I cast my vote for President on Friday. Early voting. The lines were long, but not because there were so many people, even though it was a healthy crowd. The lines were long because there were not enough workers in the voting facility . . . and there was not enough work in the workers in the voting facility. It was a mess because of typical government inefficiency. Speaking of the bailout, it seemed that those of us in the voting lines on Friday were in an ironically jovial state of mind. Phones were buzzing, iPhones were engaged, Blackberries were clicking . . . and everyone was watching and talking about the economy and the week’s market action. The DOW was in free fall on Friday, and we early voters, all concerned about the economy, were all in it together. As the saying goes: Laugh and the world laughs with you; cry and you cry alone. Last week, the DOW behaved like an over-caffeinated child with ADD watching a tennis match . . . it may not have been pretty, but it sure was ugly. I suspect that the vast majority of my fellow early voters wore red stripes and made right turns out of the parking lot after they voted for McPalin, but I voted for O’Bama. For a while, as we laughed and joked about our historic economic predicament, there were no Republicans, there were no Democrats . . . we were just Americans. While I have my many objections to O’Bama-Biden, I could not in good conscience give my vote to a Republican after the trainwreck we’ve experienced over the last eight years. If Hannity, Rove, Limbaugh, O’Reilly, Gingrich, Coulter, Bush, Cheney and Kid Rock are all Republicans, then that fact by itself . . . besides the War in Iraq and the Second Great Depression . . . is reason enough for me to vote Democrat. Talk about associations! I do not support McCain, and I don't like his friends, my friends. Be a good Democrat. Be a good Republican. Vote early. Vote often. Just. Vote.
