Ones memory can be very selective. We tend to remember, with great detail, what we want to remember. The “good old days” are affectionately recalled because of the selective capability to recall the good parts and discharge the bad.
I have often recalled elections when I was a youngster. My family would load up in the old brown Oldsmobile and head for town. The votes had been cast and now the challenge of adding up the results was at hand. In recent days past the courthouse square had been transformed into election central. A huge board had been erected with each candidate’s name for every office that was up for election. Each precinct was numbered and had its own box stretching out from the name. At the far right side was a totals box. Each precinct hand counted the ballots and totaled the results while assigning one of the poll workers the task of calling in the results or in some cases driving to the square to submit the results. There was a party atmosphere, kids were running and playing while the adults visited and watched the results come in. Men drank coffee, or other beverages, and hung on every announcement as it was made. The process continued late into the night. Results of statewide or national elections weren’t known until the next day and sometimes the day after that. Those were the good old days.
Electronic balloting and computers being hacked where never imagined. Diebold Corporation was not in a position to control the outcome. We felt these elections were as fair and honest as they could possibly be. Now the vast majority of all voting machines are developed and produced by Diebold Corporation of which George Soros owns controlling interest. Could the election be rigged? You answer that question.
In 2012 we were extended the opportunity to vote out of office the most corrupt administration we have ever had. But we didn’t. Not unlike today there was a devastating hurricane visiting the east coast. The republican candidate decided to suspend his campaign the last ten days before voting was to take place. Governor Christi was shown repeatedly on all the media outlets with his arm around President Obama for his response to the victims of the storm. No word came from the republicans. Once again the Republican Party found a way to deliver an election to their opponent.
As I write this there are twenty-one days left until this election. There is only one presidential debate remaining. In the name of all that is holy let us not stop spreading our message of hope to anyone that will listen. In your mind we may not the choice of electing the best person to lead our country, but we do have the same opportunity to elect the worst. Old politics has not worked. It is time to bring an outsider to the White House as its next resident. Mrs. Clinton has enabled her husband in using multiple bedrooms in this sacred abode. He doesn’t need to have occasion to use more bedrooms at this time.
Mr. Trump is an unknown commodity. He is rough talking and has no polish in his speech but I honestly feel he loves his country and will try to salvage this land of liberty. I feel Mrs. Clinton may not love her country but will use it to further her wealth, influence and power to control other people’s lives.
I feel we have only one true choice if you love your country and want to help it rather than have it nurse you. The deadline to register for voting is nigh, in some places it has passed. If possible register and encourage others to register. Campaign for what you feel is the best for our country, then vote. There is no excuse that is acceptable for not voting. Election Day is November 8th; let’s have the largest turnout of informed, educated voters in our country’s history. Vote.
Remember back to November 3, 1948. The Chicago Daily Tribune had gone to print earlier than was the norm. Seeing there was no way a dark horse incumbent could pull a win out of the bag, the headline, in huge letters, boldly proclaimed “DEWEY BEATS TRUMAN.” It wasn’t so. I suggest no one go to print early on November 9, 2016.
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