A metal plate perhaps?

I used to, then I went bald and a hat makes me look like a chemo patient.  

There is your totally random aside for the day :D

It is an instruction set not a real thing that could even be scanned.  Lighten up

The NC sample ballot clearly says Official on it. Maybe someone is doing it to really piss off Obama voters so they won't be apathetic? It wouldn't be the first time a candidate from either party went there. After they booed the Governor of NC (a Democrat who has endorsed Clinton) when he was introduced at the Jefferson-Jackson dinner today, I'm really not feeling any great love for people who say they are Obama supporters. Republican plants? I don't think so. After the incredibly shocking uncovering of a doctored tape that was meant explicitly to arouse anti-White, anti-Clinton hatred, it's getting difficult to discern who is responsible for what. I can honestly say that I don't personally know any Obama supporters who would be involved with any of the three things I just mentioned.

The Sean Bell demonstrations (Al Sharpton and his supporters, and others) to shut down NYC with acts of civil disobedience are now scheduled for the day after the Indiana and NC primaries. Obama cautioned Reverend Sharpton that the demonstration had best be non-violent. Sharpton now says that the two never had harsh words, but The New York Post has certainly whipped it into a "War for Black power" story. They also seem to be retreading the Wright story.

Whether or not he or his campaign or his supporters had anything to do with the NC flyer is irrelevant to my trust in any Obama supporter that I don't personally know at this point. Oh, and that crusade about Hillary Clinton not ever having said rich people, God bless us, is yet another example of actual really desperate and ugly politics. Listen to the tape. She says "God has blessed us."

Like I said, I have no evidence that any of it is coming from Senator Obama or his campaign, but I do think some overzealous Obama supporters or people saying they are Obama supporters have seriously and damagingly played the Black race card. It's been creeping into public discourse and assaulting the internet: the word people now is taken to mean Whites and Blacks.

Some of my friends say welcome to life as a Black man or woman. When it goes beyond that for either camp, like accusing Clinton of trying to "steal" the nomination, Party leaders are right to be concerned. When anyone tries to shut the primary process down - which unfortunately involves superdelegates - don't we all know how that is going to turn out? We will convince ourselves we don't have a "legitimate" candidate

So if Hillary does very well in Indiana and even North Carolina, we're all still committed to non-violence and the principles of Democracy? Or do they only apply if a specific candidate wins? There is a lot of heated debate going on right now, but now I have become concerned that a growing number of people are feeling threatened in a non-political manner.

Americans who are not accustomed to, or who don't want to deal with the sometimes very rough and sometimes bitter and angry world of politics will not be forgiving. The fact that a huge majority of the country disapproves of Bush and his "legacy", yet just a little less than half continue to say they will vote for McCain, is something that I don't think Democrats are all listening to right now. These polls don't count, right?

Some are too busy race-baiting. Winning the nomination appears to have become more important than winning the election for some vocal people who claim to be Obama supporters. Isn't that what I read posted so frequently here as a judgment of the character of Hillary Clinton? It is clear to me that it is true of anyone running to be President in this election. Is it only a bad thing if you accuse Hillary of being like that?

Just a reminder to those so wrapped up in the justification and righteousness and mathematical algorithm of their candidate winning the nomination that it is just as likely that their candidate will not be picked as the other candidate.

I actually can't imagine the Democratic Party not choosing Hillary Clinton as the best candidate to defeat McCain, but right now I know there are Obama supporters who feel exactly the same way about Obama. I just may have to end up dealing with that loss. So may you. So say we all? But don't end up victimizing yourself in the process - it's exactly what Republicans would have you do.

But honestly, imagine what it would feel like with McCain as President. If this is your first election as an engaged participant - regardless of your age or race or sex - multiply the pain by ten. Don't be boxed in by your absolute conviction that your candidate is right on all the issues and just superior in every way to his or her rival.

That may be true in your head and maybe even in your heart, but it's one of the reasons Democrats always seem to be outsmarted by Republicans. We think we have right and power and the ethical and moral and social high ground on our side yet Republicans figure out a way to step all over that and take whatever they want. Now that's what stealing looks like.