Careful, your veneer of cool-headed superior rationality is slipping.
Sorry to disillusion you, but there’s no shortage of pointless Pit threads mocking people just for having different feelings about a particular subject than the OP does. And yeah, they tend to be started by trolls.
TRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL!!!
I think I stabbed you with a blessed sword in a room where bloodstains and deep scratches (perhaps made by an axe) mar the walls.
whee, that was fun.
Wow, the definitive ruling from on high…an anonymous nobody on a message board. I’ll alert the press.
Oh, really? Like what?
I’ll wait while you scrounge through my post history to find something damning. Hey, this is like real politics! Don’t get all choked up, now.
Some people find the fanaticism surrounding politics absurd. Deal with it, highly respected member of the SDMB.
I remember three times as an adult when I cried ( there were more but these stand out):
When my son was born.
When the guy who fought next to me in Iraq killed himself.
Last night.
Do you really think I give one half of a flying fuck that some little Internet weenie who wants attention and does not understand the significance of what happened last night, calls me a pansy?
You know, I’m not gay either, but as soon as the GLBT community gains full equality, you can bet your ass that I’ll be crying over that as well. It has to do with humans overcoming a vast struggle and ending up triumphant against the odds. As Oakminster suggests, if you don’t understand that, I doubt there’s anything we could say to enlighten you.
I saw ninety year old African American men and women who weren’t allowed to vote as young adults crying because after decades of struggles that included incredible violence, they saw one of their own earn the trust and respect of the entire nation as their leader.
They cried for the millions of people who fought for that to happen, and I cried for them.
Wild blue hair? Whoosh.
If you can’t handle the fact that some people cry, then you’re just a fucking idiot. And a troll.
He knocks the Cubs out of the pennent race. 
Oh and I didn’t cry, but I did get choked up and emotional. Does that make me a pansey or just grown up to be secure in my feelings and not an emotional cripple trying to make himself feel better by attacking others?
I was part of Obama’s campaign. I donated money. I volunteered in a field office purely on principle, because he wasn’t going to win Utah, and I voted for the man. That was the brilliance of Obama’s campaign–he gave his supporters a sense of ownership of the White House again. And though I’m not in CA, I was part of the No On 8 campaign. I’m part of it because I’m an American and I care.
I am a moderate, realist, largely non-partisan. Not a pansy or a bullshitter. Not melodramatic, and I have a life. I almost cried during Obama’s speech last night. I think, had I been alone or with just my wife instead of in a room full of cheering people, I would have.
I’ve disagreed with plenty of people without calling them trolls. I called you a troll because you dropped this idiotic post just do be a dick to people you don’t approve of.
That’s kind of a hypocritical thing to say given your OP, isn’t it?
Normally, I actually do believe there shouldn’t be any crying in politics. I was telling people the same thing Monday night.
I guess I’m a pansy. I cried when it became more and more clear that my right to be able to get married was being taken away.
But whatever, for something that dramatically and immediately has a negative effect on my life I’m willing to cry and be thought of as a pansy by some moron on a message board.
I think if you just got choked up, it makes you a seedling. Or maybe a sprout.
But keep watering your eyes, little one! And maybe you can grow a beautiful pansy of your own!
I was numb for the last eight years, Interconnected Series of Tubes. I teared up but I didn’t cry. I wish I did cry. You wish you know why I cry.
Yeah, this wasn’t just politics. This was incredible and joyous history unfolding.
And for some of us children of the Sixties, this was Grant Park, Chicago – the perfect place to find political redemption.
– Just another Weeping Willow!
So, an Interconnected Series of Tubes has been saying some pretty nasty things about people who cry over politics. And you know, I couldn’t agree with him more. I couldn’t disagree with you, I couldn’t agree with you more than the fact that people who cry over politics are the most patriotic people in America. My friends, I could not disagree with ISOT more.
My first point there: YES, I HAVE NOTICED THIS (or I wouldn’t have stated it, dumbass). As have many others on this board.
For the second point: Every human since the dawn of time; You, me, Jesus, Abraham, Mohammed and Krishna included, have done this. It’s an extremely common human action. I’m merely pointing it out, because we often don’t see that we’re guilty of the very thing we’re condemning in the other.
You make a point about how people get emotional about politics, yet you’re failing to see that you’re obviously very angry (and have proven it throughout the thread) over something that really has little to nothing to do with you. Simply because it makes you uncomfortable, whether you recognize that or not.
If you can’t grasp this and deal with it in a rational manner, then let me be the first to look at your Guest status, thnk back to many other like minded people who have passed through these gates, and say…
Banned in 3…2…
Some people are just broken.
