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

[Kay Fulkerson]

Wow, this is fantastic,
I was so eager to read all is this.
"This land is you land, this land is my land"
 
 
Kay Fulkerson
Phoenix, AZ 85020
602-943-2822
KayFulkerson at getnet.com
www.healthsolutionsaz.com

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



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

 

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Date: Tue, 04 Nov 2008 16:02:02 -0600
Subject: "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, I
took a vacation day from work, and took the kids downtown to vote early.
Fifty-nine minutes later, two smiling children and I proudly sported "I
Voted" stickers.
       But I didn't vote for Obama.
       I voted for my ancestors, who believed in the promise of this
country and came with nothing as immigrants.  I voted for my parents,
who taught in the public schools for decades.  I voted for Steve, an
acquaintance of mine from Kentucky .  (Killed by an IED two years ago in
Iraq ).  I voted for Shawn, another who's been to Iraq twice, and
Afghanistan once, and who'll be going back to  Afghanistan again soon --
and whose family earned eleven bucks a month too much to qualify for
food stamps when the war started.  I voted for April, the only
African-American girl in my high school -- it was years before it
occurred to me how different her experience of our school must have
been.  I voted for my college friends who are Christian, Jewish, Mormon,
and yes -- Muslim.  I voted for my grandfathers, who worked hard in
factories and died too young.  I voted for the plumber who worked on my
house, because I want him to get a REAL tax break.  I voted for four
little angels from Birmingham   I voted for a bunch of dead white men
who, although personally flawed, were willing to pledge their lives,
fortunes, and sacred honor, and used a time of great crisis to expand
freedom 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, one
who has ballet in an hour, and one who has baseball practice at the same
time.  I voted for a world where they can be confident that their
government will represent the best that is in this country, and that
will in turn demand the best of them.  I voted for a government that
will be respected in the world.  I voted for an economy that will reward
work above guile.  I voted for everything I believe in.  Sure, I filled
in 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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