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We're all election weary

October 27, 2008 By pia

I have been taking pictures of houses and more houses and more houses. I feel as if I know every house in North Myrtle intimately.

I have only seen four McCain/Palin signs That gives me hope unless people are even more conservative or don’t understand exactly what Palin stands for.

Her glittering generalizations make me search my soul to see if my stances are as poorly defined as hers or actually mean something. Here’s Tina Brown’s new blog. It has an article that calls Palin sort of brilliant. It cribs from WaPo on that dangerous threesome, Obama, Pelosi and Reid. Please tell me that I’m dreaming. I hear it a lot here–Pelosi is a dangerous liberal and Harry Reid, traitorous.

I never knew these things.

I found the above sign funny. I had walked ten miles in the heat, was over dressed and had to walk home. I could have called for a cab as I actually had my phone with me. While I was in the mood to flirt with Mike the cab company owner and my sneakers were reminding me that my arches are too high which look great on the beach and fail everywhere else, I knew I the walk home from Cherry Grove would sustain my soul<a href='https://courtingdestiny.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/img_0037.jpg'>.

The streets don't have potholes here and there's always the beach<a href='https://courtingdestiny.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/img_0232.jpg'>>

Vote on November 4. Help make history happen. As a Jewish woman I guess fit into two minority groups though being from New York....

I moved from my comfort zone and I need it right now but I know this was the right move for me.

Vote for Barack Obama. He is the right candidate at the right time.

An older woman last night was telling me how it felt when Kennedy was running. She said it felt amazing. I vaguely remember. I remember how excited all the adults were. We were freed from Republican rule and for three years there was Camelot.

Dwight Eisenhower was a saint compared to today's Republicans. We might not get Camelot but we will get an intellectual president who gives a damn.

This America, it hasn't been my America for eight years. I need to believe again. We need our country back.

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  1. sage says

    October 28, 2008 at 10:56 am

    Wow, you are walking a lot! Like your pictures–even the one of the Baptist Church sign.

    I’ve been relucant to write about signs. There are some McCain signs in my part of this small town, but more Obama signs. Yet, when I drive through “the other side of the tracks” (although there are no longer railroad tracks here, but the part of the town where no one makes anywhere close to 250K and where crime and drug use and police calls are all too common, there were no Obama signs and lots of McCain ones. There does seem to be a class difference and those the poorer and less educated seem more attracted to McCain.

  2. cooper says

    October 28, 2008 at 11:26 pm

    Love the pictures pia.
    The church sign especially.
    Everyone is pretty tired right now I think. Pictures always take the edge off.

  3. henry says

    October 29, 2008 at 10:46 am

    People are weary of putting out McCain/Palin signs because they actually believe McCain is Bush and are afraid of being called racist or having their property damgaged:

    But let’s have a little history lesson when the democrats had total control that most are blind to or are jusr not educated enough to find out on their own:

    Carter had the filabuster proof majority – look what he did! Double digit inflation, interest rates and unemployment.

    Johnson had a filabuster proof majority – we got the great society which destroyed black families, took the dad’s out of the homes, teenaged girls giving birth way out of proportion to the rest of the country and welfare moms for 3 generations.

    Roosevelt had a filabuster proof majority and got the new deal which socialized the country for the first time in history.

    Three times, three democrats and now theywant to finish off this country with a fourth.

    Actually if you talk to most business owners who are not poor and are educated they are McCain supporters.

  4. Shayna says

    October 29, 2008 at 2:32 pm

    Here… there are more McCain/Palin signs. The other day I saw a McCain/Palin and a Obama/Biden in front of one house… so I guess they are undecided??

    Hope you are doing great!

  5. G says

    November 1, 2008 at 9:31 am

    Rabbit, rabbit. Shayne, that could also be a mixed household…she said from personal experience.

    Can’t wait for Tuesday! Have a wonderful weekend. Get some rest from all that walking 🙂

  6. G says

    November 1, 2008 at 9:32 am

    That’s “Shayna.”

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I live in the South, not South Florida, a few blocks from the ocean, and two blocks from the main street. It's called Main Street. Amazes me too.

I'm from New York. I mostly lived in the Mid-Upper East Side, and the heart of the Upper West Side. It amazes me when people talk about how scared they were of Times Square in the 1970's and 1980's.

As my mother said: "know the streets, look out and you'll be fine."

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Then I hated everything about the suburbs. Yet somehow I lived in a few great Long Island Sound towns after high school.

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