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[vicarz]

Dear Washington DC:
Howard Dean 17,584 43%
Al Sharpton 14,090 34% from http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A13061-2004Jan13.html (before you click the link - be warned that the Post's ads are really annoying)

If you want to be taken seriously and given the 'right' to vote, you have to demonstrate a little responsibility. The country might have been willing to forgive the whole crackhead Barry episode, though you would face ribbing for the rest of your existence. Chalk it up to passed-on Seniors stuck in the civil rights era, but now...although you select the very predictable Dean for your choice, you pick the "rev" Al Sharpton as a close 2nd runner up.

DC, if you ever want to be given responsibility, you have to show you are ready for it. You've shown some improvement, but with a report card like this, I simply cannot let you drive.

On another political note, this one totally ganked from wabmart
http://www.bushin30seconds.org/
Guess who pays for Bush's insane deficit spending?

Comments

[vicar.livejournal.com]

I hate to say/push it, but voting matters a lot. Unfortunately, you have to pick the least evil rather than someone you like - but with an evil like Bush it's really hard to ignore the consequences of not acting.

My highly biased opinion...

[mkblack.livejournal.com]

Vernon Dahmer Sr. was a civil rights leader who's main focus was to get blacks to vote. His motto was "if you don't vote, you don't count". He was right... but there's one thing he forgot: if you don't vote you DO count - to the opposition!

my 2 cents.

[lilkender.livejournal.com]

Still, picking the least evil includes trying to decide whose stand on the issues agrees with yours AND who is likely to keep those campaign promises you like. That can be a difficult decision to make, especially if you don't especially agree with anyone in the first place.

I think it's been reading my friends' debates on issues and politics on LJ, and all the links they posted, that got me motivated this year.