Indiana: Republican Smudge
Stan Grimes
October 24, 2008
My morning ritual includes drinking a cup of coffee, watching CNN, and checking the mail. Pretty dull huh? Today, my ritual was somewhat interrupted when I checked our mail and low and behold I found a picture of Barack Obama juxtaposed next to Mr. Ayers, the once home grown terrorist. The flyer gave the typical "Obama is connected to a terrorist" spiel. I thought, naively so, for a period of time that Indiana had not fallen into the fray of the National Republican Party I was wrong.
It seems to me that we are only eleven days away from the election and the Republican Party is desperate. They have lost the support of key Republican leaders such as Colin Powell. I am a Democrat, but even I have always looked up to the former Secretary of State as a decent and respectable man. Most of all, I will always think of Mr. Powell as a fair and honest man unflappable in his loyalty to our great country.
Although I realize you can mail anybody you want to or you can email anybody you want to. There´s no law against it, but I felt like my privacy was invaded by this unwanted piece of mail. Of course I read it and threw it in my wastebasket like I do with all my junk mail. After all, unwanted mail is in my opinion "junk mail." It is spam in the form of paper.
I´ve not received one ounce of surprise mail from the Democrats attacking McCain for his connections with G. Gordon Liddy or the Keating Five incident. Nor have I received any unwanted mail regarding Sarah Palin´s abuse of power in her state or her connections with the Alaskan Secessionist movement. If I did, I would throw them into my trashcan too.
You see, I´m one of these strange folks, who believes that the issues lying before our country are much more important than all that. Also, I think we as citizens are better than that. We are smarter than that. Voters aren´t a bunch of uneducated nimrods out here wanting to hear trash-talking politics. We want a direction. We want to be led to a brighter future and in case you haven´t noticed we are currently not in a happy place economically, healthcare-wise, and job-wise.
My great state of Indiana, my home, has not given me cause yet to move to Alaska and kill a moose, but it has placed a small smudge in my trust in its political leaders and their respectability.
It seems to me that we are only eleven days away from the election and the Republican Party is desperate. They have lost the support of key Republican leaders such as Colin Powell. I am a Democrat, but even I have always looked up to the former Secretary of State as a decent and respectable man. Most of all, I will always think of Mr. Powell as a fair and honest man unflappable in his loyalty to our great country.
Although I realize you can mail anybody you want to or you can email anybody you want to. There´s no law against it, but I felt like my privacy was invaded by this unwanted piece of mail. Of course I read it and threw it in my wastebasket like I do with all my junk mail. After all, unwanted mail is in my opinion "junk mail." It is spam in the form of paper.
I´ve not received one ounce of surprise mail from the Democrats attacking McCain for his connections with G. Gordon Liddy or the Keating Five incident. Nor have I received any unwanted mail regarding Sarah Palin´s abuse of power in her state or her connections with the Alaskan Secessionist movement. If I did, I would throw them into my trashcan too.
You see, I´m one of these strange folks, who believes that the issues lying before our country are much more important than all that. Also, I think we as citizens are better than that. We are smarter than that. Voters aren´t a bunch of uneducated nimrods out here wanting to hear trash-talking politics. We want a direction. We want to be led to a brighter future and in case you haven´t noticed we are currently not in a happy place economically, healthcare-wise, and job-wise.
My great state of Indiana, my home, has not given me cause yet to move to Alaska and kill a moose, but it has placed a small smudge in my trust in its political leaders and their respectability.
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