Wednesday, October 22, 2008
Sedaris on Undecided Voters
After the last Presidential debate I was aghast at the undecided voters on NBC. Where the hell did Ann Curry find eight people in this whole country, nevermind just Ohio, who didn't know who they were voting for?! Have they paid any attention to either candidate at all? Are they morons?

Apparently essayist David Sedaris was wondering the same thing, albeit more amusingly. Check out his New Yorker article about these people.

Here's a tidbit:

    I look at these people and can’t quite believe that they exist. Are they professional actors? I wonder. Or are they simply laymen who want a lot of attention?

    To put them in perspective, I think of being on an airplane. The flight attendant comes down the aisle with her food cart and, eventually, parks it beside my seat. “Can I interest you in the chicken?” she asks. “Or would you prefer the platter of shit with bits of broken glass in it?”

    To be undecided in this election is to pause for a moment and then ask how the chicken is cooked.

    I mean, really, what’s to be confused about?
 
posted by Josh at 8:26 AM |


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At 8:39 PM, Blogger Tuan

I don't believe that we have the choice between chicken and shit with broken glass in it. I am having a hard time telling myself that politicians have the restraint and brains to hold back on absurd policy changes and hidden agenda bills if one party holds the majority in the house, the senate, and the presidency. The largest growth in our bloated government occurred when the democratic party was in majority in the house and senate and held the oval office. Just what I want more government. That will fix everything, overpaid, over educated, over the hillers sitting around talking about what is wrong and how to fix it never quite getting around actually fixing it.
Voting in this election is not as black and white as the candidates my ex-ex-patriot amigo.

 


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