Monday, November 03, 2008
Off to do some work for Obama
I got a call from a dear friend, an older zek in the gulag who told me there was a phone bank down at Democratic HQ. I am going.
I am really pissed about pre-paid mobile service in the U.S. fixed line service here is generally better than in BiH or Croatia, but MOBILE service, especially pre-paid is a stinking damned rip-off. I get charged for incoming as well as outgoing calls. I do not approve of this. HTEronet, the service I had in BiH, BH Telecom Mobil and Mtel ALL have far better and cheaper pre-paid plans than anyone in the U.S. is offering. My Fellow Americans you are Being Ripped Off!
o.k. so off I go
The party here for zeks for Obama is going to be at Howard Johnsons at 9th and Yakima Ave, starting 7pm Election night. I plan to be there, so will the rest of the house mates.
I am really pissed about pre-paid mobile service in the U.S. fixed line service here is generally better than in BiH or Croatia, but MOBILE service, especially pre-paid is a stinking damned rip-off. I get charged for incoming as well as outgoing calls. I do not approve of this. HTEronet, the service I had in BiH, BH Telecom Mobil and Mtel ALL have far better and cheaper pre-paid plans than anyone in the U.S. is offering. My Fellow Americans you are Being Ripped Off!
o.k. so off I go
The party here for zeks for Obama is going to be at Howard Johnsons at 9th and Yakima Ave, starting 7pm Election night. I plan to be there, so will the rest of the house mates.
# posted by Katja R. @ 11:50 AM 
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How on earth in one fot he richest coujntries in the world can you have polling stations where people have to queue for 6-8 hours that close before everyone has been able to vote? This is not the first democratic elections in South Africa in 1994, this is the US in 2008. Whatever the future may bring, and however competent or otherwise Obama turns out to be, this is one of the most historic days in my life, I'm sure in yours and in the lives of so many people.
# posted by 
: 5:14 AM
: 5:14 AM
Watch out - Obama has some friends whose support he might not entirely appreciate. strange supporters. Taras at Ukrainiana has identified an unexpected ally:
http://tap-the-talent.blogspot.com/2008/11/zhirinovsky-endorses-obama.html
http://tap-the-talent.blogspot.com/2008/11/zhirinovsky-endorses-obama.html
# posted by : 7:39 AM
: 7:39 AM
Sorry - that extra "strange supporters" got in by mistake - can you chop it out?
# posted by : 9:56 AM
: 9:56 AM
@Owen, one of the things that bugs me is precisely the issue of long lines at polling places. Basically, the size of precincts has gotten bigger and bigger. I used to be a precinct worker, I had to quit because my precinct got far too big for me to walk. I couldn't do it anymore. I do walk, but under a load of pamphlets, and stuff to take care of myself during the day I would be out, was too much. I am only capable of fairly light work anymore.
Even calling people yesterday, one of the easier campaign jobs was AWFUL. People were nice, but the computerized lists have the area code and number in one unbroken line, and it is hard for me to even remember who I was calling. I got a fair number of wrong numbers just because of how it is all laid out. I don't think I could have done the job at all using the computerized lists and I have decent computer skills.
Even calling people yesterday, one of the easier campaign jobs was AWFUL. People were nice, but the computerized lists have the area code and number in one unbroken line, and it is hard for me to even remember who I was calling. I got a fair number of wrong numbers just because of how it is all laid out. I don't think I could have done the job at all using the computerized lists and I have decent computer skills.
Zhirinovsky is a total loose cannon, but then again, BOTH candidates have supporters they probably wish would just keep quiet and vote! :)
I think with McCain that might include the Vice-President!
Having to read continuous line print-out? Scanners that can't cope with votes from people with rain-soaked fingers? I guess Florida voting machines that don't work is hardly surprising but tell me - is the US still planning a space station on Mars? I thought we were bad.
Having to read continuous line print-out? Scanners that can't cope with votes from people with rain-soaked fingers? I guess Florida voting machines that don't work is hardly surprising but tell me - is the US still planning a space station on Mars? I thought we were bad.
# posted by : 3:02 PM
: 3:02 PM
Having said all that, I still come back to thinking about Martin Luther King's last speech I used to have on my kitchen cupboard.
Hopefully this is one of those moments when suddenly we're able to consign a whole world to the past. Good riddance.
As you celebrate - as I very much hope you will be doing - enjoy the celebrations on behalf of all the rest of us who remember the world as it was in 1968.
Hopefully this is one of those moments when suddenly we're able to consign a whole world to the past. Good riddance.
As you celebrate - as I very much hope you will be doing - enjoy the celebrations on behalf of all the rest of us who remember the world as it was in 1968.
# posted by : 3:16 PM
: 3:16 PM
Congratulations - whatever happens now nothing can take away the exhiliration of waking up to that victory speech!
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