Sister Cecilia has lived in the convent in Rome for 50 years
I'm speechless.
Posted on 10/12/2008 1:57:08 PM PDT by NYer
b>A 106-year-old American nun living in a convent in Rome could well be the oldest person to vote in the 2008 US Presidential election.
Sister Cecilia Gaudette, who last voted for President Eisenhower in 1952, has registered to vote and says she will vote for Democrat Barack Obama.
Although hard of hearing, she keeps herself informed by reading newspapers and watching TV at the convent.
"I'm encouraged by Senator Obama," she says.
"I've never met him, but he seems to be a good man with a good private life. That's the first thing. Then he must be able to govern," she adds.
Sitting in her modest office in the convent where she has lived for the past 50 years, the diminutive nun appears uninterested in the row inside the American Catholic church over Senator Obama's support for pro-choice policies on abortion.
Asked about her hopes for the US under an Obama presidency, she says: "Peace abroad. I don't worry about the Iraq war because I can't do anything about it. Lord knows how it will end."
"It is very complicated," she said. "Those Eastern people are not like we are."
But despite taking part in the 4 November election, Sister Cecilia does not intend to return to the US.
"I have no plans for the future. I am too old to go back to the US. Life has changed too much."
But she still watches "very important events" on TV. The election comes under this category.
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I'm speechless.
I wonder if anyone has told her about his supporting his cousin burning Christians in churches in Kenya
So you can live abroad for 50 years and still vote in US elections?
"A good private life" from the perspective of terrorists and black nationalists, for sure.
From Ike to Hussein. Quite a fall.
It is this kind of crap that gets me. Hasn’t voted since 1952? Now all of a sudden she wants to vote?
So...is she aware of his abortion position?
I fear the good sister may be senile.
What does this old bag give a damn, she don’t have to live here under that idiot.
What’s the difference...in another five years and she’d still be voting for Obama.
I am sure she is breaking the law!
A 20 stretch in a Federal Prison would give her time to think about it.
She only thinks the last time she voted was 1952.
She has nothing to lose.
Idiots everywhere.
I guess the Good Sister never got to read about that whole baby killing thing in the media she gets over there.
Not only live abroad, but have NO intention to return? This is incredible.
Plus, she last voted in 1952? Come on. This is outrageous.
She’s senile.
Not necessarily related to this article, but if someone votes absentee, and dies before election day, would their vote still count?
The Pope old drop by and remind her that she's going to go to Hell for a long stay if she votes for killing babies and burning Christians.
My reaction too. Why this election?
It is this kind of crap that gets me.
God bless America :-0 ! This is one of our freedoms. Enjoy it while it still exists.
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