I don't give a shit who my President is

[zebra]

I am a grown man and i do not care who wins the election.
Neither man will make a difference in my life or career or happiness.
i choose my time and causes wisely.
i am pro-choice and pro-death penalty.
i voted for Clinton twice, i probably won't vote this year but if i do it will be Gore and not because hot kachina scared me into saying that on a forum.

Both VP candidates suck ass. One's heart is about to burst for the fifth time and the other reminds me of Woody Allen with a Masters degree.

It's a freak show, the winner will be determined by who has the most money.

My life will not be drastically different in 4 years regardless of who my President is.
They both will have done x amount of good things and x amount of bad.

Who else doesn't give a shit ?
And if any 15 year olds reply to this i will vomit. i will not have a conversation with someone who is the same age as some of my socks.

God bless America.
And apathy.

[Awake]

Isn't it amazing how the only people who are obsessed with being adults are, in fact, children?

I just thought I'd mention that, because it seems to apply strangely well to this thread...

~Simon

[SlaytBlue]

If you don't give a shit then why are you even bothering to vote?

[BookFaerie]

I will vote solely for the right to bitch about it later... but you are right... it doesn't really matter... The President is the just face they use to sell the cereal box.

[JoyfulGirl]

Neither man will make a difference in my life or career or happiness.

I couldn't agree more. I waiver between feeling as you do and feeling a responsibility to try and do something. The election is already bought and sold, basically, and my Nader vote feels halfhearted at best. Yet I tend to get all fired up in these debates and find myself caring again (or perhaps it's just the mind that loves to debate), feeling that there are others who aren't as fortunate in their choices as I have been, and perhaps their lives are more affected by elections than mine is. So out of compassion for them, I feel this responsibility--my vote couldn't hurt, it might even help a little. Regardless of who wins, I will go along my merry little way, living my life, loving my loves, giving much more attention to the spiritual life than the political life, and in that and that only do I find my inner peace. Some people say that's a selfish viewpoint, but I see it differently. I do what I can do, and let the rest go.

[zebra]

joyful, you pop in at all the right times. excellent point, tho your vote for Nader will do *nothing* since he doesn't have a chance in hell of even making a dent. So if you sat home and did nothing come November, he'd lose. If you vote for him, he'd lose. No candidate will *gain* from your vote.

It's so easy for you nuts above me to flame this thread, it is SOOOO un p-c to say what i said and SOOO cool to say you're campaigning your ass off for so-and-so. Society's little mind-fuck.

i'll live my happy little life with my happy little family regardless of who's fake smile i have to look at on the cover of Time magazine.

Neither candidate will take my job away or make whites love blacks or make disease go away. These things will happen for different reasons, not because of Gore or Bush.

[JoyfulGirl]

tho your vote for Nader will do *nothing* since he doesn't have a chance in hell of even making a dent.

Perhaps. It feels more like a protest vote, in a sense-- like, "I do have a voice, albeit small, and here it is." It may not make much difference this year, but the movement towards having a viable third independent candidate might have a cumulative effect in years ahead, in some way that we may not be able to pinpoint or accurately foresee at the moment.

[perfect wing]

***Posse member number one pops up***

LMAO as old as my socks!

[Binka+Bonka+Chair]

tell me zebra, do you have any socks that just turned 26 years old today?

[Paul]

<SARCASM>
Absolutely... I wholeheartedly agree. Doesn't it just make you sick to see people get all passionate about who the next president of the United States is going to be. What a bunch of no hope losers they all are. To think they are stupid enough to waste their time on such a futile exercise as supporting a political candidate... *roll eyes* What is the world coming to!

To think people should have the audacity to actually care is shocking beyond belief! Heaven forbid that anyone should actually be enthusiastic over anything as meaningless as a presidential election. Let's put a stop to that nonsense right away.

Get a life all you no hope political campaigners. What difference is it going to make to your life anyway.
</SARCASM>

[zebra]

Paul, spoken like a true Brit.
Live in the U.S. then reply in this thread.

[zebra]

socks! socks! i actually have a sock fetish. i love them. i buy them by the bulk in every size, color, fabric. Right now i have on olive green Calvin Kleins, ankle length, with an orange, yes orange, border around the top.

lunch-time... brb

[IrisMagpie]

Can the love of sock puppets be far behind the love of socks? I think so.

As George Carlin said, if you don't vote, it's not your fault who's in office, so you have every right to complain.

[luminous]

wow. how completely self-absorbed.

all you who are saying you don't give two shits have absolutely no sense of perspective.

granted, some of the candidates may suck. and you may not get who you want in office. but at least you have the right to vote. you have the right to your voice and your opinion about this.

my mother didn't. she grew up in a communist country, she didn't get to choose shit for herself. she didn't get to have a voice or to choose her leader. now she does, and there's no way in hell she's passing up her chance to vote. why? because she has perspective and a sense of history and a concern for the future.

luminous

[Paul]

Silly me. What was I thinking. The very idea that the election of the president of the largest political power in the world has any bearing on anyone outside the US is just so preposterous!

Whoever makes president may not make any difference to your humdrum lives over there but they may well make some half baked decision to "accidently" bomb the Libyan embassy in Yugoslavia and start a third world war in Europe. But of course that won't have any effect on your lives over there will it.

Please forgive my unwarranted intrusion into your little domestic political discussion. And do carry on with your pathetic attempt to try and make people who choose to support a political candidate feel small and worthless. This is such a good example of an adult thread. Children, take note of how it should be done.