Well, anyway I had voted. That made me happy. I had to walk almost two miles to cast my ballot, but I would have walked ten, if necessary, because this was my first vote -- I was 22 in June -- and I had always wanted to cast it for Roosevelt, the greatest President we had ever had and the only one who gave the working man a break.

Roosevelt had faces and overcome the two great crises America has ever suffered: the worst depression in history and the world's biggest war. He was a politician, as craft and conniving as any, for politics is a cesspool of lying lawyers, but his work was greater than the man, and the country was better for it. The rich Republicans hated Roosevelt for helping the working man, for encouraging the labor unions to wring a fair day's wages for a fair day's work out of employers who had never heard of such a thing before and for putting into effect fair-employment practices that they considered outrageously Socialistic. Roosevelt helped the unemployed when Herbert Hoover, the last Republican [President], an engineer who never quite understood humanity, had said, "Let every man help his brother," when he know perfectly well that the rich weren't abut to help the poor, never had and never would. I had grown up with Republicans and gone to school and college with them, and sickened by their selfishness, their cold avarice and lofty contempt for the common people, had early sworn to vote for the Democrats, who, for all their rotten political faults, were more concerned with the welfare of the country as a while.

In our own time, my wife heard from a friend of hers serving (once again) in Iraq, that he and everyone he knows in the military will be voting for Bush.

Update (8/3): The Capetbagger Report has a post up saying that the military is slowly moving towards Kerry. [via Gadflyer]