The election

November 10th, 2008

I wrote this weeks before election day, I thought I had posted it but apparently I had not. Let me preface this with Barack Obama will be a good president, I wish him the best of luck in the economic struggle he has ahead of him. I am hopeful that the experience that Joe Biden brings to the table will balance out the lack of experience that Obama has. Now the post:

I hate that everyone thinks that they are experts on the election. I hate that there are a lot of people who try to jam their ideas and beliefs down my throat. I feel like I’m back in Catholic School.

I respect your decision of who you are voting for; I don’t try to change your mind. If there was one thing that I learned from my family it is that people are stubborn and they will think what they think unless you give them credible evidence to sway their decision. And even then most people are set in their ways.

So please you can tell me what you want, but don’t try to persuade me.

I’d like to share a story. Last Fall(Fall 2007) before the primaries I was going to register to vote. I was walking through campus and there was an Obama table with voter registration applications. I walked up and filled one out. The people there said they would mail it out blah blah blah. This was a school sponsored table for Barack Obama. I told my family I registered, my dad said he would tell me when my registration card would come in. I never got a call. The day before primaries I contacted my dad, assuming that he forgot to tell me when it came in, but he told me it really never came in the mail. By law you have to recieve your voter registration card 14 days after it has been sent, at least in the state of Pennsylvania. The only conculsion that I can come to is that those people or other people down the line, who endorsed Barack Obama or the democratic/another party, threw my registration away because I am a republican. I can see other arguments for this in their favor(like it got lost in the mail yadayadayada) and I would listen to them except that I know other people that this has happened to. So this makes me think that it wasn’t just an accident. And it really makes my stomach turn to know that there are people out there that would actually do something like that. Just because I am a republican doesn’t mean I won’t vote for Obama or any other party. It really grinds my gears that politics are so dirty, but I guess that’s life and that’s how it’s played.

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