Ah, how much I love the North Carolina state fair... rip-off carnival games, rickety roller coasters, deep fried everything-you-can-possibly-imagine... and stupid politicians?
I went to the fair today with two friends of mine. After mindlessly wandering, wasting money on games from which we won a total of 6 stuffed animals combined (but then I lost one -.-), and watching me fall on my face, we focused our efforts on finding the awesome political stickers that everyone was wearing.
If I were eligible to vote, I'd base my votes on liberal/independent ideas, depending on the subject. I declare that outright. However, it's because I am atheist with humanist ideals, and trust in science more than anything. It's not that I renounce those with faith, I just personally don't have one (I even got a sticker from the faith tolerance/world peace booth from the fair XD). One of my two friends, let's call him Joe, is far more outspoken than me. After noticing him run into a lot of people, I jokingly called him clumsy. "I'm only running into people with Romney stickers," he replied.
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| Pledge For Peace sticker because it's awesome - did not sign the actual pledge because I don't want to be leaving my name and address in a public place, but I support this. |
Naturally, this personality resulted in him debating against a man twice his size.
With Joe, our other friend, and I wearing Obama Biden stickers and passing by "Republican Row" in the Hunt Horse Complex on the Fairgrounds (I think...), a random man standing beside a booth looks at me and asks, "Want a sticker?"
It was a "Vote Republican" sticker, so I kind of smirked and said no thanks. (I smirked cause I didn't think he'd offer me one with a blatant Democrat sticker on my shirt, not cause I hate Republicans or something!)
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| Sticker on the shirt |
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| I asked for four - here are the other three! |
He called after me, "Another guy in an Obama sticker came by and took one of my stickers!"
And that unleashed the crazy, unabashed political debater in Joe. He headed back to the man, a Republican candidate for one of the positions on the Wake County Board of Commissioners, who proceeded to say, "there was another man, the one with the Obama sticker, who took one of my stickers after he talked to me, because he listened to me and figured out I was the better candidate."
Joe: "What makes you the better candidate?"
Commissioner candidate: "I'm not like the other guys, my constitution is better."
Joe: "What's different about your Constitution that makes it better?"
Candidate: "I follow my Constitution and my supporters know that. I follow my Constitution."
Joe: "Right, so your Constitution is better because you follow it..."
Joe takes the sticker and begins to walk away, when the candidate called out, "Now you're just being sarcastic, young man!"
Over his shoulder, Joe responded, "No sir, you're wrong. I was being sarcastic the whole time." And promptly throws the sticker away.
None of us even remember this man's name. He was on the right of the Romney-Ryan booth. We also don't know whether this guy was a good candidate or not. Whose fault is that? Joe didn't attack the man because he was looking for a good show. He asked innocent questions that could have been skillfully and smoothly answered. But they weren't. We didn't take flyers or read them because the candidate was right there. Can't he tell us his platform? Tell us what separates him from other candidates and why his position is superior? No?
Get interrogated by a 14 year-old and not be able to answer a single question? What kind of leader does that make?
Quotations are again not exact, but close to truth as I had both my comrades "fact-check" and correct mistakes. Purposeful unintelligent-ification was not used; he really did respond with vague, inconclusive answers.
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