Okay, so I am a pretty liberal guy. No secrets here. I also pay attention to politics, again, no secrets. So as I look for a place in Las Vegas/Henderson NV where I will be living in under three weeks, I thought it might be a good idea to put into my Roomates.com profile as much. I put into my profile, which anybody who was searching for a roomate or anybody that I contacted to be a roomate would see, that I voted Obama. Pretty succinct, I thought. I don’t lay out a litany of issues and where I stand. I don’t express hatred for the people in the world who vote differently than me. I just put that I voted Obama.
I think mostly whi I put it in is that I have a glimmer of hope that in November, I want to live somewhere where I can celebrate Barack becoming president and not feel too much like I’m rubbing in somebody’s face. So I put it in my profile. If it really offends you that I put it in there, well then, I guess we’re not meant to live with each other.
A few days ago, I got a notification in my email that said I have a new message in my Roomates.com account mail center box. Mind you, in order for me to see this message, I have to pay $25.00 for a month. So I log into my account and look at the message from a user named Roomview and it says the following:
obama-sama is the most dangerous person ever! Hillary’s not my pick, but she’s better, she doesn’t hate Americans like he does.
Wake up
You put that you voted for bama, this is a clean site until now.
For a minute, I thought that this has to be somebody I know messing with me or one of my Hillary supporter friends throwing a little mud at me for fun. Then I thought, “Wait a minute… what if I had sent a message to this person inquiring about a listing and this is their response?” So I looked at their user profile. This name didn’t sound too familiar, so I checked my sent items. Nope, didn’t send them a message. Went back to their profile and looked more closely: 46/F/Non-smoker/Lives in an area that is too far away from where I want to live . This is outside of my search range - Weird… So I look at her profile a little closer and see she has pictures. So I click on one:(I photoshopped the image to remove the identity of Roomview - I figured it would be in poor taste to not do so.)

Holy shit… somebody went to a lot of effort to mess with me. I have to find out which one of my friends got their Aunt/Mother/BeerGoggle Cougar Girlfriend to snap a pic with Sean Hannity to post onto a fake profile on Roomates.com to email me to screw with me about the fact that I voted for Obama. An “A” for Effort, folks. Seriously, good freaking job.
Then it occurred to me: this lady is for real. She really was sitting at home looking up peoples’ profiles when she found one that had three words in it that enraged her so much that she had to take time to send an ugly email to a person who isn’t looking to live with her, never contacted her, and is admittedly part of the largest political movement since RFK to bring this country together.
Tit for Tat, eh? Way to carry the torch, bub.
So I do feel a bit hypocritical about this post. I mean after all, Obama is trying to bridge gaps and create a different America of acceptance and empathy. I guess blogging about some Hannity-groupie isn’t the best way to achieve this. However, I did send email to Roomates.com asking if sending abusive email that marginalizes a person based on the content of their paid profile was cool. Their response was essentially that they can’t/won’t do anything.
Now, I am embarking on the war against vegan smokers with dogs on Roomates.com. You better watch your backs, vegan smokers with dogs. I’m using a search tool to flush you out and unleash my verbal wrath of mild discontent. I mean seriously, there isn’t a bridge long enough to get to those people…
I think this post just made me dummer.
There’s a point, I promise. The population of the USA at this moment is 304,183,535. Which means that there are 304,183,535 different views of how this country should be run. None are more valid than any other. To belittle another person based on their views is mindless as best. But to call somebody out on their actions, totally acceptable in my book.
As I stated earlier, I pay attention to politics. I am also constantly looking to clarify my political views by looking at, not just both, but ALL sides of an issue before I make a stand with either inventing my own or agreeing with another. When I talk about politics with people, it is to not only challenge myself, but to challenge the ideas I encounter for their validity. It is so easy in this world of main stream media to simply repeat what you hear if you don’t really think about it. There is a term for people like that: Sheeple.
I can appreciate just about any viewpoint. But I can’t appreciate the viewpoint of a person who is a fan of Sean Hannity and thinks my vote for a black man renders a website unclean. That’s not using your brain, its using your hate muscle.