The only Republican I’d ever known was my father. He was from the North, which explained this oddness about him. Of course, I didn’t tell anyone, but I secretly thought it was okay. After all, the President was a Republican – and he was a GENERAL for God’s sake! the Savior of Western Civilization!
So we watched the election returns until the television went off with some Army Band playing the National Anthem while a flag waved in the wind on the screen in various shades of grey. During the returns, there was much talk about "the control wards." Were they in yet? Their votes [the "control wards"] were 98% for some candidate, and the Commentators alway knew who those votes were going to be for. I don’t remember how I came to know that those were the wards where Black people lived, or how I found out that those votes were purchased – by Democratic Politicians. It was just part of the way things were back then. But as a more alert person years later, I was horrified to learn that such things still went on into the late sixties in Memphis, where I was living.
US President George Bush said the US Treasury expects to make the first electronic deposits to taxpayers from the fiscal stimulus package on Monday, five days early. ‘On Monday, the Treasury Department will begin delivering the first of these tax rebates by direct deposit,’ Bush said at the White House today. ‘This money’s going to help Americans offset the high prices we’re seeing’ for gasoline and food, he said. ‘It will also give our economy a boost to help us pull out of this economic slowdown.’
I’m surprised that the checks are coming out so soon. I would have thought that the $ money would be coming a little closer to November. Now if you tell me that would be too obvious to the voters, well when has that ever stopped Bush. They have blatantly been doing that for over 7 years, why stop now.