An On-Line Publication of The Anonymous Anything Society
EVERY FOUR YEARS
Yes, every four years, we Americans elect or re-elect a
President: Each time, we are told that the upcoming election is bound to be
transformative.
I can predict the outcome of one local political race: Either
Arizona Republican Senator Martha McSally, who was appointed to finish the
term of the late John McCain by the Republican Governor of Arizona, will be
returned to Washington for a full four years or Democratic Party candidate
Mark Kelly will replace her. (I risk my reputation as a political panjandrum
by picking Kelly.)
Either way, we voters will not be any longer subjected to
a string of often biting, back-to-back political advertisements-paid for by
their donors.
I am 93 and I was fortunate in having two Great Uncles, John
and Christopher Hill, who were acquainted with a backwoods lawyer, Abraham
Lincoln, when they all lived in Springfield, the Illinois State Capital.
They often recounted the dark times; the upheavals that followed Lincoln's
assassination-particularly the 1868 race between Republican Ulysses S. Grant
and a Democratic Party Candidate named Horatio Seymour.(?)
"The Atlantic." a leading publication at that time, declared
the contest to be "The most important election Americans will have ever
known."
-Phil Richardson, Storyteller and Observer of the Human Condition