Wish List

My birthday is coming up real soon now. November first. A monday this year. I'll be twenty-seven. As usual, people have been asking me what I want for my birthday. This year, the answer's actually fairly easy. There is one birthday present I want more than anything else. It's at the top of my list. This year for my birthday I would like a brand-sparkling-new President of the United States of America. Pretty please? With sugar on top?
I'm willing to get this present a day late, that's okay. I understand the rush of last minute shopping.

Seriously, folks. I know not a whole heck of a lot of people actually read this website. And of those people, I doubt there's many republicans (call it a hunch). But for the love of all that is good and anything that has ever been right about America, the current administration has got to go. That means get off your ass and vote for John Kerry. Don't assume it won't make a difference (more states are swing states this year than ever). Don't vote for Ralph Nader because you want to make some kind of futile statement. And especially don't panic over these bullshit terror alerts and blow your vote on the idiot incumbent, because he hasn't really done jack shit to make you safer.

In the past, I have been known to make fun of voting and the overall idea and behavior of political parties. I've even fully supported apathy towards current events. It's true that I subscribed to the Puppet on the Left vs Puppet on the Right theory of politics in America. But Junior has proven that there really is a difference between candidates, and that a politician really can fuck up the entire country and a fair portion of the world through sheer idiocy and arrogance. That's how bad it is. Me, the poster-child for apathy, cynicism, and laziness is telling you that we have to get Democrats into the white house and congress. Voting for John Kerry may be the most important thing some of us do all year.

If my desperate ramblings have reached even one voter before November 2nd, well then that one voter had better be in a swing state or else who cares?
(It's still me, after all.)