This election, like most recent Democratic elections, is supposed to be determined by the “youth vote.” Like they do every year, the Dems are pulling out all the stops to motivate the young voters who traditionally can’t be bothered enough to stop having fun being young long enough to actually vote. According to everybody under the sun, this year, like every year, is different. If this 24 year-old young lady, Bree Barton, writing an opinion piece for the L.A. Times is typical, all I can say is, Lord, I hope not:
Both presidential candidates offer their own brand of hope for the future. I chose to believe in Barack Obama’s promise of change. That’s why I put an Obama ‘08 bumper sticker on my car. I saw it as a symbol of hope — my hope — that the political process is worth my time and energy. A sticky strip of plastic was my statement that yes, I’m young, but I give a damn.
So when someone smeared an “N” on my sticker and slashed through the “O” — making it NØBAMA ‘08 — it felt like a slap in the face. All it took was a purple marker to transform my message of hope into something ugly.
So, basically, Bree’s faith in Barack Obama is reinforced by vandalism. And she’s defiant about not letting the vandals “win.”
I won’t let a coward with a purple marker defile my beliefs — that’s old school.
On Nov. 4, I vote for the future of my country.
Tomorrow, I buy Wite-Out for my car.
Bree, who blogs here, used a slightly different word to describe how her car was damaged in this post. What was “smeared,” is here, “slashed.”
As I was leaving with my miscellaneous bunch of goods, something caught my eye in the parking lot. My “Obama ‘08” bumper sticker, bright white against my burgundy Honda, looked slightly amiss.
Someone had slashed my car.
That’s right: someone put a nice fat slash through my “O,” and squeezed in an “N” to the left.
Wonder if she knows Ashley Todd. Todd, 20, is the young “McCain supporter” who made up a story about being attacked by a big, black Obama supporter. But, if she lied about that, who knows whether she’s lying about who she’s voting for, if anyone.
In March, Ms. Todd was asked to leave a grass-roots group of Ron Paul supporters in Brazos County, Texas, group leader Dustan Costine said. He said Ms. Todd posed as a supporter of former Arkansas governor and presidential candidate Mike Huckabee and called the local Republican committee seeking information about its campaign strategies.
“She would call the opposing campaign and pretend she was on their campaign to get information,” Mr. Costine said last night. “We had to remove her because of the tactics she displayed. After that we had nothing to do with her.”
About a month earlier, he said, Ms. Todd sent an e-mail to the Ron Paul group saying her tires were slashed and that campaign paraphernalia had been stolen from her car because she supported Mr. Paul.
It’s no wonder that young people “think differently.” With professors like William Ayers, and this guy, “Truth First,” who claims to be a Central African Republic history professor, how could they not?
Very soon Barack Obama will be your new President. This is a reality you cannot alter or escape from. It is fact. It is history. It is justice for the world.
Many of you have seen the light and have accepted the truth. And we thank you for your support and aid in electing Barack Obama.
To those who have rejected the truth you have no reason to fear Barack Obama. He is wise and just and he will follow the principals followed by his African forefathers. Barack Obama is the son of Kings and Queens who started human civilization thousands of years ago. Barack Obama remembers his heritage and his obligations to the Truth, Justice and the Future.
Barack Obama understands what is wrong and what needs to be done. Barack Obama has intelligence and vision that has lasted for over a millennium. Barack Obama was born with the appropriate ways of thinking, speaking, and acting and this will inspire you to be liberated for now there is no shackle which can keep you enslaved.
An African Proverb tell us: “Then command the servant, thusly: Make an Elder’s staff causing my son to stand in my place I will instruct him through the speech of the listeners and the counsels of the first of the ancients who listened to the divinities. In so doing troubles will be removed from the people.”
Barck Obama is here now to listen, to instruct and will lead you to your new life.
America will have a new start. A change to right itself. A change to correct its wrongs and address its sins. If you support change that will bring forth social and economic justice, you will stand with Barack Obama. Those who have been denied justice in America will get justice. Those will have been denied opportunity will be given opportunity. Those will falsely imprisoned will be freed. Those who are guilty will be punished. America’s salvation is at hand.
Those who have profited in America will play a role helping others. Justice requires equality and fairness and those who have the means will now be fair and will contribute to equality.
Stand with Barack Obama and you will be honored you for your work, sacrifice, dedication and devotion on behalf of all oppressed peoples.
Stand with Barack Obama and you will be honored and celebrated and remembered in song and praise and by your children.
Oh, man, we are so screwed.

