We all have stories, in real life I knew a few people who voted for Obama, they spouted off like you wouldn't believe, and now they're strangely silent when it comes to politics, their silence=Obama is really screwing things up. As for online? I was friends with a lot of people on boards UNTIL I had the nerve to express my opinion, boy did the lefties do a 180, talk about intolerance, the left needs to look at itself.