VOTE

I want to add my two cents worth to the great election debate in the United States. My message is very simple, but terribly important. Please, all my American friends, I don’t dare tell you how to vote, but I can ask you, as a concerned friend of your country to make sure you get off your bums and VOTE!

It could not be a more important election and every vote could be vital. Remember that it was just a few spoiled ballot papers in Florida that stopped us experiencing President Al Gore, and the world might have been a very different place right now. I’m not saying better or worse, you’ll draw your own conclusions on that.

It looks like it might be an Obama landslide but stranger things have happened and bigger odds overturned. When the pundits all nod their heads in unison and say it’s a foregone conclusion you had better be prepared for big shocks.

As a friendly observer all I will say is that democracy demands that you get out and vote, and make sure as many of your friends and family are similarly encouraged and energized. The world deserves of your country’s best, and that means your vote counts.

Personally I support the Australian voting system in which it is, I understand, illegal not to vote. That way you don’t get sloth and failure to launch as apathetic excuses. This world needs you America, so vote!

So if you’re a desperate McCain supporter you need to keep going that extra few yards, and if you’re an Obama fan you must not take anything for granted, it isn’t over until every vote has been counted.