But I WANTED a sticker!
Nov. 5th, 2008 10:44 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mary_j_59I'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
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
