When do we Vote?

Beth Broderick on Huffington Post

"When do we vote?" Elizabeth "Libba" Grant must have asked this a dozen times over the past few weeks. She had been transferred to Palliative care and she knew better than anyone that the end was near. At eighty-one years of age she figured this was only fair, but she had some business to attend to before she took her leave.

Libba loved politics. She was a life long Democrat ... a yella dog through and through and she never missed a chance to participate. Libba had marched for Civil rights, fought for women's equality and rallied her fellow Southerners in support of many a worthy cause. She had always voted with pride and conviction, but she could never remember a time when she felt so urgent about it. Death would simply have to wait.

... the rest after the jump.

My comment: As I read the full piece, I couldn't keep the thought out of my mind that there are some who think that Libba as anti-American and who think she hates what this country is about. They would tell you that Libba is not part of the Real America.

You probably already know that I don't see it that way. I think they are wrong ... as they've been about so many things.