Meanderings

PRIMARY ELECTIONS IN OHIO: Have to go vote in a while, not sure what to do this year. There are some local issues, a friend running for Judge, some other local offices. Hill, Hussein, McCain. Socialism or a 100 year war, what a cherce........... naturally it is raining in Ohio, supposedly this helps the Democrats, but Rush and others want everyone to jump party lines and vote for Hill, Hussein's workers are playing dirty in OH, handing out literature toooooo close to the door, and then somehow, no trash cans inside, so the literature is laying all over the voting area, clever. WHAT TO DO?

I remember back 20 years ago, a good friend of mine, a black, was running for a local council seat, and he asked me to go to one of his meetings with his supporters. I had done some campaigns, and been involved in politics, and he just wanted me to sit in and see what all was going on.

During the course of the discussion, they decided he needed a brochure, or a mailer of somekind. They discussed size, information to be added, background, associations, experience, all the normal stuff, BUT, let's not print his foto ............. I excused myself and got up and left the building.

In my days in Nevada, in the 50's, blacks were not allowed in the casinos. In 1952, my first demerits at The Citadel came for calling a black woman who worked in the dining room, "mam" .......... I was to use the "N" worrd, which I did not use in the past, never had, and never did in the future.

I must admit I try very hard, when I see anyone, in person or on TV to not see a race, just a person. In Barack's case, I am more concerned about a "takeover from within" ........... that is in one of their teachings, somewhere.

I am too far past the worry stage to get emotionally involved, as long as our checks come from SS each month, and Medicare works, I'm OK.

I still remember FDR and Wilkie, but a lot of other names have slipped by the wayside, time marches on, and hopefully, so will we.