I live in a battleground state. Poor me. The past few weeks, I have been badgered and berated with campaign posts, campaign ads, campaign mailers, and all things campaign related. Candidates slandering other candidates with photoshop and ridiculous accusations. Regardless of who's voting for whom or who's supporting whom, it's been pretty miserable and pretty tasteless. My favorite (or rather least favorite) campaign mailer featured a picture of President Obama, looking very contemplative, as a train conductor. I forget what it said, but it was something along the lines of a train wreck waiting to happen.... Yup. It was awesome.
Well, everyone, in case you live in a cave and weren't made aware, today is Election Day. Woohoo. I am glad to go out and vote, but let me just say that it is absolutely no one's business who I vote for. So far this post makes me sound like a cynic, and I suppose I'm feeling a bit cynical today. But I'm also feeling pretty positive. I do not for a moment believe that any of the candidates, presidential or congressional, will be superheroes and will fix all or even any of our problems right now. But I am very glad to see so many people exercising their voting rights, even if we seem to be doing it like crusaders for dueling sports teams.
Regardless of your vote, I hope you made one today. And I pray that we will all work a little bit harder to make this country a wonderful place to live and work. Whoever he is, the president can't do it alone.
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