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.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.bbc.co.uk ...
Proof that age doesn’t necessarily make one wiser.
If they are Democrat, sure.
The article doesn’t say, but I hope she’s from some Yankee blue state that was going to go Dem anyway.
And this dumb old bat can get her vote counted and most of our servicemen and women can’t!
Satan has been very busy.
The McCain Campaign should demand that the Justice Department prosecute the nun for Voter Fraud.
“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.”
I don’t believe so. My grandmother-in-law is 104 and she is not even the oldest person voting in Lubbock County (another voter is 105). Grandma is voting for McCain, btw.
I am sure she is breaking the law!
A 20 stretch in a Federal Prison would give her time to think about it.
lol. Your silly. I am sure that she can vote where her main nunery is. Sorta like the military. She is stationed in Rome and still gets to vote...she is a citizen afterall. Now for her thinking...now that is a different story.
BTW, Sister, can I come to your excommunication ceremony?
“Proof that age doesn’t necessarily make one wiser”
And proof that this nun chooses to have no recognition for the Pope and the Catholic stance on abortion.
Somebody turn up her hearing aid and explain “partial birth abortion” to her.
As unbelievable as it may seem, most nuns supported Kerry in the last election. They do not like Bush- at all. Nuns are big on social programs, dislike Bush for the war and seem to ignore the big one- abortion.
Exactly, it’s now 1958.
What does she care? She can’t have kids.
And Sister Cecilia believes the Italian Papers apparently.
That “big-one” defies GOD up-front. I question her senility in this matter.
A pro-abortion Nun? What is she thinking???
If she were someone else that spent the last 50 years speaking against America and has not been convicted of a felony while over seas they can still vote. A vote is right that can only being taking away for crimes when someone is convicted.
The right to vote should guarded at all cost. This is why it is so important to stop voter fraud. Voting is at the core of democracy.
I wonder how many times ACORN has registered the pope to vote?
It does prove one thing: Catholics can be as stupid as Protestants.
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