Election Day in the US…
Well, finally the campaigning is over and it has been one of the longest bitterest campaigns I’ve seen in my lifetime. Towards the end, well, lets just say the Republican candidates were getting ridiculously negative. About they only thing they didn’t claim is that Obama’s mother wore army boots and his dog was ugly — otherwise they hit just about every innuendo and near-slanderous remark they could. What were they thinking? Nothing evidently, because the lower they sunk the lower their numbers got and they still didn’t catch a clue.
I voted early this afternoon. I don’t know how it is going to turn out and I’m following the early returns but I figure we won’t know anything until tomorrow sometime. This election has so much riding on it. Our country’s economy is in the toilet. We’re in a war we never should have started. We have no moral high-ground left after all that our current administration has done. Our constitution has been filled with bullet holes from the present administration and Congress couldn’t find a spine if they all chipped in to make one from what is left of their backbones. We need some change and we need some hope that the next leader of the country will work to bring that positive change to our problems. We also need to mend fences with our allies and with the world.
Tomorrow will tell us — who the people of this country chose to make move us forward. The choices were pretty clear — someone with a new vision or someone who wanted to continue with the policies that got us into this mess. I’m hoping for the guy with the funny name because the maverick certainly has never done anything to deserve that nickname.