10 Reason Why NOT To Vote For Either Candidate
first off, I dont have ten reasons.
b/c my journalism teacher assumes Im funny and a good writer she's given me an assignment: write ten reasons for each candidate on why you shouldnt vote for them. they need to be satirical Onion, Daily Show, Colbert Report type reasons.
seriously, I need help. I know fuck all about politics.
I can only think of one, and it's for Obama, and it's not very original and its too racy for a school newspaper:
1. Once elected, he will enslave the white race.
my opinion is that mccain with all of his faults and there are many (supporting bush in every little scheme) and backroom dealings, he has more experience. obama has some experience as a community organizer and runs on the coattails of hope and change. both candidates flip flop whenever it seems like they are actually going to be defined by an issue. when I'm choosing the president I feel that I should see where they stand on matters that I believe are important and if they keep backpedaling when it is politcally expedient I will be voting for neither.
"We sleep safely at night because rough men stand ready to visit violence on our behalf."-Winston Churchill
What did you do to get yourself in that predicament?
signed up to be on the newspaper staff after a year of sleeping and not doing anything in Journalism I.
There's probably room for a "You Kids Get Offa my Lawn" joke for McCain in there somewhere.
Voting isn't cool.
There is hope, but not for us.
you'd be arrested for vote fraud (or whatever law it is you'd be breaking) because you're not 18...
I can already tell Im not going to get any help on this.
Dude, I totally helped.
There is hope, but not for us.
This is the first year I'm ever voting for a candidate from a major politcal party. That's 10 years of 3rd party voting going out the window because I strongly support the idea of Obama being president. Even if he's a horrible president, first off, he can't possible be any worse than the preznit we have now, and two, there's no way he'll be any worse than John McCain, who has voted 95% of the time with Bush's failed economic policy, and doesn't know the difference between Shi'it and Sunni, and who thinks this Georgia/Russia conflict is the first big military conflict since the cold war even though we've spent the last 5 years in Iraq and 6 years in Afghanistan, both of which he voted for. I'm not at all an Obamaniac, but I certainly think Obama gives the US credibility and rationalization that would be missing if we voted McCain.