So who's the Grinch in that story ... Barack Obama or Grumpy Granny???

Snorting at stellaa's "stench of economic death"!

She can go to work, then, so the rest of us can celebrate our holidays with our families.

And to the people who want handouts and for the government to take care of them, I say do as I did 31 years ago when I lost my union job: I had to go take another one that paid me $4 less per hour.

And to the people even more conservative than this letter-writer, who might be wondering why she was working instead of staying at home with her kids (at a job that might have been needed by a man supporting a family), well, just shut up.

Surely, this woman is another Liberal in disguise trying to Christ out of Christmas. Has anyone notified Rush or Bill-O? Serioiusly, people like this are what gives conservatism a bad name.

I completely glossed over the last part of this letter, but you are right that she's pretty out of touch with modern reality in her "you-guys-are-lazy-go-get-a-job" finale.

My brothers and I once claimed that our kitten ruined Christmas by climbing the tree and causing it to fall over, showering the room with broken ornaments. In truth, it was kind of funny and we still reminisce about "how Chester ruined Christmas 1985".

Zaj, maybe (a small maybe IMO) Obama secretly doesn't celebrate Christmas, but he has apparently also spoiled it for everyone else according to this cranky grandma. A "War on Christmas" without his even doing a thing. She's making him pretty powerful.

So Margie Collinsworth lines up with the increasing number of people who are determined to kill satire. How can I now write a fake letter by a fake nutball grandma and get anyone to laugh? Nothing could be sillier than this real-life tantrum. There's another blog idea blown to bits. Sigh.

Can we count all the folks who voted for Obama among "the odd people that Obama associated with"? Because if she's normal, I want to be one of the odd ones. Please, buckeye?

P.S. D'ya think she's going to root for Michigan this weekend as part of her efforts toward "change?"

It's true that Ohio State has beaten Michigan almost every year since Bush was elected, so I hope for my own selfish reasons that an Obama presidency doesn't create change in the outcome.

Plus, no one should bring abortion into the "holiday spirit" discussion (it's always a downer!).

So 31 years ago you were forced to take a job that paid $4 less an hour? In 77 the minimum wage was $1.50 an hour you must have been doing well then. I'd have to guess that you are a bitter person with no sense of humor.

Uhhh....helloooo, Margie - can I call you Margie, you old bat? Have you bothered to think about how many Christmases and Thanksgivings have been ruined since 2002, when husbands and wives weren't home to celebrate because they were still searching for WMD in the desert, or recovering at Walter Reed, or worse, NEVER coming home? OR the holidays that will be ruined going forward because junior will never be the same?

OR let's talk about Christmas 2005 in New Orleans, when we were at once taking stock of our family and friends being alive and together while simultaneously mourning the loss of our family homes and neighborhoods and the city we all love.

OR the kids who won't be getting much this year because mom was laid off from GM or daddy can't find a job paying $4 less than union wages

ok, sorry for the rant, but...
in sum, in other words - Lady, some people have REAL problems

placing tongue firmly in cheek Well ya know, the way he goes around tearing down Christmas decorations t hat haven't yet been put up! The way he frees turkeys back to the wild! The way he snarls at people who say "Happy Thanksgiving" or "Merry Christmas" --what a counter-culture warrior! Save us from the mean new president who wants to cancel Thanksgiving and Christmas, Bill O'Reilly! You were right! Christmas is under siege--Obama's not the anti-Christ--he's channelling the spirit of Oliver Cromwell!(Removing tongue from cheek)

Well, if Grumpy granny is determined to misinterpret change, and thus deprive herself of Thanksgiving dinner or Christmas, that's her fault. I'll bet the Obamas themselves will be sitting down to a turkey dinner next week. And I'll bet with two kids, they'll be celebrating Christmas this year as well.

While a lot of people will have to scale back the lavishness of their celebrations this year due to the economy or military deployments or what have you, both Thanksgiving and Christmas will still be celebrated far and wide, this year.

I know my family will be tucking into Thanksgiving dinner next week as we have every year between 2000 and the present, regardless who was White House bound. And we'll be congregating for Christmas, as well.
But we will do both with renewed heart and hope this year that have everything to do with this year's election result!

To the Republicans the sky is ALWAYS falling and they are ALWAYS being attacked.

Re: the fetus, they are always wanting to protect the fetus and they think only they care about the unborn. But just ask them about providing basic medical care for pregnant womenso their babiesare born healthy. No they do and won't do that. They call it socialism.

What they fail to realize is that we liberals also care about the living, including our troops and the Iraqi people, while they seem to think this war for oil profits and the related killings of Iraqi families and children and fetuses is perfectly okay. Just as long as it's them and not us. And it's also okay just as long as we need their oil at below market value, it's all still okay.

I wonder how and when the Republican party is ever going to break it to their so called 'Values Voters' that they have been perpetrating Republican myths, and doing it for so long that everyone, even some Dems, allow these Repub myths to go on uncontested and unchallenged. Of course the Religious Right religious leaders are a core part of this unabated and unending Repub mythology making machine.

This is the same Republican 'myth machine' that says people, the taxpayer, is/are a leech upon the business community. When in fact the exact opposite is true. Try telling these Repub myth repeaters that in the 50's the business community payed for 43% of the cost of running our government, our infrastructure, while the taxpayer paid 57% of those costs. So who is the leech in that scenario.

Now the business community pays 7% of the cost of running our government, our infrastructure (police, fire, water, sewers, the military) while the taxpayer pays 93% of the cost of running our government.

After I told my brother, a staunch Republican businessman with an MBA, he stopped repeating Repub mythology to me. My sister cried and shouted that I just wanted her to change her vote.

How do you get through to these kinds of people. They have been repeating Repub myths for so long that they can no longer tell the truth, reality, from these myths perpetrated by St. Reagan, the sleeping, Alzheimers, racist president. Hmmm!

Some of them learn, most do not. Oh well, life goes on.
Happy Thanksgiving, Merry Christmas and Happy New Year, to everyone.

And furthermore.

If Margie the JC Penny plumber-grinch is a dedicated Republican why is she working at a union job in the first place. Could it be that she likes the pay and benefits, both of which support working families and their children and their fetuses. Aren't union jobs supposed to be some kind of 'hand out' to the working middle class. And doesn't every Republican know that. Where do these people come from, how do they think.

Margie, oh Margie, are you reading this, maybe? Because you should. You see, I live in the same city as you, and I would bet that I could find where you live, give or take a few blocks, within ten minutes.

So listen carefully. By next year, no one, except for the members of the family who are determined to get your post-death assets, are going to care about your participation in the holidays. I would guess they got sick of you long before this year.

You are "disappointed." I guess I understand that. Lord knows I can remember soooo many holidays that have been canceled because of somebody's disappointment. Oh, wait, no I can't! Not even on their worst days do I remember any relative (and I have a lot) of mine canceling a holiday unless they were physically unable to participate.

So I figure you are an incredibly weak person to not be able to get past your personal disappointments and partake in a holiday for the people WHO HAD ABSOLUTELY NO POWER IN DETERMINING THE ULITMATE OUTCOME. I'm talking about your grandchildren of course. But then, you said you give them checks, so I'm assuming you don't see them often. Gee, I wonder why?

Do I sound harsh? Maybe. But really, what do you expect? I can't believe this limitless well of self-pity sprang up overnight. The bottom line is that you just don't sound like a very bright person and you obviously don't have any personality that will overcome that either.

So next year, expect the family to move on, except for those who come to your house with a small notepad to scribble notes about your possessions and coo about how much they always loved your dining room table.

Enjoy!

Sour grapes. This woman would find something to hate no matter what...

Happiness is little more than a conscious choice. When you wake up in the morning you can say I choose to be happy today or, you can say I choose to be miserable today. I know it sounds too simple but it is what works for me.

It seems after every election, it brings out the "my life is over "because my canidate did not win. It reminds me of the person who in 2004 declared he was going to move his family to Canada because Bush won. I doubt he did, but stories like this make good filler.

I found it interesting that the author also seemed to place all of Obama's supporters as welfare recipients. Is that code for black?
Sorry Margie, but I would venture to guess 99% of the people who voted for Obama are not on welfare. And this may shock her the majority were white.

If Margie is so upset about government welfare how about the 700 billion dollar bank bailout. The bailout of AIG alone was more than the government food stamp program. The only difference with the bank welfare is it benefited the rich. The top 19 banks CEO collectively made 1.4 billion in salary and compensation in the last 2 year period. 9 banks will receive about 60% of the 700 billion. Will it go to help people save their homes and jobs? Nope according to the last announcement from the Fed. the money will be used to buy stock in these 9 largest banks so the bank stock holders can have a merry Christmas.

Cheer up Margie there is a Santa Claus, well at least for the banking industry.