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Ron Jackson's Perspective
The Sunday Journal -
Think
Kankakee, Illinois
January 11, 2004
Message from above
gives Bush the election |
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The presidential
campaign season is in full force. For the next ten months, the
word vote will be used and heard more than the word terrorist.
In the short 228 years we have been a sovereign nation,
our voting process has been a system of constant reform. From
1774 when the Continental Congress could not agree which white men
would be allowed to vote, to 1970 when the voting age was lowered to
18, the right to equally participate in the political process has
remained one of the most amended parts of our constitution.
It seems this is the year for another far-reaching
change in the American voting process. This change will affect all
voters. Men, women, whites, blacks, teenagers, rich, poor,
literate, and illiterate voters will see their voting privilege
being questioned or at least devalued.
The change to the voting process this year will not be
the result of unscrupulous politicians attempting to rig the
presidential election. That doesn’t mean some politicians
won’t attempt to do that, though. The big change this year is
the direct result of a higher source, God.
Unless you have been hiding in a cave with Osama bin
Laden, you have heard that God has already declared George W. Bush
the winner of the November 2004 election. Yes, God told one of
his messengers that President Bush will win reelection by a
landslide. Religious televangelist Pat Robertson says he heard
from God that George Bush will win reelection this year, and it will
be a blowout. After several days in prayer at the end of 2003,
Robertson said God spoke to him about the election.
“It doesn’t make any difference what he does, good or
bad, God picks him up because he’s a man of prayer, and God’s
blessing him,” Robertson said of Bush.
George Bush had the Supreme Court in his corner in
2000. It seems he has upped the stakes this time. It
appears God is a Republican.
Take that, you silly Democrat candidates. Stop
the campaigning. Cancel the state primaries. No more
Dean bashing. God doesn’t like him, either. It’s over.
Our right to vote has a storied history. Still
today it represents the one thing that equalizes all Americans.
Regardless of our race, religion, or social-economic status, we all
get just one vote, and except in rare occasions like the vote of
2000, they all count.
The vote is the symbol of our equality. The vote gives
equal amplification to the individual voice in the political and
governing process. The vote is the one thing politicians revere
more than money.
The profound cynicism about politics and government of
the past decade has resulted in increased voter apathy. This
latest declaration attributed to God will do nothing to change it.
A new constitutional amendment could read, “The
right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied
or abridged by the Unites States or any state, but by God only.”
Upon further review, this may be the same God that
told Pat Robertson to mount a losing campaign for the presidency in
1988. If it is, disregard all the above.
Voting is a way to pay homage to the countless numbers
of individuals who sacrificed their lives to win for us the right to
vote. So vote. Even though you already know the outcome,
vote. |
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