They are at the polls

Well, the race is surely on and the workers here are at the polls, talking up the day and thanking people for voting for Kucinich. The streets of Manchester are emptier by far than they have been since I arrived here on Friday. The circus atmosphere on the street is gone. There is even parking. But the candidates are all meeting and greeting and the supporters are no longer on the streets in quite the same vociferous ways.
However, the troops are at work and it is quite an impressive group of interns and volunteers who have fanned out across Manchester and whose lunch is getting prepared and will be delivered to them so they can continue standing there to remind voters that Kucinich is their man. In each one of their bags is a copy of the constitution so they can hand them out. As one intern said, "I am giving away constitutions like hot cakes."
You cannot quite believe the amount of effort it takes to mount one of these days but this is the quietest the office has been and it is almost as if everyone has left town. They haven't but they are out on the streets with signs and that trusty constitution.
The candidate himself is talking on the radio and meeting with reporters and will also be at the polling places.
The sun is out and the weather is warm. There is a crowd of people giving away t-shirts and caps from the AARP. I had to get into an argument with them about the way in which they are backed by the insurance companies. Even though I am not a resident here, the man in charge of the sidewalk effort gave me his card in part, I think, to get the complaining old woman out of their sight and away from the people they were trying to sign up for their health care reform package.
Not being content to just rail against AARP, a nice young man was handing out smoothies from Stonyfield Farms, and I had to complain to him about the amount of sugar in the company's product. I think they have all been given the same customer service training. He, too, told me he would tell the company that their product is too sweet. In one 6 ounce bottle, there are 23 grams of sugar. One could go into a diabetic fit just from drinking one of these. I don't think it is fair to advertise a product as being organic but not also labeling it as too sweet for anyone to drink.
I realize I am going a bit afield here but there is a reason for this. The other day when I was talking to Viggo Mortensen, he said that he couldn't believe the honesty with which Dennis presents himself. There is no difference in what he says or how he says it depending on where he is. What you see is what you get would be the way he can be defined. That is not the way other candidates present themselves. I have heard Hillary speak or try to speak with a Southern accent when in the south and I have to confess that little by little the two men who are labeled the top two men are beginning to sound the same as well. It is as if some kind of chameleon streak has begun to run through them and now what we see is what we think we see, and not who they are and what they really stand for.
In all instances, they stand for the status quo. Holding the line at some centrist track is not change of any kind. It is a shell game to use the language to pretend things, to pretend you are against the war while voting to continue funding it. To pretend you want to change the health care system but are in the pocket of the pharmaceutical companies and the health insurance companies then what you want is what they want--to keep their high profits while denying a good number of their subscribers coverage for those things that were in the contract but which have been changed since you signed up. Of course, there is nothing wrong with wanting to vote for someone who plays a successful shell game and can promise what he or she has no intention of ever delivering, please go ahead.
There is no time like the present to just get the word out that there is truth and there is just the appearance of truth. Ask everyone which it is they prefer.