Tracey and I went to vote yesterday morning. I was surprised to see my old union president Jerry Brown working at the polling place. It was good to see him. One of the ladies there tried to give me Noah’s ballot. I should have taken it and come back later to vote mine too! After voting we went to breakfast and then Tracey went to work. She had decided to go in a little late and then stay late so that she could cover for her staff who wanted to go vote.
We spent the evening watching CNN’s election returns. Aaron came in and at one point started asking a ton of questions about what was going on. It was clear he had no idea how a primary election works and I asked him what the school was teaching him about the process. Basically nothing. Tracey mentioned she never learned anything about it in school either and then I started thinking ... I don’t think I was taught anything about anything but a rough outline of how the general election works. I can remember thinking the electoral college was insane and I still do. You have to wonder why the schools don’t teach very much about the election process? I suppose they are afraid it would get too political and controversial. I’m not into conspiracy theories much, but I have to wonder why they would make a conscious decision NOT to teach about the most basic and important aspects of our election process.
On a different but related topic. I am SO pissed at the Democrat’s primary process. Obama is kicking Hillarity’s ass in the popular vote and she is way ahead in delegate votes because of the superdelegates the Good Ol’ Boys are giving her. I wish we really did have a democratic country. I get so tired of so few people deciding the leadership for the rest of us. I think that is a huge commentary on the fear the established politicians have of anybody who starts talking about getting ridding of lobbyists, Washington insiders and crooked politics. It isn’t the year 1800 and we don’t need a few learned people to make our decisions for us because we are too uneducated. I’m not so sure we ever did, but we certainly don’t need nearly 800 people in the Democratic party who can vote at a whim who our candidate will be. Those superdelegates will almost always be able to throw any election in the direction of the established party members who expect candidates who will scratch their back later.
A writer participates at a demonstration in front of the Fox studio in Los Angeles, California, in 2007. Oscars nominees welcomed news of a breakthrough in negotiations over the Hollywood writer’s strike Monday as organizers of the prestigious film awards vowed this year’s show would go on.
Bubba and Ray (Arkansas mechanical engineers) were standing at the base of a flagpole, looking up.
A woman walked by and asked what they were doing.
‘We’re supposed to find the height of the flagpole,’ said Bubba, ‘but we don’t have a ladder.’
The woman took a wrench from her purse, loosened a few bolts, and laid the pole down. Then she took a tape measure from her pocket, took a measurement, announced, ‘Eighteen feet, six inches,’ and walked away.
Ray shook his head and laughed. ‘Ain’t that just like a woman! We ask for the height and she gives us the length!’
I stumbled upon a couple items about the Faux News Network this morning that make my blood run cold. First, political hack Karl Rove will be their chief political commentary? And Hillarity has accepted an offer to debate on Faux and is urging Obama to join her? How insane is this woman that she would legitimize the GOP media outlet of Rupert Murdoch. If this is true she has no business anywhere near the White House.
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