Replies

The thought of Kerry as President is very much of a hot button for me after spending nine miserable months in MA in the 80's. The man and his policies scare me with his adoration of the UN and his hatred of all guns.

I am not in 100% agreement with all proposals of this President, but I do admire him for not doing Executive Orders to make them law. When a President does an Executive Order and it is posted, it takes a long time to overturn them if ever. I am not willing to take that chance on having a liberal from MA be President.

This election is too important to this Nation, to our members of the military who have already given their lives in the pursuit of terrorists, and to the citizens of this Country to turn the White House over to the extremely liberal Senator from MA -- Kerry!

Now you know where I am coming from on the reelection of President Bush and why I will spend every spare moment of my time to help get him reelected. Losing is not an option I even want to contemplate because it is too scarey!

The liberals have cheapened the care for our posterity that should be inherent in all we do in the political arena with their phony 'it's for the children' lying rhetoric...stealing their future while mouthing supposed concern for that very thing.

But we need to bring back the idea that we should be working night and day for our posterity.

I am in total agreement with you that the election of any Democrat at this stage of history is poison to that future.

I say all of that because I wanted to take this chance to inject something a little more substantial into this conversation.

This is a poem about my daughter Katie that I wrote a little while ago. My oldest son Matthew was married last summer, and now Kate is engaged. I also have a wonderful 9 year-old son Timothy, whose future concerns me greatly:

Sweet Child of Mine

Sweet child of mine
She is the apple of my eye
How she's grown, oh my
Seems like yesterday
She was only nine
Or was it two
I can't recall
I see her toddling up the hall
I stooped to keep her from a fall
But now she wears a shiny ring
And speaks of weddings in the spring
And married life and all it brings
Where did it go?
How it did fly
Her childhood so soon gone by
I love her still
My little girl
Remembering
Her bows and curls
A woman now
She is my friend
So may it be
Until the end

EV

It is these children who are going to have to reap the harvest of what we sow now and in the months and years ahead, and we should all keep that very much in focus.

Regards,
Tom