big boss is coming to town next week
November 6th, 2008I’m shockingly busy.
Posting will be sporadicus.
I am looking forward to the race on Saturday. I hope it snows.
My map
November 5th, 2008I got Missouri wrong, maybe North Carolina.
touchstone
November 5th, 2008I was six years old when Richard Nixon resigned the Presidency. I was born while LBJ was still in office, but Nixon is the first President that I feel I had any personal association with. Of course I never met him, but I remember watching him that day on TV, standing behind that podium, making that speech, then walking out to Marine One and giving that two handed victory salute before leaving the White House in disgrace.
Nixon, and to some extent the Presidency, have always carried a bit of a sad and sour feeling for me. Nixon was my first President.
My son will be seven years old at the end of Obama’s first term as President. I am optimistic that Toddler Smithers will have a fonder association to President Obama as his first President than I have to mine.
I am optimistic for the future of this country.
President Elect Obama
November 4th, 200854 -55% of the popular vote, commanding electoral college victory, increasing the Democratic majorities in the House and Senate in the face of all those stunningly unbelievable f-ing idiots who called him a Muslim, an Arab, a terrorist, a non-citizen, a socialist, a radical, anti-American, the anti-christ.
A good day for optimism and democracy.
A bad day for hate, fear and incomprehensible ignorance.
unhinged optimism
November 4th, 2008A bit early for this isn’t it?
awesome
November 4th, 2008I finally fixed daylight savings time on my blog so posts will be shown with the correct time.
Teh awesomeness!
Tweet the polls
November 4th, 2008I’ll be on Twitter tonight making with the lame jokes.
voting norms
November 4th, 2008NBC:
Voters are reporting major obstacles to casting their ballot in polling locations across Virginia and Pennsylvania, which could disenfranchise thousands of voters in each state.
Long lines, broken voting machines, ballot shortages and misused absentee ballots are just some of the problems that threaten voting.
I know that the states are allowed to run their elections as they see fit, but we are long past time when these problems should have been solved. It’s clear that some states just can not seem to figure out how to make voting simple and easy.
It’s time for a federal mandate to the states requiring them to streamline the voting process. These problems only serve to make voting difficult for certain segments of the population.
