{"id":2592,"date":"2008-11-04T15:58:03","date_gmt":"2008-11-04T20:58:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/?p=2592"},"modified":"2008-11-04T18:23:50","modified_gmt":"2008-11-04T23:23:50","slug":"crying-mad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/2008\/11\/04\/crying-mad\/","title":{"rendered":"crying mad&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p align=\"justify\">After a wave of &#8216;nerves,&#8217; I drove to the grocery store and searched for those things wives put on grocery lists to torture husbands &#8211; pomegranate juice, septic tank treatment, olive and pimento pieces. I voted weeks ago, but I drove by my polling place just to take a look. There was a full parking lot, but no obvious line. This is Georgia where Saxby Chambliss said &quot;those other folks are voting&quot; &#8211; referring to the african-american voter turn out in Atlanta and the Metro area. So I was hoping for a low turnout here in the traditionally Republican mountains of North Georgia. No such luck. Our county has 18,389 registered voters. 7,486 voted early! More than usually even vote I think and there are plenty of people voting today.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">On the way home, the Fall leaves were spectacular on a bright, sunny day. And I was crying. It surprised me because it wasn&#8217;t connected to anything I was thinking about. It&#8217;s not about the outcome of this election anymore. Barring election fraud, I&#8217;m hopeful. But even if it doesn&#8217;t turn out like I want it to, I did all I could do, and I&#8217;m proud of how much others have done. Obama couldn&#8217;t have done better. My apolitical daughter was out driving voters at 7:00 AM in Raleigh. My wife has been on the phone for moveon.org for several days. And I found the pomegranate juice.<\/p>\n<div align=\"justify\">It took me a few minutes to figure out the tears. They were tears of anger. After four years, there&#8217;s something about today that let me feel how angry I am at George Bush, Dick Cheney, Karl Rove, the Religious Right demagogues who helped elect them, and everyone else involved in what they&#8217;ve done to my country. So here I am, a sixty plus year old reasonable guy, driving down the street crying mad, wanting to start a revolution. So I stopped at the mailbox, picked up the mail, drove to our cabin, and unloaded the groceries. Some revolutionary. But it helped for the moment to have my outburst. I think finding peace is going to be harder than I&#8217;d like in these coming months&#8230;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a wave of &#8216;nerves,&#8217; I drove to the grocery store and searched for those things wives put on grocery lists to torture husbands &#8211; pomegranate juice, septic tank treatment, olive and pimento pieces. I voted weeks ago, but I drove by my polling place just to take a look. There was a full parking [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2592","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2592"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2592\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}