While Palin is cuddling to the community with disabled kids, the GOP or their operatives have done this.
And just how many robo calls have you gotten from Obama telling your elderly mom that she is shit out of luck? None. Okay, that figures
I have a 94 year old mom. I guarantee that if my mom got a single call like this, I would find them and they would get a licking from me that they would never forget. This is just not right.
This is what it has come down to? Scaring the holy shit out of seniors? Making them worry and cry? And this is the voice of the GOP to seniors?
Gee, see a difference here in campaign tactics between Obama and McCain (as usual)?
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Got that off my chest... but here is a song that has stood tall with me from the moment I heard it, From Cheryl Wheeler on this topic. It is brilliant. She is from Mass. Her intro is comedy. The song itself is simpatico and many of you will see it as true. Hanky alert (and lyrics below).
Lyrics:
And they seem to know each other very well
They speak across the garden and not a soul could tell
They can read the summer sky and they can hear the back brook swell
And they seem to know each other very well
And they drive up north on sunday afternoons
And he buys her wooden windmills and whales and quarter moons
She feeds the birds all winter and she knows them by their tunes
And they drive up north on sunday afternoons
(Chorus)
And all summer long, they make the garden grow
Keep the green so strong
Oh, wish them well, for standing on their own
And they buried their old dog in their backyard
With a fence and plastic roses
And St. Francis standing guard
She speaks of him quite often to this day she takes it hard
And they buried their old dog in their backyard
She brings me plants and flowers all the time
And we dig the holes together she has to help with mine
When she pats the soil around them oh my god, her eyes can shine
She brings me plants and flowers all the time
(Chorus)
And they speak about their lives as almost gone
Waiting for the sunset from an old and distant dawn
Selling off the land except the part they're living on
And they speak of their lives as almost gone
And they seem to know each other very well
They speak across the garden and not a soul could tell
They can read the summer sky and they can hear the back brook swell
Harvey Wasserman, a wonderful writer and activist from Ohio who I had the opportunity to work with some years back, made the following statement preceding an interesting talk in Ohio entitled The History of Stolen Elections where he covers 200 years of American voting history in 20 minutes:
The one thing that the American people can say about George W. Bush is that we have never elected him president of the United States. --Harvey Wasserman
With the situation in a number of states poised to poison our next election, you might find this site not only instructive on the issue, but there is a state-by-state map of the current conditions where problems are known to exist currently, and a way to report abnormalities in your state (click on the link in the first sentence of text to take you to the map).
Current abnormalities are documented in: Arizona Colorado Florida Michigan Missouri Ohio Wisconsin Pennsylvania
If you are a political blogger or a blogger interested in election integrity and/or voter suppression in the United States, please link to this post or to the site itself. This is the only site attempting to consolidate information and act on it.
We know the vote was stolen from Gore in 2000. We know the vote was stolen from Kerry in 2004.
Harvey Wasserman, a wonderful writer and activist from Ohio who I had the opportunity to work with some years back, made the following statement preceding an interesting talk in Ohio entitled The History of Stolen Elections where he covers 200 years of American voting history in 20 minutes:
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