Get Out and Vote

This is the second presidential primary I have been old enough to vote in. I didn't vote the last Super Tuesday. There are no excuses for me or for anyone else who didn't cast their ballot and there shouldn't be this year especially.

I'm not a very political person; I don't know enough about the climate to claim to be a political person, but I do know enough about the state of our nation just by living it every day and neither you nor anyone else can deny that it isn't the best state our country has ever seen.

I'm getting tired of hearing the word "change" but the fact is that this time next year we will not have the same president and we will not have the same administration and we will not be in the same place we are today.

You can't transform the past, but you can help dictate the future.

Forget excuses. Forget laziness.

Get out and vote today.


And if you're still making up your mind about a candidate, maybe this will help.

Obama is it

I'm going with Sen. Obama. It has nothing to do with the results of last night's caucus, because frankly I can't put much faith in the outcome of a process that makes absolutely no sense to me not matter how hard I try to understand it. It has relatively little to do with my knowledge of his campaign or his background, because I have tried to steer clear of learning about both of those points. And it has nothing to do with my best friend's recent endorsement, even though it was written immaculately. It has everything to do with his voice.

Perhaps this reason isn't the best to choose a presidential candidate; it has no logical basis, isn't derived from a detailed pro and con list or extensive research (the ways in which I usually make my important decisions). But I don't really care, because the only person I have to justify my decision to is myself.

I have been listening to a lot of NPR lately and tend to have the TV news on in the background when I'm at home and I want to know that the president that I choose will have a pleasant, competent and inspiring voice. Because I can't take another four or even eight years of a voice that makes me giggle and twitch at the same time.

Obama's voice has passion and compassion, vigor and life, assertiveness and assurance. There's no insincere push in the way he talks, unlike some of the other candidates. I want to feel safe in the voice of my president and that's what Obama does for me.

So there you have it. My choice is Obama's voice.