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--- On Sat, 10/25/08, Kevin W.W. Johnson
From: Kevin W.W. Johnson
Subject: Read This ("I didn't Vote for Obama")
To: Undisclosed-Recipient@yahoo.com
Date: Saturday, October 25, 2008, 3:56 PM
I'm a middle-class white guy living in Jacksonville, Florida. I've
got a wife and two kids. Because the kids had no school today, I
took a vacation day from work, and took the kids downtown to vote
early. Fifty-nine minutes later, two smiling children and I
proudly sported "I Voted" stickers.
But I didn't vote for Obama.
kentuckyscott' s diary :: ::
I voted for my ancestors, who believed in the promise of this
country and came with with nothing as immigrants.
I voted for my parents, who taught in the public schools for
decades.
I voted for Steve, an acquaintance of mine from Kentucky. (Killed
by an IED two years ago in Iraq).
I voted for Shawn, another who's been to Iraq twice, and
Afghanistan once, and who'll be going back to Afghanistan again
soon -- and whose family earned eleven bucks a month too much to
qualify for food stamps when the war started.
I voted for April, the only African-American girl in my high school
-- it was years before it occurred to me how different her
experience of our school must have been.
I voted for my college friends who are Christian, Jewish, Mormon,
and yes -- Muslim.
I voted for my grandfathers, who worked hard in factories and died
too
young.
I voted for the plumber who worked on my house, because I want him
to get a REAL tax break.
I voted for four little angels from Birmingham.
I voted for a bunch of dead white men who, although personally
flawed, were willing to pledge their lives, fortunes, and sacred
honor, and used a time of great crisis to expand freedom rather
than suspend it.
I voted for all those people and more, and I voted for all of you,
too. But mostly, I voted selfishly. I vote for two little kids,
one who has ballet in an hour, and once who has baseball practice
at the same time. I voted for a world where they can be confident
that their government will represent the
best that is in this
country, and that will in turn demand the best of them. I voted
for a government that will be respected in the world. I voted for
an economy that will reward work above guile. I voted for
everything I believe in.
Sure, I filled in the circle next to the name Obama, but it wasn't
him I was voting for -- it was every single one of us, and those I
love most of all.
> "THE TIME IS ALWAYS RIGHT TO DO WHAT IS RIGHT" - Dr. Martin L. King, Jr.
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