Evening Away...with a Political Note

****WARNING: Contains Non Bi-Partisan Political Material. Read at your own risk! (Ha! Ha!)

So we had a sitter tonight....yeah!!! Nathan's boss at work had given us 6 tickets to hear Karl Rove speak at a school near Dayton. So with 4 others, Nathan and I made the 2 1/2-3 hour trip to hear him speak. It was a wonderful speech that had been precluded by several other candidates/politicians. For those of you in Ohio you might have recognized Mike Dewine, Bob Taft, Mary Taylor, and many more. So Being a republican I obviously wore my John McCain sticker this evening and of course he'll get my vote in the Fall (uh yeah) but I really don't know much about him. Not being my first choice in the primary this Spring I really never put much thought into McCain or his campaign. Well I did know that he was a POW which I have the up most respect for but I didn't know too much on his voting record or really on his views. After being Karl Roe speak about his man tonight I have a new respect for him. The stories he told about the events occurring during McCain's 5 1/2 years as a POW were awe inspiring. All of these stories are little known because McCain is a pretty private person about his personal life. The things that I've learned about what he has done off the voting record...where it really counts towards true character....have really made me look again at this candidate. One small story we heard tonight was originally told by a POW roommate of McCain's. I guess the Vietnamese had broken this gentleman's arm and then set it so it would heal funny and he would never be able to bend at the elbow again. Well this man was a pilot and one of his few hopes remaining as a POW was that one day he would get out and be able to fly again. Seeing that the enemy had set his arm wrong on purpose, the man could never fly a plane again. His roommate John McCain changed his life by re-breaking and re-setting the arm so it would heal properly. After the guy was rescued from the POW camp the med staff said that it looked like the Vietnamese had done a pretty good job of repairing his once broken arm. He said "No, John McCain did that for me." Pretty amazing huh? McCain was also the chaplain of this group of POW's while they were imprisoned. His first speech was on "Render unto Cesar what is Cesar's and unto God what is God's." He stated that we need not to pray to God for our release of here but to him for salvation and forgiveness because that is what is God's. Pretty amazing stuff that the press does not report huh? Remember boys and girls.....the lesson of the day is NEVER go just by what you hear in the news...and NEVER trust a reporter!

So on a funnier political note...here is a great little joke I got in an email this morning from my Aunt.

Little Suzy had a box of very small kittens that she was trying to give away, so she had them out on the street corner with a sign "FREE KITTENS" next to them. Suddenly a big line of big black cars came up with a policeman on a motorcycle in front. The cars all stopped and a tall man stepped out from the biggest car. "Hi, little girl, what do you have there in the box?" He asked. "Kittens" Little Suzy says. "They're so small, their eyes are not even open yet." "What kind of kittens are they?" He asked."Democrats" says Little Suzy. The tall man smiled, returned to his car and they drove away. Sensing a good photo opportunity, Sen. Obama called his campaign manager and told him about the little girl and the kittens. It was planned that they would return the next day, have all the media there and tell everyone about these great kittens. The next day, Little Suzy is standing out on the corner with her box of kittens with the "FREE KITTENS" sign and the big motorcade of black cars pulled up with all the vans and trucks from ABC, NBC, CBS and CNN. Everyone had their cameras ready and then, Sen. Obama got out of his limo and walked up to Little Suzy. "Now, don't be frightened," he said, "I just want you to tell all these nice news people just what kind of kittens you're giving away today." "yes sir, "Suzy said, "they're REPUBLICAN kittens." Taken by surprise, Sen. Obama said, "But yesterday, you told me that they were DEMOCRATS." Little Suzy says, "Yes, I know. But today, they have their eyes open."