No. 189: "We the People..." or why i'm going democrat

While he sort of scares me to my core, it's recently become more likely that I'll be voting for Obama in the upcoming election.

Reasons include:
*Not voting Republica. I think Sarah Palin is an alien who will arrange for the de-particularization of the highly likely-to-shuffle off this mortal coil-soon-anyway McCain in order to become the nice-legged President of the Human Race. She will then turn the planet over to her alien race for performing tests. Also, because she has no foreign experience during wart-times with extremists who disrespect and abuse women. So... I can't turn Republican.

* I turned 18 just after the last vote to elect O.D.B. (Old Dubya Bush). I've seen what happens when we don't take part. There ain't no WAY I was not going to vote in this election.

*I know next to nothing about the independents. I know that enough people don't know anything about the independents. Thus they won't be in the White House.

*And so I am forced to go Democrat (since I decided writing in Stewart/Colbert would be a wasted vote). And thus Obama.

But the following was reassuring: On the Annotated meeing for the new Democrat Platform, "Listening to America", the Obama campaign worked to raise support for the local meetings of the Democratic Party. The meetings took place in people's homes, in churches, town halls, etc. People were getting involved with their party. The mayor, the plumber, the bakers, the out of work dead beat who lives around the corner: they were talking to government, getting involved, getting informed. Their conversations, debates, responses were recorded. The government paid attention to what the people were saying and as a result: the new platform. It was heartening, a small gesture towards true Grecian democracy. I was proud of America, just for a second.

This is a quote:
:Littleton, NH, 7/20. We the people should be citizen participants, not consumers of government."

Amen.


I ask this of all of you: No matter who or what you vote for, know what they stand for. Know what the issues are that you care about. READ. RESEARCH. Don't pick a name or face you like and go with that. Don't vote because that's who your friends are voting for and there's a t-shirt. Don't vote for someone because your parents do. Vote because that person is going to lead the people leading the country for the next 4-8 years. If they mess it up, it's your fault, too.

I'll see you at the polls.
Cheers.