DOOMED TO REPEAT?

During this midterm election year, all 435 seats in the U.S. House of Representatives and 33 of the 100 seats in the U.S. Senate will be contested in the election scheduled for November 4, 2014. That's 535 people who'll be elected to govern us and determine the course of our lives. Each of us has the American privilege and constitutional right to make our choice and express our opinion by going to the polls and voting. This action is doubly important in the presidential election in 2016. The decisions and actions of these politicians will determine laws regarding our health, our monthly income, the goods and services that will be available to us, and whether or not our young men will go to war.

I just finished reading In the President's Secret Service by Ronald Kessler. This book provides insights into the innermost character of our elected presidents and their families, the vice presidents and their families, and all other government officials guarded and protected 24/7 by the members of the Secret Service.

Kessler takes us back to the assignation of Abraham Lincoln forward through other successful assignations and those that failed, to the inauguration of Barack Hussein Obama. Through historical data and many years of personal job experience, Kessler proves that voters must learn as much as possible about each candidate, their track record and their qualifications, prior to casing a vote. If a person exhibits hypocrisy and lack of good judgment before being elected, he will maintain those traits after he's elected.  The voting public needs to be aware of evidence pointing to arrogance and deceit.

Over the years, the White House has been plagued by theft from departing officials. Historic items have disappeared from the Lincoln Room and other exhibits - a bed from Walter Reid Hospital left with one ex-president.  Some of the items have been returned but not all.

Kessler's book educates us to the serious flaws in some of the people elected in the past. At times we have chosen some dangerously unprepared, unqualified people. If we don't learn from these mistakes, we are destined to repeat them.

Vote with your head, vote with your heart, vote as if your life depended on the outcome. Get out and vote!