In honor of election season, I would like to submit to you all that it is not a right to vote. It is a privilege. And for women, a hard won...one. As I watch the news and the election updates, I am once again seeing a frantic race to "get out the vote, or "rock the vote," or whatever trendy little platitude that the campaigners/candidates/zealots/patriots have come up with at the time. In these times it is terribly easy to register. In some states you can register and vote on the same day...and they wonder why voter fraud runs rampant...but I digress... In light of this, I would like to commit to your consideration my top ten reasons that a person should not cast his/her vote in this election.
10- If you can't name the current president, vice president and speaker of the House (must be all three)
9- If you think that it is Obama bin Laden who is running for president
8- If you don't know at least a few main differences between socialism and capitalism
7- If you have ever watched any reality show involving Paris Hilton (One Night in Paris of course, doesn't count...that could possibly be nothing but morbid curiousity)
6- Your actual source of news and current events is any one or combination of the following:
Jon Stewart, The Colbert Report, Saturday Night Live, anything on the E! channel or any
show on MSNBC
5- You can't name all 50 states and know that Puerto Rico is a territory (come on people!)
4- You can't name the candidates on both tickets as well as their running mates as well as be able to know what office each currently holds
3- You can't name which war McCain was held a as POW
2- You can't name 3 U.S. allies
1- You didn't know there even was an election until you saw an ad on MySpace 2 days ago
Ladies and gentlemen, if you can't vote smartly, don't vote at all. The Tuesday night line up may not be great, but there are plenty of other things that you can certainly find to do.
Here's to the Elephants and the Donkeys!!
(if you don't know what that is in reference to, don't vote)
Thank you for you time.
6 comments:
So freakin true and I'm soooooo copying that onto my blog! I love your writing!
To add a little of my own suds to your soapbox...
If you aren't educated enough to vote (and I totally agree with you there), you are also not educated enough to complain about whomever is elected. There will never be a perfect president...ever. If you do nothing to change the world, don't complain when it doesn't change. Okay, I'll get down now....
Thanks for the commentary! It makes me miss our days in the frame shop together!
you are cracking me up
Tava!!!!! Miss ya sister. Laura
Although our politics couldn't be more diametric from each other, I agree with (most) of your post.
I miss you and love you very much....Peter
I read your blog all the time and should comment more! You are a brilliant woman and a hell of an entertainer! I'm so glad you're stateside again, maybe someday we'll be in the same timezone again?! Miss you! SS
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