Election Coming To A Close With A Smile

I've been watching the news for the past 30 minutes, as most Americans are doing tonight, waiting for the outcome of this election. The news is reporting that there have been record turnouts in voting. Nothing unexpected.

This has been the most heated, debated, passionate, funny, scary and any other words you can think of Presidential Election that I have ever seen. Why? Well, for one thing, no matter who wins tonight whether it's McCain or Obama history will be made. Obama would be our first black President and Palin would be our first female VP. So that's one reason why everyone is so excited about this race.

Another reason .....we're looking for someone who can get us out of the quagmire we have sunk into. Everyone is tired of rising gas costs, health care costs and prices while our paychecks grow slimmer and slimmer. We're tired of the housing market going downhill and trying to hold on to our homes while around us there are foreclosures. We're tired of having such a huge debt as Americans. We're tired of losing our men and women over in Iraq and Afghanistan. We're just plain tired.

Barack Obama's key word for his campaign during this Presidential Election has been "change". The one word all of America wants to see and hear. McCain has promised to change things as well. Either way, I hope one of them can.

The news reporter just stated that all over the country at the polls, whether they were voting for Barack Obama or John McCain, voters were not only enthusiastic but had huge smiles on their faces. Silly news reporter. He thinks everyone is smiling because they think their candidate is going to win....and yes, that will come later on tonight. But what everyone is smiling about while the Presidential Election is still up in the air is the fact that no matter who wins, George W. Bush will be gone!

No more President Bush who has made history by having the largest disapproval in the Gallup Poll since it began 70 years ago. No more George Bush who helped Iraq have their first "democratic" vote in over 50 years only to take American democracy away when he vetoed majority votes on three bills....one that would expanded Congressional oversight over the intelligence community and ban "waterboarding" or other forms of interrogation techniques, one that stopped the State Children's Health Insurance Program which would have expanded and helped federally funded health care and benefits for children from low income families and the one that I hated the most because I have two type 1 diabetic children....The Stem Cell Research Enhancement Act. Democracy to George Bush means "it's G.W. Bush's way or no way".

When Bill Clinton left office in 2000, he had an approval rating of 65%, the highest rating ever for a President since World War II. The reported surplus? 559 billion. By August of 2007, the national debt stood at 8.98 trillion dollars and counting. 63,000 jobs lost in February of this year. No wonder George Bush's approval rating is now somewhere between 19% and 34%, depending on which Poll you see.

Bush's reaction to his low popularity? During a February 28, 2008 interview on Fox News Sunday, Bush had this to say...."I frankly don't give a damn about polls." Well, guess what George W. Bush. Almost every American would reply with, "Frankly, George, we don't give a damn about you!"