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Posted on 10/03/2004 2:31:53 PM PDT by Jet Jaguar
The end of the farm harvest is fast approaching, and we all, farmers, city slickers and all those standing under the Alaska tree of fortune, will be asked to seed their vote for a new harvest of national politicos.
Those souls standing for your vote forsake honest labor to live on promises and government handouts while providing civil service in the name of leadership.
Labeled 200 years ago as "common men doing an uncommon job" that definition for politicians has long fell by the wayside as men and women of uncommon circumstance rush to fill the positions of power and trust. This leaves the voter aghast as to why these most-blessed of people want the job--Is it their life philosophy, greed for power or suicidal intent?
I think that most of us would cast aside the self-destructive part of the equation and look for answers in the power or philosophy columns. Who thinks like us, sees our nation like us and uses the great power of the office like we would if we could? Last of all, which one will treat the position with the respect accorded the office?
Sounds like plain old common horse sense, don't it? Wrong! That is not how it works. People vote according to their personal belief, for hair color and how their choice dresses.
Let us look at the presidential contenders first.
President Bush won a term in the seat vacated by a convicted criminal and known abuser of women who tip-toed past impeachment by the slenderest of margins. Bush inherited a nation whose economy was in free fall, mired in a morass of unfunded senseless programs promoted by his opponent, V.P. Gore.
The race was so close both sides were counting bent paper like the petals on a flower, "He gots it. No! He gots it not." What a way to run an election.
President Bush is up against a known traitor who has given aid and comfort to the enemies of this republic yet stands free, unchallenged and unjailed. And some folks feel the traitor will win. Even CBS has used falsified documents to derail Bush's campaign with their illustrious Dan Rather catching a giant black eye and possibly losing his $7 million a year speaking job. This is total madness without even a musing of sense. Makes you wonder what the desperate Democrats are so scared of and why they didn't find a few honest forthright contenders.
On the home front, we are faced with Sen. Lisa against ex-governor Tony. I feel that Mr. Knowles did irreversible damage to the Alaska farming community. He gutted the infrastructure and trampled every program we farmers worked so hard to make work. That alone removes him from any consideration by me or any person with ties to the soil.
I don't know Lisa Murkowski personally, but I know her dad real well from back in the '70s, and though I disagree with her father a lot, I believe she is doing a great job for the state and will go far in her selected trade.
Dan Rather retaught us to distrust the media, and so we must depend on selected sound bites and maybe a one-on-one with local people.
Folks, this is not some kind of game we are playing here. We are voting for leadership that will protect us from the forces of evil. That sounds a little hackneyed but serves the purpose. We don't need ideology far flung from the basis this country was founded on. We need strong leaders who will step up to the plate and face down once and for all the plague of terrorists that began its growth under President Carter, withered under Reagan and blossomed under Clinton.
If we suffer another Sept. 11, the jelly-kneed crowd will offer up their American-bred rights in resignation, and the loose nut survivalists will be calling for burnt spots all over Arab land. Neither will quite the problem but will breed worse attacks until we are a police state afraid of our own shadow. It takes strong leadership in times of tribulation, and Bush rose to the job audaciously.
Remember, you reap what you sow and you suffer if you don't plant at all.
Vote!
Jim Ellison is a journalist, magazine editor and farmer who is now retired and living in North Pole, where he moved in 1970 from central California.
NOBODY deserved the Clintons.
Wow! Good rant.
Heaven help us if that snake Kerry wins (steals) the election.
The people who voted for them did, and the people who voted for them TWICE deserve something even worse.
One thing the dems cannot tolerate is a fair, free election.
Damn them all.
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