“Don’t Vote for Bush” (at 2:00am)
After spending 2 days at the hospital, caring for my wife and new daughter, I can’t take any more of the sleeping situation on their 5′ long vinyl couch in the post-delivery room. It is the most uncomfortable thing I’ve ever tried to sleep on, so I decided to head home to sleep on a real bed, in my real house.. a 90-minute drive East.
After several hours of comatose sleep, I’m awaken by a phone call at 2:00am. The only thing that races through my mind is that there was some sort of complication and they needed me back at the hospital urgently.
I pick up the phone, and it is a scratchy “fake” Spanish woman’s voice.
caller: “Don’t vote for Bush?”
me: Huh? (groggy, coming out of a deep exhaustive slumber)
caller: “Don’t vote for Bush?”
me: Why? What do you have against Bush? (note: I’m vehemently anti-Bush)
caller: “Just don’t vote for him, he’s bad.” (now the Spanish voice starts to shed, and I realize it is a teenager calling me.)
caller: “Vote for Kerry or Nader. Don’t vote for Bush!”
It turns out, the call was from two 15-year-old kids who were cold-calling people telling them not to vote for Bush, but they had no real defense.
I spent 20 minutes (yes, literally) explaining how voting for Nader in this election could actually give Bush the presidency again. I tried to explain the “Good ‘ol Boys Club”, and why we’ll never see a non-Democrat or non-Republican in office. I pointed them to a few good websites to read, to give them some more ammunition for their next round of calls.
Hopefully there was some learning digested that night..
I gently fell back into my coma and slept for another 5 hours
Dan York said on August 2nd, 2004 at 6:42 am quote
David,
Congratulations!!! I knew of the pregnancy but not that she had entered your life. Best wishes for all of you!
Regards,
Dan