Well, we did it. We went, all four of us together, and voted today. It was (to use Amy Tidd's favorite word) "Interesting". We got to the Supervisor of Elections office in T-ville about 12:30 p.m. It was lunch time and quite crowded so we turned around and left, thinking the line would be shorter later.

We ran up to J. Roger Shealy's office to see if I could get some signs from him to replace the signs that were stolen from our front yard. Unfortunately, J. Roger Shealy was out somewhere and we couldn't get any signs. So, we went back to the Supervisor of Elections office.

We got in line and waited about half an hour before we could actually vote. People, for the most part, were civil and cordial to one another. We did see one incident, though.

We saw a woman go into the Supervisor of Elections office with two other women; one a well dressed woman in a suit (we figured she was an attorney of some sort) and another who was casually dressed. The woman about whom the fuss was being made seemed to have a chip on her shoulder. My husband heard her say something about not having the proper identification. That's the part the well dressed woman was there to handle, I suppose. But two of the three came out again soon thereafter, the chip-on-the-shoulder woman complaining that she didn't have time for this. The woman we assumed was an attorney stayed in the office. The other two left the building after complaining to friends who had waited.

We got to the Supervisor of Elections' office doors and there was the well dressed woman, filling out paperwork. We went ahead and handed over our drivers' licenses (which is what you need to vote; not your voter registration card), signed our affidavits and received our ballots. Even though I signed in second, I finished first with my sample ballot as my guide. I put my ballot into the counting machine, got my license and sticker and went out into the hall to wait for the rest of my clan. While waiting, I took some pictures from the back of the line. Just two or three; nothing that impeded anyone else.

My guys finished and came out and we went to eat at Caffe Chocolat. It's becoming a tradition: vote early, go out to eat. So far, we've eaten at Caffe Chocolat most often.

While there, we saw a reporter and photographer from Florida Today come in. My son recognized the photographer because the same guy did some shots of a project my son was helping with. The reporter and photographer scouted around the entire place and found sharing a table, four patrons with Barack Hussein Obama stickers on their shirts and — of all of the people in Caffe Chocolat they could have spoken to — asked them to be interviewed about who they think is the best presidential candidate for the space program.

Don't get me wrong now, Florida Today can interview whomever they wish. But when you have all those people in the restaurant and you wait until you find people with BHO stickers on their shirts and then talk them into going on camera and being quoted for a story? Isn't that slanting the story a bit? Considering that I bet the people they asked to be interviewed probably didn't know beans about the statement BHO made to the Houston Chronicle, that the next president needs to have a "practical sense of what investments deliver the most scientific and technological spinoffs - and not just assume that human space exploration, actually sending bodies into space, is always the best investment.'" (See the whole story here:
http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/606135/hillary_clinton_and_barack_obama_their.html?cat=9 .

So, while Florida Today was picking people to interview about the presidential race and the space program, they chose people with BHO stickers on their shirts. A slant? Maybe. Telling? Definitely. After all, when the article comes out, I can predict that it will try to make BHO look as though his ideas would be great for the space program and, therefor, the Space Coast. Too bad they won't know what the heck they're talking about. Want proof? http://www.floridatoday.com/content/videos/1028votesquad.htm It's the lady in pink.

True, BHO did say that his grandfather took him out to see something to do with the space program. However, the truth about BHO's grandfather and watching astronauts is found here http://dakiniland.wordpress.com/2008/07/01/obamas-life-story-just-one-long-series-of-easily-debunked-myths/ .