Only One Week Left
Posted by Patrick in Election 2008, Politics
One week from now, we’ll go to the polls and vote for president. At least, those of us who aren’t too lazy or too jaded will do so. Then we’ll count up everything and find out, depending on which party leads, who won or who “stole” the election.
This next week promises to be full of more bitter attacks, more of those forwarded emails that lie and distort virtually everything, that no one bothers to take the time to fact-check before sending them on to the next victim, and more nasty political spots that turn the stomaches of everyone except the most blindly-loyal candidate supporters.
I’m sick of this election. I’ll be glad when it’s over. And I’ll be even happier if we get that positive change we’re being promised.
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Cliff has a redneck cousin who calls about every three days telling me what awful things will happen if Obama is elected. We're supposed to meet with him and some other relatives Sunday, and I asked him yesterday, "Are we going to get together and talk about nothing but politics?"
"Oh no," he said, and got right back on the thing about Obama is the anti-Christ and if he's elected nobody will have guns and Obama will see that there's nothing but black people in Congress (I thought Congress had to be elected?) and we'll have muslims running the country, etc. etc. I'd blog about it, but relatives read my blog. Don't you wish YOUR family was redneck? NOT!
I dread the meetup Sunday. I may go sit at a table alone, if conversation takes that sort of a turn.
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