11/5/98

Who am I? I guess that you could call me, probably among other things, just an old-time patriot. I think that you could define me as just another non-descript human being that has made enough mistakes in life to finally recognize that we are not perfect - none of us!

The motivation for this letter is an effort, probably a futile effort, to re-activate the human sense of decency, and thought. It occurred to me that somebody has got to do something!

Our President should be all that is pure and good. Well, ANYONE who thinks that a high-level elected official is all that is pure and good, may possibly still believe in the "tooth fairy."

To put it into perspective, there is but "One" who is pure and good. Actually, to become The President of the United States means that the candidate has successfully defeated all in his path. "All". . . that means, in effect, that the successful candidate has beaten the best of the worst. He doesn't accomplish being elected President by being good, necessarily. He does, however, accomplish victory by being better. The two words: "good," and "better," are not necessarily synonymous with each other.

In reality, we elect a President based on our own selfish agendas: partisan politics, whether or not he comes across as the most likeable of those candidates who are running for that office, and/or what we think that he can do for each one of us.

Have we ever given it a thought that Presidents are our biological peers? Have we ever acknowledged that they too happen to be frail, and faltering human beings? If that is the case, then, is one human President "better" than the other because he was able to lie and then successfully conceal his lies? In our eyes, is one human President "better" than the other because he didn't get caught?