John Kerry's Senior Brigade

[NVMojo]

It is a relief to know they are out there ...

In Palm Beach County, Dedicated Retirees Get Out the Vote

By Ann Gerhart
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, October 21, 2004; Page C01

DELRAY BEACH, Fla.

At Kerry-Edwards headquarters last week, the seniors were sadly shaking their heads because an absentee ballot had not reached the man in hospice care in time. His dying wish was to cast a vote against President Bush, and if only he had signed the ballot before he died, it would have counted.

God forbid that should happen to one of them.

So they stream by the hundreds into the office here, volunteers in their seventies and eighties, die-hard Democrats, many of them Jewish, still irritated about the famous Palm Beach County butterfly ballot of 2000. Some estimate that the confusing ballot caused a couple thousand of their comrades to vote for Pat Buchanan when they meant to support their Joey, vice presidential candidate Joe Lieberman, and they are out to avenge all that has happened since. They tick off the war, the economy, Social Security, prescription drug benefits, homeland security, education and the man in the Oval Office, whom they regard with suspicion for a perceived lack of intellectual rigor. They don't talk that much about John Kerry.

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A49755-2004Oct20.html?referrer=email

[DELUSIONAL]

1. When Kerry wins it will because of people like these

So many people are doing what they can to get Kerry elected.

These elder retired folks are great!

[NVMojo]

2. yep ...I'd like to see Jeb and that stupid woman

whose name slips my mind right now, just try and mess with them! Just think, the 2000 election must have been a real travesty to them who have seen so many elections in their lifetime...

[Carolab]

3. I wonder when these seniors protest

yet another stolen election--and you KNOW what's coming down--if they will use FORCE on them???

[DELUSIONAL]

4. These old folks have canes and walkers

and they have tempers.

They just might get a whole lot of attention -- because we all have parents and we know that not all old folks mellow with age. It was easy four years ago to make fun of the old folks who didn't know how to use punch card machines. This time the retired folk have lots of time and lots of energy -- they've been made fun of for four years.

Watch out -- they might be wearing purple.

Just some humor .. .

[Moderator]

5. Duplicate

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=920568
(more than 12 hours old as well)





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