14 posts tagged “election 08”
Someone pinch me. It actually happened! I cried a little last night...we're ushering in a new day in this country. Finally, we can say goodbye to all the claptrap of the last eight years and welcome the breath of fresh air that is Barack Obama. I feel jittery, infused with joy and excitement. Hope triumphed over fear. Hope won.
This is amazing...be sure to watch this. These McCain supporters are awesome! (and that's not something I say every day...or ever...)
Colin Powell just endorsed Barack Obama this morning!
Dear Red States:
If you manage to steal this election too we've decided we're leaving. Weintend to form our own country, and we're taking the other Blue States with
us. In case you aren't aware, that includes California, Hawaii, Oregon,
Washington, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan, Illinois, and all the Northeast. We believe this split will be beneficial to the nation, and especially to the people of the new country of New California.
To sum up briefly: You get Texas, Oklahoma and all the slave
states. We get stem cell research and the best beaches. We get the Statue
of Liberty. You get Dollywood.
We get Intel and Microsoft. You get WorldCom.
We get Harvard. You get Ole' Miss.
We get 85% of America's venture capital and entrepreneurs. You
get Alabama.
We get two-thirds of the tax revenue, you get to make the red states pay
their fair share.
Since our aggregate divorce rate is 22% lower than the
Christian Coalition's, we get a bunch of happy families. You get a bunch of
single moms.
Please be aware that Nuevo California will be pro-choice and anti-war, and
we're going to want all our citizens back from Iraq at once. If you need
people to fight, ask your evangelicals. They have kids they're apparently
willing to send to their deaths for no purpose, and they don't care if you
don't show pictures of their children's caskets coming home. We do wish you
success in Iraq, and hope that the WMDs turn up, but we're not willing to
spend our resources in Bush's Quagmire.
With the Blue States in hand, we will have firm control of 80% of the
country's fresh water, more than 90% of the pineapple and lettuce, 92% of
the nation's fresh fruit, 95% of America's quality wines, 90% of all
cheese, 90% of the high tech industry, 95% of the corn and soybeans (thanks
Iowa!), most of the U.S. low-sulfur coal, all living redwoods, sequoias and
condors, all the Ivy and Seven Sister schools plus Stanford, Cal Tech and
MIT.
With the Red States, on the other hand, you will have to cope with 88% of
all obese Americans (and their projected health care costs), 92% of all
U.S. mosquitoes, nearly 100% of the tornadoes, 90% of the hurricanes, 99%
of all Southern Baptists, virtually 100% of all televangelists, Rush
Limbaugh, Bob Jones University, Clemson and the University of Georgia.
We get Hollywood and Yosemite, thank you.
Additionally, 38% of those in the Red states believe Jonah was actually
swallowed by a whale, 62% believe life is sacred unless we're discussing
the war, the death penalty or gun laws, 44% say that evolution is only a
theory, 53% that Saddam was involved in 9/11 and 61% of you crazy bastards
believe you are people with higher morals than we lefties.
Finally, we're taking the good pot, too. You can have that dirt weed they
grow in Mexico.
Peace out,
--Blue States
(courtesy of David, my dog sitter, who rocks)
So apparently I wasn't the only one who noticed John McCain's snide condescension, nasty attitude and refusal to make eye contact with Barack Obama in last night's debate:
Eugene Robinson, Washington Post:
Here’s the politically incorrect way of phrasing one of the central questions about tonight’s presidential debate: Did John McCain come across as too much of a grumpy old man?
That might not be a nice question, but it’s an important one. Americans like to vote for the nice guy, not the grumbling prophet of doom. Throughout the 90-minute debate, McCain seemed contemptuous of Obama. He wouldn’t look at him. He tried to belittle him whenever possible -- how many times did he work “Senator Obama just doesn’t understand” into his answers? His body language was closed, defensive, tense. McCain certainly succeeded in proving that he can be aggressive, but the aggression came with a smirk and a sneer.
Today I worked with a different Obama campaign, the local grassroots group, who have tables set up this entire week on Ohio State University's campus to register student voters who may be currently registered at their permanent addresses. My friend Lisa and I took a 3-hour shift, and we were assisted by 2 other volunteers. It was a lot easier than I expected, and it was fun! We registered at least 30 voters during our shift! Lisa baked hundreds of homemade chocolate chip cookies to give away at our table, to draw the hungry little students in, and they were drawn to that plate of cookies like flies to honey. I was supposed to bake cookies to give away, too, but I ran out of time. So I just ate lots at the table. Lisa actually had several guys tell her they would marry her, her cookies were that good!
We did have some fun interactions with a couple Republicans. Within ten minutes of setting up, a couple construction guys in flannel shirts and torn jeans started jawing at us as they walked by. We couldn't understand a word they were saying, but they were not happy; Lisa mumbled under her breath that obviously Republicans haven't done so well for these two guys, so what's with the grief? A few minutes later, they pulled up in their gigantic diesel pickup truck, stopped in the middle of the street behind us and our table, and commenced screaming at us. The passenger leaned out the window and spewed expletives and something about the American flag. Awesome!
Another guy in his fifties was lured in by the free cookies, but then refused to touch them when he saw Lisa's "Obama = free cookies" sign!! I laughed my ass off at that one, because the longing for a cookie was so plainly written on this man's face. He tried to start bickering with us, telling us that he was very happy with what George Bush has done and how he's protected this country from further harm in the last eight years, but we just ignored him. He wandered away, shaking his head in disgust, even after we told him he could still help himself to a cookie. Such unpleasant, mean little people...so scared by generosity. We had a few students say, "I'm voting for McCain...can I still have a cookie?" and we said, sure! Any student who exercises their right to vote is a-okay in my book, whoever they vote for.
Meanie Republicans aside, it was a really fun event, and we had LOTS of people stop by just to say they were voting for Obama and to keep up the good work. Rock on!
Went canvassing for Obama today with my friend Lisa. Very tired. Need a shower. Walked for three hours in a Republican pocket of my neighborhood and only found two houses who were voting for Obama out of 31 that we went to (we were using a list of Republican given to us by the campaign). Talked to one Obama voter who sympathized with us and snickered, "Good luck...these people will vote Republican in this neighborhood because everything's always gone right for them." If that doesn't sum it up, I don't know what does.
Most people were very friendly even when they told us they were voting for McCain (I smiled even as my brain screamed WHY????), and we only had a couple people who were mildly rude (smirking and acting very smug as they told us they were voting for McCain. Both of them were women. Go figure). It was really fun to be exceptionally nice to these people.
Fun fact for the day: the Obama campaign has registered so many hundreds of thousands of new voters that they aren't even attempting to register any more. How awesome is that?
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