Comments on: I Voted. http://essin-em.com/2008/11/i-voted-2/ Tue, 02 Aug 2011 03:39:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 By: Erin http://essin-em.com/2008/11/i-voted-2/comment-page-1/#comment-2732 Erin Wed, 05 Nov 2008 09:12:07 +0000 http://essin-em.com/?p=1209#comment-2732 I'm in Australia, where voting is compulsory, and I am so proud of the American people today, who have voted to make a concerted change in how their country is run and more importantly, how the actions of their elected government has such an enormous impact on the rest of the world. For the previous eleven years, Australia has been dragged along by a spineless, ineffectual leader, who blindly followed the lead of another spineless, ineffectual leader for eight of those years. What did it mean? Our people fighting on the other side of the planet for a cause no one can see sense in. For our spiralling economic problems and for close-minded, overtly fundamentalist religious rhetoric being used to justify the removal of people's everyday rights to exist! One can only hope that as a new day dawns in America over the next few years, the world will breath a sigh of relief - and with optimism in our collective eyes, we will see the change that's been promised. Thank you for voting for reason. Good on ya, mate! I’m in Australia, where voting is compulsory, and I am so proud of the American people today, who have voted to make a concerted change in how their country is run and more importantly, how the actions of their elected government has such an enormous impact on the rest of the world.

For the previous eleven years, Australia has been dragged along by a spineless, ineffectual leader, who blindly followed the lead of another spineless, ineffectual leader for eight of those years. What did it mean? Our people fighting on the other side of the planet for a cause no one can see sense in. For our spiralling economic problems and for close-minded, overtly fundamentalist religious rhetoric being used to justify the removal of people’s everyday rights to exist!

One can only hope that as a new day dawns in America over the next few years, the world will breath a sigh of relief – and with optimism in our collective eyes, we will see the change that’s been promised.

Thank you for voting for reason.

Good on ya, mate!

]]> By: Safo Garcia http://essin-em.com/2008/11/i-voted-2/comment-page-1/#comment-2727 Safo Garcia Tue, 04 Nov 2008 16:49:38 +0000 http://essin-em.com/?p=1209#comment-2727 Great list. I voted for many of the same reasons. And the long lines made me happy because I'm hoping that the turnout is vastly larger than it ever has been before. P.S. Babeland is giving away free toys to those who voted at their NY and Seattle stores: http://www.babeland.com/about/presskit/pressreleases/maverick-promotion/ Great list. I voted for many of the same reasons. And the long lines made me happy because I’m hoping that the turnout is vastly larger than it ever has been before.

P.S. Babeland is giving away free toys to those who voted at their NY and Seattle stores:
http://www.babeland.com/about/presskit/pressreleases/maverick-promotion/

]]> By: Roland Hulme http://essin-em.com/2008/11/i-voted-2/comment-page-1/#comment-2724 Roland Hulme Tue, 04 Nov 2008 13:59:13 +0000 http://essin-em.com/?p=1209#comment-2724 Good for you. I think EVERYBODY should vote, but especially people from groups who had to fight so long and hard to GET that right. Good for you.

I think EVERYBODY should vote, but especially people from groups who had to fight so long and hard to GET that right.

]]> By: Jerry http://essin-em.com/2008/11/i-voted-2/comment-page-1/#comment-2723 Jerry Tue, 04 Nov 2008 11:47:13 +0000 http://essin-em.com/?p=1209#comment-2723 I think I wrote about this back during primary season. My parents were brought up and lived many years of their life under totalitarian regimes in eastern Europe. They were not allowed to vote. As they raised their children, one of the values they incolcated into us was that voting was not just a right but a responsibility. Sometimes, those of us who have grown up all our lives with the right to vote forget that most of the population of this world doesn't have this available to them. There have been times I went to vote but could not bring myself to vote for any of the candidates, they were so bad. But I went to vote anyway. So, yes, I urge everyone to vote today. I am about to shut down my computer and do so myself. Don't fret about long lines, expect them, and think about what a joyous thing it is that so many more people have been "turned on" this year to vote. Off I go. Jerry I think I wrote about this back during primary season. My parents were brought up and lived many years of their life under totalitarian regimes in eastern Europe. They were not allowed to vote. As they raised their children, one of the values they incolcated into us was that voting was not just a right but a responsibility. Sometimes, those of us who have grown up all our lives with the right to vote forget that most of the population of this world doesn’t have this available to them.

There have been times I went to vote but could not bring myself to vote for any of the candidates, they were so bad. But I went to vote anyway.

So, yes, I urge everyone to vote today. I am about to shut down my computer and do so myself. Don’t fret about long lines, expect them, and think about what a joyous thing it is that so many more people have been “turned on” this year to vote.

Off I go.

Jerry

]]> By: I Voted. http://essin-em.com/2008/11/i-voted-2/comment-page-1/#comment-2721 I Voted. Tue, 04 Nov 2008 07:37:10 +0000 http://essin-em.com/?p=1209#comment-2721 [...] Read the original:  I Voted. [...] [...] Read the original:  I Voted. [...]

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