You can blame all the candidates that flooded my phone yesterday (and the past several days - wait, make that the past MONTH) with calls. It has been ridiculous.
Yesterday Barack Obama's campaign called my house FOUR times - two hangups from the same number because I let the machine get it, I picked up the third time the number called and got a live person urging me to go vote today. The fourth call was a recorded message from Barack himself.
Not to mention Hillary has called me every day for the past several days, as well as over a half-dozen different North Carolina candidates. Even Governor Easley called me yesterday.
This, people, is what I get for registering as an unaffiliated voter. Unabated harassment.
So before you lecture me on my civic duty, let me say that I am posting this message and hoping it gets noticed by campaign managers everywhere.
If you want me to vote for your candidate, don't call my house. You need to realize that every candidate running for something decided to spend money on robocalling. Across a couple of races, it adds up very quickly to my phone ringing off the hook.
Edited to label post title as non-hockey related.
Edited again to add: I checked my machine messages at home and found ANOTHER message from Obama's campaign time stamped 9:35 am. This is after you people called me four times yesterday. Come ON!
Tuesday, May 06, 2008
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Oops :-) Magnolia Mer, I may have been one of those 4 calls. Seriously! Sorry. Clint
Sorry? You should be.
My phone is for my friends and loved ones to be able to reach me, or for people with whom I do business.
When I am trying to get work done or cook dinner, or just talk to my husband, each time the phone rings I jump to see if it's someone who needs me.
Yesterday the phone did not stop ringing. Plus, I had to run and turn down the answering machine volume while someone left a 2-3 minute message the other day.
I am not exaggerating. Do you know how long a two minute message is on someone's answering machine? A long time when you're trying to get through messages you want and need to hear.
I don't mind flyers wedged into my front door or in my mailbox, but a phone call is an unwarranted and unwelcome intrusion into my house and my routine.
So my vote is now lost, and I hope other irritated voters do the same.
Magnolia_Mur, this is my thought on the subject. If everyone were to take that attitude due to hotly contested election that resulted in multiple phone calls, we would really be in big trouble. I believe that you have every right to be upset---I would be as well.
On the other hand, I think to sit out this election is to 'cut your nose, to spite your face' for who ever you support, unless of course you are foregoing the Democratic party altogether. I appreciate your irritation, though. It is very sad how your were inconvenienced, and I certainly feel your pain, and I do apologize. I hope it's a sunny and bright in Indiana today as it is here in Michigan! Have a great day! Clint
I very much believe that it's the responsibility of every citizen to make his or her voice heard at the polls.
HOWEVER:
That does not excuse robocalling, nor does it (in my opinion, of course) give people like you, Clint, the right to get on a high horse and lecture those who choose not to go to the polls about "cutting off his/her nose to spite his/her face."
Robocalling is exactly what Miz Mer called it: harrassment. A call the day before the election to encourage the voter to go to the polls? Fine. I have no problem with that, though some don't even like that (and I'm cool with that).
But repeated calling is wrong, and it does--as we've seen--chase away voters far more than it gets them to exercise their vital powers.
(and BTW Clint, Mer lives in North Carolina. Don't they teach y'all anything up there in Michigan?)
Ok Acid Queen, or should I say the Mean Mean Acid Queen!! Sheeezz. Where is the love? Ok, Ok, the I am sorry! North Carolina it is! I must have overlooked it. I said I understood, didn't I? :-) If
Can't we all just get along? I am not trying to cause any trouble, I just want peace.
Dude, you come on in here self-righteously lecturing my friend about how she's wrong to be offended by the annoying robocalling and how she needs to go vote anyway--and then you cry and act all butthurt when I take you to task for being a self-righteous creep?
Grow a backbone and stop making me embarrassed to be an Obama supporter, man--and I humbly suggest learning to respect others' choices (even if you don't agree with them) rather than trying to force your point of view on 'em.
Acid Queen, I dig where you are coming from, and all can say is that you chose your name well. You acidic commentary is, I guess, nothing to be surprised about.
Furthermore, what you characterize as self-righteousness is nothing more than some self-righteous crap coming from you yourself. Frankly, I think to blog, period, is quite self-righteous. To presume that anyone in cyberworld would care to read ones rants is to be completely self absorbed. To be ones friend, 'taking up' for the 'ranter' in a non-confrontational conversation is the epitome of being self-righteous. My suggestion to you is if you want to pick a fight with somebody, do it with someone else as self-righteous as you. That way you can really claim to be the real Acid Queen, and take off that little tiara that no doubt, you wear. To deem yourself queen without a true coronation, is like a tree in forest falling with nobody around---a waste of noise.
OK, let me see.
You start out trying to sound friendly, then you commence with the lecturing when Mer sticks to her guns. I step in to back up my friend, and you commence with the whining and the butthurt, followed by a round of full-on crazy when you get hoisted by your own petard.
I'm trying to keep things civilized, here. Senator Obama would do the same, and you know it--so what is your issue? You're getting all bent out of shape and freaking out over my nom de blog? You're ill because I pointed up your foolishness?
Give it up, Clint. Just walk away now before you bring any further embarrassment to our candidate.
:-) Ok Queen, I gotchu. On Love! Clint
Thank you.
Now instead of bickering and arguing among ourselves, we should be united against the common enemy!
(And I am not talking about the Judean People's Front.)
(that was a Life of Brian reference btw)
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