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Day 65

I didn't participate today in the most historic of days and I don't even have a good reason why. Someday, maybe my children will ask, "So did you vote for Obama?" and I'll hem and haw and maybe say, "Yup, sure did!" just to be a part of the action. That was probably my best reason to vote actually, to join in the movement. After all, this is one of those things that will define our lifetime right? "Where were you when American elected its first African-American president?"

Nearly everyone else I know voted. I have friends who have thrown their all into this election and are going to bed tonight with success and joy in their hearts. I wish I could give a good coherent reason for why I declined to vote. It's not like I didn't have the time. There are a lot of stupid often trotted out excuses and none of those really apply to me. I just didn't feel like it. But it's not just about the presidency since there were other issues very worthy of support. Same sex marriage in California might be overturned and if just a few more people like me had gotten off their asses, maybe it wouldn't have been this close.

I think if you neglect or choose not to vote, you also give up your right to have opinions about it. Or rather, your opinions on people who voted the other way. Like today on Facebook everyone was donating their status updates to Obama or McCain. In my mind I'm going "You're voting for McCain? Really?" But who the hell am I to be able to say that? I didn't do shit. Overall it's probably indicative of a sideline posture I consistently adopt in life, where by not doing something, you do absolutely nothing. Which means I lose, I guess.

Anyone else wonder what was the point of the hologram interviews they were having? I have to say I was mighty suspicious if it was really a hologram or just some TV gimmick that made it look like a hologram. I mean, didn't it look way too Stars Wars-y to you?

Oh wait, that was an opinion I shouldn't be allowed to have. Fuck, maybe I should've voted.
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  1. i amuse myself... on December 17, 2008 at 8:32 AM

    Children? You're having children, now?

     


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