To be honest with you I have very little interest in it but, I was told last week, that I have to vote.
It was a tiny old lady, playing dominoes, at a nursing home told me that. She said two things last week which have stuck with me all this time..."you kayn complain if yea don vote...it's yaow duty"...and "I'm ninee yeauhs ow maaaaahn."
I like to complain so...
We have a problem though.
First of all there's this...
Movin' on.
Then this...
The honky former governor of massaflippinchusetts. No thanks.
Of course there's Ron Paul but...people keep telling me that voting for Paul is throwing my vote away. Seems sensible to me that, before you throw something out, you oughta ask if anybody else wants it.
So I'm askin'....are any of y'all interested in receiving a vote for President of the United States?
If so...here's yo chance. Obviously, if you have any interest in U.S. politics..and only God knows why you would, there is no limit to how long you can go on and on and on and on in stating your case. My email address is listed above. If you have any materials such as flyers, or posters...send 'em. I'll make sure they get posted. Here's your chance. Make your case.
For those of you in Britain, Australia, etc who are thinking that gets you off the hook...stop being cheeky.
Here's who you're up against....so far
My Daddy - May seem like insurmountable competition...those would be some sweet golf outings...but, I have no interest in going to DC or bringing DC into my house so...you got a chance here.
Jeff Davis
A shoe in...except he's passed on.
This fella..
The hands down favorite...if I knew his name.
That's about it so far
I'm pretty sure there's a law against me, as an individual citizen, selling my vote...so, there wont be any cash prize. Sorry about your luck...we're talking about a civic duty maaahn.
Mate you wont see me in any political position, I actually talk the truth when I speak. Unlike most of those we elect they like to tell a version of the truth. Notice I didnt say lie. Just a version of the truth.
ReplyDeleteOur state elections and local government elections were hopeless no one to vote for everyone trying to be in the middle to get the best vote. Hell left and right you know where you stand but middle, no wonder its so bland.
Anyway we have no choice to vote, so like sheep we do. Dont think it makes our system any better, sometimes think its the opposite.
We have our first speech. A good and earnest one too.
DeleteShe's right you know. If you don't vote, you can't complain. Not easy when you don't like the candidates or think they have a chance, but who said life should be easy? As a woman who is very aware that women died to get me the vote here in the UK, I consider it my duty to vote, though I often don't like the result.
ReplyDeletePS I do wish you'd take the dratted word verification off. It takes me so many goes to find ones I can read. Sigh...
That's what this is all about...fulfilling my civic duty.
DeleteThank you ma'am for the reminder to do something I've been meaning to. You did with such force and grace...you aren't a Cathcart are you :).
As a pad user I know all too well the pain of the process. Consider it done.
Perpetua in 12. Already handlin' business.
LOL and thanks, EF. :-)
DeleteI promise to allow, nay, to encourage, nay, to give excellent grounds for complaint. I also promise to pass laws to ensure that Congress is turned into a giant waterpark where the populace can swim with adorable sea otters; any monies presently spent on Congressional lobbying will be used for the upkeep of the adorable sea otters and to keep them in diapers so the populace doesn't have to swim through their shit.
ReplyDeleteMistress La Spliffe 2012 . . . It wouldn't be any worse.
And there are otters.
I first I was like ehhhhh...then there were otters and I was lime....oh yeah!
ReplyDeleteYour only problem...and it's a problem shared by all candidates save one...is that I just left Beauvior...the final home of Jeff Davis.
It'll pass...to an extent. Don't lose heart though...it's a marathon not a sprint.
I'm voting for Seal Team 6. They are the only ones that seem to get things done.
ReplyDeleteThis is your chance to go down in the official record as having received a vote for President of the United States...and you use it to praise the men that simply held the camera while Obama killed Osama with his bare hands?
ReplyDeleteI stand by my vote. I like results and Seal Team 6 gets them. Plus I think they could get John Boehner to man up and stop crying all the time.
ReplyDeleteI reckon folks in the past gave their lives for the right to vote, not any obligation or duty, certainly not so as you'd have to. I think there is a difference, and when they looked at the shambles most moderate countries put up for election, they'd probably agree. I for one would love I 'vote of no confidence' or somesuch box, I'm sure its a nonesense and would be utterly fruitless, at least it would show them that most subjects and citizens are plenty willing, and that low voter turn out is due to them being areseholes. I just am always left with a void whenever I read or listen to any of the shit they spew.
ReplyDeleteHmm, hey maybe not fruitless, maybe if our 'vote of no confidence' gains the majority seats/vote in the state or county, then that entity gets to breakaway from the whole. Shall I make that my election speil?
If not I vote for the USA guy too, at least he has an ethos.
DeleteIt's my sincere wish that the office was of so little consequence that our man there would be plenty qualified to do it.
ReplyDeleteIf our Adam intends to run on a platform of secession ...the rest of y'all are gonna have to pick up the pace.
ReplyDeleteIn all honesty I'd probably be tempted not to vote in the American federal election. A two-party system is bogus. Sure it's less complicated than a functioning parliament. But uncomplicated and good aren't the same thing. (Which isn't quite as fetching a slogan as "And there are otters" but probably truer. I don't actually know where I'd get that many otters.)
ReplyDeleteThat is something that may not last...the Republicans are flirting with a kind of disaster. They have completely ignored the The South This go round I guess they assume that we'll vote for any dog's dinner to get rid of the O.
DeleteRomney didn't win a damn thing down here...never got a sniff. A total non factor. One or two Republicans have made morons of themselves by pointing out he won Florida...he won South Florida. He was a ghost in North Florida...a non entity.
Now they're talking about the gov. of new jersey...another half liberal, Yankee, republican...as v.p. Maybe somebody from indiana.
A generation ago, a republican couldn't get elected to dog catcher down here and there are still some old folks that wouldn't vote for one if their life depended on it. They are the party of invasion and occupation...they can take us for granted at their own risk. Good riddance to a very awkward relationship.
I think at least a third party is more likely than ever...probably the Libertarian Party.
My platform would be to get more reaper drones. Hundreds of thousands of them. Blow Iran and North Korea up, and get our boys home. Put china back in its box.
ReplyDeleteBuilding all these bad boys would employ thousands of workers, and train pilots to fly them. No Cheap Chinese crap here. Do What the USA is good at. Building weapons of war.
Think Its a great idea
Ohh forgot, I want one as a toy lol
DeleteHorse just wants a battleship of his own.
ReplyDeleteHorse is showing himself to be a strong competitor...first he appeals to the voters sense of frustration...plays on the sense of impetentcy the system fosters....and then BAM...WE GET BOMBS. Patriotic bombs.
Horse you may have missed your calling. :)
Battleships would be the next part of the plan add 60 of these bad boys with some carriers and park them near the middle east. Anytime some one sneezes launch a 17 Inch high explosive round at their asses. Show those pirates something new. Think of all the steel works and boat building jobs. :)
DeleteYeah and have to have one of my own so I get to call fire :)
Gotta love them bombs they make lots of noise and pretty clouds that one looks at as if they can tell the future.. And to our enemies, tremble in your little hust cause we will bomb you prehistory... ahh nothing smells like napalm in the morning...
DeleteOhh yeah love Brando too
Horse in 12 - He'll Send the Rockets Red Glare Right Up Your A....
ReplyDeleteLoving this thread, you do indeed have some fine competitors. Coming from England I would obviously stand make it compulsory to take afternoon tea play cricket and always complain about the weather.
ReplyDeleteAs for the politics, I barely know who to vote for in my own country. They all seem a shady bunch to me, still though I go along and cast my vote. My grandmother would haunt me if I didn't
You may have stumbled onto something here Sharron.
ReplyDeleteThere are few things I hate more in this world than baseball. Let me repeat that...I HATE BASEBALL.
So, if you're promising to replace baseball with cricket...you have moved yourself into a close second position behind the secessionist.
Waiiit a minuite, I know how this shit works, I have seen it on the telly!
ReplyDeleteI would hereby like to formally invite;
Mistress La Spliffe as vice president and head of otters
Sharron to be my minister for Sports and Culture
and The Horse as Minster for War
whilst maintaining our platform of choice and secession.
If that ain't sewn the thing up, then, USA guy, USA guy, USA guy!
Thows his weight behind Adam, as long as I get the toys, and of course a scale model that the boy can play with. We can then do away with those Zulu's :)
DeleteDo not be deterred or distracted by this offer of imaginary cabinet positions.
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