Anna Quindlen's column in this week's Newsweek spoke of her disappointment with the presidential campaigns and with the media, with the shallowness we are seeing from both candidates and their supporters, and little help from the media in sorting out what the candidates are saying about important issues, or the truth or falsity of what is being said.

She says "The country is in a mess. Do not be distracted by the gossip, nonsense or lies. The time to really focus on the facts is now."

She concludes:

" ... every time you vote you make your kids a promise. It's a promise that you will look past cheap slogans and lazy alliances to try to find a way to make America worthy of a new generation. And if we keep that promise in November, we not only keep faith with our children, we keep faith with the country."

I don't want to get into a discussion of the campaigns or of either candidate, to blame or to complain or to support one side or the other, only to share with you what I think is something very important to keep in mind. We are not voting just for this November, or next January, or even the next four years. We are voting for our childrens' future, perhaps in a way we never have before.

By Karen~admin on Friday, September 26, 2008 - 12:04 pm:

Ginny, you are so right. I think of that often these days. And I've told my kids, one of whom has a child, and the others who will probably/hopefully have children - that they are voting for their kids' futures.

I believe that the outcome of this particular election is going to affect ALL of us and our lives in ways unlike anything many of us have ever seen before. Younger people today have never lived in a time where there was so much turmoil, or when the outcome or solution to specific issues was so crucial.....