{"id":1452,"date":"2008-10-29T06:52:16","date_gmt":"2008-10-29T11:52:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/?p=1452"},"modified":"2013-01-26T22:18:29","modified_gmt":"2013-01-27T03:18:29","slug":"laughing-and-crying-all-in-a-good-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/2008\/10\/29\/laughing-and-crying-all-in-a-good-way\/","title":{"rendered":"laughing and crying (all in a good way)"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I haven’t been posting too much about the election, even though (as with every campaign cycle) I’m completely overinvested and reading about 150 blogs on the topic (thanks google reader!). I have a tendency to get burnt out, and forget just how profound this election is. Which is why, when I found myself sitting in front of my computer on Monday night reading this story<\/a>, I started crying.\u00a0 And I don’t just mean that I got choked up.\u00a0 Full-on, tears rolling down my face, sobbing.<\/p>\n

Amanda Jones, 109, the daughter of a man born into slavery, has lived a life long enough to touch three centuries. And after voting consistently as a Democrat for 70 years, she has voted early for the country’s first black presidential nominee.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

On the same note, meet Charles…
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\nAnd, of course, Obama himself giving his closing argument speech. I particularly like how he manages to tie in, pretty seamlessly, the theme of his 2004 convention speech about red america and blue america. Talk about running a fabulous campaign that allows you to make a callback like that.
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\nSo then, of course, I had to find some stuff to make me laugh, because I’d end up crying the whole week over the stress of this election season…<\/p>\n

The first one’s been around for a while, but it makes me crack up every time I see it. As a long-time Les Mis fan (instead of a sweet sixteen, I took my 5 best friends to the city to see the show, and I’m fairly certain I can still sing the entire soundtrack from beginning to end), this is just so spot on…
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\nand finally, from the Obama campaign…all of this excitement is fantastic, but remember to ACTUALLY GO OUT AND VOTE NEXT TUESDAY<\/em><\/strong>. Seriously.
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