Tubesday: Election Edition

[brianarn]

Only seems fitting to point out some election-themed links.

• Barack Obama - I’ve sent my vote his way. The more I’ve read and the more I’ve researched, I can’t see myself voting any other way. Between his increasingly hard right shift, his horrible selection for VP, and general change in conduct over this campaign, I can’t in good faith vote for

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[catblade]

Those tears from Obama I am sure are real, but he had no issues throwing his mother under the political bus to score points.
I can no more disown [Rev. Wright] than I can disown the black community. I can no more disown him than I can my white grandmother - a woman who helped raise me, a woman who sacrificed again and again for me, a woman who loves me as much as she loves anything in this world, but a woman who once confessed her fear of black men who passed by her on the street, and who on more than one occasion has uttered racial or ethnic stereotypes that made me cringe.

I found this very inappropriate. Family should be out of the race and calling your grandmother a racist nationally is a real jerk thing to do. And then there is perhaps his attempt to save himself the next day on a radio show:
The point I was making was not that my grandmother harbors any racial animosity, but that she is a typical white person. If she sees somebody on the street that she doesn't know, there's a reaction in her that doesn't go away and it comes

[p1x3lat3d]

Kudos to you Brian! Those are a great set of links, a few of which I had not seen yet. Something you might wanna add- google maps is doing a live election map of the US as precincts report in so you can see who is winning what as it happens. Bishma linked it in Twitter.

I hadn't seen that photo of Obama. His grandmother must have passed right as he was leaving Jacksonville, because he didn't bring it up at all in the rally ysterday, and I saw the news when I got home. That's so sad. :( Especially one day before he (hopefully) wins the election.

[brianarn]

Good idea for an extra link. it's in there now!

[omgimsuchadork]

Goodness, you got up before the sun to go vote? Sir, I applaud you. There are days when I don't want to get up in the middle of the afternoon to go to work!

[brianarn]

I actually voted last Friday. Early voting FTW.

That being said, I get up before the sun every day. 7:30am start time for the day.