Americans usually do what’s right at the polls
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Editor,
At year-end this is the time we read all the various predictions for the coming year, the next election, and all sorts of detailed opinions about this and that person in politics. I was just reflecting on this as I was reading some CNN headlines on the internet.
Here are some of the questions and statements: What about Obama vs. Palin for president? Will Newt Gingrich run for president? How will the shellacking the Dems took affect 2011? Death panels controversy flares up anew.
I sit back, look at all this, and read the detail surrounding the headlines and say to myself, after all the articles and talking heads we will be subjected to until the next election, I don’t think much is going to change. Obama will win the next election simply because his long range vision for America, whether we agree with everything he does or not, is solid, on target, and is basically right for this great nation of ours.
Did you read the latest Gallup poll? It was a USA Today’s Gallup Dec. 10-12 poll. Here was the question: What man that you have heard or read about, living today in any part of the world, do you admire most? And who is your second choice?
Here are many of the names listed in the results, and bear in mind these are only men, (women were not included in this poll for some reason): Obama – 22 percent, G.W. Bush - 5 percent, Bill Clinton – 4 percent, Glenn Beck 2 percent, The Pope – 2 percent, The Dalai Lama – 1 percent.
My point is this: regardless of the heat of the moment, the anger and frustration people have, the moral issues being addressed, and the great loyalty to a particular political party even though they both operate just about the same way… regardless of all this, when a proper presidential election is held in our country we, as the American people, usually do what is right for the time frame which we find ourselves in.
I think we can count on that sensibility and that ultimate wisdom as we address our present and future challenges.
Bob McClellan
Polson
