Get Out The Vote

Be sure to start with your own.

No sarcastic ‘unless-you’re-for-Obama’ comments from me.  Aside from believing that voting is the most important thing the vast majority of citizens will ever do for this country, I want Obama supporters to own an Obama presidency.

No looking back in two or four years and saying, “Well, I wanted him to win, but you can’t blame me because I didn’t vote.”

Regardless of what the schizophrenic polling tells us, I still think McCain will win this.  But if Obama does, I firmly believe that by comparison he will make Jimmy Carter’s domestic-and-foreign-disaster of a presidency look good by comparison.  So if you actually believe Obama is the better choice, be responsible enough to actually vote for him so that you cannot later shirk your share of the blame.

I don’t believe that an Obama presidency would mean the destruction of our country, but I do believe that unless he is completely unable to accomplish anything he wants to do — a real possibility, and best-case scenario in my mind — he and his cohorts in Congress will do lasting damage to almost every aspect of American strength.

I hope I’m wrong.  If I am, I will welcome the I-told-you-so’s from Obama supporters in four or eight years.  But I think most of that breed will simply disappear, and in 2012 not enough people will admit to having supported Obama to have elected him dogcatcher, let alone president.