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SHUUUT UUUP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Kim Sisto Robinson

First of all I want to say SHUUUT UUUP!!!!  I’m mad as hell and I’m not going to take it anymore.  Don’t send me any more emails, and particularly, don’t you dare tell me who I should be voting for.  Stop telling me your lies, because you know damn well I’m going to find out the truth sooner or later   If I see your face walking towards me with a massive sign to display in my yard, whether it’s McCain or Obama, I shall not stick it in the ground, because why would you ASSUME that you know who I am voting for, and why would you guess I would be voting the same way as you?  Even though I am Christian, it is not your position to advise me what my position should be: on abortion, immigration, taxes, war, ethics, or morals.  Just SHUUUT UUUP! Give me my own space to employ my own mind, my own brain, my own experience from the world I know.  You have the nerve to declare that my husband and I need to vote for Obama because he is pro-choice.  You have the gull to inform me that my family must choose McCain because he is a war hero.  You need to just SHUUUT UUUP!  I cannot believe you told me I am not a Christian because I may vote Democrat, and I am appalled you would think I am an ignorant War Lord because I may vote Republican.  You have no right to utter a single word in my direction about my beliefs, morals, or principles. You have NO invitation into my world without me allowing you inside.  I was shocked when your billboard screeched “IF YOU VOTE DEMOCRAT YOU’RE GOING TO HELL.”  I was flabbergasted when your car bumper announced “REPUBLICANS ARE REPULSIVE!” You have no idea how these piercing words get me all fired up and red inside my stomach.  When I heard you were shouting inside the Democratic Convention that they were all going to burn in hell, I shut off the television.  When you called McCain Hitler, I cringed.  When you said Obama was a terrorist, Ms. Palin, I was royally pissed off; I mean,  pissed.  This is not freedom of speech…This is abuse of speech.  Exploitation.   Shit talk.  Lies.  And don’t even get me going on Joe the Plummer.  Average Joe.  Joe Six-pack.  I am beginning to despise Joe, and I don’t even know this poor guy.  If you tell me that it is my responsibility to do this because I am a Republican or that because I am a Democrat, I shall walk right past you, ignore you; act as if you don’t exist.  You need to SHUUUT UUUP, mind your own business, and become part of the solution, not the problem.  Ask yourself what democracy is, what freedom is, what liberation is.  Ask yourself why you are so consumed with what I will do or not do, or whom you want me to endorse.  Ask yourself why you are more obsessed with a pig that wears lipstick than the economy, the melting environment, education, or Iraq.  Yes, I do believe strongly in one’s character, but perfection is unattainable.  So perhaps we should place the sinners in a coliseum and throw rocks at each one because of their imperfections, past decisions, and mistakes. What I want you to do today is SHUUUT UUUP, read every newspaper, watch every news channel, search the web for the candidates’ mission and direction for our country.  And if you’re inclined, Pray.   I believe that our country will NEVER change until we break down the barriers and walls, which separates us… We must unite and come together as one people.  If we cannot talk civilly and respectively and responsibly to one another, how the hell can we talk with other nations, cultures?   If we cannot stop throwing mud, how will we be able to see clearly into one another’s eyes?   Can you stop hating for a while, just a little while, to observe a nation, which is fading and disappearing into superficiality?  Can you speak in a vocabulary that reaches inside the American peoples’ hearts and souls…Give humanity back…Give hope back…Give purpose back?  But most of all, SHUUT UUUP— until you have something constructive, life changing, and powerful to say.   Just shut up so I can think in peace.  Thank you.   Whew…..I feel much better now.

~Oh, and don’t forget to vote (as if you would) on November 4^th!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!