Please pull over a chair and have a seat; there’s something I’d like to share with you. It’s about that election coming up on Tuesday November 6. (And for all you progressives don’t forget that if you’re too busy to vote that Tuesday there’s an alternate voting date of Wednesday.) So the thing is I won’t be voting for Mr. Obama.
Now I have two remaining opportunities to write about this election before it happens. By the third week I’ll already be writing in retrospect possibly to share what if anything is different about sending in my column from Melbourne (the Australian city not the Queens street). Or possibly to observe that having a President Romney in office doesn’t create any euphoria just the kind of relief felt after the locomotive barreling down the tracks misses your stalled car by “that much.” We’ll have to wait and see.
This is definitely one of those times when I just can’t be thankful enough to be a frum Jew with a modicum of faith and belief that Palgei mayim lev melech b’yad Hashem (Mishlei 21:1) to keep me on an even keel even as the rest of the world — right and left alike — goes bonkers from fear of what may happen to their candidate and country on the 6th. That doesn’t include of course all those “undecided voters ” who like me are sleeping just fine these nights. Unless as I suspect that entire category is a media fiction and is actually comprised only of severely neglected people desperate for a once-in-four-years chance to get the attention they crave.
So how to use my bit of space here in the run-up to the election? I suppose I could offer reasons to vote as I think one should but I won’t. There certainly are enough folks out there on both sides offering reasons to vote for their guy. National Review is selling a poster featuring — count ‘em — 689 reasons to boot Barack Obama out of office. That figure however includes several dozen repetitions of “Joe Biden” sprinkled throughout the list of reasons.
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