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Name: ryan
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| i discourage voting for obama because he's black. that said, a moving account from a politico reader in ohio:
Upon arriving at the Hamilton County Board of Elections in Cincinnati to vote early today I happened upon some friends of my mothers - 3 small, elderly Jewish women. They were quite upset as they were being refused admitance to the polling location due to their Obama T-Shirts, hats and buttons. Apparently you cannot wear Obama/McCain gear into polling locations here in Ohio.... They were practically on the verge of tears.
After a minute or two of this a huge man (6'5", 300 lbs easy) wearing a Dale Earnhardt jacket and Bengal's baseball cap left the voting line, came up to us and introduced himself as Mike. He told us he had overheard our conversation and asked if the ladies would like to borrow his jacket to put over their t-shirts so they could go in and vote. The ladies quickly agreed. As long as I live I will never forget the image of these eighty plus year old Jewish ladies walking into the polling location wearing a huge Dale Earnhardt racing jacket that came over their hands and down to their knees!
Mike, patiently waited for each woman to cast thier vote, accepted thier many thanks and then got back in line (I saved him a place while he was helping out the ladies). When Mike got back in line I asked him if he was an Obama supporter. He said that he was not, but that he couldn't stand to see those ladies so upset. I thanked him for being a gentleman in a time of bitter partisanship and wished him well.
After I voted I walked out to the street to find my mother's friends surrouding our new friend Mike - they were laughing and having a great time. I joined them and soon learned that Mike had changed his mind in the polling booth and ended up voting for Obama. When I asked him why he changed his mind at the last minute, he explained that while he was waiting for his jacket he got into a conversation with one of the ladies who had explained how the Jewish community, and she, had worked side by side with the black community during the civil rights movements of the 60's, and that this vote was the culmination of those personal and community efforts so many years ago. That this election for her was more than just a vote...but a chance at history.
Mike looked at me and said, "Obama's going to win and I didn't want to tell my grandchildren some day that I had an opportunity to vote for the first black president, but I missed my chance at history and voted for the other guy."
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republicans, take a look at the unamerican filth your party is spreading and tell me you're going to vote for them.
moderates and undecideds, take a look at this fucked up scare tactic and tell me if you're still undecided.
obama supporters, understand that the gop is now explicitly trying to link obama with the 9/11 hijackers in the minds of voters. pass word of this on. it's gone too far. this can not continue.
what an immoral and disgusting thing the republican party has become. they should be ashamed and beg forgiveness for injecting this kind of smut into the national psyche.
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| i feel like i'm in the twilight zone. suddenly palin is the new figurehead of the evangelical movement because her teenage daughter got pregnant and is going to have a shotgun wedding and a child.
let me repeat that ... because it bears repeating.
evangelicals are fawning over this woman because her teenage daughter got pregnant and is going to have a shotgun wedding and a child.
palin is big on abstinence-only education. do you think that maybe her teenage daughter was raised with abstinence-only education? do you think that might have had something to do with her getting pregnant!?! "but mom, you never told me what a condom was and you worked legislation through that kept the school from teaching me. i know you assumed that i just wouldn't have sex but, mom, this is different -- he said he loved me."
the other disturbing thing is that mccain reportedly knew about this along with troopergate, her belief in teaching creationism in schools and her stand against abortion even in the case of rape or incest long before choosing her as his running mate. what does that tell you about mccain?
my friend (who's margaret thatcher conservative and initially liked palin) text messaged me last night worried that this revelation was going to mean her immediate withdrawal from the race. i told him that it would do nothing but strangely endear her to far right conservatives. he still can't believe she's not withdrawing. imagine the attacks from the right wing if it were barack obama's 17-year-old daughter who was pregnant. he would be called an irresponsible father and it would be the end of his candidacy.
i don't think it should cause her to withdraw. it should cause people to give her a closer look and find out how far out of the mainstream she is on very basic fabric-of-the-country issues.
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