Final Thoughts

OBAMA WON.

I promised myself i would avoid politics but I can't. It's in my blood, and after 22-months of the longest, most expensive, most historical campaign in American history, and a new page in the Administration of American government I still don't know what to think because of mean spirited, devisive comments, calling fellow Americans to fight our new President. This is surely not what the framers of our Consitution had in mind when they wrote the Declaration of Independence. And it worries me greatly.

I listened to Senator McCain's farewell speech to his supporters. It was unscripted and from the heart. In a word it was eloquent and befitting a senior statesman. I wondered why he didn't do this earlier in the campaign. I wondered why he used prepared speeches that did not fairly represent him or his ideas as the statesman he really is. In the end the speaches gained him little and probably lost votes. I firmly believe that if Senator McCain had draped himself over the lecturrn and talked straight from the heart to a divided America the final vote would have been much closer and the end might have been much closer.

As for Senator Obama, most of us have skeletons, a misguided youth and indescretions we'd just as soon not see bantered about in public forum. However there is, I think, a fine line between civil discussions over alleged misconduct and carachter assination. A politician's career can be killed just as quickly by trash talk as he can by a bullet. Perhaps this is why one of the Ten Commandments admonishes us "Thou shalt not kill".

Maybe if religious leaders worldwide preached the message of love and the goodness of their faith. instead of hate (those of another religion) and admonishing congregants to vote a religion, instead of voting the issues we might be a less divided politically.

The same can be said of any country whether it is a monaracy, theocracy, democracy or a dictatorship. If eceryone can be treated fairly by their neighbors and equally in the eyes of the law, we would leave this a much better world for the generation.

I've watched and read the political pundits for fifty=five years. The last two national elections have been the nastiest in American history. We will never have a UNITED states if the political parties - and I mean the main movers and shakers of the DNC and RNC cannot sit down at the same table and have civil intercourse with each other and with the rest of us.