Rose speaks – Celebrity and High Profile Trials

I always vote a split ticket and refer to myself as a “Moderate Independent”; most of my best friends are Republicans. Sometimes I feel like MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough who is a Republican and most of his friends are Democrat.

I remember the fear of the first Catholic President, John F. Kennedy, and all of the fear leading up to the election of the “fact” the Pope would run our country and we had to prevent that at all costs. He won by a very narrow margin and my mom kept me up late to see the results, she told me I was witnessing history; and I was.

I voted for Nixon both times and as I tell my friends, the man broke my heart. I did not vote for Clinton either time, staying home from voting in both elections.

I feel like this election I am the most informed on the different visions for our country, and through that, I am also the most informed on what is happening in my state, then I have ever been before, and I have to say I felt empowered by that. The internet has changed forever how the average person gets information; it is both a curse, some say, and a giant blessing others say.

However, can a diminishing white majority that sees that in their lifetimes they will become the minority, be able to vote for a black candidate. It is a valid question, in my opinion. If you can’t vote for him because he is black then own those feelings, we still have that freedom here to say, “I just can’t, I fear him”. You don’t have to own those feelings with others, but own them in your very core being.

If you vote strictly on the issues of today, the different visions of each candidate then you have done good. If you took all of the “Barack Obama” propaganda, put out there by a very small radical group of the Republican Party, from his birth certificate is “false”; he is “Muslin”; he has “terrorists for friends”, then please go to www.snopes.com read and research. The same goes for Palin, read about the 17 years her husband was in a true hate the U. S. flag, Secessionist Party in Alaska, but don’t buy into that Sarah Palin herself belonged to that party because that is as false as the propaganda about Barack Obama.

It bothers me that Republicans are saying, “We can hold Pennsylvania if we can keep voter turnout low in Philadelphia”. Do what?? So many people before us have died to keep the largest democracy in the world free to VOTE.

Research and vote on issues, not on the color of the candidates’ skin or the fear mongering put out there by a very select few. This is most likely not only history we are observing and participating in, but also for the direction of our country with the most serious issues and future, we face.

By the way, both sides have been “Socialists” and “Nationalists”, very nasty words to most Americans. Remember, Medicare and Social Security is “Socialist” if you go by the core meaning of the word/term. We are also “Nationalists” if you go by the core meaning of that term/word because we just took over as taxpayers many banks.

I had a beautiful drive in the country to vote, I took all kinds of identifications to prove whom I am because of the tightening of ID verification needed to match up here in Texas. Your voter registration had to match your picture ID and the new database here in Texas and my does not. The reason it does not is because I am on Social Security, Medicare, and I became eligible before Ken and I got together. My picture ID reflects the last name of Turner, my voter registration had my first name and Turner as the last name but had my middle initial on it so there was a frantic search for marriage license, a bill, anything to prove I am who I am because I wanted to vote.

When we got near the small country church that the voting machines are in here, I saw two Obama/Biden signs, one McCain/Palin and one for a local election and my heart felt hopeful. However, the black woman in line in front of us had to show so much ID, had to fill out paperwork had to hold up the line for all of us because she wanted to prove who she was and VOTE. When I got to where you sign in and present your ID, I was immediately processed with no need for picture ID or identification with the database. Is that fair?

Remember what King said, “I have a dream that the day will come when my children are not judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character”. Hold that in your hearts, stand in line as long as you have to and Vote; you are part of history today.

In closing, someone sent me a saying yesterday that just seemed to fit:

“Out of clutter find Simplicity; from discord find Harmony; In the middle of difficulty lies Opportunity.”
~Albert Einstein~

Another thought, I am going to miss Tim Russert tonight on NBC and his simple white board, his animated predictions of which state would hold the election and win for one of the candidates. He would have loved this election and the history we are all part of today.

I have voted, have you?

©Rose Turner, An Editorial Opinion
November 4, 2008
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