Whatever happens on November 6, one thing is (almost) certain.
The Daytona 500, also known as the Great American Race, will be held next February.
Now before you run, howling, to your keyboards to tell me how dare I trivialize the most important election in our times, let me continue a few paragraphs with what I have to say.
Every election cycle, about this time, someone tells me that the end of the Republic is nigh if so and so wins, and I have to sit them down and tell them that the American political system has something in common with the Daytona International Speedway—self-cleaning banks.
For those of you who are not even casual NASCAR fans, Daytona—and, by the way, big Bill France DID build that—is banked so sharply that when there is a wreck, the cars tend to slide down into the infield; hence the term “self-cleaning banks.”
America declared its independence on July 4, 1776. We were the product of a revolution fomented by 56 angry white guys, one of whom signed his name so big that the British King could see it without his glasses. We have never been a perfect nation, and we struggled for a fairly long time after the revolution to find a formula that worked for the long haul.
Our founding fathers found that formula in a form of gridlock.
Much of the genius in the Constitution is that our founding fathers came up with a three-pronged solution that does not allow anybody to drive the nation too far, too quickly.
That formula has allowed an otherwise imperfect nation, filled with the likes of, well, us, and our ancestors, to survive as the longest-lived experiment in self-government in history for 236 years.
In short, our political system has developed self-cleaning banks.
Push us too far in one direction, get us into a wreck, and the system itself has the capacity to right itself.
It’s not a perfect system. An incompetent socialist can get himself elected President. People who probably shouldn’t be able to can have an inordinate sway over public policy. But, at the end of the day, the average voter can march to the polls and set things back on the right path. And if you don’t think each and every vote counts, it was probably a bunch of NASCAR fans in Volusia County, Florida, home of the Daytona Speedway, who cast the deciding votes for George W. Bush in 2000.
Abraham Lincoln put it best when he said, “You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time.”
That was true in the mid 1860s when he said it, and it is even truer today in a world held together by instant communication.
So, if you’re still with me, what I am trying to say is that if Barack Obama were to win re-election, the Republic will survive. The Daytona 500 will run next February, after the Super Bowl is decided.
Congress will convene; the Supreme Court will hear and decide cases, many against the wishes of the Obama Administration.
Like Daytona, our system won’t stop the big wreck from happening; but it will protect us against the larger effects.
Presidents—whoever they are—are temporary.
So are Congressmen and Senators.
Now this should not by any means be construed as any kind of a suggestion that Mitt Romney is not going to win or that Barack Obama should win.
I’m only trying to put this election in perspective.
It is one that we have every four years. Every four years, some self-important oaf in the media will tell you that this is the most important election in our times. The truth is it is the most important election being held that day.
This nation has survived a lot worse than Barack Obama, including a whole bunch of people who can tell us about black helicopters and not much about American history.
If you want to get rid of Obama as I do, vote. It is the most affirmative action you can take. As long as you vote—win or lose—the Republic will survive.
If you don’t vote, you forfeit your right to complain.
Fred Weinberg is the publisher of the Penny Press, an online publication based in Reno, Nevada (pennypressnv.com) and the Elko Independent, Nevada’s oldest newspaper (established June 15, 1868). He also is the CEO of several companies that own or operate radio stations in Ely, Nevada, Elko, Nevada and Reno, Nevada. He has spent 47 years in journalism at every level from small town weekly newspapers to television networks. He can be reached at pennypresslv@gmail.com.
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Warning to the American People. Fred is wrong here. We are still feeling the affects of the illegal income tax, the illegal Federal Reserve, and the unratiied 17th Amendment MADE OVER A 100 YEARS AGO, by Congress, A stiting president and the Supreme Court which approved some of this!!!
IS OBAMA A PYCHOPATHIC JUDAS?
It is obvious that oBama hates America. These people in Benghazi saw the danger they were in and despite repeated request for assistance they were denied. They were all slaugtered with reports the ambassador himself may have been sodomized, just like the way Khadafy died.
After Bin Laden was killed 26 Navy Seals died in mysterious circumstances. Radical Islamist have been seeing going in and out of the White House. A price to pay for killing a man he admired?
What does he do next? Party, appear on talk show after talk show grinning ear to ear. He seems to have a penchent for killing our top soldiers, Navy Seals!
He was caught in with an open mike telling a top Putin aid he will be more “flexible” when he is elected when it comes to our nuclear arsenal. What the heck does that mean?
He has appointed communist after communist and radicals who then appoint unvetted Muslims as aids.
Why am I telling you this? Because after Benghazi, what’s next? Your town, your city, your state being the next target of a nuclear or biological terrorist strike? Courtesy of oBama and his radical Muslims seen going in and out of the White House, with who knows with what under their arms or a wink from oBama?
And with that Alfred E Neumann grin ear to ear? Can you trust what his explanation will be? Do you see what is going on? Do you see the setup that Ambassor Stevens failed to see? Do you see the setup the 26 Navy SEALS failed to see?
Will you be the next sheep to be slaughtered by this psychopath and his psychopants to bring America down? A dream many tyrants have held for years.
Do you see why he grins ear to ear everytime something like this happens and then parties with that Cheshire grin ear to ear of his?
Now you trust what Fred just said? You think you wanna take a chance with a lying Commander-In-Cheat and complicit Congress then you deserve a nuke or virus on your city, state or whatever bunk hole they find you in.
AMEN & AMEN I couldn't agree with you more!
wow, I knew obama was and still is dirty, I didn't know to what point. This is heavy, I can't wait for Nov 6, to vote this lowlife muslim out. I pray that many people will wake up to this muslim lowlife that we have in the white house. You should hear what some of these useful idiots write to me about defending this lowlife. I can't understand what these people see in this traitor, who is working hard to destroy this country and transform America to another 3rd world muslim country.
Im there with U ………..
I am not so sure he will leave if defeted, he has no record to dtand on his presidency, he promised that if he didn't have the economy controlled that he will be a one term president. I hope it comes true.
if he were a white president he would have been impeached three years ago.
We STILL can't afford to put a lame-duck Socialist into office, free to run rampant with his "executive orders"…which is usurping our Government as it was designed.
IGNORANCE is a VERY DANGEROUS THING!!!
I think it is disgraceful for antone to say Obama was born in Hawaii, I HAVE A BIRTHCERTIFICATE SAYING HW WAS BORN IN mombasa kENYA, IT IS AN OFFICIAL BIRTH CERTIFICATE,much better certificate than the one shown on the internet supposed to be Obama's birth certificate,and an explanation by his grandmother saying OBAMNA'S MOTHER TOOK HIM TO HAWAII ON HIS 4 DAY AFTER HIS BIRTH, AND HE HAD AN AUNT WORKING in the court house and she fixed the birthcertificate for his mother. go top mombasa Kenya and seek the real birthcertificate, and stop being ideots, I'mTALKING TO THE HOUSE AND CONGRESS.
Benghazi verdict is already in:
Consortium of 3 at top & WH spokesman agreed after what can only be a contrived agreement – all blame a video in consort & that immediately after the attack. Obama held to this untruth for 2 weeks including his UN explanation contrary to all evidence supplied. The commander in thief, has stolen a place and is void of morals, sacrificing the now deceased 4 on the political altar. He chose this "stand down" none defense over risking political fog with the eventuality of citizens being killed near the Ambassador compound.
J-discern
I'm glad to see there are still some intelligent life form out there…….. I did some research in '08 and didn't trust this laying out the red carpet for Obama. I feel bad for some people who have suffered in their lives from the injustice and they actually believed that this person would bring some clarity in our lives.
Obama isn't even black. That's his front to win people over; he's half white and arab. watch the Obama Deception ……….. pretty scary stuff.
Fred ……. I'm not sure how you can be so assured that our Republic will survive when there are the elite that are pulling strings with their puppets in office and it's causing mayhem with people's lives.
My hope doesn't rely on any form of parliament, it relies on the mercy and grace of our Lord. What we need to do as a nation is PRAY PRAY PRAY.
Fred, I must disagree with your assesment of the survival of our nation as she was meant to be, and should still be. I disagree whole heartedly, this evil peice of Slime in office intended from day one, to begin the destruction process and will finish it off if allowed another four years, or longer, because he wants the ULTIMATE POWER given to Dictators. No, I think you are wrong.