Published: July 05, 2008 12:53 am            

DAY: Changing our way of electing

Candidates should be chosen by voters, not delegates

There are times when you go with the flow, and other times you let the world know what your thoughts are. Today we look at several things that I can’t do anything about, but I sure can tell you what I think.

In this recent cluster of primaries all over the USA, we the people voted, yet did we know what or whom we voted for?

As I have stated before, I think that any one person elected by the people they represent should finish out their term before trying to move up to a higher position in our government.

That means that those who would want to be our president should have completed the task given to them for being elected to represent the state they live in. And that service would be something to base that person on as to how he served his state.

And I think that our president should be determined by the most votes of the people and not that of delegates of his party.

Too many times in our recent history, our president has been elected not by the people but by the party delegates, and I think that is wrong.

Also I have never understood how two candidates can try to tear the other down for several months and then be friendly at the last. If you say something bad about your opponent, wouldn’t it be the same when it is over?

Or are we just playing politics and whoever was smart enough to fool the people got the right to go with the nomination? If you say that you are the better man or woman for that job, wouldn’t you feel the same afterward?

As a member of one party, you vote for that person whom you think would be a better and stronger nominee to go against the other party’s choice.

Then when the actual fall election comes up, you vote for the person you know will be a better president than the other. That is the right that you have being an American.

Now, here is another look at what the system needs. We the people vote for our choice but we have no say about whom should be the vice president.

How many times have we had a president elected with a man or woman that we don’t know anything about? So here is where the person who wants to be our president should declare right from the start whom will be his or her running mate.

That really gives the people a chance to vote in a more clear way, because they would know whom might be the man to step up in an emergency involving the elected president.

Now, before you party members start getting heated up, let me tell you that these are my opinions and for some they would provide some laughs but to most, these ideas will get the people wondering why this wasn’t done before?

I believe in the two party system, but I also believe that the people should be the ones to actually elect the man or woman to run our system of government.

If I were to make these types of statements in other countries, I would be taken down or put away for a long time. This is America, and we live in the land of the free and home of the brave.

We can say what we think without fear of punishment. And that is where I am going with what I have stated earlier.

We need to really know whom we are electing to lead us, and we need to know about that person’s background and ties to other factions. We can only stay free if we do the things to keep us that way.

To have four more years of the worst leadership is something you and I cannot afford. This last administration has placed us in some bad situations, and we do need a change but one we can live with.

Personally, the people who earlier dropped out probably would have been better for us, surely not worst. It is in your court.

Ray “Uncle Ray” Day of Kokomo is

a weekly contributor to the Kokomo

Tribune. He can be reached by e-mail

at uncleray@skyenet.net.

        

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