that other half

Funny anecdote from the Obama phonebank over the weekend.  While working on Saturday night, I got to chatting with another volunteer, an older black woman named Sydney.  She’d been volunteering pretty steadily for weeks now, and recounted a particularly hilarious story.  One recent evening, on a call to Nevada, she spoke to a white guy who told her very frankly that there was no way he could vote for a black man.  Her retort to this?  She said, “Well, he’s only half-black.  Why don’t you just vote for the white half?”

And this on the spur of the moment.  I’d at least need some warm-up to pull out a line like that.

Well played, Sydney.