[lit-ideas] Re: Perspective on the election
- From: David Ritchie <ritchierd@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2004 23:09:10 -0800
After the funeral, we had dinner this evening with a friend who escaped the
Chinese Civil War and, less some family members, and bereft, managed to
make a life for herself in Hong Kong. Eventually she succeeded in making a
version of the good life. Her daughter went to Stamford, became a professor
of E.R. medicine, married a neurosurgeon, cooks well.
I asked the elder lady whom she had voted for. She replied, in her English,
"I vote for John Kerry, because that Bush lie."
"About what?" I asked.
"About Iraq," she answered. And she continued, "But I knew John Kerry would
lose when I ask cleaning lady how she vote. She vote for George Bush. I
know John Kerry will lose when cleaning lady will vote for George Bush."
There it is.
David Ritchie
Portland, Oregon
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