My phone rang a few minutes ago. Madeleine Kunin voice was on the other end. For a second or two I thought it really was Madeleine Kunin. That's the way things are here in Vermont. The phone rings and sometimes it's the governor or a former governor, a senator or a former senator.
Alas, though, it was Kunin's taped voice, a robo-call, urging me to vote for Hillary Clinton in the March 4 primary.
After she made her pitch for Clinton, Kunin suggested I press 1 if I was planning to join her in voting for Clinton, or 2 if I was still undecided. There was no option 3 or 4.
I presume if I had pressed 1, I'd be sent off to the sign-her-up-for-campaigning desk. If I had pressed 2, I'd have been sent to the needs-further-educating desk, but it felt a little like that Seinfeld episode in which Kramer runs Movie Phone. After urging people to push 1 for this movie, 2 for that, he says in exasperation, "Why don't you just tell me what movie you want to see?"
I was waiting for Kunin's voice to ask, "Why don't you just tell me who you're voting for?"
- Terri Hallenbeck
