Comments for Buffy the Republican Slayer to Missouri Voters: Obama Really Wants Your Votes! (Not)

Buffy the Republican Slayer to Missouri Voters: Obama Really Wants Your Votes! (Not)

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 00:35:09 -0600

Awhile back, I signed up for email from both McCain and Obama's campaign. I get these updates so that I can get an idea of what is happening politically in the "bellwether state" of Missouri. Obama's campaign has been spamming me at least twice a day for weeks. McCain, not so much. He definitely did not take a page out of the Bush/Rove campaign strategy. So, I came home last night to find an email from the Missouri Barack Obama campaign. The sender's name was Buffy Wicks. She was urging me to find Obama events in Missouri to attend. I guess she doesn't want anyone home alone watching Obama's speech Thursday night. Who knows what sort of leg tingling, breath stealing moment might overcome an erstwhile Obama supporter? Somebody could pass out or accidentally kick the cat or dog with all those leg spasms. However, it wasn't the "don't watch Obama's speech alone" thing that got me. It was her name. Pardon me? Buffy Wicks? I had no idea anyone in Missouri was named Buffy. Anyone. The entire name sounds like a stage name. I decided to google it and see what came up. Guess what? I was right to be skeptical. Buffy Wicks is not from Missouri, but from Chicago. In her spare time, she slays republicans with her charming wit and powerful emails. Anyway, Buffy was urging me to go out and join the Missouri state wide canvassing project to "help build the momentum" from the convention. I think that's interesting considering that Gateway Pundit reports that the Missouri delegation was sidelined to the nosebleed section of the convention center. THE bellwether state "because every president for the past century carried the state at least once. Missouri voters have chosen correctly each election since 1904, except for the 1952 race". That's over 100 years of success. You don't mess with success.

Comment from Ymarsakar on 2008-08-27

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 14:53:36 -0600

If only she knew that was speaking to one of those "operatives"....

Comment from Katherine Optima Maximae on 2008-08-27

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 12:57:41 -0600

More importantly Kat - did Buffy make sure you knew exactly where the events were going to be?

She gave me a link and said "click here". I was scared to because I thought it might take me to St Louis because its almost all Democrat and a river runs through it, too. I'll have to check it out and report back on the opportunities.

I wonder if I could go incognito and get some zombie like reporting with the video camera?

Comment from NevadaDailySteve on 2008-08-27

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 10:10:38 -0600

Awhile back we had an Obama supporter come to the newspaper office and talk to the publisher who is a Democrat. The publisher brought her into the newsroom and hillarity, or at least low comedy, ensued. nevadadailystev.wordpress.com/2008/08/12/how-to-scare-the-bejeebers-out-of-an-obama-supporter/

I don't think the Obama camp understands us folk in the Show-Me State.

Comment from John of Argghhh! on 2008-08-27

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 09:23:29 -0600

More importantly Kat - did Buffy make sure you knew exactly where the events were going to be? Because, after all, Senator Obama was just in ~~Kansas City~~, er, ~~St. Louis~~, no, er, wait, I'll get it! Yes, Kansas City this week.

Though he wasn't sure if Missouri was the 56th or 57th state.

Heh. Hey, largish cities with rivers in 'em. They all look alike in the rectangular part of the country where all the gun totin' rednecks are clinging to their bibles when you're flying overhead...

And have you noticed the price of arugula at Whole Foods lately?

I blame Bush.

Comment from Cricket on 2008-08-27

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 09:09:04 -0600

I do remember the 2000 elections. We were living in MO then, and most of the people around us were Democrats but they voted the straight Republican ticket.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

Comment from Cricket on 2008-08-27

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 09:06:39 -0600

I used to live in MO. Near Fort Leonard Wood. Why the designation of bellweather if the state has chosen correctly for the past 25 general elections? Claire...yeah, wasn't she the state auditor who clamped down on DFS for abusing the toll-free abuse hotline? Social workers were calling it to report their own cases to another caseworker or some such idiocy?

Comment from BillT on 2008-08-27

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 08:59:21 -0600

Hah! Neffi! Thought you might still be hanging around!

Comment from BillT on 2008-08-27

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 08:57:04 -0600

Lettering looks too neat -- *and* there's no Stars'n' Bars, no BBQ grill, no pick-'em-up truck, no dogs or beer cooler, and those baseball caps and T-shirts look pretty grease-spot-free, so my guess is that they're just wannabes...

Comment from Neffi on 2008-08-27

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 08:52:44 -0600

That's a negative, KOM... and I kinda doubt their *bona fides* in any case, since they hadn't brought a cooler of beer. That was disappointing...

Comment from Katherine Optima Maximae on 2008-08-27

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 08:02:46 -0600

Heh. That's funny. Is one of them you, Neffi?

Comment from fdcol63 on 2008-08-27

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 07:37:49 -0600

"There's a sucker born every minute."

Comment from Neffi on 2008-08-27

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 07:18:25 -0600

Dunno if they're clinging to anything but the sign, but Big O has at least a couple rednecks in his corner... www.fototime.com/AFBA8E4B4D18635/medium.jpg pic taken in Denver yesterday.