Dear Mr. President,
I hope I voted for you. One thing is for sure, come the first Tuesday of November I will have voted.
During the last election I thought it would be a good statement to organize a movement where everyone who wanted to could dip there finger in blue ink in honor of the Iraqi people who were finally able to hold free elections and vote. Then I had second thoughts about the idea because this is America. Besides all the complaining and moaning some folks would raise there could be abusive incidents of people trying to make there own statement.
I have heard some celebrities say that if the candidate of their choice did not win they were going to leave the country. Unfortunately for them their candidate did not win. Unfortunately for us they did not leave. I guess their agents advised them against it.
What I can’t understand is why some people don’t vote. Is it because they think the candidate of their choice won’t win or if the candidate that is close to what they want represented isn’t close enough to a particular issue?
Some time ago I heard a major Christian leader say that if so and so was nominated that he was not voting. I understand the issue but not voting. I believe he should rethink that.
My uncle was killed at Pearl Harbor defending my right to vote. My father was shuffled through the European theater of WWII defending my right to vote.
We were worried about the Iraqi elections because of all the threatened violence for going to the polls. They went anyway. Old, young, crippled, or sick, they still went. They walked out of the polling place and held up their blue finger in defiance of their enemy and said, “I voted”.
Mr. President, if I didn’t vote for you, I will pray for you. I won’t hate you because you don’t represent my values because I did what I was supposed to do. I voted.