We have the right, we have the responsibility to play an active role in governing ourselves, and I firmly hold the position of if you don't vote, don't bitch about it.

Thank you. I'm glad that I am not the only one who feels this way.

And on a completly silly side note, as I read the excerpt you posted all I could hear in my head was the SchoolHouse Rock version of the Preamble to the Constitution. How sad it is that for a lot of us growing up in the seventies SchoolHouse Rock is the way we learned and remembered American government and history. Not to mention math, science and english. *g*