One thing for sure, the results of the upcoming election will yield change. Everyone is offering change. We will see either a female VP or an African American president in the White House in January.
While the Republican Convention was going on in our fair city, a third party was meeting in Minneapolis. A gathering of Ron Paul supporters, Libertarians, gathered with fragments of a splintered Independence party. Remember Ross Perot's Independents party? Remember our feisty ex-governor? I don't know what Ross Perot is doing these days, but ex-governor Jesse the Body ventured north for the convention. He has a dog in the fight but is not a candidate himself. Guess what the headline today said about their candidates? All are for change. Seven are vying for the senate seat from Minnesota.
This isn't the first time "change" has been in a campaign slogan. Remember these?
1984 had Walter Mondale's "America Needs a Change".
1976 with Jimmy Carter's "A Leader, For a Change".
1992 and Bill Clinton's "It's Time to Change America"?
2008 Barack Obama has "Change We Can Believe In".
John McCain's slogan is "Country First", but convention speakers also talked about change.
It seems all are offering change.
No one has reached back to 1952 using Dwight Eisenhower's slogan, "I Like Ike". It looks like politics and the weather will be at odds again. Hurricane Ike is coming causing those in the possible path to consider higher ground. The are probably hoping for the hurricane to change course. I hope and pray it doesn't take too high a toll.
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