Thanks to everyone, wherever in the country you’re helping out. Keep it up – only a few days left!

I’ve been in a state of shock ever since I found out Strongsville, Ohio (home of the YouTube Palin Mob video) is only a 5-hour drive from Toronto.

…It’s a lot closer than we think.

Good luck on Tuesday, my American friends and…don’t make us come down there again.

If you need people tomorrow afternoon, email me at dansomone at yahoo dot com

Straw man? It was pertinent to the point, which was “Why recruit volunteers when the election is all but over?”

It’s over, over, O-VER.

IOW, sit back, relax, eat, drink, and enjoy the fruits of your labors. There’s no was teh wingnutz can “steal” anything. All the bases are covered.

Congrats in advance.

Indeedle. If he really wanted to hypnomatize people in this way, he’d make repeated, increasingly frustrated finger jabs at the podium, followed by exasperated “What the fuck? I didn’t vote for that guy!” gestures.

Thank you, Sarah Palin!

So Obama’s apparent lead in the polls is trivial compared to the votes he will get when the hypnosis kicks in. He’s probably really leading by 50% everywhere, when you count the hypnotized voters block. Anybody who ever listened to him speak, in person or on TV, when they get their ballot they will be compelled to vote for him. And what was the audience for the Democratic Convention and the debates? Huge! Democrats, relax! Obama has taken care of everything!

Here’s how it works.
“Why does he pause between ”President” and “of the United States”? Because when you are in the voting booth holding the pen as he has anchored, and all these commands are coming back, when you read the actual ballot, it reads, “President”, and then on the next line below, “of the United States,” and as you read the ballot in the voting booth, you will subconsciously pause for a split second as your eyes skip because you read from one line to the next. By pausing when he gives you the command, it will more perfectly match the situation in which you must act according to that command, to make the subconscious link more effective. That is how clever and strategic and precise Obama’s hypnosis techniques are. This is how the unconscious mind works. Everything he is doing, the thumb and forefinger “holding the pencil” hand gestures, the pointing, the pauses, the hand gesture where he appears to be writing with a pen (in his democratic speech), the metaphors (anchors like “turn the page”, are all preparing you, anchoring you for recall of all his hypnotic commands recalled by you yourself holding the pen and the ballot card that day on November fourth when you are in the voting booth.”

I WAS surprised to learn this about hypnosis:
“The reason you cry from reading sad book simply by reading ink on paper is because of the mind’s interaction with that information, which is also a hypnotic process.”

So novelists are also hypnotists. And THAT is why the fundies worry about their kids reading J.K. Rowling novels about Harry Potter. And why they worry about many other things, of course.

Anyway. My particular problem with the hypnosis scenario has to do with the complete lack of voting “booths” these days. We get a computer screen or we fill out a paper ballot in a little station with a physical barrier that at least preserves the privacy of our choices. How does the hypnosis work if there’s no “pencil?” What if it’s a touch screen?

Never mind. Obama has already handled this problem. Democrats, relax and concentrate on self-fulfillment.

How can I ignore the man who called it for John Kerry in 2004? On national television.