I love current events and the news and all things political. NPR.org interactive election map brought me great joy.
It's happened - we the American people have voted and invited a democratic back into the White House. Thank goodness.
Our President Elect happens to be the first ever African-American president. Fantastic. A movement of progress, how far we have come as country.
I didn't vote for black or white when I stepped into my polling cubby. No, I voted for the candidates who best represented my political ideals. I saw two colors - Red and Blue (well three technically if you count Nader - but very few will vote for him so bygones -sorry Ralphie).
At work today - I sit next to a woman (Let's call her Iggie) with exceptional grade A ignorance, a blind faith in a bible and religion that has brain washed her beyond repair - so much in fact she refuses to wear pants - even if it's 40 below. I'm sorry but Jesus would want you to wear pants instead of getting frost bite - the climate of the biblical times you read with such volition was not aware or prone to the horrors of the WINDCHILL factor. She irritated me greatly even if I like her as a person, for the most part.
Ignorance: Some hype heard amongst the cubical walls today include a portrait of ignorance and acceptance, both of the election results and of humanity in general.
Iggie:
Obama is a Muslim.
Kristen:
Actually Iggie, he's a christian just like you.
Iggie:
Nope, he's a Muslim.
Kristen:
What's wrong with that - we do have our first Amendment rights you know.
Iggie:
Our country was founded on the premise of a Christian God.
Kristen:
True, but it's our country that fought for religious freedom. And Obama is a Christian, you should be happy.
Iggie:
He's a Muslim Kristen, he's just faking it.
Kristen:
OK Iggie, believe what you want, but it's none of your business who he prays to anyways.
Iggie: He'll never be sworn in as president.
Kristen: He's the president elect, he'll be sworn in. Can't you just accept it. I'd accept McCain as president if he had won.
Iggie: Nope, he was born in Kenya so he can't be sworn in. Iwill never accept it. I have someone bigger than Obama to get me through this... God and Jesus will prevail.
Kristen: He was born in Hawaii, and God and Jesus weren't on the ballot and their foreign policy is a little sketchy. Remember Iggie, you should always vote with your brain and not with a bible.
Iggie: He can't provide a valid birth certificate
Kristen: McCain wasn't born on American soil. Ps. The Associated Press has a story about the validity of his birth certificiate - (emd to Iggie)
Iggie: Yes he was. You can't believe everything on the internet.
Kristen: Nope, he was born on a military base. Iggie, it's the Associated Press- not a email forward. I'll believe the Associated Press over some forward.
Iggie: Fine.
Kristen: Iggie, Why would a white, American, woman who is pregnant - travel in an airplane to Kenya to give birth in a remote village, that's maternity ward probably has dirt floors and drafty walls made out of natural fibers- versus in Hawaii in a hospital with clean disinfected floors and finely crafted structure and an Ocean view?
Iggie: Do your research Kristen.
Kristen: Iggie, don't you think you're being pretty ignorant about this - I mean John McCain - who was your political mavericky hero expressed that everyone needs to come together and that Obama is going to be his president and that you should accept it.
Iggie: He won't be my president, my president and commander in chief is a higher power.
Kristen: Well, that statement is very un-American of you. That dissapoints me Iggie. I have oreos at my desk do you want one?
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