What memory will you carry of this Election 2008?
Will you remember it for the historic candidacies of Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton? Will you remember former Vietnam POW John McCain getting the GOP nomination when only months earlier his campaign had been declared dead?
I will remember this election for the outstanding voter turnout.
I couldn't believe my eyes when I tried to vote absentee in person and saw hundreds of people in line at my county elections office. People waited hour after hour, all for the opportunity to exercise their right to vote.
Elections are great equalizers. Your race, gender, wealth and place in society don't matter when it's time to step up to the voting booth.
Each American gets one vote. The poor person's vote counts as much as the vote of the millionaire. One sweet opportunity to determine the course of government.
The side that makes the more convincing argument, and motivates more of its people to make the trip to the polls, wins.
Never forget that the right to vote was won with blood and is defended with blood.
You hear this saying a lot: "If you don't vote, don't complain."
Actually, I don't support that idea.
If you pay taxes, I think you have a right to complain.
But if you vote, you have a right to complain louder.
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