Swing Vote

I just got back from seeing the Kevin Costner’s movie “Swing Vote.” It was filmed here in New Mexico thanks to the hard work of our Governor. One of the funniest moments was when the democratic candidate hugged Kevin “Bud.” Democrats from back east hug each other and even kiss each other all of the time and think nothing of it. I still hug people here even though I know that it gets to some people. Sometimes people here in New Mexico act very strange about personal distances but in the end you just have to be yourself and hope that your friends accept who you are and how you act. The republicans hates that about us because they can not begin to understand how one moment we can be hugging someone and the next we can be talking that same person down to someone else. Democrats are very much like a big family. We may have our infighting but never let anyone else say something wrong about one of our family because we will all come to their defense in less than a heartbeat.

The Republican Party can not stand that we all defend Senator Obama when it comes to the hate message that their party is peddling to the voters. The more they attack our candidate the more we are all convinced to standup and get the voters out to the polls this year. What the Republican Party fails to understand is that we will defend our nominee for president and our party will become very color blind if we think for one heartbeat that he could possible loss this race for president. Far too many voters have personally told me that over the phone lately. The voters in this state clearly want nothing to do with Senator McCain.

When I was a young woman voting back east the voter booths had curtain but in New Mexico we don’t have those at the polls in our city. In the movie they had that type of voting booths. You could tell that the people who wrote the movie were not from New Mexico. We may have some strange voting laws in this state but they are in place to protect the voting public so whatever works even a good card game.

At the end of the movie you just wanted to cry because of all of the letters that represented just how hard people in this country have it at present. George W. Bush should be ashamed for what he has done over the past seven years to the people of one of the greatest countries in the world. I don’t think anyone could intentionally comment the crimes and mistakes that he has but surely he must have some feelings of remorse for the way our economy is at present and the deaths he has caused. President Bush is completely a misguide individual and at some point I hope he is able to admit that to himself and in time history will judge the rest.