Thursday, November 04, 2004
OK, I know I didn't tell about the mouse trapping (and prompt disposal, I might add), but Im sure everyone will get over it. I really just wanted to quickly offer my official endorsement of the election outcome. I voted for Pres. George W. Bush and I hope to be able to stand behind him for the next four years. Sometimes people disappoint you, but that doesn't mean we rid ourselves of hope. Never. Honestly, I think people get caught up in things that are WAY beyond their control. Even the President of the United States has extremely limited power. So when involved in an election, I look at different things than most people: First, what kind of leader the individual appears to be; Second, what kind of values they've stood for in the past; Third, how important their own family appears to be in their life. I'm sure there are other issues that are extremely important... HOWEVER, I felt more secure when I found out that Pres. Bush won his re-election. He has CLEARLY defined over the past 4 years what his values are. More importantly, he has stood by those values and turned over heaven and earth to keep them. Those are the qualities people need in a leader-- by definition, it is someone they can follow. I was terrified thinking we'd have John Kerry in the white house, supporting certain national decisions and us not knowing from one day to the next what he'd be doing. But I feel confident that we have a president who knows what he stands for. And lastly, I know this is sort of a ridiculous line of reasoning, but... when I saw pictures of Mrs. Heinz-Kerry on the day they found out her husband has NOT won the presidency, all I could think was how AWFUL she would have looked as the first lady! I mean, honestly. With her disheveled fly-away hair, her dark, sort of indescribably clothes, she looked trashed. (I know they'd been up all night, but so had the Bushes!) Then you look at Mrs. Laura Bush in her prim and proper pink suit, not a hair out of place, and she looked so Jackie-O. I imagined that if Kerry were elected, Mrs. Kerry would have to go to some sort of finishing school, or have the PR people dress her and instruct her EVERY DAY for the next 4 years. Anyway, I've given my 2 cents on the subject. If you're not as pleased as I am, I hope you learn to be sometime before the next four years are over. Because it will be complete HELL if Hilary Clinton runs in four years. Oy. I think I'll move to the Cayman Islands. See you there.
