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Hanging up on Presidents
Jan. 16th, 2010 09:14 pmAs you may have heard, there's a special election in Massachusetts on Tuesday to fill Ted Kennedy's Senate seat. It can't be over soon enough!
People are saying it will be close, so both sides are throwing money away on attack ads and visits by big name pols. And robo-calls. Lots and lots of phone calls.
Now, I don't use the phone much. I am mostly an email creature. And I have a friend in the hospital. So the only personal calls I've been getting have been from the hospital staff. So every time the phone rings, I think something has happened to her. I try to tell myself that's silly, but the adrenaline kicks in anyway. So when it's a blasted political call, I am not happy. I've had about a dozen calls over the past couple of days from the campaigns, unions, local pols and even two Presidents! Of course, my response is to slam down the phone. I've hung up on both Bill Clinton and Barack Obama in the past two days!
People are saying it will be close, so both sides are throwing money away on attack ads and visits by big name pols. And robo-calls. Lots and lots of phone calls.
Now, I don't use the phone much. I am mostly an email creature. And I have a friend in the hospital. So the only personal calls I've been getting have been from the hospital staff. So every time the phone rings, I think something has happened to her. I try to tell myself that's silly, but the adrenaline kicks in anyway. So when it's a blasted political call, I am not happy. I've had about a dozen calls over the past couple of days from the campaigns, unions, local pols and even two Presidents! Of course, my response is to slam down the phone. I've hung up on both Bill Clinton and Barack Obama in the past two days!
