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Recent correspondence with my 80-year old mom in CT:

Me: [an aside in an email about medical stuff, hurricanes, my cat, etc.] Did you hear about Dan Rather and Sixty Minutes using fake memos to attack Bush’s National Guard service? Wooowie, what a scandal it’s becoming.

Mom’s response: I had to laugh at your reaction to the CBS news about Bush’s service in the National Guard. Where were you when the Bush team was smearing Kerry’s service and wounds in the Viet Nam War? I’ll be glad when the elections are over. The issues are what interest me, like Bush’s War in Iraq and the way Social Security is being scrapped in order to get the money into Wall Street, etc. etc..You and I will never see eye to eye on the politics going on today – you hear what you want to hear and I do the same, so don’t bring up the subject to me anymore. You listen only to the Far Right expounders and I avoid them like the plague.

Emphasis mine.

Sigh.

BTW, I consider email public, not private, but this is the first time (I remember, anyway) that I’ve quoted email without permission. So be it.