6 posts tagged “vote”
I'm pretty sure he is. Something about him screams Stella's Father. Anyway, I adore his pseudo-dedication to getting people registered to vote. It's such a fantastic cause and ideal and, I mean yeah, he turned it all into being about him like, "For my birthday on November 4th, I want you to VOTE," but clearly the DNC isn't paying him to say this shit, so it's a selfless cause. That's something I did, though, when I started at the high school - when a kid turned 18, I gave him or her a packet that told them how to register to vote. Just one of my pet projects.
Here is my weekly reminder: It is your solemn duty as an American to VOTE.
I'm outrageously impressed with Senator Obama's campaign and that he is leading the person who the public considered the Democratic nominee before the race even began. I have said this probably eight thousand ways before, but I must speak again to the amount that I believe in Senator Obama's campaign and his candidacy as a whole. I am not one of the rockstar groupies out there, but a well-read individual who believes in his policies and his desire to evoke positive change. The longer this campaign continues and the more that it gains momentum, the more I believe that Barack Obama will be a fantastic turning point for my generation on such a myriad of levels. Although the end is anything but near, I believe that now is the time for someone like him to lead our country back to greatness.
(This tally does not include Maine, and is accurate through Sunday, February 10.)
Let's talk about my less-than-stellar voting experience. So I walk into this elementary school (whose view was gorgeous, ps) and there are no signs pointing me to the voting booth. I walk around lost for like ten minutes then finally happen upon the Gym where a bunch of blue hairs were chillin with the voting shiz. They don't ask for my ID, they don't need proof that I am who I say I am, and all I get is a 'D' in a box beside my name - Democrat. My voting consisted of coloring in circles on a large piece of vanilla-colored paper with a sharpie, then inserting it into a machine that was probably modern in the '50s. No 'I Voted' sticker. Fuck, I don't even think that my vote counted, it felt that archaic.
Heading out to VOTE (!!!) during a 29-DAY FEBRUARY (!!!!) .. could this month get any better? Probably not.
"If Barack wins the Democratic nomination, I'm voting Republican," she firmly stated.
"... okay ... ?"
"Well because he's too arrogant."
"Are we talking about the same Barack? Like, as in Obama?" I knew this wasn't a fight worth having. Middle-aged white secretaries are not to be fucked with, this I know.
"Uh huh, and we already have one of those in office."
"One of 'those'?"
"Arrogant men. And look where it got us." She thought she had made a truly valid point.
I'm not one to discuss politics in a public setting if only because people say realllllllllly uninformed things and I can't even stand it. Plus, my main concern is that people vote, and while, yes (obvs), I have a preference, I think that mobilizing a nation to actually get off their fat asses and vote is something I'm passionate about. This certainly comes from a childhood of politically-fueled discussions in my house and my father working in politics for the first ten or so years of my life. The American electoral process is so brilliantly flawed, but that's neither here nor there. Essentially I'm stoked to be voting tomorrow and I'll proudly don my "I Voted" sticker for the next several days just to be a pompous jackass about it.
Case in point: Vote tomorrow if your state is holding a primary or caucus, bitches.
