I chose to not vote this election season. Yes, I feel guilty for not doing my civic duty, however, since I am a civil servant and an army wife, I’m pretty sure I am doing my part.
I didn’t vote mostly because I don’t like any of the candidates, and I am tired of the same bullshit. I am striking against the people who have been in office for too long/the wrong reasons, and ruining our country. The country that my husband has put his life on the line twice to defend, and I am mad as hell that people who don’t have the courage to serve, feel that they have the right to screw it up. I am an Independent, so I don’t vote down party lines. I tend to vote for the candidate who presents the best ideas and who doesn’t completely skeeve me out. My views are definitely more on the liberal side, however, because I am closely affiliated with the Army, I believe in a strong defense system.
I hate when people bash the president for all of our problems. Do you realize that the president is our Mick Jagger? He/she/it is the front man of the group, but the music can’t be made with one singer. The president is no more than the Great and Powerful Oz. The man behind the curtain is the one we need to watch more carefully: the House and the Senate are responsible for making the decisions that govern our country. The president is extremely limited in what power he has. Our forefathers set it up this way, so that we couldn’t have a dictator. So all of the things that happened to this country in the past ten years, did not happen because of George W. Sorry, folks. I don’t deny that 9/11 was the scapegoat for the oil mongers wanting war. But the bottom line is that Saddam Hussein should have been eliminated when he was committing genocide against his own people … as a humanitarian mission. People saving other people are not enough motivation to start a war, so they waited until there was a good reason. Watch the movie Wag the Dog and you will get my point.
Osama Bin Laden should’ve been taken out when Clinton was president but we are to blame for that because we distracted him with the whole impeachment business because he was being Slick Willy. Maybe if he wasn’t trying to preserve his legacy from being destroyed because he got a bj, he would’ve been able to focus on the briefings. I’m sure the hanky-panky wasn’t going on during these meetings. Internationally, Clinton wasn’t seen in a negative light. The American public looked less evolved, hysterical, and immature to the rest of the world.
