Saturday, March 8, 2008

And you want these people in the White House?

Democratic caucuses (or as Rush Limbaugh says, "Cauci") in Texas were quite the joke. Case in point: Sandra Crenshaw, a precinct chairman in Dallas, is accused of sending away hundreds of angry convention-goers and telling them she was taking sign-in documents favoring Barack Obama home to "correct them." She did, indeed, leave the convention with sign-in sheets. Her side of the story is that a mob of Obama supporters who weren't even from Texas tried to hijack the convention. "We had people fainting, people crying. It was just totally chaotic and dangerous," said Ms. Crenshaw.

At any rate, Ms. Crenshaw did not leave the convention alone -- she was followed by about a dozen Obama supporters. Ms. Crenshaw drove to the local police sub-station and banged on the door shouting that she was being chased. The police invited everyone in and called the county Democratic chairman. The police confiscated the sign-in sheets from Ms. Crenshaw, but County Chairman Darlene Ewing says she's not sure she turned them all over.

At the caucus at Florence Middle School in Dallas, an Obama supporter took over and somehow "lost" all of the sign-in sheets for Hillary Clinton. There were also reports of people being left out in the cold, of long waits, of mass confusion.

One caucus that really caught my attention was the one held at a Methodist Church. Next to the church is a cemetery. The two days before the election, North Texas had experienced a lot of rain and snow, so the ground was saturated. People parked in the cemetery, leaving a muddy mess behind. One good Democrat parked on a new grave, leaving a hole about three feet deep. In an effort to "unstick" his vehicle, he pulled out fronds and flowers from a wreath on the grave and put them under his tires.

If these people can't run their own elections any better than this, why in heaven's name would anyone think they'd be any more competent or civil in the White House?

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