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shackie · 04-11-2008, 11:37 PM

We the citizens of the United States need to take back our government. The whole idea of a democratically elected President and congress was to give the people a voice, yet ever four years or two years for congressional elections our collective voices are silent. In 1996, according to the Federal Election Commitee, a little over 49% of citizen eligible to vote actually voted. There can not be change in this country if we continue electing people with the same ideology as the last previous idiot we put into office, or worse yet if we fail to take time away from daily resposibilities to perform our most important resposibiltiy as a citizen and go vote. You may not have voted for George Bush, but did you go to your neighbors or friends and talk about voting for your candidate. Did you pass out bumper stickers or information about the candidate you wanted to win. Don't feel bad, I didn't either. During this election season, forget about the mainstream media. Read the blogs, go directly to all of the candidates websites, do your own research on the candidates. The national news outlets are only going to mention the candidates that will get them the most viewers. Hillary and Barack initally, in my opinion, got more exposure than the other candidates, not because of their ideas or visions of the future, but because Hillary is a woman and extremely popular and Barack is black and extremely popular. It made for good television. They both say exactly the same thing that every other Democratic candidate has been saying since the beginning of the year last year....We need to leave Iraq and fix the mess the Idiot currently in charge has created. I really don't care if your republican, democrat, or a member of tSocialist Party USA(yes it's really a political party), if your not getting out and organizing support for your candidate, your not doing enough to make sure "We The People" and not the news media or corporate America still control the government of this once great nation.

“When citizens fear government, we call it tyranny When government fears citizens, we call it freedom”
~Unknown~
Thanks for letting me vent. Sorry if I rambled too long. Its my first post too a blog and I kinda got carried away.

04-11-2008, 11:37 PM	#33 (permalink)
shackie Upright	We the citizens of the United States need to take back our government. The whole idea of a democratically elected President and congress was to give the people a voice, yet ever four years or two years for congressional elections our collective voices are silent. In 1996, according to the Federal Election Commitee, a little over 49% of citizen eligible to vote actually voted. There can not be change in this country if we continue electing people with the same ideology as the last previous idiot we put into office, or worse yet if we fail to take time away from daily resposibilities to perform our most important resposibiltiy as a citizen and go vote. You may not have voted for George Bush, but did you go to your neighbors or friends and talk about voting for your candidate. Did you pass out bumper stickers or information about the candidate you wanted to win. Don't feel bad, I didn't either. During this election season, forget about the mainstream media. Read the blogs, go directly to all of the candidates websites, do your own research on the candidates. The national news outlets are only going to mention the candidates that will get them the most viewers. Hillary and Barack initally, in my opinion, got more exposure than the other candidates, not because of their ideas or visions of the future, but because Hillary is a woman and extremely popular and Barack is black and extremely popular. It made for good television. They both say exactly the same thing that every other Democratic candidate has been saying since the beginning of the year last year....We need to leave Iraq and fix the mess the Idiot currently in charge has created. I really don't care if your republican, democrat, or a member of tSocialist Party USA(yes it's really a political party), if your not getting out and organizing support for your candidate, your not doing enough to make sure "We The People" and not the news media or corporate America still control the government of this once great nation. “When citizens fear government, we call it tyranny When government fears citizens, we call it freedom” ~Unknown~ Thanks for letting me vent. Sorry if I rambled too long. Its my first post too a blog and I kinda got carried away.