Tuesday, March 4, 2008
Two step
I am lamenting that we don't all live together in the same old great city/region/state. Today was an exciting day here. Bill Clinton came to the LBJ student center to hug a bobcat or two. (I was teaching so I missed the big unexpected visit). There was the primary and then the caucus and now the long wait for the results. I feel like we'd all be at the river pub right now trading funny stories.
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my funny story is that I got to my precinct for the caucus and mr. colin bost was one of the precinct leaders.
I haven't gotten to shake any famous hands for this election. To their credit, the candidates would need to physically come into my home in order for me to be motivated to shake a hand. I would make Bill Clinton some tomatillo chicken enchiladas if he came into my house.
Cloning as in another Republican w/Mcaine, Cloning as in another penis that ignores woman and children as in Obama, or another Clinton? I'm confused?
Oh, the capacity to be figurative, Carmen. I miss that!
I was asked yesterday what I thought about stem cell research, and after I had the "wrong" answer to that, what I thought about cloning. Important stuff.
I had an interesting caucus, very unlike Iowa, very tame, very much some new blood mixing with the elder statesmen, who were all for Clinton and knew (claimed to know) how the process worked and have lived in this place for years (retired profs, social workers, city council members). They are good people.
But Obama took Williamson County (referred to as Wilco by the cool kids). He took my precinct 60-40%, 5 delegates to Clinton's 3. When the numbers got crunched, I said, "Or we can just take all 8 and end this tonight," and that's when a very sharp silence happened. Molfe broke some sort of rule in all earnestness, and then he blushed because all of these old people were staring at him with contempt. I'm one of those 5 crazy, young, misguided, uninformed Obama delegates though, which means I get to spend a long boring Saturday in an overly heated elementary school gymnasium and show my support (BO, get it?). BO for Barack Obama! BO Barack.
Now I'm weirded out about seeing my neighbors.
So did you hear that Rush asked all the republicans to throw their votes Clinton's way so that the democrats will continue fighting?
And that is why she won? Is there any truth to this?
All I'm saying is that when I voted, I voted early in westlake, at the "flagship randalls" with the starbucks in it. Westlake is rich, white, and rich. And the Republican line had two people in it. It took me 45 minutes to battle my way through the Democrat line, however.
There's your next story Jack or Rebecca--
"Baby Werewolf Army: Taking over the World Because of Democrats"
Yeah, Rush really said all of that. This is close to an exact quote of his when talking about a possible Clinton/Obama ticket "... a woman and a black. They don't have a prayer." It's scary that someone so dumb apparently has enough of an audience that he gets to keep his radio show. Eeesh.
When did he say that? Because it wouldn't have made any difference in TX unless he had given Repubs at least 30 days notice in order for their voter registrations to go through. Only registered repubs can vote for repubs, dems for dems in the primaries. Although, had Mike Huckabee's name been on my ballot, I would have strongly considered checking it in a similar tactic.
When I voted, the guy asked me: democrat, or republican? I looked at him alarmed, thinking HE should have had that information in the little machine that printed my ticket.
He didn't have that information.
I'm just saying.
He has to have that info. My instinct is that he did have that info but that the lines were so long and his volunteer job sucked so bad that day that he was simply shuffling people along under the assumption that people are, by nature, good and honest. Most of us. The majority, hopefully. I still don't think that many repubs would have done/did do it enough to really make a difference.
There I go again, hope hope hope!
Primaries are, like, so February 5th ago. Just kidding . . .
I am late to read these posts again. You guys are so quick.
Abs, I'm with you on the politicizing at the River Rub. If I remember correctly, we were all there for the '04 election, and we were drunk. I mean, how could we be sober?
God is so totally against cloning (identical twins? devils!), but he loves Ford Trucks. And Television. I mean, Jesus loved television.
One of my republican coworkers claims he voted for Clinton because at least she wasn't Obama, with all of his ties to Farrakhan. Who knows.
Clinton won because she won on the strength of her issues and principles and has supporters. The same reason she won all of the other states she won. Not because of some media-dreamt and hyped notion of strategizing Republicans.
But yeah, there's also cloning and ford trucks to consider too.
I read all of the comments again today, and all of us have our own private issues/conversations we're having. I think this is the best kind of conversation to have with all of these threads. But I'm imagining it would be even more hilarious if we were all together in a smoky room doing drugs.
But that image may be influenced by the movie DIG! which I recently saw. Have you guys seen it? Boy, it's great!
I'm glad Rush was not right. I still have only a rudimentary understanding of American democracy.
This is because the class that I taught at Girls State was "how a bill becomes a law," and not "how a bill gets elected again." And my other primary role was "homophobic catholic wearing clinique."
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