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If you really want to know who I voted for and why


Listen to the BBC. I’ll be telling them at 1:30am our time. I don’t know when that broadcasts – Eric?

The World Today is the show.

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By Jill Miller Zimon at 10:10 pm March 4th, 2008 in Politics 

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16 Responses to “If you really want to know who I voted for and why”

  1. 1 LisaRenee on March 4th, 2008 10:55 pm

    :-)

  2. 2 Jill Miller Zimon on March 4th, 2008 10:57 pm

    Any tips on how I record the thing?

  3. 3 Jeff Coryell on March 5th, 2008 12:36 am

    Oh, please, can’t you just whisper it to us?

  4. 4 Jill Miller Zimon on March 5th, 2008 12:39 am

    Jeff – how many times do I have to tell you – no one reads blogs anyway? lol :)

    This obsession with my vote is crazy! lol

    Doesn’t anyone realize that it’s a lose-lose for me? If I voted for Clinton, a chorus will say, We knew it! You must not be listening! You are a woman!

    If I voted for Obama, a chorus will say, We knew it! You decided to join! You are one of us!

    Neither of those reactions endear me to wanting to tell a soul. There are so few things we own as ours. I’ve wanted to protect this decision. If the BBC hadn’t asked me if I would tell them, I wouldn’t have brought it up. But I figured, well – it IS the BBC!

    Now – I have to figure out how to RECORD IT!

  5. 5 Carole Cohen on March 5th, 2008 1:32 am

    They asked if I wanted sub titles omg and OY

  6. 6 JAMES RUGGIERO on March 5th, 2008 1:37 am

    direct link
    http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/meta/tx/nb/twt_au_nb.ram

  7. 7 Ashley on March 5th, 2008 1:37 am

    Excellent interview, and thank you for making the right choice for Ohio, and the right choice for our nation. I hope you will join me in blogging for Hillary in the future weeks??!!

  8. 8 LisaRenee on March 5th, 2008 2:10 am

    Well, you know I based my decision on the same reasoning. As always you did an excellent job with the interview.

    :-)

  9. 9 Jill Miller Zimon on March 5th, 2008 2:13 am

    Ashley – don’t count on it. :( Only because I really didn’t want Obama or Hillary – but I had to choose because I couldn’t not vote.

    I’ll write more when I’m rested – like, after Nov? Just kidding – you go, they don’t need me lol

  10. 10 Jill Miller Zimon on March 5th, 2008 2:14 am

    Carole – what do you mean?

  11. 11 Jill Miller Zimon on March 5th, 2008 2:15 am

    Lisa Renee – I consider you one of the toughest and fair critics – thanks.

  12. 12 Ashley on March 5th, 2008 9:30 am

    well, i think you’re needed! I think you’re right, that blogging doesn’t really change minds, per say, but it definitely forces those of us with strong positions to be informed and allows us to heighten our awareness of the issues through discourse. If blogging makes my positions stronger when I’m out talking to people in public, it has done much good in my view.

  13. 13 Jill Miller Zimon on March 5th, 2008 9:45 am

    Ashley, thanks very much – you are 100% right – blogging heightens and intensifies awareness and knowledge about many issues around us and that IS a great accomplishment. I think that’s only going to continue.

    Maybe you should start a blog? :)

  14. 14 Maria Shine Stewart on March 5th, 2008 11:13 pm

    I’m digressing, Jill, from your very good answer to the BBC reporter’s question of “does reading blogs change minds?” What worries me deeply about online rhetoric is the tone of some–not all–comments moving so swiftly past passion into venom. I have observed this in unlikely places in the past such as spiritual listservs (more than one denomination or path). Politics is an especially hot topic. The lack of direct human contact online seems to allow for a primitive go-for-the-jugular that is not particularly persuasive but is downright scary. I teach writing, and sometimes as one writes (in cyberspace or elsewhere) there can be moments of insight. And yes, thare are thoughtful commenters that broaden one’s views. But the “ouch” I feel as I read often is more common than the “aha”… Sometimes I must de-brief when I get off the computer.

  15. 15 Jill Miller Zimon on March 8th, 2008 11:36 am

    Maria – that’s a great observation re: feeling the “ouch” rather than the “a-ha.” I think I know what you mean.

    How do we keep it on track, though!?

  16. 16 Maria Shine Stewart on March 8th, 2008 9:29 pm

    “How do we keep it on track, though!?” A good question. First, greater awareness? As in avoiding road rage–or any limbic system impulsivity that clouds good judgment? I remember the very first time I sat down with the capacity to do email. It was after a series of maddening technical snags, and I found my flying fingers launching into a rant (for a former supervisor) about how long it took to get the email up and running. And then I had a eureka moment about the tone of what I had written and deleted it, aware that the painless medium (not a piece of chalk or a fountain pen or a manual typewriter, all of which I’ve used in my lifetime) was unfiltering my message and revealing a self I generally keep for a private journal on a bad day.

    The emotional range on some blogs and anonymous comment boards ranges from “I’m shouting” to “I’m shouting louder, you ignoramus!” to “Guess what, I’m shouting loudest!” This may not be jarring to everyone but I think it can be emotionally toxic and destructive to human relations and higher-level thinking…for at least some readers.

    Please excuse the length of this post!

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