Some personal thoughts about the election.
First off, I'm just gonna come right out and admit that I didn't vote.
As far as I cared, neither candidate was sufficiently qualified for the job. If I were given the choice of 2 buttons...one of which would dump a container of acid on me and the other of which would deploy a guillotine to slice off my legs...I doubt anyone would blame me for refusing to press either. Were I forced to go to the polls today, I'd simply have signed the write-in box for "None of the above."
If anything, I'm only glad that Obama won because the Constitution forbids him a 3rd term; I'd rather take 4 more years of the idiot I know than risk 8 of the idiot I don't.
"I have solved this political dilemma in a very direct way: I don't vote. On Election Day, I stay home. I firmly believe that if you vote, you have no right to complain. Now, some people like to twist that around. They say, 'If you don't vote, you have no right to complain,' but where's the logic in that? If you vote, and you elect dishonest, incompetent politicians, and they get into office and screw everything up, you are responsible for what they have done. You voted them in. You caused the problem. You have no right to complain. I, on the other hand, who did not vote -- who did not even leave the house on Election Day -- am in no way responsible for that these politicians have done and have every right to complain about the mess that you created." ~George Carlin, describing one of his many philosophies which I whole-heartedly agree with.
You want me to vote? Give me a candidate worthy of my vote. Elsewise, fuck off.
Anyway, had a thought for the 2016 elections: Have the candidates fill out a resumé showing why they're qualified for the job.
If anything, I'm only glad that Obama won because the Constitution forbids him a 3rd term; I'd rather take 4 more years of the idiot I know than risk 8 of the idiot I don't.
"I have solved this political dilemma in a very direct way: I don't vote. On Election Day, I stay home. I firmly believe that if you vote, you have no right to complain. Now, some people like to twist that around. They say, 'If you don't vote, you have no right to complain,' but where's the logic in that? If you vote, and you elect dishonest, incompetent politicians, and they get into office and screw everything up, you are responsible for what they have done. You voted them in. You caused the problem. You have no right to complain. I, on the other hand, who did not vote -- who did not even leave the house on Election Day -- am in no way responsible for that these politicians have done and have every right to complain about the mess that you created." ~George Carlin, describing one of his many philosophies which I whole-heartedly agree with.
You want me to vote? Give me a candidate worthy of my vote. Elsewise, fuck off.
Anyway, had a thought for the 2016 elections: Have the candidates fill out a resumé showing why they're qualified for the job.