Primary Day
This morning, I woke up an hour earlier and walked through the rain to Union Square, to the Somerville Ward 2, Precinct 1 voting place. And I cast a ballot. I know that there is an infintesimally small chance that my individual ballot will have an impact on the election today; in all likelihood, delegates will split evenly between Clinton and Obama anyway. But I voted because it is the small way in which we tell the powers that be, "I'm watching."
If you care, I voted for Obama. Not because I care whether our next president is a black man or a white woman, but because he opposed the war in Iraq before it started. Because I think he's more likely to stop exercising the absurd powers that the Bush administration has seized for itself. Because I think that, of all the candidates, he is the most likely to wake people from their slumber of cynicism and remind us that America is not about, and has at its best never been about, the accumulation of profits, but rather is about creating a breeding ground for people to achieve their own highest ends, they way they best see fit. Because..., well, dammit, because I hear him talk and he makes me believe that this country is yet redeemable.
If you haven't voted yet, I hope that you do. And if you do, I hope you cast your vote for Senator Barack Obama.
If you care, I voted for Obama. Not because I care whether our next president is a black man or a white woman, but because he opposed the war in Iraq before it started. Because I think he's more likely to stop exercising the absurd powers that the Bush administration has seized for itself. Because I think that, of all the candidates, he is the most likely to wake people from their slumber of cynicism and remind us that America is not about, and has at its best never been about, the accumulation of profits, but rather is about creating a breeding ground for people to achieve their own highest ends, they way they best see fit. Because..., well, dammit, because I hear him talk and he makes me believe that this country is yet redeemable.
If you haven't voted yet, I hope that you do. And if you do, I hope you cast your vote for Senator Barack Obama.