After casting her ballot for Barack Obama, Amanda Jones said simply, "I feel good about voting for him." Ms. Jones, of Cedar Creek, Texas (a town just south of Austin), is African-American, and what gives her vote some historic punch is that she's 109 years old. Her father was a slave. Her mother was born right after Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation. She's been through it all--Jim Crow segregation, women's suffrage, the Great Depression, the poll tax, FDR, the civil-rights movement, desegregation, 13 years of George W (five as guv, eight as prez), and now: Barack Obama. This last change fills her with joy, she says.
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Going after fdr's head
Anyone who still thinks there's not a dime's worth of difference between the two parties should take a look at a current Washington squabble over the dime itself.
A gaggle of top Republican leaders in Congress??including the legislative thug, Tom DeLay—are furiously pushing a bill to remove the likeness of Franklin D. Roosevelt from the coin and replace it with . Ronald Reagan!
Democrats in Congress point out that FDR's face was put on the coin not merely because he was president, but especially because he founded the March of Dimes organization, through which America's children collected the dimes that funded research which rid the world of polio, the awful disease that had put Roosevelt himself in a wheelchair.
But Democrats are not alone in opposing this effort to scrape FDR off the dime. None other than Nancy Reagan opposes it. Ronald Reagan was proud to say he voted for Roosevelt in all four of his presidential elections, and that Democrat FDR was the greatest president of the century.
To help stop this silliness on the dime, call the office of Rep. Jim McGovern at 202-225-6101.