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been with me since. All these distinguished men looked distinguished. They were tall, they were good looking, and they acted very proper.
I am sure they all had good voices and were adept at speaking and running for office.
I just quit as Achilles and am reverting back to my sweet old self once again.
The point here is that the voters vote with their eyes and ears. Their emotions, not their brains; how good the candidate looks and how pleasant the sound of his voice. Not what he says but how he says it.
They are not necessarily good at running the government as they are at running for office.
Very few, since I have paid attention have been generally accepted as real statesmen. The rest drift away forgotten, having only had a talent for running for office and voting the way the money points.
We had a delegate visit the lunch the other day and he presented some interesting comments. As lunch was breaking up, a voice asked him, “Do you take tobacco money?” He said that he did. Everyone who has been asked that question took money from the tobacco lobby. Everyone of them was an advocate for providing better health care. Money is bad for politics.
If I knew Perot personally, I don’t think that I would like him. I am going to vote for him in spite of this because he is a fore-runner of what has to come.
On Tuesday, Nov. 3rd next, two very significant things are happening in this country. I will be 70 years old. Then I am going to take these old bones and light one candle in the voting booth.
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