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I was at my polling place at 6:40am this morning, it opened at 7am. This was the line behind me when I got there.

By the time I voted, that line was 3 times as long, and the little voting machine said 94 people had voted.

I’m off to knock on doors and get people to the polls. Go vote!

I just signed up to volunteer with ACT for their get-out-the-vote effort on Nov. 2. I am working from 8am until 7:30pm, apparently going door to door, asking people to vote.

We will see. I’m sure it will be an exhausting, but hopefully productive day.

(And they said I should bring some other people with me. Anyone interested?)

Well, I have come to another lull in the posting. I will have to once again blame it on all the pent up emotions regarding the election. I need it to be over.

But as many have pointed out, Jon Stewart’s appearance on Crossfire was a moment of sheer joy for me. Time will tell if it made any difference, but there was an essential truth in the whole exchange. The volume knob of “debate” needs to be turned way down in this country, so the actual voices can be heard.

As it is, we have this din of primal grunting and shouting around the fire. It’s not helping. When we have polls showing 70% of people from Tennesee saying they are “very interested” in the election and then something like 75% of them not able to answer a simple quiz on which candidate supports what issue, we have a serious problem.

There has never been a bigger “War Is Peace” moment in the past four years. In the face of the CIA report that stated Iraq had no WMD, Dick Cheney declared that the report justified the war.

Vice President Dick Cheney asserted on Thursday that a report by the chief U.S. weapons inspector in Iraq, who found no evidence that Iraq produced weapons of mass destruction after 1991, justifies rather than undermines President Bush’s decision to go to war.

Yeah, I’m just as confused as you are.

They just keeping pulling the wool in front of the sheep’s eyes. Unfortunately, when the sheep are confronted with ever-increasing facts that destroy the view of the world that they have been fed by Bush Administration, the sheep get even more scared, angry, and convinced that there is no possible way the President is misleading them.

Nobody likes looking foolish, but I’m sorry to say, if you’re supporting Bush because of the “War on Terror” or because Bush is a “fiscal conservative”, you’re playing the part.

I know I didn’t post anything on the debate yet, the media has given fairly good coverage.

But if you didn’t see it, these quotes will pretty much wrap it up for you.

“In Iraq, no doubt about it, it’s tough. It’s hard work. It’s incredibly hard. It’s – and it’s hard work. I understand how hard it is. I get the casualty reports every day. I see on the TV screens how hard it is. But it’s necessary work. We’re making progress. It is hard work. You know my hardest, the hardest part of the job is to know that I committed the troops in harm’s way and then do the best I can to provide comfort for the loves ones who lost a son or a daughter or husband and wife.”
-President Bush

“No matter how you feel about Bush, watching him speak is difficult. It‚Äôs like watching a drunk man cross an icy street.”
-Tucker Carlson

Thanks to Andrew Sullivan for the quotes..

Did you know that approximately 13,000 civilians have been killed in Iraq.

Having a hard time imagining what it’s like in Iraq right now?

Need some assault weapons?

Live overseas and you want to vote? Whoops sorry about that!

Getting pissed yet? Want to do something about it? Go register.

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I thought the most recent Gallup poll smelled funny.