Elections Next Week
One week from tomorrow is election day, and politics in South Carolina have gotten even dirtier. Even the "good guys" are doing attack ads now. As the Sunday school teacher said yesterday, even the Republicans are fighting among themselves. Wonderful! I love it when a plan comes together.
Too many of our politicians (and we noted in Sunday school that there are few statesmen, or "statespeople" these days) seem bound and determined to take my native state even farther back in time. Isn't it bad enough that we are at the bottom of the list in education, live births, and the like and at the top of the list for single-parent homes, DUIs, prison population per thousand, etc., etc., etc.? And then to fear that a majority of my compatriots may vote for Mark, the governor a major news magazine recently characterized as one of the three worst governors amonst the 50 in the whole Newnited States? How can we attract more industry and provide better and more employment for our citizenry when we get this kind of press nationwide? And Andre doesn't help the cause any either. Damn, we look like a bunch of idiots!
Thank goodness for John Spratt and Kent Williams and Lindsay Graham (yeah, there are such things as decent Repubs). I like Grady Patterson and Jim Rex too.
I am certain that I will depress the "Democrat" button next Tuesday and vote straight ticket. At least most of them are in the mainstream and not out there in Never-Never Land! It's no wonder that so many young people do not vote. What have we done to deserve such poor leadership and such gullible electors? It certainly testifies to the low education results we seem to be doing our damnest to reduce even more.......
Yeah, when it comes to politics, I have become a cynic.
Too many of our politicians (and we noted in Sunday school that there are few statesmen, or "statespeople" these days) seem bound and determined to take my native state even farther back in time. Isn't it bad enough that we are at the bottom of the list in education, live births, and the like and at the top of the list for single-parent homes, DUIs, prison population per thousand, etc., etc., etc.? And then to fear that a majority of my compatriots may vote for Mark, the governor a major news magazine recently characterized as one of the three worst governors amonst the 50 in the whole Newnited States? How can we attract more industry and provide better and more employment for our citizenry when we get this kind of press nationwide? And Andre doesn't help the cause any either. Damn, we look like a bunch of idiots!
Thank goodness for John Spratt and Kent Williams and Lindsay Graham (yeah, there are such things as decent Repubs). I like Grady Patterson and Jim Rex too.
I am certain that I will depress the "Democrat" button next Tuesday and vote straight ticket. At least most of them are in the mainstream and not out there in Never-Never Land! It's no wonder that so many young people do not vote. What have we done to deserve such poor leadership and such gullible electors? It certainly testifies to the low education results we seem to be doing our damnest to reduce even more.......
Yeah, when it comes to politics, I have become a cynic.
posted by Paul Dove at 12:11 PM
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