Get out

If you haven't already-and I know you lazy asses, so I know you haven't early voted, I am here to encourage you to vote. Even if you don't think the Presidential election effects you all that much, there are many local issues on that sheet of paper that will effect you directly. Judges, commissioners who make the laws and ordinances that you directly live under.

Above all of that, is this: it is not just your right, but your duty. It's the fundamental thing that separated us from the monarchy our forefathers fought to free us from. A people with a voice. In other countries it is a crime to not vote if you are able. How embarrassing it is for the country that is on a crusade to spread Democracy throughout the world and only 68% of it's able citizens actually exercised that right in 2004. It's an insult to your ancestors who came from countries where they didn't have that right or to those who came from this country, but had to fight to get it. Those who were scorned, beaten, arrested, shot and hung, all because they just wanted the same right to vote everyone else had. By not voting you are telling them, "Thanks, but no thanks" and you don't want to be the kind of Jackass who says that.

Don't take it for granted. There are groups of people who would gladly take it from you and force their own rules on you (No, not Republicans). Thankfully, we have people willing to risk coming home to their mama's like this......so you can keep your right to choose your own leaders. Don't waste it.

I'm not trying to swing you one way or the other as to which way to vote (you all know where I stand), I'm just trying to tell you it's important and it matters. Whatever your views are, no matter your leanings, speak up. Grab a ballot and say it. You won't always win, but at least you had your say.

As this ad says: You vote is the only way to cancel out your inbred neighbor who has "had enough of Hussein" and gets hard when he hears the word "Maverick" (doubly so when it's in reference to "Top Gun": greatest piece of Homo-erotic art since Huckleberry Finn).



If none of that convinces you: if Sarah Palin becomes VP, Little Red Haired Girl will have a coronary. She's really not a fan.


Here's a an idea I am taking from a co-worker who early voted: I am going to vote my ballot backwards. I am going to start with the crap on the back and work my way around so that the last thing I do is fill in the bubble next to Obama's name. Doing it any other would be a bit anti-climatic.

"What began as a whisper in Springfield has swelled to a chorus of millions calling for change...This time can be different, because this campaign for the presidency of the United States of America is different. It's different not because of me. It's different because of you. Because you are tired of being disappointed and you're tired of being let down...Change will not come if we wait for some other person or if we wait for some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for...We are the change that we seek."