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Taking kids to the polls
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Last night, Rachel and I took the kids to go vote. When we walked in to the polling place, a neighbors's garage, the first thing the poll worker did was to hand Jared and Sara each a demonstration ballot. She showed the kids how to mark their choice -- amongst Candidates A through F -- and gave them each a pen.Then she took care of Rachel and me, giving us our ballots. I am not very optimistic about the future of our country these days, but I try to remain positive for the kids' sake. We had discussed voting a few times prior to the election and on the way there and Jared, at least, understood that it was important that we tell the government what we want them to do for us.
As for the president, I had explained that we were going to pick someone to be the next one so that we could fire Dubya for not doing a very good job. Sadly, I am worried that too much damage has been done to our reputation, our economy, and our constitution for anyone to fix. Not all is lost, however -- one candidate has appeared that could make a difference, I think. Jared chose a write-in candidate that might just be the answer to all our problems. Jared voted for himself.
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2-06-2008 @ 12:34PM
LS said..."Damage to the Constitution", Roger? Did Congress pass or change an Amendment that I'm not aware of?
I'll agree with you that our current (and a few past) administration has taken liberties, and even out-and-out ignored the Constitution, but nothing has been changed.
So fear not - all hope is not lost. Yet.
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2-06-2008 @ 12:59PM
Nicola said...Sure wish that they had the "demonstration ballots" in our polling place. I spent the better part of my ten minutes in the booth wrestling with my almost-four-year-old for the stylus! Still, its better than the time when, as an infant, he pulled the entire booth down on us. I'm trying to keep him involved in the process, to teach him that voting is not a scary process, but so far he's had a booth on his head and an angry mother shouting about no bedtime stories if he didn't just LET GO OF THE PEN! So...
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2-06-2008 @ 1:07PM
Emily said...Almost all politicians ignore the Constitution these days! When was the last time Congress considered whether the government had the right to regulate something under the Constitution before it passed a bill?! It's about time there was some respect of individual freedoms rather than more government regulation. Unfortunately, we have too many candidates that intend to continue disregarding our rights - universal health care certainly would not be constitutional (as the police powers of health, safety and welfare are reserved for the states), but most of the candidates don't care.
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2-06-2008 @ 1:41PM
Carolyn said..."Fired" for not doing a good job? Please. The guy's term is expiring. Being fired for not doing a good job would mean (at least) getting brought up on charges that would successfully lead to impeachment, or the president resigning. This is an election, just like every four years. The president couldn't even be re-elected if he wanted to because we have presidential term limits.
Demo ballots for kids are a neat idea. I remember partaking 20 years ago as a child. In my state, it's all electronic voting and so far I have not seen any children being able to use an electronic demo ballot.
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2-06-2008 @ 4:24PM
Katheryn said...One name......Ron Paul
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2-06-2008 @ 5:07PM
EskimoPie said...Yay, another liberal being raised in this world... I'm sure he'll be happy to bury his head in the sand like his parents and pretend the world is a colorful happy place where everybody should just hold hands and sing...
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2-06-2008 @ 5:24PM
Mel said...Hi EskimoPie! I'm not fond of liberals, either - but oddly for the opposite reason. Instead of them being incessantly happy, as you describe them, I can't stand how they drone on about "how hard life is" and how "the system" is keeping us down. In my view, they are the dreariest group of deluded pity-party-throwing pessimist losers ever. Oh well, at least we can unite in our thinking that liberals suck!
**Preemptively** I have just as much vitriol to spew about conservatives, too. Equal Opportunity Offender, yes I am.
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