"I'm moving to Canada." 

I heard this when I picked up the phone.

"Grammy?"

"Did you hear me?  I'm moving to Canada."

"Now what?"  I said.

"OBAMA" she said in a high loud whiney voice.  "OBAMA, OBAMA.  Who in the world is OBAMA? Why is everyone chanting his name like this? Where did he come from?" 

I immediately knew what was going on.  My grandmother is a die-hard old Democrat.  She absolutely loves Hillary with a passion.  She has Hillary all over her small apartment.  Everywhere.  Books, magazines, picutures of Hillary are her motif.  It's eerie, sort of like some weird idol worship of man.....or should I say woman?  Not sure really.

Anyhow she's ticked because Obama is surging ahead of Hillary and my grandmother is getting nervous.  She watches CNN all day long.  And I mean all day long.  She watches nothing else.  Seriously. 

So she starts in about the Anti-Christ and how she's read Revelation and there is no way she wants a Muslim in the White House.  No way is she going to vote for a Black Muslim named Barak Hussein Obama. 

I think she's mad really because she feels like now she can't vote in what could be her very last election being 91 years old.  She was also a woman's libber way before her time.  She really should have been born in today's world, not prior to WWII.  Something happened upstairs with the planning on this one!  Ouch!  Did I say that?

She and I do not agree on Politics.  Not by a long shot. She has not worked a day in her life hardly and is now living on Social Security alone.  She and I have had some doozy, shall we say, spirited debates over the years?  She always ends up laughing saying of all the Conservatives she knows, I'm her favorite. 

So what is this?   Run when the country doesn't go your way?  It's kind of surprising to hear about this relocation to Canada bit from a woman who doesn't shut up about WWII.  What about staying and fighting and not giving up? 

So I got to thinking.  I've heard about this desire to move to Canada all my life when an opposing candidate gets into office and I wondered what do the people in Texas or other Southern states say?  Do they say, "I'm moving to Mexico Martha?"   I mean to move to Canada from Maine is no big deal.  Two hours or so and you're there.  But Texas?  Now we're talking traveling. 

So after I got her calmed down, we talked about her upcoming tax refund.   Yep.  She hasn't filed a tax return since the dark ages but is getting a refund on something she hasn't contributed to in years?  How can that be called a REfund? 

So I told her maybe she should wait until after she gets her refund to move to Canada?  Heck she can use her refund to buy the gas.  Afterall it shouldn't take her but  maybe three hours to cross the border.