NoJoMo – Special Bulletin
While I have been doing my Introduction to Wicca for my OD friends, yesterdays events have precluded that entry for this special bulletin.
Special Bulletin
I have stated in the past that I was going to vote for None of the Above and actually did this time. While, to some, that may qualify me in the didnt vote, cant bitch category, unfortunately, yes I can. See, while I may not have voted for your particular candidate, I still voted.
However, this is NOT a bitch session at all. After all, I didnt have a dog in this hunt, a horse in this race, or a pig in this sty (my favorite of the three clichés). This session is for me to write down my particular feelings concerning the farce that happened yesterday called an election.
Yeah, thats right. I called it a farce. And I have reasoning to call it that.
Elections are supposed to be done like this:
- Voter registers for elections.
- Voter votes in general election.
- Vote gets counted
- Total votes are tabulated and person with most wins.
This is not how things went last night, or 4 years ago or even 8 years ago. And that makes it to where votes DONT COUNT.
Uh huh, I said it. Votes dont count. Not when I was watching the map online for Faux News (the Comical News Network didnt have a map online that I could find) and they called Maine for Obama with .681% of precincts reporting and called West Virginia for McCain with .664% of precincts reporting.
Wow. Interesting to me that they can call a state with LESS THAN 1% of the vote counted.
This wasnt an election; it was a witch hunt for the next sucker to get put into the White House.
As for Mr. President-Elect Obama, I have nothing but congratulation for your win last night. And, to everyone that is happy for that, Im happy for you. Keep in mind though, Mr. Obama is not going to change everything immediately. In fact, I doubt, very seriously, that he is going to be able to a quarter of the things hes promised to do because…can you guess?…are you ready?…theres NO MONEY TO DO THEM.
Yeah, socialized medicine excuse me, national healthcare is a dream and I dont think well see it in our lifetime. Reason being, it costs too much. Even with the cessation of hostilities in Iraq and Afghanistan, the money just isnt there.
Dont forget about the 700 billion that was promised to Wall Street to bail them out. After all, you know those CEOs and CFOs and Board Members need to head out to California to spend $200,000 for a weekend of getting jacked-off at the spa. Thats what that money is going to be used for. Right after they finish jacking-off the American people.
Yeah, I am disappointed in the results of the election. But my disappointment doesnt come because Obama won or that McCain lost. Im disappointed that more people didnt consider and vote for a third party candidate to send a message to the politicians in Washington that enough is enough! Me, personally, Im sick of the lies and deceit that comes out of both the Republicrats and the Demicans.
Just to take something from one of the third party candidates, Chuck Baldwin, and share:
A Wasted Vote
by Chuck Baldwin
October 10, 2008
When asked why they will not vote for a third party candidate, many people will respond by saying something like, “He cannot win.” Or, “I don’t want to waste my vote.” It is true: America has not elected a third party candidate since 1860. Does that automatically mean, however, that every vote cast for one of the two major party candidates is not a wasted vote? I don’t think so.
In the first place, a wasted vote is a vote for someone you know does not represent your own beliefs and principles. A wasted vote is a vote for someone you know will not lead the country in the way it should go. A wasted vote is a vote for the “lesser of two evils.” Or, in the case of John McCain and Barack Obama, what we have is a choice between the “evil of two lessers.”
Albert Einstein is credited with saying that insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, and expecting a different result. For years now, Republicans and Democrats have been leading the country in the same basic direction: toward bigger and bigger government; more and more socialism, globalism, corporatism, and foreign interventionism; and the dismantling of constitutional liberties. Yet, voters continue to think that they are voting for “change” when they vote for a Republican or Democrat. This is truly insane!
Take a look at the recent $700 billion Wall Street bailout: both John McCain and Barack Obama endorsed and lobbied for it. Both McCain and Obama will continue to bail out these international banksters on the backs of the American taxpayers. Both McCain and Obama support giving illegal aliens amnesty and a path to citizenship. In the debate this past Tuesday night, both McCain and Obama expressed support for sending U.S. forces around the world for “peacekeeping” purposes. They also expressed support for sending combat forces against foreign countries even if those countries do not pose a threat to the United States. Neither Obama nor McCain will do anything to stem the tide of a burgeoning police state or a mushrooming New World Order. Both Obama and McCain support NAFTA and similar “free trade” deals. Neither candidate will do anything to rid America of the Federal Reserve, or work to eliminate the personal income tax, or disband the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). Both Obama and McCain support the United Nations. So, pray tell, how is a vote for either McCain or Obama not a wasted vote?
You may not agree with what this man has said, but he makes a good point.
I have seen written around OD today that This is truly a UNITED America. Nothing could be further from the truth. America, if anything, is more divided than it was before. If it was united, then you wouldve seen something more akin to the 1984 elections where Ronald Reagan got all but three of the electoral votes. That was a truly united America at the time.
Instead, 52.2% of Americans chose Obama with 46.2% choosing McCain. That is NOT a united America but one divided almost in half, just like its been for three elections now.
My last point now is this: The people of America elected Obama for change.
Be careful what you wish for America, you may just get it.
This is absolutely brilliantly stated. You KNOW how I feel about the entire process that went on last night – I still feel a little battered by it all – and you have eloquently stated what I ranted about. Well done my friend!!
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I totally respect your point of view on this, and I don’t think your vote was wasted. FWIW, I think the electoral college is a crap system and that we’d be a better country if we had more than two choices that actually had a viable shot at winning the presidential elections.
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