Blue Finger: Let Your Vote be Heard and Seen

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Saturday November 04, 2006 · 1:29 PM PST

2006/11/04 · 13:29

Yesterday, fellow Kossack Stand Strong, had an excellent idea, that many agreed would present a compelling visual to accompany what we all hope will be a transformative day in American politics and history.

After you vote on Tuesday, indeed after you have left your polling place, paint your finger blue. Dip it in blue ink. Buy a blue stamp pad from your local office supply store and roll your finger on it.

Doing this will represent not only our Democratic vote and our exercise of democratic civic duty, but also our absolute repudiation of President Bush and his minions, the Republican Congress.

The goal here is not to get our fingers dirtier, but to create a symbol, and an image that the national and local media can capture. Remember, election day, during the day, is a slow news day. We have the power to create not only a visual but a narrative. And at the same time, we can steal away one of the more memorable Republican photo-ops of the last six years, that of arrogant and condescending Republican Senators and Congressman pointing their fat fingers to the sky during President Bush's State of the Union speech. And further, we can align ourselves with Iraqis who similarly painted their finger blue. They did so for a different reason, to prevent voter fraud. But they proudly presented their colored finger to all, as they demonstrated their breaking free of the oppression of tyrants. We will be doing the same thing on Tuesday.

The possible Democratic landslide on Tuesday will mark a turning point in both American and Iraqi politics. And we can make it symbolic as well, with the added bonus of really really pissing off the Republicans.

So, after you vote, ink your fingers blue.

Envision the national media reporting a wave of blue fingered voters across America.

Then envision yourself personally being a part of that national story.

Now envision yourself pushing the Recommend button and make it so. Envision yourself spreading the word of the blue finger on all of your blogs and in open threads.

Let's do this thing.

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