She’s just drinking it for the potassium. Keeps the muscles from cramping, ya know.

That’s a root beer bottle! Stop assuming the worst all of you.
And Casey…you’re a great role model for my young soccer player (11 and also a defender)….and she happens to be able to argue her political viewpoint quite persuasively. I understand completely how you must be feeling about your first presidential vote being a significant part of US history. I was among the first set of 18 year olds given the right to vote and cast my first presidential vote for George McGovern. Years later, I was privileged to meet him in person. That was satisfying. Good luck to you Casey…and to all of us.

I didn’t get to vote for him, but I worked on the McGovern campaign at the tender age of 13 and saw him during his whistlestop campagain in CA. It was the last time trains played any role in a presidential election.

What Teddy Kennedy said at the convention.

Beer is a college requirement. I seem to recall majoring in it.

Congratulations to the L&T one on becoming a voter.

Aw, c’mon – soccer and beer go together as naturally as…

baseball and beer…

football and beer…

synchronized swimming and beer…

You get the idea.

Awesome dad (and mom!), awesome daughter. Seriously, a good dad is instrumental for daughters growing up healthy. Mrs. TBogg picked well. (In other words, TBogg, whatever you do or say, the credit will ALWAYS go to the woman. Heh.) Kidding!

I’ve been passing around your previous post because of the awesome in it.

P.S. Casey’s a beautiful kid. But she’s so got to ditch those “friends” who voted for McCain.

oh shit, that “kidding” should be within the parentheses. but you know…

I’m very happy to have voted in this historic election, and the L&TC is lucky to have it as her first. You never forget your first, they always say, and I haven’t – even though mine was GHW Bush v. Dukakis. Sigh.

I cast my first vote for George McGovern – nyaah!

oh dear, XeckyGilchrist. You must have been born under a bad sign.

Speaking as one father to another, ya done good there, tbogg.

A beer bottle, but no hideous sconces. You could take a lesson from her.

She’s very sweet and obviously very smart, T, so don’t get all bent out of shape over the beer. It could be worse.
She could be writing home, “Dad, I know you said older men are OK with you, just so they aren’t bums. Well, an author named Jonah came to our school…”

I’m sorry. That even creeped me out.

The sconces are boxed up and waiting to be shipped. I just need your address….

I could barely wait for my first chance to vote (Carter), and I haven’t missed an election, even local small potatoes stuff, ever since.

Congratulations L&TCasey, may this be the first of many for you, and may this also be the start of the long-awaited swing back to the left!

Yeah, I remember boozing out at UMass while the Duke was running his “Competent. Decent. Jobs.” barn burner of a campaign. It was a crazy time, an epoch-defining moment when a bunch of kids living in the woods of Western Mass decided to take a few weekends to canvass the asshole libertarians who then made up most of New Hampshire on behalf of the Native Son who cut funding to our school.

After the landslide loss, I drank something that was probably gasoline and puked all over the unisex bathroom across the hall.

So I totally know where Casey’s coming from!

the fact that more people are voting than our system can handle is a problem I would like to have every election.

Nah, can’t go with that. Basic requirement of a modern democracy: do elections without fucking them up. Have the capacity to cope with a historic turnout. If the half-arsed system that the US uses — in which fuckwits and partisans wield excessive power over the conduct of elections — were introduced to an emerging democracy, it wouldn’t pass muster with international observers.

Also, since Hawaii has a… distinctive state flag, that means the British drinking age applies, right? Also, Obama needs to replace ‘Hail To The Chief’ with the Hawaii 5-0 theme, because it would be so fucking cool.

Obviously that picture was taken at a secret meeting of revolutionaries as they planned their next act of civil disobedience. The bottle is about to become a Molotov cocktail of course, soon to be thrown during a clash of fascistic police forces and “We the People.” Fight the Power!!!

Either that, or it was the beginning of a night of drunken debauchery followed by a morning of, “How the hell did I end up on this guy’s couch?!?” Not that I’d know anything about that kind of stuff…

Back when I was in college we had to brew our own beer!

Sadly I think the first election I could vote in was also GHWB vs Dukakis. Life isn’t fair. But we did brew some damn good beer back in the day. Came in handy afterwards as I recall. Oh well.

gaddamn. That flag looks like some sort of TV test pattern. Think I just passed through the doors of perception after staring at it too long.

Oh yea that would be one kick-ass Presidential theme:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AepyGm9Me6w

Makes sense since Obama was running around Hawaii during the time that show was made. I’d also love to see him have William Ayers, Rev. Wright, and Louis Farahkhan up on stage with him during his inauguration.

I came to a TBogg thread and a Four Yorkshiremen sketch broke out!

We not only had to brew our own beer, we had to grow all our own barley and hops, cultivate the yeast, and carry water in buckets from a stream five miles away, walking uphill through the snow in both directions.

Just realized the cemetery pictured in the Hawaii 5-0 Intro is Punchbowl, where Obama’s grandpa is buried.

Ha! It’s too bad John Cleese had to break the news to Michael that he’s not the funniest Palin anymore.

The only thing better than 1 kid voting for Obama, is 2 kids voting for Obama! My daughter called tonight and she’s quite concerned about the election (aren’t we all?). It’s great to see them interested in stuff other than boys and Facebook.

BTW, my little Princess just turned 21 and recounted her first booze purchase. Bought herself a bottle of wine (cheap) on her birthday. The register at the packy store played “Happy Birthday”! Ain’t technology grand?

Is that a Bud Lite though? Ugh if so. See, there’s the downside of not having a dad who knows his alky.

Is that a Bud Lite though?

I was thinking it’s even worse — Miller Lite.

Then again, it aint a bottle O’whiskey, a flask filled with vodka, nor a wine skin full of Althaus.

Smaht kid, dat. Smaht kid.

Mrs. Tbogg can instruct the L&TC regarding a nice wine when the time comes.

Until the appropriate legal age, the kid will have to just take a slug of whatever she can find in the big barrel o’ drinks at whatever party she attends.

Like the rest of us did.

After the landslide loss, I drank something that was probably gasoline and puked all over the unisex bathroom across the hall.

Heh. Once the election was called for Bush, a friend of mine came over to visit, in a serious funk. She was an uptight, very politically active youngster who knew better than the rest of us hippies just what a Bush presidency was going to mean. She asked if I had anything to drink, and I unwisely pointed her to the nearly-full fifth of Stolichnaya that I had in my little dorm room freezer. She drank the entire contents of the bottle in a single pull; I’ve never seen anything like it. After that she behaved about like you did – we had unisex bathrooms too.

That was a fucked-up day, for sure. I’m hoping for better from this one, and I hope my friend is happy and drunk in a more moderate fashion, wherever she is.