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03 November 2008

Please think about my children when you vote. →[More:]I guess I'm preaching to the choir here, but remember that you are voting in the country who has the greatest impact on world affairs when you cast that vote. If you make the wrong decision, the world will be a worse place for the foreseeable future and that's the world my kids will grow up in.

To anyone who is still wavering - I wish you could see how this race looks like from a distance. I don't care what your politics are (or theirs, frankly), I just don't see how any right-thinking person can fail to see that Obama is the only choice to make on 4 November. I get the whole patriotic thing where you want to vote for war heroes and people who meet the "presidential" criteria and I get that many people are going to struggle to vote for a black man. All I ask is that you close your eyes and vote with your head, not your heart.

My children thank you and so will yours.

Good luck to all of you - the next couple of days will be rough in the land of the US. My thoughts are with you.

post by: dg at: 15:38 | 19 comments

As a humorist, I'm voting McCain/Palin for professional reasons. I really need the material.

(Kidding. I'm voting for Obama, but you knew that.)

posted by jonmc 03 November | 15:47

I'm tempted to vote for McCain just so as not to lose my reputation as a contrarian.

posted by ThePinkSuperhero 03 November | 15:52

GOOGLE RON PAUL!

posted by stet 03 November | 16:02

Already did, my friend - turned in my ballot this morning.

posted by Fuzzbean 03 November | 16:07

I'm all excited to go vote. This is my first in-person presidential election thingy (last time I had to vote absentee since I was at school and it didn't really feel like voting). I'm sure it's going to be a trainwreck though since I'll be going after work (5pm, ugh.)

posted by sperose 03 November | 16:07

won't somebody please think of the children

I hear ya dg, don't worry

posted by special-k 03 November | 16:14

I don't know HOW I will get through the next 36 hours. I feel like I'm going to jump out of my skin.
I want a sticker this year.

posted by kellydamnit 03 November | 16:27

TPS - if you want to be contrary, vote third party. That'll get you an earful in any Blue County bar.

posted by muddgirl 03 November | 16:27

I'm curious to what you believe will happen to your children if McCain is president, dg?

How does it look from a distance?

posted by LoriFLA 03 November | 16:33

I usually vote Green and have no bone to pick with the principle of voting for third parties (in the words of Eugene Debs, "I'd rather vote for something I want and not get it than vote for something I don't want, and get it"). So this year represents a rare and enthusiastic vote for a Democrat from me!

posted by scody 03 November | 16:36

I was pretty close to voting for Gloria La Riva, because it looks like McCain's going to win my state anyway, and because, frankly, Obama's not far enough to the left for me (FISA, death penalty, drug war, etc.). But then two things happened--first, my state started to look like one of the most unlikely of unlikely candidates for a super-longshot upset. Nonzero chance, anyway. And second, and more importantly, I want to look back on this election and say I voted for Obama. I think a lot of radical types feel the same way. On preview: scody, for example.

teeps: this guy is on the ballot in NY.

posted by box 03 November | 16:42

McCain/ Palin '08!

posted by stynxno 03 November | 16:46

I AM NERVOUS ABOUT THE ELECTION!
I've had a stomach ache all day. Making calls for O helped a little (and my boss let me do it from work on my cell so that was nice), but I am still really worried about how this is going to turn out!

posted by rmless2 03 November | 17:00

rmless2 I am right there with you. I couldn't sleep last night and now having a hard time focusing on work with a stomach ache.

posted by special-k 03 November | 17:01

Can't speak for dg, but I'm worried about what will happen to OUR children. Global recession into deep depression. Not enough jobs. Increasing federal debt. Slashed social safety net. Disappearance of social security because we won't be able to afford it. Home ownership becoming an impossibility for the middle class. A hair trigger on foreign policy that will keep us fighting in the middle east and strengthening enemies of the US who are gaining in nuclear power. Stuff like that.

posted by Miko 03 November | 17:05

The last 8 years have been so disastrous for the US and for Iraq. The human and fiscal cost of this unnecessary war is staggering. Every time somebody says they worry that Obama will spend too much, I have to take a deep breath, and try to reason with them calmly. I can't wait to go to cast my vote tomorrow. I hope the answer is definitive (and honest) by the time polls close on the West Coast. A repeat of 2000 would be unbearable.

posted by theora55 03 November | 17:09

I think a lot of radical types feel the same way.

Yep.

posted by jessamyn 03 November | 22:20

Can't speak for dg, but I'm worried about what will happen to OUR children. Global recession into deep depression. Not enough jobs. Increasing federal debt. Slashed social safety net. Disappearance of social security because we won't be able to afford it. Home ownership becoming an impossibility for the middle class. A hair trigger on foreign policy that will keep us fighting in the middle east and strengthening enemies of ~~the US~~ Australia who are gaining in nuclear power. Stuff like that.

Yeah, that.

posted by dg 04 November | 01:26

Gotcha, dg.

I'm gonna be up all night watching the numbers. Strangely, I am not nervous in the least. I am very glad I already voted (for Obama).

By this evening, I think you'll be able to worry a little less, dg. :-)

posted by LoriFLA 04 November | 07:45

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