I See An America

I was taking a shower when a thought struck me....see, a friend had asked me if I was voting for Obama, and I said no, I've only voted once, in 1972 as a protest against Nixon. Since then politics has bored me and frankly, if I can stay off jury duty lists in exchange for not voting, that works for me. However, the main reason I'm not voting this time around is I live in California and Obama doesn't need my vote. If I was living in Florida, or one of the other swing states, then I might give serious consideration to voting. Now some of you are going to say shame on me for not exercising my American right to vote. My response is

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that by the end of 1968, the passion I had for politics had pretty much been executed with the deaths of JFK, RFK, MLK and the victory of Richard Nixon. I was old enough to be sent to Vietnam, I was old enough to be convicted as an adult for the FELONY possession of a gram of marijuana, but I wasn't old enough to VOTE! So, when 1972 rolled around, and tricky dick was still in office on his way to a landslide re-election bid, I went down with the ship (I was living in Massachusetts, the only state to vote against Nixon in 72) and cast my first and last vote for "anybody but nixon." Haven't seen a case where it makes a difference who you vote for since....until now.

I say we need to think differently, we need to be creative to keep America afloat a few more years so I can cash in my Social Security and the best hope for that is Obama. So, if I was living in Florida, or some other swing state, and I was an 18 year old, and I had a passion that said that things can be changed through the political process I would exercise my right to vote vigorously. After all, this way you can vote for the dude you want to send you to Iraq.