My two cents
I really feel that all politicians are fractured in some way. But I’m just going to say this and I will say it only here and only once because honestly I hate all this political divisiveness – it’s toxic.
There was a day when a Republican stood for fiscal conservatism and social liberalism – but those days have long been gone and that is why I vehemently oppose the Republican agenda. I do not believe that government should be in my vagina or my bedroom – why are they trying to insinuate themselves there all the time – abortion, sexuality. NONE OF YOUR BUSINESS.
I also feel that life gives you a canvas and what you do with it defines you. Do you care that while you are happy someone else is not? Do you care that while your kid is in the best school there are kids who barely get an education? Do you care that while you eat, a child does not? Do you care that while you get good health care, many do not? These are the areas that government should rise to potential of all of us – to help those who cannot help themselves.
I am going to vote for Barack Obama – not because I think he has done the best job as a president, I think he has done an adequate job, but because I believe that his agenda more closely aligns with my agenda – I don’t have a romantic vision of him as I once did, but I know that he thinks the way I do, I know this and I think that America has a choice right now and always – to decide what is important – is making money the most important agenda or is living in a country where a woman decides whether she needs an abortion, whether she loves another woman, whether her children will have a fighting chance amongst the other kids and whether her parents will receive health care that will improve their lives – or not.
I vote because it matters to me – otherwise I am unfortunately apolitical and almost apathetic when it comes to politics – I will vote for Obama and that is all I have to say about it.