Breaking with the tradition of geeky news, your host explains why he’s voting for the Kerry/Edwards ticket this year, and encourages everyone to go out and vote, no matter what your political affiliation. After tomorrow, it will be back to geekiness, I promise.
Mark,
I am just listening to your podcast where you talk about the election. You said a couple of times that you just feel as though you have to vote but you just don’t like either of the two candidates that are out there. Then you go into some sort of justification of some kind about why you are going to vote for John Kerry. You say that Kerry is your guy because you have hope that he will end this situation in Iraq, you are misled.
You have other choices out there. I am guessing you are from California (being you are an A’s fan) and if you are you do have other choices. I would recommend that you vote for Michael Badnarik the Libertarian Party Presidential Candidate. If you vote for Badnarik at least you will be able to wake up and respect yourself in the morning.
Thank you for taking time.
Dave
[ Editor’s note ]
Sorry, but in the words of electionmethods.org (a great site incidentally):
I choose not to withdraw from participating in this election. It’s simply too important. I oppose virtually every direction that the Bush Administration has taken this country, and will send the strongest possible message by voting not just for someone else, but someone else who can win the election. I’m ready to hand the bus keys over to the seven year old just to keep George W from driving away.
I imagine that lots of people who voted Nader in 2000 thought they could sleep better with that decision. I wonder whether they slept well last night.