Just a few scattered, unrelated thoughts in these last crucial days. I want to make a couple of observations and then ask you a question that is driving me nuts and ask how you reconcile the people at Republican rallies with anything even leaning toward rational or sane.
Phone Calls to crucial states:
As I have been calling Ohio today, I was repeatedly told (when someone actually answered their phones) that many were not answering phones as Ohio (who knows where else) because they have been inundated with calls from volunteers (or maybe robo-calls?). I apologized to the 3rd person in 25 I was able to reach, and said I was a volunteer for the Obama campaign for Change. This wonderful woman said the calls weren't coming from the Obama people so much, but the McCain campaign was relentless and it was driving everyone crazy. She told me that everyone she knew had decided they just couldn't take it and weren't answering their phones. She said that her son has just lost his home and she and her husband (in their mid-70's) were doing everything they could to help him out and losing what they had set aside in doing so. She said, "Ohio is in an awful fix".
I asked her if she and her husband had voted or were voting and she said they had already voted for Obama. They are in their 70's and were so excited about CHANGE, it brought tears to my eyes. I'm a grandmother too, and am raising my grandchildren. I'll tell you this for sure, and I heard it in her voice too, "It's never too late to have HOPE for CHANGE! She said she believes Obama because she just knows he is a good man. She said, what I also feel. Barack's and, Michele's goodness shines through and you can feel it. It's tangible. It's times like this that you are so glad you are making those calls, even if sometimes people hang up on you. Just one call like this can make your day.
McCain/ Palin rallies:????????????????????????????
It is so incredible to me to watch people scream and boo when they say that Obama wants to raise taxes. Who are these people with pom poms and Joe the Plumber shirts that somehow have missed every report on every network (perhaps not Fox, but I never watch Fox News) that Obama will lower taxes for everyone that earns under $200,000 per year. Are all these screaming people in the small towns in barns and Republican rallies that rich or are they cheering against themselves? I know you must have the same thoughts when you see this strange phenomenon.
Now, I am perfectly aware, that a big part of the GOP are the fortune 500 types or those with huge, obscene profits - yes, the greedy rich (not the wealthy Kennedy type dedicated to helping those in need). And, they hold their fortunes close to their Nordstrom's vests, with a tendency toward the true sociopath, blind to the suffering in America brought about by their greed. They will always, as a sacred action, vote Republican, even though the fiscally conservative party no longer exists. In fact, that is the party that has committed acts of reckless socialism of late (baling out the rich they assisted in raping Americans). Oh well, they have now become archeologists digging for the remains of their party.- that tight fist is holding on to a party that has, of late, become a fascinating cartoon. But, the rich fixated on self, believing they are entitled, are not who amaze me. Characters like Scrooge have been around since the first caveman, in tough times, hoarded his kill for a select few, leaving the rest of the clan to starve.
Those who amaze me, are the middle class and the poor at Republican rallies screaming about Barack raising taxes. They have no chance in hell of being negatively impacted in any way, by Barack's plan of tax cuts for 95% of the American people. They would benefit by having their taxes lowered. Where do these people go when the rallies are over? They don't have 8 homes, they are not heirs or heiresses, they are not millionaires, and many are just trying to hang on to their homes. So, the really bizarre and puzzling thing to me is how these ordinary folks, who are suffering in this economy show up in any numbers at these rallies?
They are fighting the party and the candidates fighting their guts out to help them. They cannot be this dumb can they? Really, I am dead serious. I just can't make this enigma register - I don't get it. I know I'm preaching to the choir, but the Republicans have been stealing from the poor and middle class for years. They have to know that! How can they cheer the pitt bull saying Barack will raise taxes? Yes, he will! For the rich! But these people are like sheep to the slaughter. They are not cheering Palin's radical views on the Rapture, speaking in tongues, praying by laying on hands to protect her from witchcraft, or her waiting with baited breath for the end times (my personal prayers is, "God, keep her hands off that phone at 3:00AM!"). Those would be the far right wing-nuts who have made her their spiritual leader and want the church to run the America - their church!. I would expect their reaction at a Palin revival.
Noooo! These middle class "Joe the Plumbers (who DO NOT EARN A QUARTER OF A MILLION A YEAR) are cheering and chanting to keep paying the tab for the rich and are onboard with cheating themselves! What the hell is wrong with these people? They aren't living in caves - so if you know what is going on with these crowds (true - they're getting smaller) who are blind as bats to their own plight, tell me your read on how this can happen - mass hysteria?. It reminds me of the old cliche', "You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make them drink". But, how did they drink the cool-aid like at Jonestown.
Can anyone tell me what you think, as to how this is happening?. What am I missing here? Before this election becomes history and we are only seeing things in retrospect, can you tell me what you think? They remind me of zombies as in The Night of the Living Dead, just following, and following regardless of their lives and losses. Keep up all the great things you have done for this historic campaign in which our futures are at stake.Thank you,Susan Federighi
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