I have a couple of things on my mind. (I know; I can hear the girls out front wondering, “how did he ever get more than one thing on such a small mind.”)
Anyway, I’m sick of hearing people cry and complain about the present administration and how they are running our country into the ground and into Mexico and into India, etc. They don’t like the way things are going but they won’t try doing anything about it.
If you don’t vote, you need to be quiet. If you did vote, then yell until your lungs hurt and keep voting ‘til government starts getting back to being a government “of and for the people.”
Next Tuesday, we get to exercise one of, if not the most important, right and privilege we have as Americans. Please don’t squander that right. The primary is very important because, if the best candidates are not lined up now, how can you expect to win in November. A flood starts one drop at a time, let’s flood the ballot boxes, one vote at a time.
There were several politicians at the Picnic. Did you visit with them and make them answer your questions with specific answers and not generalities? There was one, “Warren Beaty” look-a-like who did a lot of talking but didn’t have much to say. Then there was another that I would like to endorse here but can’t afford to pay for the ad.
Find out who you are voting for. Get online, email questions and, if you can get a number, call them. Make them be honest with you.
I may have over-extended myself here, but I want to put in a quick word for the Municipal Band. My seven year old granddaughter is visiting and on Friday she went with me to listen. Saturday night and Sunday afternoon it was, “Grandpa, is it time to go see the Band.” I wish more people could be that excited to come to the Park and listen to the Band. I guarantee a great time. If you can’t come every time they perform, how about an evening or afternoon or two a month. You couldn’t expect a business that didn’t get support to stay, so shouldn’t we support something this good and unique? Not many places in the country have anything like it.
Skip Rothenberger El Dorado Springs
Simple, Isn't it?
Editor:
At the present time it looks as if the Democratic power machine in Washington D.C. is starting to run scared. They have eaten high on the hog by having a majority in both the House and the Senate during Mr. Obama’s presidency but now, with the November mid-term elections coming up and Mr. Obama’s poll numbers dropping like a rock and the confidence in our elected officials at an all time low, there seems to be a big change in the attitude of the people who are likely voters.
What do you do to get back into the game? You bring out the big guns. You inform the populace that your opponents are the horrible “R” word. They are racists. They are like unto the “Old South” slave owners. At least that is the attitude coming out of the vaunted NAACP, for Benjamin Jealous, the president of that group, has vented his harshest remarks upon that hated group, The Tea Party, for their hatred of our beloved President Barack Hussein Obama and his Attorney General Eric Holder. According to Mr. Jealous, the Tea Party had signs at their rallies calling for the lynching of Mr. Obama and Mr. Holder. Of course, Mr. Jealous had nothing to back up his accusations, no pictures, no other witnesses, nothing other than his word but he knew it was true so, therefore, the entire Tea Party is a racist party and are not to be considered truthful in any way shape or form. Now we are back to the big lie.
Now where do you get the necessary number of voters to swing an election when your own poll numbers are down? Well, you recruit them from the ranks of the unregistered populace. At the present time when ICE raids a plant that is employing illegal immigrants they do not detain the illegal people or deport them, they only demand that the employer fire them and allow them to remain where they are. They are now unemployed and, having no visible means of support, they depend on the benevolent local government for their food, clothing and shelter. Welfare. If medical care is needed, they go to ER and are treated for free. Their children continue in school at the taxpayer’s expense and, since the parents are penniless, they get the free breakfast and lunch, again, at the taxpayer’s expense.
Now if President Obama can manage to swing Compre-hensive Immigration Reform before the 2010 Presidential Election and give them amnesty for their illegal status, he has automatically gained 12 million votes and now he is back in the game. Simple, isn’t it? Chicago style politics. The more things change, the more they remain the same.
