North Carolina Votes for Barack Obama

May 6th is upon us and the missus and I cast our vote today and I learned something interesting about Wake Forest, North Carolina. You see, I’ve never voted in a primary before because when I lived in NY it was only possible to vote if you registered with a party affiliation. So I was a little confused when the election official asked me if I wanted a Democrat, Republican or Unaffiliated ballot. After figuring out that the unaffiliated ballot was basically just a non-partisan judicial voting ballot both the wife and I asked for the Democratic ballot.

Apparently so did 268 and 269 other people!

In fact, the election official exclaimed that the Democratic ballot was the one that “most people were asking for.” After making my selection for Barack Obama, I walked over to the machine and placed my ballot in the slot. The red LCD readout displayed “362.” So if I was holding the 269th Democratic ballot and there had been a total of 362 ballots by 10:30 a.m. that meant that less than 93 people (just 25%) had requested the Republican ballot - IN A SMALL TOWN THAT OVERWHELMINGLY VOTES REPUBLICAN!

Very interesting I thought…. And that’s not counting the early votes that have already been cast, likely from those that know about such things, such as the partisan or the most highly educated. Hmmm?

Things seem to be looking good. Who knows, while this effect could be because McCain has essentially clinched the Republican nomination, the possibility exists that maybe this is going to happen all over the country on November 4th, 2008?

My prediction is that when the story is told about the general election it is going to be all about turnout and Barack Obama, not Hillary Clinton, definitely not John McCain and especially not George W. Bush, is the reason why people are being motivated to the polls in record numbers.

Whatever happens, the one thing that I’m absolutely sure of today is that the story is NOT going to be about John McCain or the Republican Party.

Things are looking good!

WHERE DO YOUR TAX DOLLARS GO?

Contrary to the underpinnings of modern conservative “thought” (<-- contradiction in terms - I know it's cliche' but I couldn't resist) your tax dollars don't go where you think they do.

Nothing delights me more than debunking the misinformation that is fundamental for the Right's strange hold on this country, especially the rhetorical vomit espoused by the dead criminal, Ronald Reagan, and the obese and dumb, like Rush Limbaugh (he's still pushing maximum density) and the rest of the moronic ilk. The images below clearly show that your taxes don't go to welfare queens driving around in Cadillacs or to border hoping illegal aliens living like Kings on government assistance.

Oh no, these images show something much more insidious.

NOW HEAR THIS: the majority of you taxes go the MILITARY!

Oh, I know you’ll rest safely knowing that our over-funded behemoth of a military, which couldn’t win wars in Vietnam, North Korea, Afghanistan and Iraq (to name a few), is receiving the bulk of our hard earned tax dollars.

I can hear the criticism now. You’re yelling at your computer screen, aren’t you? Think I’m a commie pacifist that hates our soldiers, right? Do you know what I can’t stand besides a conservative who just doesn’t get it and never will? I can’t stand the thought in some people’s minds that money wins wars. And what drives me over the edge is that these same people will be the first to tell you that you can’t educate our children by throwing money at schools and you can’t lick poverty by throwing money at people. Am I right? Then why do these same people continue to believe that you win wars with expensive technology? Tell that to the Vietnamese. We literally killed millions of people in their 3rd world country and they never gave up! Why? Because WILL wins wars, not technology. And money has no place on a battlefield.

I don’t doubt for 1 second that if you put our soldiers in any battle in a war of last resort we’ll come out victorious every single time. Stick our soldiers in situations where they don’t belong, like an absolutely unnecessary war in Iraq and they’re going to lose every single time, not because they are cowardly but because their leadership has failed them. The examples of which are abundant throughout American history.

This point is absolutely fundamental to understanding why there is NEVER going to be a military solution in Iraq…. NEVER! It’s the same reason why we lost the war the day we decided to invade and occupy a sovereign nation that never offered us a true tangible threat.

Get it through your thick skulls and figure out who the true enemies are! While your at it you may want to ponder how we can invest our tax dollars for our futures instead of pissing them away on a military welfare state.

See where the tax dollars that you spend go by visiting,

National Priorities.

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