Ed’s Election Erection

Posted by Susanna at 9:27 PM, Nov 2, 2008 (Comments)

Category: People

Ed’s “Republican Election Erection,” according to a neighbor.

ED, OUR FRIEND, is a Washington lawyer who lives in the upscale Washington suburb of McLean, Virginia, and a good Republican. He was tired of seeing all the Obama signs in his neighborhood. They were everywhere. Once more, his neighbor was holding several fundraising events for Barack Obama. What was he to do?!?!?

TWO NIGHTS AGO we were invited to his house for dinner. As we came around the corner and approached his house, the first thing we saw was a huge McCain-Palin sign. It turns out he went down to the local McCain headquarters and bought the biggest sign they had. Then he erected it in front of his house, along a busy thoroughfare so that everybody would know who he stood for. That would show them, right?
Except a few days later, an equally huge sign for Obama/Biden appeared just down the road. The competition responded and the fight was on.
So it goes during the closing days of the presidential campaigns in the neighborhoods of hotly contested Virginia.

WHEN IS THE LAST TIME you saw a political sign of any size in the front yard of a Swede? Don’t know if that has ever happened.
The Americans sure have a different way of dealing with presidential campaigns. But who knows, maybe the Swedes will be not far behind. More than a few Swedish politicians have made their way to the U.S. over the last few weeks to observe the tactics of the American campaigns. Maybe next election season in Sweden, we will see the big signs in the front yards as well.
Ed says that if McCain wins on Tuesday, Nov. 4, his sign will stay up a long time. What about if Obama wins? Ed’s not saying what he’s going to do. But it won’t be a happy day for him.

Neighbor responds with an equally big Obama-Warner (democratic Virginia senate candidate) sign.

Another neighbor lets people know that not all Alaskans are for Palin and McCain.

Neighbors who don’t talk to Ed anymore…

 

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