[Politics] Another edition of "other people are saying this better than me"

[emandink]

...links from around my f-list and other haunts:

Given all of the crap people are raining on their political opponents these days, this story is almost tear-worthy.  In sum - a man planning to vote for McCain lent his jacket to a trio of eldery Jewish women refused entry to an Ohio polling place because of their pro-Obama t-shirts so that they could go in and vote.

Surely I'm not the only person on the planet thinking "gee, they couldn't see this one coming?" about Palin going rogue.  I have to admit it's sort of nice to see her actually standing up for herself, even if I disagree with pretty much everything out of her mouth.

Most of y'all have probably seen this already, but Biden pretty much proved his worth in the following interview:

Finally, was I the only one who somehow missed the memo about political t-shirts/buttons/etc. being the subject of a statewide polling place ban in Virginia?  I knew that overy campaigining was a no no, but I was not aware until a few minutes ago that failing to take the Obama  button off of my purse strap could get me bounced. 

Comments

[psychopompous-9.livejournal.com]

damn. that was a lot of smackdown delivered.
biden: 1, cnn: -50

[marchenland.livejournal.com]

It was always the case that you couldn't wear ANY political stuff to the polls in Louisiana. I had a small black button that said, "NO DUKES," with nothing else on it at all, on my bag flap when I voted in '92, and was sent away to remove it.

[trystbat.livejournal.com]

Ok, that bit about T-shirts/buttons/etc. is a little scary. Of course, I live in California, where anything goes. Yikes!

[windsornot.livejournal.com]

Heck, I even knew about the ban, and I live in NJ! (I don't think we have it here, but what do I know?)

[revelininsanity.livejournal.com]

Wait. Why can't you wear your buttons and t-shirts in? That's silly. But was a nice story.

OMG. Biden totally verbally kicked that woman's verbal ASS! HAH! Why can't my leaders be that made of awesome?

[maewitch.livejournal.com]

That was hysterical. He basically said all the things you're usually yelling at the TV when these asinine questions get asked.

[pickleboot.livejournal.com]

i love that last answer. then again, i wouldn't mind living in sweden.

as for buttons on purse straps, i knew that one- they always checked at the entrance in champaign, and here they check at the door to the room where we vote. the place i had to call the voting commission or whatever on because they had people filling out ballots on the floor. ugh. i am not looking forward to voting on the 4th.