On a Serious Note

WOWZERS! Be careful. You better duck! Have you seen what is going on? It is full blown war out there on the internet. I have never seen such a massacre of friendships and a blatant disregard for rational thinking. One of the biggest Obama supporters I know told me today that they did not care if everyone was dirt poor under Obama as long as they could learn to find hope in each other. It was an interesting point of view.

All day long today I have been shouting "OBAMA '08" like it has been going out of style! People at my office think I love him. What is funny is that some of YOU think I love/hate him. I am completely indifferent.I guess you don't know me that well after all and maybe shouldn't judge me if you don't know how I am talking through blog and haven't figured out by now that I am the devil's advocate. Just as I stated earlier I would have written a blog about how I hated McCain had he won too (and am kind of saddened because I had some good witty comments)! I don't like either one of them! I take situations as they come and I am pretty positive none of you will ever know who I voted for. Obama? McCain? Nadar? Barr? You never will know will you? (I like to keep people guessing!!! :-D) It doesn't matter WHO I voted for because I honestly didn't want to see any of those people in office but people died and went through persecution and who knows what so that I could have a right to vote. I did. I voted. I walked down there, punched in my vote (for governor, for judges, for propositions....) and not everyone thought the same way I did. Some of the people/things I voted for won and some didn't. That is OK. I did all that I could do. Now is my time to act. Now is my time to show my support for America. If I support America than I will support it's president. He represents me (all ALL Americans. that is what a president does) and he deserves my support.

Now it is time to shut your mouths and quit harassing others. Now is the time to act. Obama is president. Either congrats if you voted for him or get over it if you didn't. If McCain can congratulate Obama and support him you can too. If you didn't vote (which depressingly I know way too many of you that didn't) you can't talk. You had your chance to voice your opinion. You gave it up. You gave up your voice. Now you need to support Obama like a good American citizen. He hasn't even had a chance to do anything yet! How about we give the guy a break and see what he does or does not do for this country? THEN.... then you can trash talk him all you want. Judge him on his merits as PRESIDENT ok? If you don't like him then fine, four years from now we get to go through the whole process again. UGH! I am so tired of this whole election stuff.... but I am grateful for the opportunity to vote.

But honestly? You aren't that awesome that you can take yourself so seriously and trash talk others because they did/didn't vote for Obama. Get over yourself. Learn that you CAN be friends AND disagree( novel idea I know...). If I ended a friendship or even an ACQUAINTANCE because someone thought differently than me I wouldn't have any friends or acquaintances. Isn't is an awesome thing that everyone thinks differently? And for those 9 comments/texts/emails I got from you Obama fans that thought I was serious on my earlier post....realize I was obviously being stupid and completely exaggerating. In other words, I was trying to be funny. Can you NOT take a joke? If you thought I was serious...take a deep breath and ask yourself the last time I was serious on an issue like that on a blog like this. And seriously people? Follow Michelle's example. Leave a comment. I don't need a private message from you in my inbox, not that I don't love you, I just think you need to leave the comments on the blog...not my email address or my phone.

as lincoln said to a nation far more divided than ours,
'we are not enemies, but friends.
though passion may have strained,
it must not break our bonds of affection'...

It is kind of silly I have to justify my own blog. I still love each of you the same though!

We have a new president elect. Face it.

"To those Americans whose support I have yet to earn, I may not have won your vote tonight, but I hear your voices. I need your help, and I will be your president too."

-Barack Obama