Here’s a Story
Eight years ago, my Momma was 82 years old. She confessed to me that she felt a little guilty about voting for Barack Obama in the primary. Her momma didn’t even have the right to vote until she was grown up.
“I wanted to see a woman in the White House before I die,” she wistfully told me.
“Well, Momma, that means you just gotta live 8 more years,” I laughed.
She did and at 90 years old, she voted for Hillary in the primary. Although she votes by mail now, I am going to take her to vote in person this November. It’s important.
Here’s Momma and her only little baby girl. We are going to go vote together.
What a swell story! I love coming here every morning. Thanks
1Great lady, your momma
2Congratulations to Momma, Sec/Senator/First Lady and soon to be Madame President Clinton, and to all the women & men who have fought the good fight for equality.
The 21st Century began on a sour note – Dubya. Then came President Obama soon to be followed by President Clinton 45. We have a chance to get this century wrapped around the all important 14th Amendment.
Let’s give HRC a Democratic Congress. Do it for Momma. Do it for ourselves and the future. Vote!
BTW Love the picture, Mrs. B. It’s obvious that your Momma has always been an intelligent, attractive lady. And, even as a baby, you had that determined look!
3Congrats.
I’m just happy its over. I’m more politically aligned with Sanders than Hillary but that will make absolutely zero difference as I stick Clinton signs and whatever else the local Dems and my little bride tell me to do.
I’m sure 1/20/2017 will be a historic day.
4May the Force be with you.
5Not so fast,folks. Drumpf#$k will prolly issue an executive order saying women can’t vote because they bleed and disrespect Drumpf. I hear he has been measuring drapes for his coronation-whether he wins or not,he is taking over.
6Hugs to you and Momma. You already looked feisty in that picture. And I’m just watching to see what happens next.
7It’s a lovely picture of your mother and you, and you’re both women to admire and respect.
8Awwww, too cute. (and the pic was taken long before fire ants showed up)
9Congratulations Momma, and JJ.
My own Momma was born in 1920. I think about that every time I vote.
10My momma too! She’s 95 and I wheeled her into the polling place to cast her vote for Hillary in March. There weren’t any accessible booths so they put her at a table, and a worker held his jacket up to shield her. But she couldn’t make the marker work so she loudly ordered me to “just put a mark for Hillary!” She’s so excited be voting for her again in November.
11Ahhh–the sweet sweep of history.
We are all on your side, JJ and Momma.
12Wonderful! My mom was born in 1919 and I think all of us gals will have their spiritual support with us when we go to the polls in November.
13Congratulations and good work. My mother was born in 1919 and died this past April, a week before the PA primary. I don’t know but I hope she voted for Clinton in the 2008 primary; I know she voted for Obama that November.
14That is such a sweet picture!
I doubt my late mother would have voted for Obama, alas. I hope my 96 year-old neighbor will be able to get to the polls in November; if not, I’ll make sure she votes by mail.
The people who count these things have already put DC’s 3 electoral votes in Hillary’s column–and not without reason. The big mystery is just how few votes tRump will get.
15You are a lucky woman to have your Momma! I remember my grandmother saying that the world went to Hell when woman got the vote……..would give anything to chat now……
16Congratulations Momma! You made it! Enjoy election day.
17You made me cry – in a good way.
PKM, you have distilled my new mantra: “Let’s give HRC a Democratic Congress. Do it for Momma. Do it for ourselves and the future. Vote!”
18Thanks for sharing that lovely story. It made my day!
19I am a volunteer tour guide at Mt. Hope Cemetery in Rochester, NY, where Susan B. Anthony is buried. Today I led a tour for a 6th grade class on a field trip. At Susan’s grave someone had left a newspaper with a front page picture of Hillary. All the children knew why that paper was there. Susan would be so pleased.
20Here’s a portion of an e-mail that I got from Bernie recently.
“That’s why today I’m endorsing two new progressives – Eric Kingson in New York and Paul Clements in Michigan and asking you to again support Lucy Flores, Zephyr Teachout, Pramila Jayapal, and Tim Canova in their races for Congress.”
These candidates are worth checking out and supporting if you like what they stand for.
21Haven’t seen penny loafers in a long time ………. sooo cute
22From my son . . . please excuse me right up front . . . he says your momma looked hot!
23Brava Momma!!!
24Nothing sweeter than a young mother and child photo and you are indeed lucky to still have her. I think many of us will feel a joy in our hearts and have a tear or two in our eyes as we are privileged to do something we have never been able to do before: vote for our first woman president.
25Most of us have felt the unfair blows of misogyny, whether verbal or physical, and can’t wait to finally have some measure of vindication in November.
Congratulations to you, Momma. I hope you get your wish. That’s a wonderful picture of you and your baby girl.
26Love the pic of you and your Momma … both of you are just too cute!! 🙂
27(Oops. I put this in the wrong place. Sorry.)
A WOMAN nominee for PRESIDENT of the USA. Wow. I never thought I’d see that in my lifetime. I am beyond thrilled. This means so much to me, and probably huge numbers of us. Imagine.
I think of being shamed and belittled because I wanted to play basketball. Of the rule mandating that all girls had to wear skirts or dresses to my public high school. Of the college dorm curfews that were earlier for women than for men. Of being the only woman driving a race car on the local oval dirt track. Of being looked at like some kind of freak because I didn’t know how to sew.
There’s Hillary, great big grin on her face, arms spread wide while thousands cheer her as the nominee of the Democratic Party. I’ve already cried about it once and I’m sure I will again. If she wins I can guarantee I’ll be a big, sloppy, joyous mess.
28That is a great photo and your momma Is Hot.
My Gramma died in 1992, a first wave feminist. She would be so proud, and working her skinny little ass off for Hillary!
29Wonderful! Here’s a galaxy of gold stars for your Momma and you. My favorite voting story is about my Dad. He moved to VA from Ohio and never heard of poll tax. In those days people had to pay to vote. Just another way to keep poor and black Americans from voting. Well, Dad thought that was very wrong so he quietly paid the $1.50 for many who couldn’t pay it themselves.
30Y’all are making me cry. I was fine till I started reading this.
And yes, Momma was a dish back in the day. But it doesn’t look like she flaunted it. Very classy.
31Beautiful story, and one more reason I’m with Her.
32President Obama officially endorsed Sec/Sen Clinton today.
Meanwhile, Bernie meets with Pres Obama and Sen Reid today.
I humbly typed up Bernie’s demand list. He and his delegates can fight for the party platform.
Now for the list of demands: (1) Debbie WTF Schultz; gone as head of DNC (2) Elizabeth Warren replaces Chuck Schumer in Harry Reid’s leadership position. (3) Pres Obama buries the TPP (4) Hilz says a definitive NO to fracking. Now that didn’t hurt, did it?
For Bernie’s meeting with Harry, see #2 above. (5) Harry takes his butt back to NV to campaign for Catherine Cortez Masto to replace him in the Senate. (6) Harry keeps his nose out of FL and/or reverses course to support Tim Canova to replace Debbie WTF Schultz.
That about it, Bernie? 😀
33Okay, this is my favorite post ever! I wish my mama and mother in law were both here to vote for Hillary in November. Although, there is a good chance they might have died before the election over the whole Trump debacle.
34That’s so sweet! My mother, of blessed memory, was born in 1918 (yes, during the height of the influenza epidemic). She didn’t live to see this, nor did she live to see Barack Obama elected. She’d have loved it.
35This makes me so happy and so sad. My late mother would have been so proud and happy to vote for Obama and now for Hillary. She taught her children to vote and like us never voted Republican. As a white woman who lived in GA all her life she was a liberal Democrat to the end. However, she would be so horrified of the overt and public racism. I am glad she did not live to see it again….she saw it as a child and a young adult. She was proud to teach in my high school as it was integrated and she had hope.
36My mom was a Democrat. When I voted for Nixon in ’72 – what can I tell ya? – young and dumb – she voted for McGovern.
Then suddenly in 1980, she decided she’d been “brainwashed” all her life, and voted for Reagan. She was a Republican from then on. They appealed to her social and religious conservatism. Yet much as she railed at unwed mothers, and all the rest of the crap, she was still tender hearted and generous when she met such people in the flesh. She never got the disconnect between the rhetoric and the reality.
The ’80 election had the opposite effect on me. I wasn’t very politically aware. I voted for Nixon, then for Ford, whom I liked, and thought was being treated unfairly. He really was a decent man, who never sought the presidency. Then Ronald Reagan ran, and I was cured – forever. Haven’t voted for a Republican since, except for a state representative who was a member of our service club back in the late ’80’s, and a very sweet, reasonable lady. They’re all gone fron the GOP now, AFAIK.
So I don’t know who Mom would support now. Not Trump, who really is a world-class vulgarian. I think maybe Bernie.
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