But I WANTED a sticker!

[mary_j_59]

I'd meant to post this yesterday - voting went very smoothly in our small towns, but this year my sister and I, down in NY, didn't get the "I voted today" sticker. I really wanted one! Voting was fun, though - a real holiday feeling, and two men ahead of me brought their young sons into the booths to share the experience. And the important thing-

Barack Hussein Obama is our president-elect. Yay!
(And my family's probably related to him!)

Of course, everyone is related to everyone else, if you go far enough back. But seriously - my dad's mother, my Grandma, was born in Banagher, Offaly, Ireland. It turns out that Barack Obama's great-great-grandfather also came from County Offaly. Different town, of course, but still, that's quite a coincidence. A local band has a song about it - here's the link:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EADUQWKoVek

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[arcanetrivia]

"No one's as Irish as Barack Obama!" (Or "O'Bama" I guess I ought to spell it ;) )

I was about to say "what, local? I thought that was at the Starry Plough?" (which is localish to me) and it turns out I was right to remember that. But for some reason I assumed that meant they were from around here, which I guess is not the case.

[mary-j-59.livejournal.com]

No, it seems the band's from Limerick (or so I hear from my sister, who sent me the link.)