Posted on 10/31/2004 1:01:48 PM PST by SmithL
Arriving home from the hospital after being treated for a heart attack, 84-year-old Carol Barnes inched up the steps into her Sunset District home and headed straight for her absentee ballot.
"She said, 'That ... Bush, I can't allow him to be president again,' " said her son, Bo Barnes. " 'I want to vote for Kerry to make the world safe.' "
Too exhausted to do more than cast votes for president and two propositions, the widow of an Army major signed the ballot and told her son they'd complete the rest later. Three days later, on Oct. 17, Carol Barnes died.
Within an hour of his mother's death, Bo Barnes mailed her absentee ballot, fulfilling her dying request.
Such soul-deep loathing of George W. Bush is common in the Bay Area,
(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...
I spent three years in San Francisco for grad school and was HORRIFIED at what I saw, lived near, experienced and had to endure. It is definitely NOT the place for a conservative christian Republican who loves her country and her Lord! (And the earthquakes were pretty awful, too!) I remember with loathing and sorrow the struggle of trying to get home at night after class on public transportation after the liberal loonies had -- once again-- staged a Gulf War protest and shut everything down. As I watched them tip over buses and set police cars on fire and break store windows, I knew that I would never consider staying and working in Sodom and Gomorrah.
Personally, I think that there is a negative (evil) spiritual influence over that region that has quite the stronghold. I am very, very glad to be living elsewhere in the State of California!
"She said, 'That ... Bush, I can't allow him to be president again,' "
What do the three dots stand for? I can imagine.
Nice mouth for an 84 year old. I guess the grandmas in the Bay area like to defy traditional mores also.
Mine too. And it gets worse, after this election, I get to have Carole Migden as my state senator, and Lynn (bag lady) Woolsey for a US Rep.
"Within an hour of his mother's death, Bo Barnes mailed her absentee ballot, fulfilling her dying request."
Isn't that technically voter fraud? Especially if he mailed the ballot after her death? I didn't think the "dead" could vote?
"Such soul-deep loathing of George W. Bush is common in the Bay Area"
Ha. Try ignorance. Kerry has been on the wrong side of history for 20 years now.
Luckily, she also signed her ballots for 2008, 2012, 2016, 2020, 2024, 2028, 2032, 2036, and registered in Ohio.
They've bought into the anti-Bush rhetoric hook line and sinker and if you ask them why, they'll give all the nonsensical and shallow thinking of Moore, Springstein and Puffy.
In fact, it may be appropriate to launch some gigantic prank on them. They have no analytical ability and, if it's left-wing or anti-US, they'll buy it.
A non-profit to find a cure for male pattern baldness in minority dwarfs would do well but would do VERY well if condemned by Karl Rove or some other bogey man. Nice city, great restaurants, stupid, shallow people.
Make that "SFO," the airport designator for San Francisco (they HATE "Frisco").
Sympathy pains from Boston, your East Coast counterpart. Since I live in Boston and have spent a fair amount of time in SF, I have tried to analyze which place is actually further left. I think SF has more blatantly crazy people with no grasp of reality, although when it comes to voting, it's about the same. Boston has a larger union thug component than SF, although these thugs will sometimes show a support for the military that is missing in your city. In both cities, the Dems will take 90 percent of the vote.
I moved from that world 3 years ago to a very red state and love it. The people here are really different. I know more neighbors here in 3 years than I did 35 years in the Bay Area.
Come to Texas pal! Because quite frankly I can't wait for the big one to level that sesspool of perversion! The Gohmorrah of the Left coast!
Does the '60's, Haight and Ashbury, UC Berkeley and a liberal government for decades come to mind?
I'm in Oakland.
Are you close enough to SF to be able to contact the registrar of voters with the info in the article? It gives her name and pretty close to her address.
The conservatives in Boston have a better attitude though. In Boston, they have a wry humor about the mess that is local politics. In SF, they are just horrified and afraid.
My world also. Beautiful place but the politics make me crazy and feel quite isolated. Thus, FR.
Bo Barnes uses his dead mother for political gain. Michael S. Berg wanna be. Why are they always teachers?
Here is his Mom's obit. I think Bo's Dad would have kicked his ass for such behavior.
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2004/10/20/MNBARNESCA14.DTL
This guy probably just wanted to vote twice and used his dead mother to do it. Slimy crapweasel.
SF is a foreign country...just far enough away that I don't have to go there, just occasionally pass through!
Useful idiots abound in northern Cal. Kerry make the world safe? If such delusional beliefs weren't so dangerous, they'd be laughable.
Alas she died before the quake that will shake the bluest of the blue asunder piling stone on stone and rendering the void uninhabitable.
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