by Corey Aaron Burkes

Created on: August 31, 2008

Can you feel it in the air?

That something that I started feeling as early as late last year, during the height of the primaries; during the apex of the name calling and slung mud. No I really think it started earlier than that. During 9/11 and the current President's regime.

I made a bet with friends last year that, as much as I love the Clinton's, and I regret that history had to be made, at the same time, between the two most disenfranchised classes on EarthI strongly believed Obama would win the Democratic vote. And before I go any further, did you know Microsoft Word has Obama as a misspelled word, with choices of Osama and Bema as corrective options? I certainly hope they take care of that.

For me to be placing any bets on ANY political ups and downs, comings and goings, is amazing because you have to understand my feelings about the whole political process. I have never voted ever before in my entire life and a lot of that has to do with mistrust of the system, lack of faith in anyone able to run this greedy, arrogant country and general disinterest that extended throughout time.

Now, before the self-righteous stand to voice their ire (which is exactly what I expect from 80% of people who might find out I never voted), it's your almost fanatically stance on reasons why I should vote that has also kept me from the polls in Novemberironically my birthday monthand like a bible-thumping, faith-or-else attack dog for your cause, I tend to shy away from any subject that has people enraged and they only know why from things they heard or read about. You need to vote because people died to have that privilege. Okay, were they anyone you knew? If you don't vote, you don't have a voice. I didn't vote and we still have a dictator in officeand from what I understand, he doesn't listen to you either.

You see, I may have had my reasons for not voting all these years, but for those who advocate the process, your very ideals were put to the test during the Gore-Bush debacle around 2000 and that mess proved me more right than ever: You can't trust the numbers and what the hell was that thing called the electoral college? For a strong majority of you, like me, you have to admit that era was the first real coverage of how voting worked broken down to the finest degree and we all learned a lot.

Then the documentaries came and we learned even more. We learned that the current Fourth Reich played very, very dirty and hadn't a clue when he got there. How in 2000, not 1960, Blacks

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