Voting- The Great Inconvenience

I just realized that I'm not as passionate about politics as I use to be.  Let's just say my rose colored glasses-- you know the ones that John Lennon had women wearing-- have become dusty and the passing of time has caused a filmy build-up of reality.  I've become one of the ever increasing American cynics and the scary part is, I'm not ashamed.  But, should I be?  

I know, I know... I ought to be excited about the history making unprecedented election of '08, where a woman and an African American man have both been nominated by the two major political parties.  I should be elated... but the truth be told, I feel a bit deflated and it's not just because Hillary was ushered out.  Her debt has been paid and now she's politely bowed out.     

I feel deflated because the world isn't the world that I had imagined for my kids.  I feel deflated because the housing crisis, the gas prices, the recession and a myriad of other crisises, has made it difficult to dream the American Dream.   Unfortunately for me, there's no vision of sugar plums dancing in my head, as I tuck the kiddies into bed.

But here's the thing, I'm not alone.  As quiet as it's kept, there are a lot of women out here who share my lack of enthusiasm.  There are women who say: Obama yells.   McCain's too old.  Biden for what? Palin for who?   Voting seems like just another chore, a rather huge inconvenience.   

There are female voters, who like me, just don't want to vote in '08.  We're tired.  We'd prefer to sit this election out.  No, we're not anti-suffragists.  No, we don;t want to be disenfranchised and no, we're not complacent.  We're neither, backward in our collective thinking or silly ninnies.  But we are tired.

We're tired of the same old, good old boy network, called politics. 

Probably, I'll vote.  But I'm not thrilled.  But I will be.  Hillary 2012.