A friend of mine wrote me the following email, and I wanted to pass it on...please read it and truly consider:

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Hello Everyone I know,

I am writing with the intent to raise awareness of all the options available tomorrow. Specifically, I am writing you to encourage you to research a few of the third party candidates available.

We are in the middle of the biggest financial crisis our country has faced within my lifetime. Any bailout plan is the biggest socialist move our country has ever made to my knowledge. We face endless wars in the middle east, Russia and Venezuela are doing joint military operations south of us, we have given up our freedom and privacy (for the sake of false security no less) without a fight, illegal immigrants are flooding our borders, and we have allowed the United States to be taken over by greedy corporations. The government is supposed to be a public servant to the PEOPLE. Money as always has corrupted that ideal. We are spending trillions of dollars fighting a war against terrorists when the people we elected (myself included) are tearing our country up financially from the inside are doing more damage that any external terrorist ever could.

Rather than bash the current administration and the two major party candidates, I'd like to focus on the strengths of the third party candidates. I don't agree with any of the third party candidates 100%, but in general I believe that any of them would be better for our country and for our people than the current major party options.

The four that are the biggest players out of the third parties available are: (no particular order)

Bob Barr for the Libertarian Party - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Barr

Chuck Baldwin for the Constitution Party - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuck_Baldwin

Cynthia McKinney for the Green Party - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cynthia_McKinney

Ralph Nader as an Independent - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_Nader

I'm not going to endorse or tell you which one I'm voting for in this email. If you'd like to know feel free to ask.

I feel the wikipedia articles are fairly to the point and are an attempt at an unbiased review of these candidates. Please take 2 minutes and read about each one if you aren't familiar with them. It might open your eyes.

You will hear people say that voting for anyone other than a Republican or Democrat is a wasted vote. This is a lie and the person who says it is a liar. The only wasted vote is voting for someone you don't like because you think you have no other choice. Regardless of these candidates chances to win, voting for them sends a message to the major parties that tells them there are voters they are losing because their views aren't in line with ideals that American's believe in.

Read about these people. If you read about them and don't agree with them so be it, at least you'll have a better idea of where you stand in regards to picking a candidate that works for you. However, if we continue our blind loyalty to the parties that got us into the mess we are in today, we can expect consistent situations to continue to occur. As one person there is little I can do to get our country back on track. But if I can convince enough people to join me we can change the course off of the path of self-destruction we are on.

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I agree with everything in this, thus why I've decided to share it with you and encourage you to vote for someone you actually agree with, not the "lesser of two evils" as I've heard tons of people say.  Also, if this has moved you to think outside the box with your vote tomorrow, forward this on to as many people as you wish, or send them to this link: http://blog.myspace.com/tomwehrle - it will be the first thing they'll read, nothing about me.

Remember, if you don't stand for something, you'll fall for anything. And of course, don't forget to vote tomorrow! :)

Tom Wehrle

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