7 posts tagged “election”
Laters!
I just got a panicky Google-chat from Alex asking me to repost this here, so because I love him and he's right, here's what Alex wrote on Bed Time today:
If you know anyone in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Florida, Virginia, or North Carolina and you think they will vote For Barack Obama please send them a text, an email, or a call (anything). Make sure they realize how important their vote truly is. Last election the RNC brought a serious effort in the last 2 days and the actual election with a “ground game” that brought out a giant republican turnout that was not expected. Lets not get caught off guard again.
My fellow Dems please do not think this “Is in the bag”. If you can help in anyway even just a quick email to your Aunt in Philly (I will be emailing her after this) take the couple minutes. It could alter the course of our country and the world.
Because I am a self-promoting and nosy person, I know from my stat counter that I have a lot of readers in Ohio, Florida and North Carolina specifically. I hope Alex's message reaches you and you make the choice that will be best for our country.
"In our every deliberation we must consider the impact of our decisions on the next seven generations."
- The Great Law of the Iroquois Confederacy
All of a sudden, I am seeing more and more people make outlandish statements against Obama in an attempt to "reclaim" being conservative and it honestly makes me sick. Men and women in their mid-20s thinking that they are being bold by coming out as Republicans or something. Ya know, like... opposite day shit. Flipping the switch on us, if you will.
It's unforgivable to me when I see women doing this. I would say that I hope they all get knocked up immediately after they have their abortion rights taken from them, but I know that for most of these broads, being forced to carry a child they aren't prepared financially or emotionally to take care of and marrying the father because it's the "right thing to do" would be more freeing than having to go out and do something with their lives that involve French's green bean casserole and cheap flatware. We raise them really strong here in the States, don't we?
I can't pretend that I spend my time reading up on every aspect of this election or politics in general. I don't. But I feel like I have a pretty fair sense of right and wrong and common decency, even if I don't always chose to display it. I don't think it's going to be possible to fix the problems we have in one presidential term or two or eight. It's going to take many, many decades to get us on track again (if we ever really were on track in the first place.) That being said, we can't stop our thinking beyond the next four years. If these all these pro-life types were really using their noggins, they'd perhaps ponder the fact that they are contributing to a society that all of these babies are going to have to live in well past our existence. I'd give Bush back the extra 600 bucks he gave me this year to ensure that my kid's kid's kid's kids will have a place to live and a means of employment, but maybe that's just my crazy lady-feelings talking.
