I had to share this.

From the AP, Obama: Democratic voter apathy ‘inexcusable’:

WASHINGTON – Admonishing his own party, President Barack Obama says it would be “inexcusable” and “irresponsible” for unenthusiastic Democratic voters to sit out the midterm elections, warning that the consequences could be a squandered agenda for years.

“People need to shake off this lethargy. People need to buck up,” Obama told Rolling Stone in an interview to be published Friday. The president told Democrats that making change happen is hard and “if people now want to take their ball and go home, that tells me folks weren’t serious in the first place.”

Anyone who says Obama’s peeps don’t read Daily Kos?  Ahem.

Now I just know that this stern lecture will bring out the vote.

After all, it’s the fault of the voters.  We need to buck up!

I’d laugh, but I’m too apathetic and lethargic.  Sorry.

I could come up with all sorts of rationalizations but I choose no longer to spend my energy on rationalizations.

Rationalizations … ok, I’ll use the new health insurance laws as an example.

My sister will receive desperately needed health care she otherwise could never have gotten.  I don’t mean my legal family sister, btw.  I mean my human sister.  As in the expansive sense of all my brothers and sisters in this world.

And my brother will have it worse than he had before, these new laws will probably literally kill him.

And I could rationalize my sister’s need away.  That’s what I mean by no longer choosing to spend my energy on rationalization.