I remember passing the time in the Detroit airport years ago waiting for a connection. Chatting with a guy who sold farm equipment. Flies all over teh country, spending time in small towns and farm country. We were having a real nice conversation. I found his lifestyle interesting. I always think of people traveling for work as going into big cities etc…
Anyway, suddenly he says something really derogatory about clinton - by todays standards it was probably pretty tame, but back then, I found it kind of shocking. Like ‘we have that rapist in teh white house’ or something like that. Maybe it wasn’t rapist. Maybe it was just ‘that immoral guy’…I forget.
But we were having such a good conversation, I didn’t want to it go to some weird place, so I said “you know, I happen to think Clinton is doing a good job, and has my support, so maybe we should change the subject.”
The guy absolutely flipped out on me. Raised his voice and started with “You seemed like an intelligent person! I can’t believe you would support that scum!” And on and on and on…
I got up and walked away.
It was a very bizarre encounter, particularly back then.
