The Lecturing Hypocrite

Saturday night I was at the bar, as usual, when I began a conversation with a good friend of mine and a reasonably regular customer of mine who happens not to be from the United States. He usually loves to point out the deficiencies of our country although he loves working here. This gentleman asked me if I thought that Hillary Clinton or Barrack Obama would find up with the democratic nomination for president. I told him that I did not think that either would ultimately be the nominee and thought that a current dark horse might very well wind up as the contender. My good friend, Mr. Makers Mark stated that he was not sure if the United States was ready to elect either a woman or a black to the office of president to to lingering gender and race biases. At this the visitor from another land went off into a rant about how the United States should be way past the point of gender and racial discrimination. He went on to talk about how we have been desegregated for about 40 years and this has no place anymore in American politics or our culture. I then went on to say that one democrat that I could vote for would be Joe Lieberman. At this, my customer of towering virtue blurted out that he could never vote for Lieberman because he could not have a Jew as president of this country. I am not even sure if this gentleman is a naturalized citizen of this country but he did go on to state that if Hillary was elected president, he would leave the country and return to his homeland. When I told my wife about this, she merely commented that the gentleman obviously in limited freedom, blacks and women are to be tolerated with no prejudice but bigotry toward religion was still alive and well at least in his mind. The best thing that came out of this conversation was he gave me a reason to consider supporting Hillary. Think about it, but he would have to keep his promise unlike all of the Hollywood types that were leaving the country in Bush was re-elected.