lord beer me strength

[yer ardy]

i have to return to work tomorrow after being on vacation since 10/22. i return to a place of coworkers who, i kid you not, have offered up the following excuses about voting:

"...i'm not registered." (after i brought her a registration form and located an office for her to go to, she still didn't do it.)

"...i'm sorry. i'm NOT voting for a black man for president." (fair enough, your choice, but please vote anyways.)

"...my vote doesn't matter anyway." (this one i have exhausted all efforts to show her how important it is for her to vote, she just doesn't see the point.)

"...i don't have time." (this one i have a huge problem with. she won't vote after work because her husband expects her home to make him dinner. i'm not joking.)


monday and tuesday will be a trying time for me. i plan on being firm but respectful to help these women understand the importance of voting. i'm going to be positive and have hope...it's all i can do.

good luck to everyone.

[Buannan]

If they don't vote, they can't complain. Remind them of that as they whine about taxes next year.

[GreenDisease]

May I add:

"I can't stand either candidate"

to this list?

Thats what I hear alot of my friends saying.

This reminds me of a line from one of my favorite shows on tv, it goes a little summthin' like this:

"Am I gonna vote for the Republican that's going blast me in the ass, or am I going vote for the Democrat that's going blast me in the ass? No matter which way, we're gonna get blasted in the ass."


Anyways, I keep telling her, that "personalities" aside, she's gotta vote. I told her to vote for her principles and her beliefs. Thats what I do sometimes when I'm in a bind. I always go for the dude or dudette that will stand up for what I believe in as my core principles. I also tell her that women in the past fought tirelessly for her right to have a vote, and to not waste it. That's a little bit of a slap in the face to those women who stood up for the women of today. If I sunk in her brain, that remains to be seen. We'll see. I just want Tuesday to be done and over with already.

[Buannan]

I can't stand either of the candidate either, but I still voted. Hasn't anyone ever heard of third party or write-ins?

Voting is a priviledge, one should not ignore that priviledge lest they have it taken from them.

[GreenDisease]

The fam and I were coming home from dinner this evening, and I think I saw the most blatently (spelling????) racsist thing on a vehicle on the parkway.

A mini-van had an Obama plackard on their back windshield that had a giant X through it with the words NO NO written on both side of the window. On their drivers side back window they wrote "No ObamaBINLADEN"

The ignorance and racism of it all didn't surprise me because that happens alot in my town, but made me sick that people still live with their heads up their asses when it comes to skin color/origin of name, ect.

I think if Obama is elected President, he's gonna have more security than the Pope.

It's a little off subject, but I just had to share what I just saw.

Carry on :)