by Andrew Price
Daily Lobo columnist
Martin Ch†vez has moved into the defunct headquarters of the Kerry-Edwards presidential campaign. He placed his image on the side of the building and is trying to get re-elected.
Gov. Bill Richardson has purchased his new jet and has his picture up in Times Square in New York City. He is desperately trying to become a national celebrity.
Sen. Hilary Clinton has begun to shamelessly pander for non-liberal votes, thus tipping her hand that she wants to be the 2008 candidate for president. It is clear that the next three years are going to be full of heated and emotional debate over which direction we should take the city, the state and the country.
Please carefully consider your decisions and your opinions and value your vote. Vote for your freedoms and liberties, not the freedoms and liberties of the rest of the world. We should be ethical and moral in our dealings with the world, but while doing so we need to look out for what is best for those of us who were born in America and who have chosen America to be our home.
The Declaration of Independence states we have certain unalienable rights that include life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. With the exception of abortion on the left and capital punishment on the right, both sides of the political spectrum seem to have the life part down. However, the liberty and the pursuit of happiness part is suspect on both sides.
The government at all levels claims to be protecting us, but in reality is doing nothing but chipping away at our freedoms. We have the opportunity to take our home back in a direction that we seem to have turned away from. That direction is freedom.
Let's go back to the days when we as citizens felt we had the freedom and the right to do as we wanted, provided what we did didn't infringe on the next citizen doing what they wanted. Our founding fathers would be appalled by the way our police constantly monitor us, even to the point of bursting into private homes and arresting citizens for doing what they do behind their locked doors. As we travel the streets, we are observed by cameras.
The real problem is the apathy of the American voter.
How many anti-war, anybody-but-Bush people showed up to vote? Not enough, apparently. Paris Hilton was involved in the "Vote or Die" campaign, but admitted that she never bothered to either register or vote. We as voters have the opportunity over the next three years to send a clear message to all disingenuous politicians and take back our country.
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Vote for anybody, no matter which party they belong to, who will support liberty and the pursuit of happiness as well as life.
Let us tell Richardson to stop using this state's limited resources to run his self-serving pre-presidential campaign, and also to stop speeding through the streets of Albuquerque. Nobody wants to kill you, Bill, so please don't kill us.
Let us tell Mayor Ch†vez that contrary to what the church lady from Saturday Night Live might say, alcohol is not the devil, and all our energy shouldn't be spent trying to bring back prohibition. Marty, our teenagers and young adults are not enemies, so stop persecuting them.
Finally, let us tell Sen. Clinton that it takes a loving mother and a father to raise a child, not a village. Build your beliefs around what you truly believe in, Hillary, rather than what the opinion polls say will give you the best chance to get the most votes.
Lefties can say whatever they want about President Bush, but they can't say that he isn't willing to make a stand.
Name a single Democrat about whom can be said the same.
