The Bored Democrat
I’ve got a U.S. phone line that rings here in Cancun. It’s very cool and helps me appear like I’m in the states when I’m not. Heehee. Well, anyway I basically never get any random sales-like calls on that number. But in the last 2 weeks I’ve gotten 3 phone calls from people in the Barack Obama camp who are just calling registered Democrats to make sure we aren’t going to support that grumpy goat who should have divorced Mr. Bill ages ago. I didn’t say that. No.
So the two candidates that I actually agreed on the most issues with are both out of the race now. One of them was even MORE QUALIFIED to run the country than any of these other people (AND he had a better web site too). But he’s gone. And so every time one of these members of the Obama fan club calls I tell him (all have been hims) “yes, yes, yes, of course O-ba-ma!”.
I even registered with Democrats Abroad so I can vote online for O-ba-ma in the primary and everything.
Here in Cancun we are about to have local elections. In my hood it looks like the PRI party is going to win. More than half my neighbors have PRI stickers on their cars and PRI flags flying from the door-cracks of their cars.
The recent uproar among tourists here stems from worry over the fact that Cancun will have an almost 36 hour dry law in effect for the election. And that dry spell will cover the SuperBowl. Horrors. Can’t watch the SuperBowl without booze. Christ. I don’t even know who’s playing and I don’t care. Quarterbacks sometimes have cute butts but that is ALL I know about football. So the tourists can run to WalMart and buy booze for the SuperBowl. And I’ll sit home and watch the pirate copy of the DaVinci Code that my husband borrowed from someone at work.
Like I said before “I am not a junkie”, so I can NOT watch the SuperBowl with no booze! Whoohoo!
February 6th, 2008 14:59
That’s funny- Obama hasn’t called me at all, but I’ve gotten 5 calls regarding Hillary. Must be the difference between the states that our phones (and our voter registrations) are in…
February 6th, 2008 16:36
I see that Obama did well in Colorado. Not surprised. I already cast my vote for him with the Democrats Abroad online election. Boy was it easy to vote that way, I hope they figure out how to make online voting secure for elections. It would be great and a lot more people would participate if it was easier, if you didn’t have to go to a certain place or plan way ahead to get an absentee ballot.