Nov 042008
Carole & I voted this morning before 8:00 at our rural Community Center. I think there are fewer than 300 voters in our voting district and I was number 64. I think turnout is going to be huge, especially among Democrats. People were in a very good mood this morning at the polling place & I think most of them were Obama voters. I think a lot of nominal Republicans are just going to stay home today.
Anyway, I was just fantasizing the beginning of a John McCain concession speech: “My friends, we ran a sleazy campaign of lies and character assassination and it blew up in our faces. . .” Right, that’s likely.
Update: Here is a link to photos Carole took of our polling place.
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I wish he’d say that.
But what he’ll say is that it was hard but fair.
Is there an emoticon for “gag me”? :-)
Nice photo of your polling station. We voted this morning in lovely Hannawa Falls. Took us all of five minutes, but we were the 113 and 114 voters from our little town. Don’t forget the part where McCain apologizes to the American people for insulting their intelligence by selecting Palin as his Veep.
PRESIDENT OBAMA VALENTINE
Overcast brightly
we lived in the fields
every morning two or three
would fall to the ground
heavy with their own juice
I know it’s November
but where is the ego of this tree
still a child spinning
until the body drops away
that or begging in the streets
where are the parents of this poem
every year they go
into the woods
to kill the deer.
YES WE DID!
ELECTION DAY
The worse 9/11
was the Bush administration
it could not even consider
how disastrous it would be
the biggest part
of the problem the mindless
certainty and childish
greedy rancor
let the first requirement
for leadership be
a first-rate mind
resident
in a mood
of mutual respect.