Well, thanks for the wake-up call

I spent a few hours Monday night at the Obama headquarters helping the THRONGS of volunteers make last minute phone calls to get out the vote on Super Tuesday. As luck had it I ended up making calls to Kansas, which turned out to be a somewhat less than friendly state to someone calling and asking them to vote for Obama. I got some contentious calls, but for the most part even people that had no interest at all were very nice.

Tuesday morning I was supposed to be up VERY early to go vote before work. (I ended up having time after work, don't worry I'm not a hypocrite, not when it comes to politics at least.) Obviously I was sleeping late and had turned my alarm off. Luckily though I got a phone call about ten minutes before the last possible minute I could have left for work and still been close to on-time. I answered the phone to a southern-sounding "Is this Rich?" I couldn't figure out why a cowboy was calling me, but he went on. "You called me about Obama didn't you?" I had actually thought about how it was strange when I was doing calls that, making them from my phone, if someone tried to call back they would get me. Now it was happening. "I just wanted to say that I would never vote for Obama. I would never vote for ANY democrat. I'm a Christian and I don't support the killing of unborn babies. I'll be voting for Mike Huckabee and I just wanted you to know that!" Well, since I guess I should still try to be a representative of the Obama campaign I decided to just apologize try to get the hell off the phone, plus I wasn't woken up enough to think of anything clever. I think my politeness a bit disarmed him as he stopped yelling as much and only was able to mutter something about hell before I hung up.

Ten minutes later I thought about calling him back in order to thank him for waking me up in time for work.