ALREADY, voting is under way. After two stolen elections which brought us the loathesome idiot George W. Bush; the criminal negligent George W. Bush; the Miserable Failure George W. Bush, who in turn brought us thousands upon thousands of corpses in the ground, dollars in the fire, and terror in the air—I can’t think of a more important election. And it seems the tension is already on, judging by at least one story out of Ohio.
FROM A FRIEND in Puerto Rico who has another friend in Ohio:
In a message dated 10/4/2008 9:29:56 A.M. Atlantic Standard Time, [redacted] writes:
I voted yesterday….more than half of the county elections didn’t even have a democrat running. I know the people who work in my precinct–I have to vote in a church– & they’re all republican & they know I’m not. It’s always made me feel creepy…so yesterday I voted at the county board of elections office–again the women who worked there all looked very republican & said my last name really loud & gave each other wierd looks=while they all stopped what they were doing & peered over their glasses=like here comes the jew=they called everyone else by their first names??? It was like a movie.
Then they put two people who came in after me before me– had to wait a half hour to vote,(@ 1:30) but I didn’t mind as everyone was waiting it was fun to look at everyone. You could tell pretty easily who was voting for who & there were definately more Obama voters while I was there. On campus they are offering shuttles to vote early….everyone is perfectly aware that they did not count over 100,000 votes in the last two elections….however it is the redneck morons who say that they won’t vote for someone with the name Hussein that come out on voting day I’m worried about. In all cities Obama is doing well, but there are many precincts of nothing but farms where they have babies with hearts (supporting prolife) painted on the side of their barns & bible quotes on billboards & those people will vote for McCain….Anyway Obama is trying to get voters in the cities who’ve never voted before & the same day registration & voting just might work….I will have hope for now.
for the record, the voter is a 35 year old female raised as a Christian, Dutch name
Later, she said:
Yeah–of course you can send it to your friends—but don’t forget to tell them my favorite part–you don’t need a picture ID if you vote early…they can ‘verify’ you by your signature…but you can’t get a beer or a pack of cigarettes w/out an ID…also, I know these people b/c I went to school w/ their children & argued w/ them in government class=my main rival is now a lobbyist….I was talked about & labled a lesbian by many of these old women who work in my precinct b/c I made a sculpture of a nude woman in art class-they tried to have me suspended==I’ve always felt that they were not above eliminating my vote, especially before the last election when we went to computers–afterall they had no qualms torturing an adolescent girl who was just making art–I am sure that we are not the only town where everyone knows everyone & all the old fat republican society ladies are the ones running the electoral process, because all of the rest of the people are working at jobs they can’t afford to take time off from…& the whole idea of voting in a church doesn’t seem to upset anyone around here but me
A little slice of life on the ground reporting/op-ed for ya. Integrate it as you will, and feel free to add any stories you have been told in the comments, if you have any. [Note: I did not attempt to contact the local bureau of Redneck Morons to provide a balanced view and whatcha gonna do about it?]
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I thought you would like that note Nez. I didn’t fix the figure that my daughter in law placed a $ sign in front of, maybe you can. I didn’t edit anything, I sent as is. It says $100,000, drop the $ please.
I get these tales of Ohio all the time. My granddaughter IS in a nice pre school there however, and Ohio State has been very good to my son and my daughter in law.
It’s a tense place, the American Dream, as defined in the Exceptionalist Realm has been withering in Ohio for a few decades. It’s somebody’s fault, and when they find that somebody, someday, there will be hell to pay.
That is my impression. I don’t live there, never have, I just get the reports.
Imagine, a whole month to cook the electoral results.
i’m thinking i don’t know anymore (if i ever did) what a democratic process is. i understand that conceptually it had the soundness of a good idea?
sounds like the writers experience would be a good scene in a cohen bros, film…especially the setting of voting in a church…
Jefe Nezua:
If you have nothing nice to say about the pretendsident–and you run out of bad things to say–gimme a holla! I got an endless shitload of Bushvective yearning to breathe free.
I was at a Cigar dinner last night (I only smoke with one very good friend, about 10-12 cigars/annum) in a small crowd of 12 that was about 80% reptilican. Nobody liked McStain (although some said they used to, before he went nuts) and they despise the ImPalinator.
I’m holding on to my hope that the foul stench of innocent civilian corpses in Iraq and Afghanistan–as well as those of our own young men and women–coupled with the raging firestorm of so many “American Dreams” going up in flames will be enough to convince the sane members of the GOP to repudiate the tactics of RovebushMcPALINccain.
I’ve been criticized for referring to Sweet Jane as a “hooker”. Can you furnish me with some romantic sounding spanish words that mean the same thing, so’s I can sound eruditefully insulting?
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I lived in Ohio for ten years before moving to Chicago, and I can say that deviation from the republican norm is not smiled upon. When I voted in the last presidential election, I waited four hours in line before I made it to the booth. Then again, I lived on a university campus where there was a large population of democratic students and minorities. My family lives in a largely upper class, white republican suburb where there were no lines, no wait and no smiles for my liberal Chicano family…