Foul!

I'm disgusted with the political process tonight. Tonight was my opportunity to vote twice for the next president of the United States. I was early, I was determined, I was not deterred. But that's not to say it wasn't it was simple to walk into this "Obama show" and do my civic duty.

First, as friends of this site will know, I live and work in Austin, Texas - a deep blue city in a red state. Here in Texas we have what they call the Texas two-step - which means we have both a primary vote and a caucus vote after the polls are closed.

So primary voting was no problem.

But when it came time to vote in the "convention," as the Texas caucus is called, Hillary voters were obstructed by Obama voters at every turn. I mean literally.

The tables were set up out in the yard of the church because, we were told, there "wasn't enough room for everyone to sign in" in this room in which we were all standing. Seemed odd, but we went with it. Then we found out that two tables in the front were Obama tables, so to get to the Hillary table we had to push through the admittedly large crowds gathering at the front two tables. It got so bad that some voters just left (They went to "get cupcakes" and to "get Homeslice pizza," respectably.) before they ever tried to sign in.

Next, the fellow who was in charge of the proceedings was in an Obama t-shirt, standing in his chair at the Obama sign-in table. He was also the leader of the "fire it up! Ready to go!" chant. Yes, the guy who was directing the voting proceedings was instructing the crowd in the unofficial Obama chant.

I didn't know that was allowed.

Finally, hen they thought every Hillary person had gone, he made a final announcement. He said that the big majority of people who had signed up to be delegates were Hillary people, and this concerned him greatly. It concerned to the degree that he downplayed any responsibility of the delegates to the point where his request for Obama delegates instead meant that "we really just need somebody." That's not a great legitimization of the process or the Party, in my opinion.

But anyway, I got my votes in, and I feel good for our girl.