Doesnt matter... if youve gone to the polls in the past only to vote for president... you have wasted your time and gas.
The Electoral College Votes for the President - your vote means dick
'Merica! FuCK Yeah!
Wait, are you fucking joking?
Of course your vote matters. Maybe you don't know how the electoral college works but here's a short history lesson for you.
Every state has their elections, then the appointed electors 'pledge' to vote for who that state elected by majority for president.
Then in december, they meet and the electors cast their ballot. sure, it would seem like they have the final say- but there's laws against electors that vote against what their state said, aka faithless electors. There's laws in half the states that punish these electors, and then there's even laws in a few states that will make that elector cancel their vote if they vote against what they pledged to do- according to their states' majority.
A faithless elector has NEVER changed the outcome of any election to date.
To say that your vote means dick, just shows your ignorance. Maybe I should make a clever tag saying 'big mike is just plain retarded' but ya know, that seems pretty childish to me.
In other news, the burial at sea seems legit. I don't think the majority of Americans realize what this really means for us. Why would we burn his body or make some ridiculous video of us mutilating him when there's an entire network of terrorists that are already planning their next attack? We've seen what they've done to us in the past and what they are capable of, but by doing something radical like that- we're only pissing them off even more. We killed him, and we got our revenge and some closure for the thousands of Americans that lost family members in the attacks on 9/11.
And japan101- I didn't vote for Obama (for reasons regarding my profession), I'm not happy with some of his moves since he's been in office, and I will not vote for him again, but at a moment like this- I know he's our president and I will appreciate what he did. Moving into that compound was such a bold move. We were working with Pakistan, and for us to just raid that compound, was really ballsy. (Though, it does look like Pakistan was lying to us about his whereabouts- that compound was 100 feet from the entrance to one of their major military headquarters.) What if he wasn't there? What if we just went in there and were wrong and completely ruined our ties with Pakistan? They're already rocky in the first place, so for him to give that go ahead based on our intelligence, was a great move. Yes, Bush started this, but I'm glad Obama didn't just let this slide and took action.