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Obama wins Salt Lake County

lackhead — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 05:56:10 +0000

Yes! Yes! Yes! We did it friends and neighbors! Today, after all the provisional and absentee ballots have been counted, it has been reported that Barak Obama won Salt Lake County by 296 votes.

I guess my vote counted after all.

-c

Once more unto the breach, dear friends

lackhead — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 16:23:00 +0000

Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more,
Or close the wall up with our English dead!
In peace there’s nothing so becomes a man
As modest stillness and humility;
But when the blast of war blows in our ears,
Then imitate the action of the tiger:
Stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood.
…show us here
The mettle of your pasture; let us swear
That you are worth your breeding; which I doubt not.

– Shakespeare, from Henry V

Well, Mr. Obama, you have my vote. Use it well. May you ride this groundswell and help tip our country, poised so precariously, towards a better future.

-c

ps- I had an interesting moment this morning while voting. When I was done I asked to speak to the head electiony-dude at my voting place so that I could complain about the Deibold machines being used (yay for Utah). As soon as I started speaking he rolled his eyes and said, “You and me both, my friend.” We had a short, but heartwarming conversation about our fears, not of a computerized election, but of a poorly and secretly computerized election. Please, dear readers, remind me to get involved in local elections, not for running for office, but running elections. This good man I met this morning could use some help in doing the right thing.

An important moment

lackhead — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 07:05:32 +0000

My life has been, well, busy doesn’t quite have the muster for describing the recent quotidian plodding of The Chad, and I haven’t been blogging nearly as much as I would like. But in a really, really bizarre way I found myself stumbling across these two videos. The first is a spur-of-the-moment interview done outside the Democratic debate in LA, and given what most on-the-street interviews say about the idea of “average intelligence” I found this extremely insightful, not for Obama’s ideas on policy (details), but for how informed, how enervated this country is about politics.

If you are interested in more on what he has to say, check out his response on youtube.

For the second video, this is the last 10 minutes of Barak Obama’s speech in front of the Democratic Party of Wisconsin. This goes to the heart of what Obama brings to the dry lake bed that is our political spectrum, and why so many of us find something so unexpected and so precious in what this man represents.

This is an important moment. My first presidential vote went to Bill Clinton in ’92 and after 12 long years living under the plague of Reagan and Bush he was a breath of fresh air. But he wasn’t this. This is something new in my lifetime.

-c