Caucus caucus caucus!
Our caucus location for the Presidential primaries was the Oddfellows Hall at 17th NW and NW Market in Ballard. As we approached, the line of people shuffling in stretched down the block:
About 400-500 people from 4 precincts crammed into the upstairs hall. All the hubbub made it difficult to hear the announcements:
Our precinct, the fightin’ 1317th (in the fightin’ 36th District):
We didn’t stay for the final results, but the tally was 88 for Obama, 21 or 22 for Clinton, and about 10 uncommitted. For contrast, in 2004 I think only about 20 people from our precinct caucused. From what I’ve read, it’s pretty much been pand-Obama-monium in Seattle.
Afterwards, two votes for Obama in the Cupcake Caucus at Cupcake Royale:
February 10, 2008 at 1:35 am
According to the demographics, I should be voting for Hillary Clinton: I’m a white, 60-year-old, highly educated woman from the Northeast. But I’m voting for Obama. I’ve waited all my life for a viable woman candidate for the presidency, but this is not the right woman. I want a woman of the highest ability and virtue, who would serve as a glorious role model to all young women. Hillary Clinton is not that woman.
She rode into power with her husband, and together they’ve acquired a long and seriously flawed history of self-serving and secretive financial and political dealings. The most cursory research will prove that true. She started out her political life supporting the racist Barry Goldwater. She is as comfortable with deception and trickery as George Bush. When I hear woman saying, “Oh, but that’s how you get things done in Washington,” I literally cringe.
I am passionately supporting Barack Obama. He can beat the Republicans; she cannot. Obama has attracted Independents and even Republicans to his camp, and in a general election they would vote for him, but not for Clinton. Clinton voted for the war, and has never apologized for it. Obama has spoken out against it from the beginning. Obama brings us hope–and not just that. Take a serious look at his ideas and experience.
Please, I beg of you, Sisters young and old: wait for the right woman. Then we can be proud.
Diane Wald