• Disenfranchised

    Disenfranchised

                “Get Out and Vote” was a folksy song that blasted every Election Day out of our AM radio in the kitchen when I was growing up over fifty years ago. My parents always did, taking me into the curtained voting booths until the kindly ladies working the polling stations said I was too old.…

  • From Joe’s Basement

    From Joe’s Basement

    March 2020 is a time most people will remember where they were and what they were doing when the nation, the world, shut down. COVID-19, a Coronavirus, hit our shores and you know the rest. You lived it.             2020 was a presidential election year. Donald Trump sought reelection, and a mass stable of Democrats…

  • John Kerry and Swift Boating

    John Kerry and Swift Boating

    In 2004 two blue bloods faced off in the presidential election. Incumbent President George Walker Bush was challenged by John Forbes Kerry. Both hailed from aristocratic families of the northeast, although Bush’s father, the forty-first president, had migrated to Texas after serving as a naval combat pilot in World War II. Kerry was born in…

  • What Could Have Been

    What Could Have Been

    What if JFK and Barry Goldwater faced each other in 1964?             One sad reality of modern politics is diminishing relationships, even friendships, across the aisle in Congress. Democrats and Republicans spoke to one another and crafted legislation with the opposing party to benefit the American people. Compromise benefitted everyone and was NOT an ugly…