Fucking Awesome.

[comhcinc]

Daughter of slave votes for Obama
109-year-old Bastrop woman casts her vote by mail.

By Joshunda Sanders
AMERICAN-STATESMAN STAFF
Monday, October 27, 2008

Amanda Jones, 109, the daughter of a man born into slavery, has lived a life long enough to touch three centuries. And after voting consistently as a Democrat for 70 years, she has voted early for the country's first black presidential nominee. LINK TO REST OF STORY (http://www.statesman.com/news/content/news/stories/local/10/27/1027jones.html)

(in case it gets edited, FUCKING AWESOME.)

[bigshotprof]

Yeah, I read about this. Let's hope she's around to vote in 2012.

[mikeseaverman]

I saw that too. Awesome story.

[esophagus]

What is awesome? She is black and has voted Democrat her whole life. There is no real shock value here. Is it just that she is so old?

[masherscf]

What is awesome? She is black and has voted Democrat her whole life. There is no real shock value here. Is it just that she is so old?

I think that a person could live enough to see African Americans rise from the slave house to the White House....is awesome.

[bigshotprof]

Is it just that she is so old?

well . . . yes!

[comhcinc]

I think that a person could live enough to see African Americans rise from the slave house to the White House....is FUCKING AWESOME.

*fixed*

[esophagus]

I think that a person could live enough to see African Americans rise from the slave house to the White House....is awesome.The symbolism of that is indeed cool.

[phatlip12]

I think that a person could live enough to see African Americans rise from the slave house to the White House....is awesome.

What he said.

Oh, and Badger just recently posted this same story. :D

[bigshotprof]

Unfortunately, when she got into the booth she got confused and wrote in her skye terrier Mr. Fluffles.

[mikeseaverman]

The symbolism of that is indeed cool.

Cool ... awesome.

Same thing.