Where’s the Outrage?

Here is every vote I’ve made for President of the United States. 1988, 1992 and 1996 were in Ohio. 2000 and 2004 were in Texas.

1988—Democratic primary–Jesse Jackson ( Still my favorite vote), 1988 General—Mike Dukakis.

1992—Dem. Primary—Jerry Brown ( My next favorite vote), 1992 General—Bill Clinton

1996 — Took the ballot of Ross Perot’s Reform Party in the Ohio primary and voted for Perot in the general. ( People don’t recall, but Perot ran somewhat to the left in 1996 and Clinton was going to win in any case.—-Anyway, that’s what I did. )

2000 —Signed to put Greens on the ballot in Texas and so was not allowed to vote in Democratic primary. Voted for Ralph Nader in the general.

2004 —Voted for John Kerry in primary and general.

2008?—Edwards, Obama and Clinton in that order are my choices so far.

I feel I’ve done the best I could with the options I had.

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Maybe I’m in some type of mood but Dave Matthews is a band that is very hard to pigeon hole.  Maybe the best thing to say is Dave’s music always sounds fresh to me.  Some of it is loud.  Some of it is very rhythmic.  Some are almost funky.

 

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One of America’s premier poets.  Tracy Chapman has never gotten a great following in the Black community.  In spite of this, she continues to play her brand of what I’ll call folk music knowing that my description is terribly inaccurate.  Her voice can be described as interesting and knowledgeable a little reminiscent of Billy Holiday.  If there are superstars that deserve more of our attention I would say that Tracy Chapman is one of them.

 

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