I imagine that a lot of you have
been wondering what happened to this blog this year. My father’s health seriously went downhill
this year. He finally gave up his fight
on June 22, 2016. He lived to be 92
years 12 days old.
I know that he really
enjoyed writing this blog. I am his one
and only son, Craig. I think that he has
mentioned me before in his blog. I
probably should have written this before now.
All I can say is, I just wasn’t ready.
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ELECTION NIGHT IN AMERICA
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I am nervously listening to the
television right now. I am not surprised
by a lot of what I am hearing tonight. However,
I am surprised that Donald Trump is doing, as well as he is across the nation. I thought that we, as a nation, were a lot
smarter than this. I am just unable to
fathom what makes a person believe that someone that has never been elected to “dog
catcher” would be a person that would be good as President of the United
States.
My son belonged to a youth group
named “DeMolay International” when he was a young man and is an adult leader in
that organization today. This group has a
President, Vice-President, Speaker of the House, and Secretary. Now, this organization does not have these
titles, but they do have four elected positions. He had not held an elected statewide position
before, but, he ran a campaign for the highest elected office. He won by four votes. He won by getting out and meeting the members
who were going to elect him the night before the election. I believe they call this “pressing flesh.” I understand how he won.
My mother, Bless Her Heart,
always said that “If you want to get elected in politics, tell the people what
they want to hear. Once you get elected,
do whatever you want.” Well, that is
exactly what Donald Trump did. I hope
people that voted for Donald Trump are not disappointed with the actions of
Donald Trump, if he does not do what he said he would during his campaign. From what I have heard from Donald Trump, I
hope that he will not take our race relationships back to the 1950’s. Our nation has worked so hard to get to where
we are now in our race relations. I know
that we have a long way to go and that we have problems, but I do not see these
problems getting solved if Donald Trump becomes President.
I believe that Donald Trump is
winning because there are a lot of people that are disappointed with the
Federal Government. I think that a big
problem deals with congress, itself.
They have not been working together to get anything accomplished. They have not been working with President
Obama, because he is a Democrat and the majority of congress is
Republican. However, the Democrats in the
Senate have enough numbers to block whatever the Republicans try to
accomplish. They are not working
together and they are not working for the good of the country. If Donald Trump wins tonight, the Republicans
will control the House, the Senate and the Presidency. At this time, I don’t know whether that’s a
positive.
Since Donald Trump has never been
elected to any office, we have no idea of what he really stands for. We have to look at the business practices of
Donald Trump to determine who he is. We
see that he maximizes profits by not paying companies for work that they do or
he only pays them half of what they are due.
This tells me that he doesn’t do what he says he’s going to do.
I know that the Hillary Clinton
campaign is very surprised. They thought
that they were going to win a lot of states that have gone to Donald
Trump. I don’t have too much more to say
tonight. We will just have to wait until
later to see who is going to be our President for the next four years.
Thank you for listening to
me. I know that I am not my father and I
do not propose to be. However, if I do
continue to do this blog, I will do it my way.
Well Donald Trump just won
Florida. As of 10:35 PM CST, Donald
Trump has 216 Electoral Votes to Hillary Clinton has 197 Electoral Votes.
God Bless America
Craig
