Tangled Up In Blog

Election Day

So on Tuesday Andy and I exercised our rights as Americans and voted. Let me just say, I LOVE to vote. My parents always voted in every election. I remember them looking at the ballot in the local paper and talking about the choices they would make and then we would go down to the local high school and I would get to go into the booth with one of them while they voted. I remember how cool it was to stand behind the curtain and sometimes I would get to pull the levers. It's funny how the atmosphere of the polling station in Brooklyn was exactly the same as small town Louisiana. We voted in the gym at the local elementary school, the poll workers were very friendly, and there were kids there behind the curtains with their parents, just like I had been.

While I was trying to straighten out my voting situation because of the name change, Andy asked one of the poll workers if he could have a ballot for the social studies teacher at his school. The woman instructed him to go ask the information desk, so he walked over there and explained that he was a teacher, etc... and the woman was like, well, we aren't supposed to give them out but go wait in the hall and I'll bring you one. So Andy waits in the hall and she walks up with the ballot folded small enough to fit into the palm of her hand, doesn't say anything, just walks by and slides him the folded up ballot, like they were doing a drug deal. Too funny.

Needless to say I am uber-excited about the results of the election. I really felt like the oppression and the stupidity of the Bush administration was never going to end. I thought that the American people were never going to wake up to the fact that the war in Iraq is/was a terrible idea and based on fabrications by the current administration and that Bush has not done one positive thing for this country. I know the races were local, but I really feel like the races were a referrendum on both the war and Bush policies in general. And then to top this all off with the resignation of Rumsfeld...sooo nice. I really hope this is a new start....and now it's time for the Democrats to step up to the plate...

Labels: politics

posted by carolyn @ 9:54 AM