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Need a reason to vote?

Posted by Mark | Filed under Links, Politics

Today is Novem­ber 2nd and that makes it the day that Amer­ica goes to the polls to pick our leader for the next 4 years. As an Amer­i­can cit­i­zen, I’ve already cast my vote and I’m hope all my fel­low Amer­i­cans will do so too. If you’re still think­ing about not vot­ing, take a look at this arti­cle. Below are some quotes from the arti­cle:

3. Because you’ll make your sixth-grade social stud­ies teacher happy.
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7. Because there are no tele­vi­sion sets in the vot­ing booth, which means the odds are great you will not hear the phrase, “… and I approved this mes­sage.“
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14. Because even if it’s only an illu­sion to think you are mak­ing your voice heard, that’s still bet­ter than know­ing with absolute cer­tainty that you remained silent.
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20. Because of United Air­lines Flight 93. An amaz­ing thing hap­pened on the morn­ing of Sept. 11, 2001, on that hijacked air­plane. The 33 pas­sen­gers knew, from cell phone calls to loved ones, that two other hijacked planes had struck the World Trade Cen­ter. Unless they acted, they real­ized that they, too, were doomed. And do you know what those strangers did?
From the 9/11 report: “Accord­ing to one call, they voted on whether to rush the ter­ror­ists in an attempt to retake the plane. They decided, and acted.“
What a remark­able act. With their lives at stake, with their coun­try fac­ing peril, these 33 men and women of diverse back­grounds did a most Amer­i­can thing: They took a vote. They decided to rush the cock­pit. And a plane that might have destroyed the White House or U.S. Capi­tol crashed instead in a Penn­syl­va­nia field.
Why vote? Choose your rea­son.
Hon­or­ing their sac­ri­fice will do just fine.

Oh and just for the record I voted for Kerry, via absen­tee bal­lot weeks ago.

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