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My Fellow Americans

Posted by Mark | Filed under Politics

Those of you who reg­u­larly read this blog will not be sur­prised to learn that I feel dis­ap­pointed with Bush win­ning the pres­i­den­tial elec­tion. I could spend pages on that topic but won’t as there are oth­ers out there who’ve done it bet­ter than I could. Instead, I have a few other words to say.

To Sen­a­tor Kerry

Thank you for your effort; while you were not my first choice for pres­i­dent, I believe you would have ful­filled the duties of the office honorably.

To those Amer­i­cans who voted

Whether you voted for Kerry, Busy, Nader or one of the other third party can­di­dates; you decided that your voice would not go unheard this year. For that I applaude you; the sin­gle most impor­tant rea­spon­si­bil­ity we have as Amer­i­can cit­i­zens is to tell our gov­ern­ment what we think. Yes­ter­day, all of you did just that.

To those Amer­i­cans who did not vote

You owe every dead Amer­i­can sol­dier an apol­ogy. One of the things our coun­try has fought for has been to main­tain our democ­racy; so that we have the abil­ity to choose our lead­ers. By fail­ing to fol­low the issues and vote, you insult the mem­ory of every Amer­i­can sol­dier who ever died for us. For those of you who protest that you were too busy with work/family/whatever; just remem­ber those sol­diers had their own fam­i­lies and their own jobs that they gave up to defend your rights. They never got to go back to their fam­i­lies and jobs, but you can every night.

Try think­ing about that next time.

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