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How is Bill O'Reilly, or any other far right nutjob responsible for your father's opinion? Aren't you insulting your "intelligent" Dad by intimating that his mind can be so thoroughly manipulated by others?
Interestingly, the Reagan presidency that seemed to herald a change in your parents had the same affect on my father - in the opposite direction.
After voting Republican in several elections, Dad became a liberal democrat after hearing one of Reagan's incredibly obtuse, dismissive statements about this country's poor and disadvantaged.
A reporter asked Reagan what he thought about the poverty and drug dealing evident on the street just a short distance from the White House - Reagan (sans handler) replied: "I don't know. I don't know about it unless I can see it from this window."
Dad has voted the straight democratic ticket ever since.
