"They told me when I was younger, 'Boy you gonna be president," but just like everything else those old crazy dreams kind of came and went...."

I picked the kids up from school and our family headed to the polls.
There was no line.
My son went into the booth with me and pulled the lever that closed the curtain.
We carefully considered the proposition before us and the names of the candidates on each line.
Harrison drew down the little red plastic arrows for our candidates, firmly grasped the handle and registered our vote.

I am glad that my children are old enough to remember this election.
I only wish my father was alive to see this day in our history.
I wonder what Dad would have to say about it all.

I think I know what candidate Dad would vote for, as the older he grew the more liberal he became. heck, at the end he may have become even more liberal than me!

One thing I do know, Dad would have loved watching Sarah Palin on tv. My father loved beautiful women, and he loved to watch women flirt, and flirt she certainly does. I just wonder what he would have had to say about her. I think he would feel the same way I do. I know he would have enjoyed talking about the time he spent in Alaska when he was in the Army Air Corps. I can hear him now telling us how that qualified him to lead our nation in foreign affairs.
He would have enjoyed this election.
Today Harrison and I pulled the lever in his memory.

And now we wait.

" 'Aint that America for you and me
'Aint that America something to see Baby
'Aint that America home of the free, yeah
'Little pink houses for you and me, of for you and me." John Mellencamp