Letters to the Editor
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HEY
Probably 50% of all Obama supporters don't follow politics either. They follow the kool aid.
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patronising much?
Good grief. People do not vote for a person on election day, they are voting for their party, their political inclination on that particular day. If your father is aware enough to realise that he can vote, that Nixon is not running this time round and that he should ideally be wearing pants when he shows up to the polling booth then he is fit to vote. His decision is no less valid than that made by all the other crazys out there. So I say, let the guy have one last shot at exercising his constitutional freedoms before you have him boiled down into Soylent Green.
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Respect the man for actually exercising his vote
Given how many citizens don't bother to vote, this man should be respecting his father for voting.
I'm sure many younger voters fail to meet this son's personal criteria for who deserves to vote. It has nothing to do with age. And, most crucially, no one citizen can decide what makes another citizen qualified to cast a vote; only the government can do that.
I also suspect an underlying (and ugly) reason behind the son's complaint: He doesn't like who his father plans to vote for, and so is trying to further his own cause by preventing his father from casting that vote.
If the father were mentally ill or senile, then he would have a point. But it seems like the father is able to clearly articulate his views on voting and political involvement. They're his choices to make.
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Jeez, BankerGirl!
To the LW: Yeah, sorry. I can't control the millions of people who listen to Anne Coulter or Rush Limbaugh either . . . The one consolation is in all honesty, every candidate is about the best representative of their party you could hope for right now and an enormous improvement over the current group. Just love your dad.
To BankerGirl - Jeez! Don't let the system beat you down anymore sweetheart - have some faith in the democracy and if you don't have any, do a little something about it! Do you think they overthrew King George just so 200 years later we could all lie down and let the system roll us over?
Ann