Ok I think you all know by now who I am voting for - Obama - Barack Obama. Now being the card carrying Hippie peace loving anti-war activist that I am, I naturally signed up on this great Internet- on My Obama.com to volunteer. I made my meager monetary pledge but felt i could do more - maybe i should just open my wallet a little more because g-d knows when i open my mouth it is not always a good thing. So lucky for me only 2 out of the 7 or 8 calls on my list answered the phone. Of course i hadnt' preread my "script" - glanced at it at best. I did connect, i think, with one guy from Ohio tho.- a veteran. Mostly i got tongue-tied and apologized for just winging it - shooting from the hip. When i mentioned Obama being against the War and maybe getting us out of Irag is when he mentioned that he had mixed feelings about that because what about those people who lost their lives over there. I told him that my husband is a Viet Nam veteran and says what a waste of lives were lost there too. I said I don't disavow what they did but let's not have another old man sending our young men to war.
Mostly i stuttered...
but when i thanked him for listening and wished him a good nite,
he said, "I'm probably voting for your guy."
Yes!
9 years ago
5 comments:
Well done. It is never easy to put your mouth where your heart is and risk rejection. Or worse. Gutsy effort.
Good for you, rdl. I've sent in a little money, but I haven't done anything else. I was thinking, wouldn't it be fun to go to Ohio this weekend and knock on doors. Then I looked out at the snow coming down and said, "Naaah.!
I would have been swayed by this...
Thanks guys!!
And Lorna, if McCain wins i might be movin up yr. way. :D
Awesome!
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