[Dialogue] FW: "I Didn't Vote For Obama" by Kentucky Scott

[Adelbert Batica]

A Floridian reflects on his "non-vote" for Barack Obama.  A profound message, indeed!
 
Addi
 



Date: Tue, 04 Nov 2008 16:02:02 -0600Subject: "I Didn't Vote For Obama" by Kentucky Scott


"I Didn't Vote For Obama"  by Kentucky Scott        Monday, October 20, 2008       I'm a middle-class white guy living in Jacksonville , Florida .I've got a wife and two kids.  Because the kids had no school today, Itook a vacation day from work, and took the kids downtown to vote early.Fifty-nine minutes later, two smiling children and I proudly sported "IVoted" stickers.       But I didn't vote for Obama.       I voted for my ancestors, who believed in the promise of thiscountry and came with nothing as immigrants.  I voted for my parents,who taught in the public schools for decades.  I voted for Steve, anacquaintance of mine from Kentucky .  (Killed by an IED two years ago inIraq ).  I voted for Shawn, another who's been to Iraq twice, andAfghanistan once, and who'll be going back to  Afghanistan again soon --and whose family earned eleven bucks a month too much to qualify forfood stamps when the war started.  I voted for April, the onlyAfrican-American girl in my high school -- it was years before itoccurred to me how different her experience of our school must havebeen.  I voted for my college friends who are Christian, Jewish, Mormon,and yes -- Muslim.  I voted for my grandfathers, who worked hard infactories and died too young.  I voted for the plumber who worked on myhouse, because I want him to get a REAL tax break.  I voted for fourlittle angels from Birmingham   I voted for a bunch of dead white menwho, although personally flawed, were willing to pledge their lives,fortunes, and sacred honor, and used a time of great crisis to expandfreedom rather than suspend it.  I voted for all those people and more,and I voted for all of you, too.
 
       But mostly, I voted selfishly: I voted for two little kids, onewho has ballet in an hour, and one who has baseball practice at the sametime.  I voted for a world where they can be confident that theirgovernment will represent the best that is in this country, and thatwill in turn demand the best of them.  I voted for a government thatwill be respected in the world.  I voted for an economy that will rewardwork above guile.  I voted for everything I believe in.  Sure, I filledin the circle next to the name Obama, but it wasn't him I was voting for-- it was every single one of us, and those I love most of all."
 
 
 
 
 
 
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