Ok, since we just recieved an automated “vote for me” call from the Barama campaign addressed to voters in Bexar County,Texas… note to y’all; you would get so much farther if you could get the pronuciation right. It’s pronounced “bear”. Not “bechs-ar”. Sorry for the way it looks, spelled out. It’s pronounced “bear”.
So now Blondie is on the line explaining her life story… and to someone who represented himself as a Marine veteran from the west coast who said he served “someplace in Florida” but which he said is closed now, and never said his name, rank, term or serivice, etc. And as she was talking to him, the call center operator reported that they were getting swamped with calls from people likewise compaining about their pronunciation. (Nice guy, very personable. All props for their compaign manager, or whoever Blondie reached after hitting 0, 0, 0+)
We report. You decide.
8:05 PM Another automated call from the Obama campaign. Sorry, you’ve already lost me. My number is on the Do Not Call List - d’ya supose I want to hear from you guys when we’re trying to watch “The Office” and eating dinner??!!!
The Do NOt Call List has an exception for political (and charity) calls.
My thoughts about this are not fit for polite company.
Comment by andrewdb — 20080228 @ 2200
Just before the Missouri Primary I was getting hounded by those very same calls. 3 - 4 a night, every night for a week. All one campaign. Good ol John McCain. Didn’t vote for him.
Comment by Joe — 20080229 @ 0819
Joe,
You must have gotten all the John McCain calls that were meant for me, because I did not get any - from any candidate. All I got were those lousy automated poll calls.
Comment by Dave in St. Louis — 20080229 @ 1112
My solution to those calls was to start my answering machine message with the ring tones that indicate a number is no longer in service. Automated dialers quit before my real message starts. Real callers who know me know I never answer until I hear someone I know talking. Works great. I never had to answer a single political call.
Comment by Terry Hazen — 20080229 @ 1149
Not that I’m suggesting you do this with any visitors from Barack, but I felt I did my bit for democracy in the last general election in the UK. The local incumbent Labour MP, Oona King, shovelled unending tons of crap through my door, most of which said that she was disappointed I was out when I called despite the fact that I was sitting in the lounge.
Well, the opportunity came at last. A canvasser came around and I managed to engage her in conversation for an hour before politely informing her that I had decided to vote for George Galloway as Ms King had voted for the war in Iraq, and that as a consequence she wouldn’t get my vote were to she arrange for Kiera Knightley to escort me to the polling station. Furthermore, I was delighted to have been given the opportunity to deny them one man-hour of canvassing other people who might have changed their mind.
Galloway won a narrow victory in the end, so for once in my life I was able to feel like I actually influenced something very, very slightly through the political process
Comment by Al — 20080302 @ 1408
Heh! WakkaWakka is now registered to vote in his first election. (That’s tomorrow? Ye gads!) He got three calls on Sunday. Two were from Obama’s campaign, and one from the “young conservatives.”
Some have said that the original pronunciation for “Bexar” was “Ba-har.” Long gone, that.
Comment by Ranten N. Raven — 20080303 @ 2106