Do you ever wish you have a 're-do'?

Everyone knows we can't really turn back the clock, except for 'Daylight Savings" in some parts of country and the world . But I mean turning back the history of time, to do something or someone differently. I think we all would do that, IF we could. "May I should have been more understand." Or, "I probably should not have spoke to he/she that way." Or maybe "I wish I voted for the other guy." I know I wished that when I voted (in my very first 1968 election) for the late Gov. George Wallace. As a naïve kid, I did not think of researching the candidates before I mark the box. I do now.

 I, many time wish I could turn back time to a better era in my life, correct the wrong choices I made, or said, or did. Many time I let my emotions react before I spoke or went forward with something. Maybe it was just that I was not mature enough to realize the consequences of my actions. But I also believe we ALL have regretted things we have done. Maybe immediately, maybe later in life. I suppose the people who record the history will also record our legacy as individuals and as a culture and country. One hundred or two hundred years from now how will people look at us, our time and decisions we made, the words we spoke as good times or bad.

Abraham Lincoln, as president, dealt with another divided country. I believe he was a good man with good moral ethics about freedom, discrimination, and rights of all people. It has been record by historians that Lincoln was a troubled man with many personal hurdles in his own family and his cabinet and not to mention the country. He was a deep thinker and a very well spoken orator, many times not off of a script. I wonder what he or Thomas Jefferson or George Washington would think about the country they fought so hard to keep free and democratic. A strong united  and democratic country is all they really wanted for the future.

Lincoln, in his day, was a very strong Republican which today he would for surely be a Democrat. Washington and Jefferson were also Republicans. So that must mean that the very writers of the the documents that created and shaped our country, and the presidents we honor so highly would be today in the democratic party, BUT not radial. Even they had their skeletons in the closets. They were not perfect, but yet wanted a perfect country, which was an impossible dream, but they tired so hard to keep a broken and fractured country together and made us the strongest country in the modern world.

Being the President isn't what some people think it is. They can not rule the country or world like a dictator or king where whatever you wish is can be done. We have too many checks and balances in our government to prevent that. That is the job of the House of Representatives and Senate. And then there is us, the people, WE THE PEOPLE, and our votes.  We dictate who go into the House and the Senate according to our wants and desires. Yes the President can implement Presidential decrees or executive orders, but even that can be shutdown by the House and Senate.

With only one month before a very critical election is here, we must all search our souls and determine which way we want this country to proceed. Do we want to continue to live in a broken country, or do we want to re-united into the similar country we all remember of days long gone. I heard one celebrate say, "This country has lost the love we once had." I believe that to be true. Now we have to bring back that love and unite. We can not turn back the clock, but we can surely spread the love to all and return it when it is shown to you.