I was recently invited to an event/group that stated that if John McCain won the election, the members would not attend school the following day.
I'd like to explain why I declined the invitation.
I believe that John McCain is the wrong leader for this country, I believe he has shifted to the wrong side of almost every issue in the past few years. I have no objection to protesting him, as I have already attended numerous rallies and volunteered for his opponent (you might have heard of him, it's some black guy with big ears and a funny name).
I admire the organizing effort it must have taken to assemble that group - but please: Imagine the overwhelming volunteer firepower we could muster if we put even a scrap of that energy into DOING SOMETHING NOW. Therefore, I am officially calling anyone who considered joining this group to instead join me in volunteering for the Obama campaign.
Protesting after the fact is acceptable, and if John McCain is elected, I'll be pissed as hell too. But waste my potential as a citizen and volunteer by planning for defeat and planning to whine about it? Never.
John McCain's bonehead advisor, Phill Gramm, referred to our great country as "a nation of whiners." If we join this group now instead of talking, volunteering and voting in this election, we do nothing but prove him right.
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