Some thoughts prior to Election Day

November 3, 2008 · Posted in About Us, Kids, Travel

This is not a political blog, so the purpose here is not to reveal who my preferred candidate is, and why the other candidate sucks, etc. I just wanted to give you this heads up, so that you may be more inclined to read on.

This weekend, we went to visit some friends, and took some time to walk around Washington DC since the weather was so nice. As the kid was attempting to scale the Washington Monument, I was looking around and saw the White House from a distance. As I turned back around to check on the kid, he was laughing happily with a couple other kids from a different country as they all tried to scale the wall.

It just kind of struck me that regardless of who we all go in and vote for on Tuesday, people aren’t really all that different. Perhaps it is because this is the first election where I have a child myself (and therefore am more aware of the daily political news), but I feel that this is an election where so much hatred, ugliness, and division has bubbled to the surface. Sometimes it is easy to forget how lucky we are to have the right to walk around our nation’s capital freely, and talk about how much we love (or despise) a candidate, and be able to vote.

I guess that I found myself to be a bit surprised to become humbled when visiting our nation’s capital, instead of being more fired up for Tuesday. I also can’t wait to take my son back to Washington DC when he is old enough to start learning the significance of the monument he was trying to scale…