Easy Voter Registration
As fond as I am of a good snark, eight years of sarcastic griping is balloon juice compared to ten minutes of voting.
If you haven't done it yet, please register to vote. Right now. Don't delay: deadlines are coming up in three weeks, and if you don't register, you're going to be sitting on your hands while our country sinks or soars.
The Obama campaign's link above works well and you're done in three minutes. This isn't some lame Facebook marketing crap, this is precisely how you help your country.
And people's lives hang on the results. I think of friends who have died in despair, older friends and students of mine both injured in misguided wars, and how a few decent and intelligent changes in politics might have saved or bettered their lives.
A few weeks ago, someone very close to me got hit by a car while on her bike. Shaking in pain and fear, she was terrified of going to the hospital- without the insurance she never would have been able to afford, it would have sent her into almost immediate bankruptcy. A duty nurse took pity on her - at risk of his job - and gave her a referral to a semi-legal phone line of medical advice. That's the Republican reality: pain and waste and avoidable suffering in the richest nation on earth.
It must change. Your vote is between cynical indifference and hope.
And if you'd put down that latte and registered instead of reading this, you'd be done by now.
If you haven't done it yet, please register to vote. Right now. Don't delay: deadlines are coming up in three weeks, and if you don't register, you're going to be sitting on your hands while our country sinks or soars.
The Obama campaign's link above works well and you're done in three minutes. This isn't some lame Facebook marketing crap, this is precisely how you help your country.
And people's lives hang on the results. I think of friends who have died in despair, older friends and students of mine both injured in misguided wars, and how a few decent and intelligent changes in politics might have saved or bettered their lives.
A few weeks ago, someone very close to me got hit by a car while on her bike. Shaking in pain and fear, she was terrified of going to the hospital- without the insurance she never would have been able to afford, it would have sent her into almost immediate bankruptcy. A duty nurse took pity on her - at risk of his job - and gave her a referral to a semi-legal phone line of medical advice. That's the Republican reality: pain and waste and avoidable suffering in the richest nation on earth.
It must change. Your vote is between cynical indifference and hope.
And if you'd put down that latte and registered instead of reading this, you'd be done by now.
posted by JAB at 9:30 AM
4 Comments:
Oh all right. Quit nagging. I've been hearing the same argument every 4 years since we were both 18. "Country" this and "This time it's important" that, well.....ENOUGH!
I'll register tomorrow
Bob Barr can't win without you!
Ed Koch endorses Obama, responds to people who sent him e-mails.
Letter writer: “I believe you made the wrong decision. ... I just pray that whoever wins is the choosing of our Lord.”
Koch: “I really don’t believe God chooses our candidates and winners. If that were the case, how did Hitler win? He was elected in a democratic election before the dictatorship. So let’s leave God out of this.”
Here's a sentence I don't commonly write:
Way to go, Ed Koch.
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