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I only have a few weeks left before the election to visit Obama, Japan. A sea side town only 3 hours from Osaka, this little place has gotten behind the American Presidential Candidate with vigour. Local vendors are even selling ‘Obama for Obama’ T shirts and cakes. I need to go.

How excited am I that Barack Obama has been nominated to run as the Democrats candidate? Fraking excited! I also think this is a great idea from Anthony’s tumblr:

I wish I could buy someone’s vote on eBay (or why I think I am a Category 4 Genius)

I’m an Australian living in Australia and therefore because of some absurd logic can not vote in the American Presidential Primaries.Yet I have more consciousness and affinity with this process than I did with the recent election here in my own country.

I would be comfortable voting in Louisiana (went to school in a tiny town in Louisiana called Linville for a year when I was 5), California (every December / January when I was growing up my family stayed with friends in Long Beach) or Florida (I briefly served time in a tennis academy there because I was sentenced to be a indentured son).

Considering so few Americans vote anyway. Why can’t the people who aren’t going to participate list their rights to vote on eBay so someone from a foreign country whose own Government is influenced and affected by US policy could buy that vote and make the US Citizen place a vote for whoever the buyer nominates? Put caps on the amount of votes from each country sort of like the green card lottery so as to not allow the process to be unduly affected by a country from the Axis of Evil etc.

It will boost voter numbers both directly and indirectly, put in an influx of foreign capital into the economy and make the world feel a lot less hostile towards the USA.

My work here is done. Now someone go make it happen.

Yeah, what he said…