See You at the Polls
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November
I sort of like voting. I’ve only done it once. This will be my second general election. The last time I voted, I was a fresh Birminghamian. I voted at the Vestavia Hills Community Center and it was really exciting. People dressed up, there was food and lots of community, oddly enough. Tomorrow I will vote at a new place. And either way, tomorrow will be a historic day. Which I think is pretty cool.
There have been a number of articles floating around the internet regarding Christianity and politics. Derek Webb wrote this one. Don Miller wrote this one. Both very interesting and thought-provoking. I thought about taking Derek’s advice and not voting (since I was truly having a crisis in trying to make a decision), but to echo Drew, there was a time when I could not vote (not me personally, but women. Well, technically, me…when I was younger than 18…anyway). And I want to be a part of the process, because I am thankful for the men who fought one way and the women who fought another way to give me that right. So, that’s that.
Either way, we will turn off our television’s tomorrow night and when we wake up we will have a new President-Elect (knock on hanging chads). And all the election insanity will be behind us. Quite frankly, I’m just ready for a decision to be made.
On that note, I wanted to share some of my favorite parts of the election. Here you go:
Don Miller’s “correspondence” with Barack Obama
Obama/McCain Dance-Off (minor language…be warned)!
It’s still the most amazing thing I think I’ve ever seen.
Also…pretty amazing.
And this is just crazy weird. I think that the Sass is responsible.
The one thing I will not miss are Facebook status’s saying that it’s not American to vote for Obama or that only stupid people would vote for McCain. I am really sick of that.
What was one of your highlights of the election? Are you just glad it’s over?
I’m honestly just glad it’s over. Somehow it was decided that this election would be the one that was Hollywood-ized…in the sense that there seemed to be “previews” long before the actual race…I felt like I should have seen things saying “Election – Christmas 08″ and things like that…ugh…
I’m with you on the voting thing, though. This is my third presidential election and the first one where I was pretty torn, then indifferent, to the whole thing. I just want there to be a President. I honestly don’t think someone who’d screw it all up would make it this far, so…let’s just get on with it.
I’m a horrible American.
Ok so those brought me some joy after crappy class. Ugh education. after you vote I’d like you to yell like bama just beat auburn or some other team….this is kind of a lame comment I realized it after I wrote it but thought I should leave it up. So now you can run and check out your comments only to find this here. Sorry
glad that it will soon be over! all of the negativity with this election and recession is exhausting. i recognize that it is all in fact real, but exhausting nonetheless. i’d like to focus on good things for about 24 hours. that’s all i need.
see you are the polls tomorrow. kind of.
