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Replies to This Discussion  Booklover, I work with senior
citizens so once in awhile I get a client who comments about
Obama being a socialist (ooh...the best was a lady claiming FDR
was a socialist...I'm pretty sure she was collecting social
security). The worst was I had some overbearing non-Jewish yenta
who wouldn't stop trying to convert me to Christianity, believed
Obama was a Muslim, foreign born, etc. Nowadays I'll just say I
don't talk about politics. (Which is not exactly true...with my
regular client, a lifelong republican who likes Obama, we talk
politics all the time!)  The good part that I can take from
having clients, or neighbors like this, is seeing the humanity
of people who think very differently from me. If people still
treat each other like neighbors even if they have very different
politics, this is a good thing. If politics is an argument about
the best way to live, by treating each other badly for different
views, it's making