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How much personal significance do you place on this U.S. Presidential election, and why.
I agree with this explanation, so the way I would put it is that it is always important to do your civic duty, but this election is no more or less significant than any presidential election in the past 50 years. The 1980 election and perhaps one or two in the '60s were probably a little more important than average, but given the overall peace and prosperity of the last 20 years, there is not all that much at stake in this election, historically speaking.Leah said:I think it is important but it doesn't matter who wins because we are facing the worst. We are losing our jobs and our homes and are trying to pay our taxes and put gas in our cars and food on the table. I don't see clearly any candidate able to help us.
Ivan Seeking said:I voted for the first option. Bush and the Republicans have taken us to the precipice of economic collapse. They have raped the country and defiled the Constitution - the rule of law. Are we going to turn this around or allow more of the same?
My country once asked me to be willing to give my life for our system of government. When I signed that paper, I did so with full knowledge of what I was doing. Don't tell me that now it doesn't matter.
WhoWee said:First, THANK YOU for your service...one of my oldest friends just returned from Afghanistan today and I told him the same thing.
Ivan Seeking said:Sorry if that sounded misleading. I signed the paper but never had to go. Because of my age, when it looked like Vietnam might reignite with China's move into Cambodia, I was on the top of the list of those who would go. Luckily things calmed down and I never had to serve.
But, the reality was there nonetheless: Was I willing to give my life for the Constitution? I had to think long and hard about that one.
Sister Cecilia Gaudette, who last voted for President Eisenhower in 1952, has registered to vote and says she will vote for Democrat Barack Obama.
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