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| Monday, October 27, 2008 10:34AM | | | | Election: Growing Into Ideals | Tags: Election, United States, America, Africa, Joanne Leedom-Ackerman, Obama, McCain, Biden, Palin
| | | I went early on election day to vote at the polling station in the church on the cobblestone street in my neighborhood. The lines snaked down the block as neighbors read their morning papers, chatted, visited each other with their dogs on leashes and waited to get inside. After I voted, I went to the airport, and before the polls closed, I flew out to Africa.
When I arrived in Amsterdam, the big television screen outside the airport announced that Albert Gore was the next President of the United States. I went to sleep for a few hours in an airport hotel before my connecting flight. When I awoke, the television announced George Bush was the next President of the United States. I boarded... | | | | | |
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