[Deep Freeze] Tuesday, November 04, 2008 6:32:00 AM
A fine Tuesday to you all. A very, very big day in America! Today, we Americans will make political history in our beloved country. I truly believe that there is not a one of you that does not know what this day is all about.
Rather than go on about my choice versus the other candidate/party, I thought I would comment on the state in which we find ourselves on this most important day. Not since the early 1940's has the US been in such a condition. The world is a far different place and, for old men like me, this day will quite likely be the day that changes our lives forever. It is a new time. A time when the values and issues of great importance are no longer what they were. A time when this entire country has morphed into something nearly unrecognizable to those of us that can recall those days gone by.
To try to compare what we are now and what we were is completely unfair, since it is such a subjective opinion. There are so many that feel we are in need of "change", That we are no longer "the strongest nation on earth". That we shouldn't be. That we should be more like the other countries in the world and try to blend into what they believe is the "right" course.
This world has indeed changed. In 1942, we came to save the "oppressed". To rescue the world from tyranny. Now, many say we are the tyrants. America has a "bad name" in the world's eye and we are too arrogant. Or so I am told.
I wonder how this world would be without the United States? I know that sounds like a petty argument but if you can, just for a moment, imagine what this world would be like if America sealed her borders, cut off ALL aid to any and all foreign nations and decided to stay out of the affairs of everyone else? Can you even picture it? I just wonder what would happen?
I suppose I could speculate. Use conjecture and draw for all of you an image that I see in my mind. I will not bore you with such nonsense.
In a few short hours, this country will change. This country will take a new course. History will be made, one way or another. I can assure you all, even those of you in other countries, that YOUR lives will change too. Remember that. For today, you will witness history and you will soon know what that really means.
