BUT, I'M WINNING THE WAR!!!!!!
Ok, so Barry didn't vote yesterday...which breaks my heart! I did beg & lecture & I forced him to sit with me to watch the election coverage all night (after we watched American Idol like any other red blooded American family...LOL!) But he didn't vote...why you're wondering...wouldn't it be easier to SHUT me the hell up & just go pick someone???
He has this theory that he doesn't know enough about politics to choose someone...even though I'm a huge fan of a debate & he's seen them with me. He thinks, "One vote doesn't count!" He tried..."I'm tired after work"...I think it's all BULLSHIT!!! It's your job as a tax payer, as a person who enjoys these freedoms thousands are dying for & as a PARENT; if nothing else...to vote. To choose who will be in charge of the country we're blessed to live in. To decide who will be forming the world we're giving our children!!!!
So...I let him off this hook for the primary...I did however tell him he WILL vote for our next President!!! Or he will be very sorry!
I have to say...this was the first election in a long time...probably since the very first time I voted at 18...that I SERIOUSLY felt excitement! I was excited to watch the #'s coming in last nite...I know it's just the primary...but knowing that something ENORMOUS is happening & I'm part of it is electrifying! I challenge you all to find your candidate & support them, RESEARCH them...do your part to be an educated voter! You don't have to support Hillary Clinton just because I do...I enjoy discussing politics (not like my mother does) with people who take it as seriously as I do. This is a BIG DEAL...this decision is life changing- you should feel blessed to be able to make it FREELY!!!
So...I lost Barry for the primary...I voted with butterflies in my tummy & practically skipped out of my new polling place!!! But, I got home, told Brandon I had just voted & he gave me SERIOUS STINK FACE...I asked him why, told him how important it is to me that I vote...& he replied...
MOM, I WANTED TO GO VOTE WITH YOU, WE ALWAYS GO TOGETHER...I LIKE TO VOTE TOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
My work here...with these children...shows itself to me daily...I'm doing a pretty damn good job if I do say so myself...I have a 7 year old who was COMPLETELY bummed that he didn't get to vote!!!!!!!!!! BRANDON ROCKS...& I think his mom might just be pretty stinking cool too...he was later telling Kate how "we're the luckiest country in the world because it's our freedom that lets us pick whatever we want to eat for dinner or to have for President!" He's funny...but he's been paying attention!!!
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GREAT JOB! You are a great mom, he realizes the importance of voting. I like you have a husband who doesn't see the importance of HIS one vote. I share in your excitement, my mom always said it was a priviledge to vote and something you take very seriously. Thanks for spreading the word to vote and raising such wonderful children, who just might run our great nation one day! I love it!
Yeah...voting is one of my passions as well. It is not a right. I know people who cannot vote, in our country, because of decisions that they have made, and they regret those decisions.
I have given everyone I know who does not vote the same speech. As far as I am concerned, people who do not vote do not have the right to complain about the direction in which our country is headed.
Wow...we have the same passion...on opposite sides of the fence. This could be an interesting political season after all :)
Well you know that mommy did do something right in all her speeches about politics, because we all go out and vote and see the importance in voting...so through all those long drawn out speeches about voting it actually sunk in...I can't wait til Hillary rocks the white house!!!!
i look forward to a great political season, deneen! I love that it's one of your passions too! :)
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