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Country needs your help today
Published Tuesday, November 4, 2008
Countless film and TV show plots culminate with the immortal line: Speak now or forever hold your peace.
How many fictional weddings have been interrupted by someone’s answer to that line?
That’s when the hero or heroine jumps up and stops a character from making a huge mistake — by marrying some chump, generally someone the audience already doesn’t like.
Well, today, our country will have its own wedding ceremony of sorts. And, if you’re a voter, you have much on the line. You can be the hero.
For the next four years, taxpayers will be “hitched” to the man we select today.
Barring some surprise by perennial hopeful Ralph Nader, our new president will either be Democrat Barack Obama or Republican John McCain.
If you like or dislike one of them, now is the time to speak up. Doing so is simple: just get out and vote.
The election is not over yet, despite what some national pundits may say, the most important part happens today.
Candidates have spent hundreds of millions of dollars seeking to get your attention. Hopefully, this morning, you’ll realize that just one day every four years, your country asks for your help. Today is the day.
Vote now or forever hold your peace. Polls are open from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. in Mississippi and 6 a.m. to 8 p.m. in Louisiana.
Comments
Posted by southernbelle (anonymous) on November 4, 2008 at 9:09 a.m. (Suggest removal)
Today is very possibly the most important voting day in many of our lives . Our children and any thereafter will be depending on us . We have an obligation to vote and vote in the way that is the best of our ability . Go Vote!
Posted by redusmfan (anonymous) on November 4, 2008 at 10:07 a.m. (Suggest removal)
It may take an hour to help shape our country for the next 4 years....It is worth it.
Posted by Yeahuhuh (anonymous) on November 4, 2008 at 12:49 p.m. (Suggest removal)
You should vote now, but if you don't then vote when you can, and either way, you should DEFINITELY NOT hold you tongue about how public affairs are conducted.
Truth is, the way the electoral college is constructed, people long ago took away your vote if you are NOT a part of the majority in this state. It is as if you did not exist when it comes to your vote counting for president. We can fix that but only with a lot of effort.
Read more about current events. Do not view as honest the sources that are openly prejudiced, or if you do, recognize how they twist the news to sell advertising space to zealots. Examples would be FOX and MSNBC.
Beware the endless blogs that are prejudiced one way or the other.
View statistics sites,and poll sites to learn how they come up with the numbers they do.
Don't be a one step, or a two step thinker, or you will be fooled. Understand how voter registration fraud and voter fraud are two different things. Understand how to tell the difference and why people would want you to confuse one thing with the other.
If you believe as true the easiest thing to understand, you will probably be wrong in what you believe. Simple solutions are most often wrong solutions -- or they accomplish things other than what they are claimed to accomplish.
Posted by redusmfan (anonymous) on November 4, 2008 at 3:25 p.m. (Suggest removal)
If you do not vote, KEEP YOUR MOUTH SHUT!!!!
Yeah duh huh, you english stands corrected.
No thanks needed....
Posted by woodyle (anonymous) on November 4, 2008 at 4:41 p.m. (Suggest removal)
Actually the electoral college gives the majority of states a voice. Otherwise, a few states would decide the election every 4 years and most all of the federal rules. The founding fathers were a pretty wise group of people.
Posted by sdaafrye (anonymous) on November 4, 2008 at 10:58 p.m. (Suggest removal)
I like the electoral system, but I would like to see it implemented like Nebraska. If that district went Democrat, the democrat nominee would get that vote and same as if it went republican. I think that would be a better representation of the votes cast. So if one state such as Florida has 21 electoral votes then it is possible that one candidate could get 10 votes and the other candidate could get 11 or any combination of such. This way even the small states would matter.
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