Dear fellow citizens of the United States Of America who are eligible to vote:
I have voted in 4 presidential elections in my life (everyone eligible) and never has it had as much meaning as this one. As of right now I am still undecided but I will make a decision in the next few weeks.
Please vote.
I was tagged by a few people for this meme but instead of tagging 5 people I am tagging all of you.
Please remind your friends to register to vote
Register to vote and for the love of god vote on election day.
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I am registered to vote, and will vote.
If people have to be encouraged to vote, if they don’t see it as their right and enjoy exercising it, then why pursue them? Democracy only belongs to the engaged. Unfortunately, big business and special interest are more engaged than the American population. That is why our government belongs to them.
If the best people can do is vote once every four years then we deserve what we get. Where was this patriotic fervor during the primaries? When we really needed people to vote and be engaged. If Ron Paul or Dennis Kucinich were their party’s nominee, then I would be stoked.
Something I find extroardinarily ironic about all the get out the vote campaigns. Those who are the ones who wouldn’t normally vote are necessarily the ones who are least informed about elections. Do we really want people who know the least making decisions during the most important election of our lifetime? Somehow this doesn’t strike me as a good idea.
I vote for Barack Obama
I agree …vote. If you don’t vote, don’t whine. If you didn’t do your homework and know what you are voting for, don’t whine. We are a global society. The decisions you make when you vote will not only influence the way things are run here in America but around the world.
I saw a TV ad here in India related to this. I think it is the duty of each and every citizen to exercise his vote.
Good. You are being responsible citizens of the democracy.
Voting is our right!
I think people really need to get up their behinds and go vote. Many complain about their government but never vote when it’s elections. I really think the youth out there needs to come out more to vote, as this is their country’s future being decided upon here.
I agree that’s why they are targeting young voters because its their future, I think this election has the most young voters
Now America needs a voice of its citizens.
i am not an American but if you want to be a part of your future just go and vote.
is that bob in your avatar?
Yes brother. It is Bob Marley.
I will vote, but I still don’t trust the voting system we have in place. What’s the use voting if the system is rigged.
It seems like every four years I hear the same mantra; “this is the most important election…” This belittles the point that every election is important, and every election is about the future – an election cannot change what has already happened.
The election – is an important game for those who opt for the presidency. It happens only once for the candidates.
No, I don’t have to vote. In fact, I choose not to vote. Voting gives my consent to be governed by these crooks. Any vote whatsoever on the federal level is a vote for the establishment…period.
Why do they always have these “rock the vote” type rallies, but don’t care who you vote for? Because the simple act of voting gives them power, and says you implicitly agree to what they are doing.
Imagine if only 10% of the population voted. Anyone who was elected would have a lot of gall to claim they “won” the election and was the people’s choice.
My vote is statistically insignificant anyway. I’d rather play the lottery. Better chances.
In case you misunderstand my point … it’s not to NOT vote … it’s that you really should try to decide where you stand on things before you just go and vote … so many people don’t even do this. They are too busy trying to get by, or ____ or ____ or _____ … but not stopping to take in what is going on in this CRAZY time in US history is disgraceful.
hey, i thought you had decided on obama the last time i saw you with an obama shirt on!
anyway, i vote for obama. but you’re right, things gotta change, eveyone needs to show up to vote. things are bad.
What a lame post, that is so PC it’s funny.
Voting != Good American.
Knowing who you are voting & voting = Good American.
Only vote if you know about the issues. If your idea of being knowledgeable on this election means scanning headlines from the media … please DO NOT VOTE … you dilute the votes from those that do care enough to at least try to understand what the deal is.
Never before has the media DECIDED FOR YOU who to elect in such a way. So if you are going to vote by voting for who your buddies are voting for or who your favorite celebrities are voting for or **gasp** if you are voting so you can be in alignment with the popular crowd, either get up to speed quick or stand by and watch.
Voting IS democracy!
In have voted everytime (i’m italian)
I agree with out voting it would not be a democracy we should take advantage of that an vote
Civic duty of every person is to vote in elections.
Actually, these are probably the most unimportant elections in the last 60 years. Both sides are pretty much the same, slightly different methods.
Palin and Obama have nothing to do in the white though. One is an idiot, and the other is just charismatic. Both are not good qualities for a president.
The country is in deep crisis. The country would withdraw from it for many years. The President would help her in this.
well i love to vote and i do vote…. it feels nice to help in a building of a government
Democracy is taken for granted.
Love your Dark Side of The Moon avatar.
It really is, more people need to be grateful that they can vote and should vote
I like this video.
It is US vote so Google took the initiative to help the US citizens, but in case of small countries like ours(Bangladesh) we have to face lot of hazards to find out how to register. Don’t want to mention the boring registration process.
Sometime its really hard to choose who is better between 2 bad candidates. If you have to choose between a thief and a robber, in my opinion you should choose the thief – he will do less harm. Its all the same in every country. I don’t think good people do politics.
Our General Election is going to take place in mid December. I will vote for the first time.
I am registered to vote, and will vote. This video has a very liberal theme to it, IMO, but it still gets the point across. Here in Arizona they have a cool setup where you can actually go online and request an early ballot, for whatever reason you want. I am totally for voting, 101%, but I am not to much for standing in line and getting up early to do it. If thats my only option I will beat the door down at 6 am, but hey, I am leagally allowed to vote early here in AZ. So what do you think I am doing? Thats right, the early ballot is already in the mail to me.
I just love these sanctimonious, self-righteous Hollywood types. Maybe we should vote on which one of them will be the next train wreck and end up in rehab.
I’ll do what I damn well please to do without Hollywood dictating my path.
I missed something – Shoe – thought you were for Obama?
Give him few more weeks to decide
I think it’s always like that, when the time is near to actually vote, knowing that there’s no turning back from when you make that cross in that block, you start reviewing your decision and analyse it thoroughly over and over again. It’s some nerve wrecking stuff at times. But hey, you have to vote for someone in the end.
I agree… we must take advantage of this privilege we have!
Yup, as this is the one time that you can have your say recorded to determine the fate of your entire country. People should really go out there and vote!
People that need their arms twisted to vote… probably shouldn’t vote. People that vote because people bug them to, or because P Diddy says to, basically make an election about as meaningful as a coin toss.
So Shoe, still think Bush is the best president ever?
Lets see now! If Obama wins and makes a houdini then maybe he’ll replace Bush on shoe’s head
best linkbait ever, btw
I don’t think I like either candidate, but you can be sure that I’ll be out voting on election day. I think that too many people in my position figure that if they don’t like either, they might as well stay home. Odds are that there is a candidate that they would identify with, they’re likely just in a small party or independent – so you have to dig to find them.
The candidate will show themselves once the president. Now people can only guess who is who.
No offense but the last person I need to tell me to vote is a celebrity. When someone has a partisan motive it’s not so honorable. Every get out the vote movement you see is just partisan politics. If someone has to be begged to vote it’s obvious that they don’t see the beauty in controlling their own lives and should be left to complain while doing nothing about it.
Thank god I’m in Canada
Funny how anyone thinks their vote is actually counted. If the true founding fathers of today actually stood up maybe then we would have a real leader to vote for. neither of these millionair candidates care about the American people. Their kids have health care, education,
and a future. voting isnt the answer. what Brazil did is the answer.
Voting is a very important thing here in the United States. I was able to vote for one presidential election and this will be my second time for that.
It is also important to vote for the other candidates and issues that relate more specifically to your state, township, or city. These things can also have an influence on your life and shouldn’t be overlooked.
I have made up my mind on who I will vote for on the 4th. I hope other people will learn about their options and go out and vote for the people / things they think will be in the best interest for the people.
How can you be undecided, Shoe?
You’re telling me if McCain dies, Palin is qualified to run the most powerful country in the world? LMAO!
She’s never even set foot in the U.S. Senate, and only traveled outside of the United States for the first time since last year.
Well said Chris, but there are also thousands of other reasons not to leave a Creationist with this much power or give any position to anybody who would put her there in the first place. I am also too surprised & shocked that the shoe is still undecided.
she will be fine pal
How will she be fine? would love to know your opinion.
From outside the US, we are pretty concerned about who will make the next big decisions and at the moment I certainly wouldn’t trust her.
Whom do you trust? They are all puppets. The big fellows behind
the screen take all the big decisions.
pretty hypocritical when people bash Palin’s experience… just curious what experience Obama has? And no one needs to die for him to be the #1 man.
At least Obama has traveled the world and spent some time in the Senate. He’s also a lawyer.
Palin is more of a joke.
You my friend are ignorant – for you to say that Palin as LESS experience than Barack Obama is ABSURD – she has had WAY more executive decision making experience than obama ever has had – and by the way – at least our experience is at the top of the ticket…
Before you open your ignorant, liberal media fed mouth why don’t you go do some research first…
BTW – by all means, if you are a big fan of wealth redistribution and love socialism then go vote for obama – that way you never have to work again, you can simply rely on the hardwork of others to pay for all your needs – rely on the government to do everything for you.
I dont even know who Palin is..
why are you comparing a VP to the president. Gore was a joke too. If Palin is a joke b/c she hasn’t been anywhere what does that make obama compared to john or even joe. Obama hasn’t been around as long as both of them so you would expect that they have more experience than obama. Does that matter to you? Funny how they make fun of palin because she hasn’t been around a while but nobody says anything about obama’s short timeline in politics. Here’s a question: is obama better suited to be president more than joe even though joe has more experience when experience seems to be such an issue with you?
What @loren said :p
Yup I agree, Obama does sound like the best option here.
Please. There are thousands of reasons for voting for Obama/Biden and thousands for NOT voting McCain/Palin. Please.
And please DO vote. I can’t but I surely would do it and probably will suffer your wrong decision.
Honestly though, you’re missing the whole point of the post and the entire message in general. This is not a “Vote for X, or vote for Y” type of post. It’s trying to tell people to vote, no matter for who.
I got your point. I stated just my thought…
I really am not into politics because it is always the same story….difficult to decided if one doesn’t have confidence in either available choices. However, I don’t think thats a reason not to vote. hmmmm….
I think Carlin said it best…
….I have solved this political dilemma in a very direct way: I don’t vote. On Election Day, I stay home. I firmly believe that if you vote, you have no right to complain. Now, some people like to twist that around. They say, “If you don’t vote, you have no right to complain”, but where’s the logic in that? If you vote, and you elect dishonest, incompetent politicians, and they get into office and screw everything up, you are responsible for what they have done. You voted them in. You caused the problem. You have no right to complain.
I, on the other hand, who did not vote — who did not even leave the house on Election Day — am in no way responsible for that these politicians have done and have every right to complain about the mess that you created.” – George Carlin
Sorry, but pure nonsense. One of the ideas behind voting is to eliminate those dishonest & incompetent politicians who should never be there in the first place. By not voting you are not only enabling those people but also encouraging them.
Eliminate dishonest, incompetent politicians?
After that, let’s go after fat sumo wrestlers.
We are so privileged to live in this country and have a say in who is our leader. As a registered Republican, I think it’s time for a change and have to go against my party and vote for Obama!!!!
I’m not even American but I really liked this video.
you’re american bryn,
its anyone who cares about this country (of course, some would call exception to that!).
Not being from the US, I am sorry that I can’t vote & would encourage everyone who has the option to vote to exercise it.
Look at the state the the Republicans are leaving behind them, this doesn’t just affect the US, it affects everyone.
Billions being pumped into bombing & rebuilding Iraq when the economy is at its worst state since the 30’s. Putting a Creationist in a position that may lead to ruling the US one day is just wrong in my opinion and certainly will not only affect those living in he US.
Please everyone, go out & vote.
here in philippines its even worse, about 45% of people here stop caring about the election because its the same old story again for them..
I think that percentage is comparable with every democratic country.
I agree.. very comparable
Yup, if you don’t have democratic freedom, people are upset, but for a lot of people once they get it, they dont vote.. Go figure!
Obama 08
You mean Obama 09.
Have we started thinking about Obama 13 yet?
The entire world follow the US presidential election, only because the entire world’s economy depends on US. Is not important for the rest of the world who’s win. If Obama or McCain is the same until the economy is good. For sure VOTE is the right things evrywhere! VOTE is really important. GO TO VOTE!
Whoops, forgot this…
http://www.youtube.com/v/UBqnl_tyLAc
Yea, vote… but make sure you vote for YOUR views! There are more than just two canidates…
ssshhh! the media doesn’t want everyone to know that!
Vote for one of the Two Parties… nothing to see here. Move along.
I saw this on youtube the day it was released. This is going to be my first election to vote for the president and I already know who I’m choosing
Majority of the World, especially here in Europe, is looking forward to a future where an intellectual and progressive nominee comes into power in the US.
Hopefully sanity kicks in and Americans select the Obama/Biden pairing and allow them to try and rectify the negative path the US gov. has taken in the last eight or so years.
I think they have a very difficult opponent. Although the chances of victory are.
interesting video to make people go to vote. Haven’t seen anything like this in my country
definitely we should vote
its our right…
Canadian :S
I get real sick of these hollywood morons telling everyone to vote every chance they get. Leo D. and Jennifer Aniston can shove a stick up their *ss for making those condescending videos (although the fat kid is kind of funny).
I hate the elections when all the sudden people who give a rats as* about politics for 3.75 years all the sudden act like they are God’s gift to democracy for telling people to vote.
This is a political game. People do not usually wins.
You have the right to vote make the difference today with your vote because people died for you get that right 1767- 1960
Yes, people should embrace that right and go vote.
I don’t know if you are a fan of southpark, but there is nothing more relevant than this:
http://www.southparkstudios.com/episodes/103888/
Cool way to use the influence of your Blog. 25,000 RSS readers, if they send it to 5 friends each, or if just a few of them post it on their Blogs with a bunch of RSS subscribers…
Also cool how you’re just saying “Vote” , and not “Vote for _________”.
I’m in Canada so I can’t vote in the US, but I am registered to vote here.
On Oct. 14th, vote!!
(Liberal preferably, but vote regardless)
Honestly I think the 2000 election is probably still going to be more meaningful than this one … not only was it decided by the slimmest of margins, but also it probably made a huge difference in our country’s response to 9/11 and the direction the country took after that. Of course we didn’t know that at the time, which just shows it’s always important to vote because you never know.
It is important to make the right decision. The consequences could be terrible.
“As of right now I am still undecided but I will make a decision in the next few weeks.”
You probably don’t want to wait any longer than that unless there is some other presidential election happening in late November we don’t know about.
Its annoying when the internet is full of all this democracy yet here in the UK it really means nothing to us(well it means something to us but we don’t get a vote or anything)
You are talking about the US elections? I think they matter/mean something to everybody. I mean, I live in a small country (Romania), but it still matters to us also.
As long as you vote for McCain/Palin and not Obama the Muslim. If you are going to vote for Obama… don’t bother voting because it is clear that you don’t like our country anyways.
I can’t believe how ignorant you can be – for a start, Obama isn’t Muslim and you know that. You’ll just put people off McCain/Palin if you are the sort of person that would vote for them.
I sincerely hope you’re jesting or simply trolling. If not, reconsider that what you just hinted as it is xenophobic behaviour and is based on false information.
Barack Obama is not a Muslim and being a Muslim is not reason to outright dislike a person or not vote for them.
Get educated, see: http://www.snopes.com/politics/obama/
LOL>.. he’s a sock puppet!
I can always pick Obama over Mccain on a good day./..
Honestly this one of the reasons I believe some people don’t deserve to vote at all. If you’re stupid enough to post stupid crap and blatant lies like this somewhere in public, I wouldn’t trust my country (if I was American) in your hands.
wow, you’re an ignorant SOB – peeps can vote for whoever they want. to tell people not to vote because of a persons name or religion is beyond retarded.
Obama the muslim? how retarded are you… dude, you should NEVER go full retard.
I’ve only missed 1-2 elections of any type, period. Even if there’s no one I really like for whatever office is up, there’s almost always someone I know I DON’T want for the office they’re running for. It’s not much, but it’s something.
I have to get my absentee ballot for this election. I prefer to go to the polling station, but I’ll be about 6.5 months pregnant on election day, and I don’t want random bad luck keeping me from it.
I’ve been registered and plan on voting for my first time in a presidential election.
nice! you hear that everyone. we all gotta do this. this is my 4th time voting for pres…
I count three convicted felons and four non-citizens in that group – none of them can vote. (Assuming the felons have CA residency, of course.)
Ever notice that the “hey kids vote” never turns out the vote?
What do you mean?
haha, who is who – will you point those people out? that is pretty funny and ironic.
There really isn’t any excuse to not get out there and vote in this election. Things are too crazy this time. It doesn’t matter if your an average citizen, mayor, governor, etc….. Everyone has to be doing their part now. We’ve left the country on autopilot for too long…. and look where it got us.
The only way McCain wins if people just don’t vote or it is rigged… again.
Nah, if you have some crazy legit excuse not to vote, like on the day of voting something tragic happens, that’s okay. But otherwise you’re right, JUST VOTE
Excellent Video Shoe.
Really though, go out and vote. Every single voice counts and should be heard.
I agree everyone should vote if they can
People who can vote should vote because it gives a chance for your word to be heard.
If you live in one of these states, TOMORROW is the deadline!!!! SO Register. It’s easy.
States with Oct 6 Deadline to Register
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Arizona
Arkansas
Colorado
District of Columbia
Florida
Georgia
Hawaii
Indiana
Kentucky
Louisiana
Michigan
Mississippi
Montana (or same day at elections office)
Ohio
Pennsylvania
Tennessee
Texas
Virginia
good thing Im not from there…
WoW expect long queues.
Good to see you guys getting this stuff out. They were registering voters in the clubs on Sunset in Hollywood this past weekend as well.
nice one BadiJones,
some people don’t know when the cutoff is. i hope more people see your message today.
Its great to see people trying to get voters to register, the more people who vote the better
The Prez election is just one trigger on a ballot of MANY! Local elections have just as much impact on us as the big one does. Know your local issues as well…
I often find myself voting for onw person, just to cast a vote AGAINST the other one….
I totally agree and that is a great point, in Cali for instance there are some important issues like gay marriage as well as much tougher sentencing for gang related crimes
I agree with you Mark. I think many people overlook the local elections during this time. You are more likely to see the impact of local gov then national.
well I know I should vote, but really, what is the point again? besides all the “no vote, can’t complain” bull that every slings around…
You don’t just have 2 choices to vote from. Other’s from independant parties are running. Like Ron Paul.
I understand this. And I guess I could vote for the guy on the bottom, but to do that just so I can complain makes no sense.
I see a government just bail out crooks that took our money to begin with and I am supposed to choose the best one?
Did Bush say anything about economic downturn and how he was going to fix it?
It’s hard enough to choose the right one, but if I am going to watch people lie (the debates), I guess I’ll just watch Cops
Eh, if you look at it that way, just pick the lesser of two evils?
The point is that you have the power to choose your future. If you think they’re putting out bull, look for other options. Don’t let others choose your future, you have to go out and do something for yourself.
It has become a pretty standard response wherever you go
The first PRO CHOICE movement in this nation was to establish voting, now we think pro choice stands only for abortion.
You want to preserve your rights and your right to choose? Use what freedoms you’ve been given and Vote!
Just as long as it doesn’t go like the recent bail out… ie, didn’t go the correct way first time around so let’s do it again until we get are way attitude. Awesome.
Your point is very pertinent too. If the medicine is hard to swallow, disguise it with a sugar flavouring and try to feed it to the kids again…..Politicians are very good at rewording their story until it sounds acceptable enough to be passed by “popular” vote.
Voting is part of democracy, if you don’t vote, don’t whine when things go wrong..
Exactly! There are alot of people who whine and complain about who the president is, but they didn’t get off their lazy asses long enough to vote themselves.
I agree everyone should vote, your vote could make a difference
Florida in the year 2000 comes to mind when you say that.
Calling them lazy is a bit far, some people have just experienced the whole election thing so many times they can’t be bothered anymore. After all no one is going to make the world perfect.
Yep but there’s always hope on every new minted leader…
well said sir. well said.
Yep I agree with you I hear people bitch and complain about Bush but then I ask did you vote? and they say no and I tell them to quit complaining.
Yup, if you look at voter turnout in the US it’s SO low. Perhaps if everyone actually participated in democracy, everyone would have the right to truly complain about what is happening
right. if they can blog, they can vote.
excellent response
Democracy goes corrupt.
Maybe a mix of military-democracy will be best.
Um, what?
well said my friend… if you don’t want to vote, that is your choice, but you should pretty much keep your mouth shut if that is the case.
Very well put! It is similar to the lottery in a way. If you don’t buy a ticket you don’t stand a chance….;-)
anybody watching the news? gotta vote… 9842.16 and droppin’