Today our office staff had a first-hand view of how animated the presidential race has become. A guy who has a reputation as being kind of nutty demonstrated his disgust with a pro-Bush insert sponsored by the local Republican party that was in our paper this week. In our building, he succeeded in burning a corner of our current issue and the insert which was in it. If he was trying to burn the whole thing, he did a poor job. Now the souvenir is upstairs as a showpiece for my editor.
All this unfolds in a VERY Republican county. I think that only one elected official--the treasurer--is a Democrat. But the hatred of the world for a Bible-believer and a man of character has landed in our area. I'm surprised by the number of Kerry signs I see here. (Some are in the same yards with signs for a "local" psychotherapist who's running for Congress as an independent on a platform of the truth. Fahrenheit 9/11 gets prominent mention in his version of truth. Spare me.)
Our newspaper has not endorsed any candidate, although we have run some conservative editorials. Nonetheless this wacko had to come make his point by burning a paper in front of our women in the front office. How tactful and inspiringly rational.
Posted by JRC at October 29, 2004 03:22 PM | TrackBack