OT: The ELECTION. A prayer from a "Battleground State"

[Kismet]

As a resident of one of the so-called "battleground states," I implore each and every person in the United States, and those qualified to vote by mail in other countries, to please VOTE. Get this over with!

I can't go through this again. You have no idea of the media saturation by political ads...ads for specific individuals, for particular parties, for ideologies, for anti-ideologies, for truth, justice, and the American way, for "those guys" who obviously are against truth, justice, and the American way, for tax relief, for increased taxation, for anti-terrorism, for selective anti-terrorism, for the status quo, for change, for votes for women, for home security, for global security, for inter-stellar security....jayzusmerrynjoesuf!!!

I love voting. I love the Constitution of the United States--it is a brilliant document. The founders obviously did not envision media solicitation of the individual vote. Had they, they might have gone for a monarchy, maybe something nice in an emporer, or dictator.

Please vote. The stretching of the truth, the exaggerations, the manipulations of facts, the total saturation of advertisements on tv, radio, mail, and phone solicitation (human and robotic) amounts to cruel and unusual punishment.

Save those of us on the battleground.

(I endorsed this plea.)

 

[namaarie]

As a guy from Iowa, I hear you!! Those ads are literally clogging the airwaves!! Kinda funny how they've spent so many millions over seven measly electoral votes from Iowa. Joke's on them!!

 

[Rusty]

There's an election tomorrow?


Hope that doesn't affect UPS delivery of the FNFAL and AK magazines I ordered a week ago tomorrow ( ten 20 round FN and ten 20 round AK ). They told me a week to ten days for delivery.

 

[Ben Arown-Awile]

..I love voting...

So do I. I love to punch out those little squares. For the past few years we have been voting absentee and that's not as much fun. I miss the feeling of finality as the punch goes through and makes that little pop.

We had different ballots this year. We had to fill in the squares with a number 2 pencil. My wife always makes me fill out hers too, so I actually get two votes.

No one I voted for has ever won. I have voted for everyone from Barry Goldwater to Angela Davis and have yet to pick a winner.

I take that back. I voted for myself once and won. I was on the ballot as County Chairman for the Peace and Freedom Party in 1968. We were supporting Eugene somebody who was running on a platform to end the war in Viet Nam, and as a recently returned vet I thought that was a great idea. That was before the Peace and Freedom Party was taken over by Jewish Lesbian Commies from New York City.

It was pretty interesting. I got to sit in the state capital and vote on stuff at the state convention. It taught me what a load of bullcrap politics was, and that I wanted nothing to do with those kind of people.

But I still like to vote.

Used to make $28.00 a night, one night every four years, working for the Election Board counting ballots and pulling off hanging chads, but that's another story.

 

[cliff355]

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[hollowdweller]

Eugene Mc Carthy? I was 8 years old then and a political junkie even at that age. In fact, I think it was Vietnam and the social issues of the day that probably spurred my lifelong interest in politics. Especially seeing the police clubbing the protesters at the 1968 Democratic Convention. Seeing that as a kid gave me a lifelong distrust for authority.

 

[Ben Arown-Awile]

...it was Vietnam and the social issues of the day that probably spurred my lifelong interest in politics. ...seeing the police clubbing the protesters at the 1968 Democratic Convention...gave me a lifelong distrust for authority.

I was born with a distrust for authority. It included the authority of my parents, teachers, and the system in general. That's probably why I liked to spend so much time alone in the woods.

The Viet Nam war and the social issues of the 60's just confirmed what I already knew and turned me into an incendiary radical. (Just using that as a figure of speech-not admitting to anything!)

Here it is 40 years later. I still distrust authority, but as long as they keep their head up their own butts and out of mine, I could care less what they do.

 

[Ad Astra]

"The total saturation of advertisements on tv, radio, mail, and phone solicitation (human and robotic) amounts to cruel and unusual punishment."

Kis, that is so true.

The robots have been torturing my household for over two weeks... To have a Bill Clinton-Bot call to nag you during dinner... yuck. Then the mailbox had so much printed garbage it makes you wonder exactly how much they can afford to spend in their individual political power-grabs.

AA

 

[Steely_Gunz]

Hey i got a phone call from Mrs. Bush and i'm not even in a swing state I hate those automated things. They call me here at the office, and it just drives me up the wall. I got couple about the local government jokers running that said something to the effect "Such-n-such says he wants to be your -whatever-, but do you know the TRUTH. such-n-such has openly admitted that he worships the devil and thinks bin ladin is a misunderstood cutie. such-n-such says he wants to balance the state budget, but did you know that he's really planning on converting all of the state's paper money into gold coins and storing them in a big silo so that he can swim around in them like Scrooge McDuck. Such-n-such also claims that WWII vets are whiney and have done nothing to deserve any credit. he believes that they should just shut-up and go back to Hardee's and drink their coffee. Such-n-such supports the drop-kicking of babies for scientific research. Isn't it time for a change???" I -might- have over exaggerated a bit, but you get the point I feel bad for you guys in the battle ground states. Indiana has been right-leaning for a long time. maybe all the way back to William Harrison, i dunno. Good luck with this mess. Happy voting everyone!

Jake

 

[Rusty]

I voted, but now I feel slimed from going through the process, like the electioneering is a tar baby I won't get scraped off of me for a long time.

 

[Yvsa]

We voted at 8:30 or thereabouts this morning and the little Community Cneter was busier than I ever recall it being on a Presidential Election Day. If Oklahoma goes for Kerry I'm gonna wanna leave the state, but I think I'm safe.:footinmou
I'm more worried over the US Senate race here than I am over who Oklahoma will go for for president.
However I am concerned about who our next pres is gonna be. The "Theys" are sooo right this time, "Whoever it is will change our history for a long time to come!"