Tuesday, January 27, 2004
BOWLING FOR VOTES. I DON'T KNOW IF THIS ACTUALLY HAPPENED BUT IT RINGS TRUE TO ME. My favorite snippets:
So anyway, when I arrived at the bowling alley, about 15 minutes before North Carolina's Sen. Edwards, trouble was brewing. It was like The Perfect Storm, with two powerful opposing forces on a deadly collision course:
• On the one hand, you had hundreds of people there to see the candidate, including a large, aggressive press corps that was not wearing appropriate bowling footwear.
• On the other hand, you had league bowlers, who were there to bowl, dammit.
....
It was a weird kind of stereo: In one ear, I'd hear Sen. Edwards explaining how he would provide economic opportunity to all Americans; in the other ear, I'd hear: ``OUR WHOLE NIGHT IS RUINED! YOU DON'T GIVE A (bad word) ABOUT US!''
....
As the crowd dispersed, I overheard this exchange between an Edwards volunteer and a bowler:
Bowler: Go Bush. You guys suck.
Volunteer: You shouldn't generalize. We don't ALL suck.
Bowler: Yeah, you do.
That's what's so great about the primaries: people talking about issues.
