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Mom's Stories from the Campaign Trail: The Campaign Heats Up 

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21st-Oct-2008 09:51 pm
Atagoul
How successful has my mom's canvassing for Obama in Ohio been? So successful that both John McCain and Sarah Palin are coming to her town to stop her. That's right, she's got them so scared they're taking the fight to Green, Ohio, holding a rally at the high-school football field where I used to march around with a flugelhorn and curse my lot in life. Handicapped parking is at our old church.

As it happens, my mom will not be there, as she and my dad are off on a romantic getaway to Allentown, Pennsylvania. I swear I am not making any of this up.

Will Governor Palin determine that my hometown is part of Real America, or the much larger part of America populated entirely by terrorists and their friends? Tune into NBC Nightly News on Wednesday to find out!

Also, please enjoy the previous installments of Mom's Stories from the Campaign Trail, Parts One and Two.
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22nd-Oct-2008 05:21 am (UTC)
[info]querldox
You have to be making at least one thing up.

Do you really expect us to believe anyone would choose Allentown, PA for a romantic getaway? : -)

22nd-Oct-2008 01:13 pm (UTC)
[info]dvandom
Well, this is the romance that produced Shaenon.
22nd-Oct-2008 01:22 pm (UTC)
[info]aprilp_katje
Allentown? For a romantic getaway? Were your parents, perchance, misinformed? ;)

(I lived in Allentown for five years!)
22nd-Oct-2008 02:51 pm (UTC)
[info]dvandom
Maybe Shaenon's mom expected to find the guys from Billy Joel's Allentown video?
22nd-Oct-2008 05:23 pm (UTC)
[info]aprilp_katje
Or Billy Joel. No, wait.... Never mind. ;)
22nd-Oct-2008 03:10 pm (UTC)
[info]billfl
Not *the* Allentown, fabled in story and Billy Joel song?
22nd-Oct-2008 04:04 pm (UTC)
[info]glych
You know the Narbonic army will only be tuning in to try to catch a glimpse of where you grew up ;)
22nd-Oct-2008 04:22 pm (UTC)
[info]serrana
I think that sounds like a great weekend to get out of town. And I hear Allentown is very nice this time of year.

(Hey, speaking as a long-term married person, if it's a really good romantic weekend, you won't spend much time looking at the scenery.)
22nd-Oct-2008 09:22 pm (UTC)
[info]banzchan
Your mom is awesome. Very awesome.
22nd-Oct-2008 10:53 pm (UTC)
[info]fairest1
So. Are you going to be forming a distance mob of all your former classmates who haven't been turned into gerbils?
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