September 27, 2012 By: Juanita Jean Herownself Category: Uncategorized
Wally says he was the first vote for President Barack Obama in Iowa this morning. He got up real early, and apparently brought a date. My kind of guy.
Thank you, Wally, for sharing.
I would also like to mention that Wally has on a jacket and it’s 93 degrees in my part of Texas today. I will vote in flip flops.
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Thanks you, Wally. We cannot vote here for a couple more weeks in TN early voting.
1u mi boi, Wally
2Hooray for Wally!
3Congratulations, Wally, for being the first. You are the man!
4Whoot! Go Bart!
5Whoops–Go Wally!
6(You know you should turn off the television when a Simpsons ad trips you up . . . )
Go Wally. I also like the purple capris? shorts?
7Let’s hope as Wally goes so goes Iowa! Way to go man!
8Only flip flops? I applaud your courage, not only in your choice of attire (it is hot, after all), but in being a Democrat in Texas.
9I was just in Iowa, offended my host for two nights–he was a Repug–how was I to know? His answer to my question about military spending (I’m all for taking care of Vets, but big $$$ for obsolete before built aircraft, not so much) was to stomp out of the room, which left his embarrassed wife to say, “Both sides lie”…I thought about that longer than I should have, but have this to say now, “No! Both sides do not lie the way the Repugs do–and that false equlivency is letting jerks off the hook all over the country!” That we cannot have a conversation without rudeness and threats–that guy in the comments on another page who told the woman who turned in and got cameras set up to catch the person putting the slurs on her Obama lawn sign, that, come the day after elections, if Obama won, she would be one of the first people he would shoot–shoot (!!!) something is terribly wrong in our country… And I am grateful to this man for showing us there can be something correct…
10Yes, the closer the numbers get to a second term for Mr President the more strident and nasty they become. The word revolution crops up a little too often for my taste. It would be beyond shocking if a wave of real violence followed this election…
11Make cookies. Hand them out everywhere. Wear a Democratic T shirt or Obama T shirt or whatever while you hand them out. Love one another.
12I’m with Marge Wood. I spent decades convincing people that hippies (me) aren’t scum simply by always being polite, clean and articulate. A “Democrats are Nice” campaign with no-obligation cookies would be a good thing to show people we are not the Spawn of Satan.
As Americans we need to do things the right way. Win elections by having good candidates not by stealing yard signs and calling names. We also need to get our President to send Seal Team Six to bring in the guys on Wall Street who brought the world’s economy to the brink of disaster and then we need to convince him that robot assassinations are not the American Way.
Victoria calls those things shorts. I like them but I call them “longs.”
Just got a call from a friend in Minneapolis. NPR national picked up a sound bite I did at the County Auditor’s Office this morning.
13All in all, a good day. Thanks, y’all
Huzzah, Wally!!
14I don’t understand. I voted hours ago and I still haven’t gotten my big Government check. Maybe that nice Mr. Romney was mistaken…
15“I will vote in flip flops.” So now you’re pulling for Romney?
16We were polite enough not to shoot anyone or throw a revolution after they stole the 2000 election. It would nice if they’d behave after we win this one legitimately, despite their attempts to buy and vote-suppress their way back to the White House.
The election of 1876 was another when the top vote-getter didn’t get sworn in. The Washington Post was a bit more partisan back then, and headlined a story about a speech by Pres. Hayes “Twaddle From the Fraud”. Not an editorial– this was a news story on the front page.
17Congratulations, Wally! I’m proud of you!
Now I have to admit to the rest of JJ’s clients that I really don’t have the vaguest idea what “early voting” is. Yes, I’m hugely embarrassed, and I beg all of you to not make fun of me for my ignorance. Did Wally actually get to vote for the POTUS and his state keeps all those votes in a secure location until they actually open and count them in November? I’m not joking, and I stand before you humiliated, but will anyone explain this to me, please? I live in Washington State, where we vote by mail.
Also, thanks and congratulations again to Wally!
18Oh Juanita, Juanita…that’s not a jacket Wally is wearing, it’s a vest. Jackets have sleeves, vests do not. It’s probably chilly there in Iowa, it certainly is here in VT, 51deg now but going up to 56 today which is great! Makes the leaves put on their glorious show which is now happening.
19Rubymay, bless your heart*, they do take our ballots, which we have put in a “secrecy envelope” and they count them along with the others on election night. This lets us focus get-out-the-vote resources on a smaller segment of voters come election day and also frees us up to volunteer the whole day November 6th.
*JJ-Being from the north, I thought I would practice my foreign language skills; did I use “bless your heart” appropriately?
20OMG, Wally, how do you know that ‘bless your heart’ means sumthin’ else entirely here in the South? I’ve been livin’ here for almost 7 yrs & it was a total cultural shock to learn it means the opposite here in the Deep South from where I come in Nebraska!
21Man, I wish I could early-vote here in Texas for Mr. Obama!! I do try to take advantage of it; very cool, Wally!
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