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Barack Osama : Our Children Are Watching / Listening
10:00 am By Maegan La Mala · children|race|US Presidential Race 2008 · 4 Comments
13 Oct 2008I admit it. I’m shameless about my politics around my children. For example my older daughter knows why we don’t take advantage of Colombus Day sales and why if I even see a millisecond of time given to revisionist history in her classroom, I march my ass and over with pages of real history for teachers to teach (ask some la Mapu’s teachers. It’s true). Pero my hija doesn’t know who I am endorsing for president. Not that I don’t talk about my dislike for McCain/Palin and the issues that keep me from jumping up and down about Obama. Pero my conversations with my hija reveal that her classmates’ parents are talking about the election too.
11 year old Mapu asked me the other day, ” Mami, is it true that Barack Obama’s middle name is Hussein?”
Well That Didn’t Take Long : Problems Voting for Obama (or Should I say Osama)
6:05 pm By Maegan La Mala · New York|US Presidential Race 2008 · 1 Comment
10 Oct 2008Absentee voters in upstate New York just got their ballots and Barack Obama isn’t on the ballot. Barack Osama is though. No I didn’t type wrong pero someone did and it needs to be fixed, stat.
The absentee ballots sent to voters in Rensselaer County identified the two presidential candidates as “Barack Osama” and “John McCain.”…The elections office faxed a statement in which the two commissioners, Democrat Edward McDonough and Republican Larry Bugbee, said they regret the error but never acknowledge what the error was.
“It’s human error, it’s very unfortunate, it’s an embarrassment to our office, obviously,” McDonough said in a later phone interview. “We wish we could turn back the clock, but we can’t.”
When they discovered the mistake, officials shredded the remaining “Osama” ballots and mailed correct versions to the roughly 300 people who had already received them. McDonough said the “Osama” mistake was made in only one of the 13 ballot versions mailed throughout the county, located east of the state capital of Albany.
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