17. Hotpatch 6: LOVE the bumper sticker! “Which part of Europe are you from, the part we saved or the part whose butt we kicked?” rotflmao, too funny! I gotta print that one out…
