Uncle Clay, who are you voting for?
Question:
As the candidate, how will you deal with a misinformed public.
a. Design a U-tube ad. It is more likely to be watched than any other media.
b. Hire ‘big’ out of work union members to beat up all the news people giving out the information.
c. Hope the little baby Jesus will tell his dad to strike the misinformers dumb.
d. If you can’t take the heat get out of the kitchen.
As I write this I have two house guests sleeping contently in our back bedroom. Actually, if you had ever been to my house I wouldn't have to say which bedroom, Eh?
It’s my wife’s niece and her husband and I need to say that so you don’t think they are on my side. They are both from Rochester, NY. He does lawn care in the summer and she is a hair stylist. They are both forty-years old and have voted in every Presidential election since they were old enough. Her mother suffered a series of strokes in the past several years and lives only a few miles from her. Her father is the caregiver but being he is pushing eighty it’s necessary for Alice (my niece-in-law) to spend most of her evenings helping out.
They were telling me over coffee yesterday about how difficult it was to maintain any sort of a positive lifestyle. They pay over $8,000 a year for health care. Their one bedroom house which he paid $28,000 for eleven years ago is taxed over $3,000 a year. She keeps turning off lights in the house to conserve energy and he only drinks generic beer. They fish and hunt and eat everything they catch or shoot. They have a dog, he owns twenty-five guns. Their only vacation is here in Key West staying with us. They rent an economy car with unlimited mileage and drive all day and night to get here. He is afraid that his employer who he has been with will replace him with an immigrant because he has worked so long for him that his pay is getting to be a burden. His employer could get two or three immigrants to work for what he gets paid. To him that’s a heavy burden to carry because he doesn’t think he can do anything else.
They put every penny into their retirement fund because they also are concerned about their own retirement. When they told me that I told them to start spending some of that money on themselves, maybe stock up on some real Corona and maybe consider flying down here next time. In other words “live a little.” I also told them that both of them could easily find work here in Key West and make a lot more money doing what they’re already doing, but that’s a mute point because Alice will never leave her mother’s side. Another forfeited life or lives.
So yesterday morning while we sat there talking David her husband asked about who was I going to vote for. I replied I wasn’t sure yet but it was going to be between McCain and Obama and I’d have to find out more about them. Then David who seemed almost embarrassed to say what came next asked me, “Do you really think we should put a Muslim in the White House?” I was taken back, here was the typical somewhat intelligent, hard working American couple who are sincerely concerned with not only their future but the future of our county as well and he asked me that! I took a deep breath and thought out what or how should I reply and came up with this: David, Obama is not a Muslim, never has been a Muslim and never will be a Muslim. He was raised a Christian and will remain a Christian. The look on his face was the tell-tale fact of what he really was thinking, (why is Uncle Clay lying to me.” I picked up my coffee and walked out on my dock to have a cigarette and just shook my head in disbelief. Oh, no I didn’t go back in to try and persuade him that he was wrong. My only wish was that he’d stop listening to those tv and radio talk shows. Albeit they are free and I guess that’s the only entertainment they can afford...
Clay
As the candidate, how will you deal with a misinformed public.
a. Design a U-tube ad. It is more likely to be watched than any other media.
b. Hire ‘big’ out of work union members to beat up all the news people giving out the information.
c. Hope the little baby Jesus will tell his dad to strike the misinformers dumb.
d. If you can’t take the heat get out of the kitchen.
As I write this I have two house guests sleeping contently in our back bedroom. Actually, if you had ever been to my house I wouldn't have to say which bedroom, Eh?
It’s my wife’s niece and her husband and I need to say that so you don’t think they are on my side. They are both from Rochester, NY. He does lawn care in the summer and she is a hair stylist. They are both forty-years old and have voted in every Presidential election since they were old enough. Her mother suffered a series of strokes in the past several years and lives only a few miles from her. Her father is the caregiver but being he is pushing eighty it’s necessary for Alice (my niece-in-law) to spend most of her evenings helping out.
They were telling me over coffee yesterday about how difficult it was to maintain any sort of a positive lifestyle. They pay over $8,000 a year for health care. Their one bedroom house which he paid $28,000 for eleven years ago is taxed over $3,000 a year. She keeps turning off lights in the house to conserve energy and he only drinks generic beer. They fish and hunt and eat everything they catch or shoot. They have a dog, he owns twenty-five guns. Their only vacation is here in Key West staying with us. They rent an economy car with unlimited mileage and drive all day and night to get here. He is afraid that his employer who he has been with will replace him with an immigrant because he has worked so long for him that his pay is getting to be a burden. His employer could get two or three immigrants to work for what he gets paid. To him that’s a heavy burden to carry because he doesn’t think he can do anything else.
They put every penny into their retirement fund because they also are concerned about their own retirement. When they told me that I told them to start spending some of that money on themselves, maybe stock up on some real Corona and maybe consider flying down here next time. In other words “live a little.” I also told them that both of them could easily find work here in Key West and make a lot more money doing what they’re already doing, but that’s a mute point because Alice will never leave her mother’s side. Another forfeited life or lives.
So yesterday morning while we sat there talking David her husband asked about who was I going to vote for. I replied I wasn’t sure yet but it was going to be between McCain and Obama and I’d have to find out more about them. Then David who seemed almost embarrassed to say what came next asked me, “Do you really think we should put a Muslim in the White House?” I was taken back, here was the typical somewhat intelligent, hard working American couple who are sincerely concerned with not only their future but the future of our county as well and he asked me that! I took a deep breath and thought out what or how should I reply and came up with this: David, Obama is not a Muslim, never has been a Muslim and never will be a Muslim. He was raised a Christian and will remain a Christian. The look on his face was the tell-tale fact of what he really was thinking, (why is Uncle Clay lying to me.” I picked up my coffee and walked out on my dock to have a cigarette and just shook my head in disbelief. Oh, no I didn’t go back in to try and persuade him that he was wrong. My only wish was that he’d stop listening to those tv and radio talk shows. Albeit they are free and I guess that’s the only entertainment they can afford...
Clay
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