David Sedaris starts out writing about undecided voters and, as with a lot of recent Sedaris stories--or is this just my imagination?--ends up in a depressing family anecdote.
I told my father that I had voted. "[My mother] let me," I said. "And I picked Nixon."
"Well, at least someone in the family has some brains." He patted me on the shoulder and as my mother turned away I understood that I had chosen the wrong person.
While I'm a big fan of David Sedaris, he (like most voters whose voting pattern was pre-determined years or decades before the current candidates were nominated) confuses thinking about the important issue of who to vote for (which many undecideds are doing) with not thinking about it (which, by definition, most decideds have stopped doing). My reply to Mr. Sedaris can be found at www.undecidedman.com under "Naivite".
Posted by: Undecidedman | October 22, 2008 at 05:47 AM