<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div>Perhaps it's time to vote for a democracy, one where our vote actually counts and means something. And where people want to vote because it does. Super Pacs, special interest group and corporate money will decide the direction of this country.</div><div id="AppleMailSignature"><br></div><div id="AppleMailSignature">From an outsider looking in, the system is floored. Look what happened to Bernie.<br><br><div>Thanks</div><div>Dean</div><div>PS your resident Kiwi voting for the first time.</div><div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469);"><br></span></div></div></div><div><br>On Nov 1, 2016, at 2:59 PM, Mike Fahey via golf-list <<a href="mailto:golf-list@neaclub.org">golf-list@neaclub.org</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div>
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sent to a couple recalcitrant and wayward siblings in the hopes of generating some dialogue! Please feel free to completely disregard this as the musings of a poor salesman who hasn't sold a single thing today and is inclined not to work to change that stat
at least until tomorrow! This is not an effort to change anyone's political persuasion but more so to reach out to those disaffected individuals who are inclined not to vote at all because of the relative poor character of both candidates. With that said,
please read my thoughts below and feel free to give your feedback and inputs by replying to all so we can all partake in the ongoing exchange.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> So to give you a sense of where I am coming from and my rationale, I must first state that I agree with most everyone that the two candidates
are both extremely personally flawed individuals. Neither makes me feel good, when I think about their character. However, the link below is to an article written by a gentleman named Thomas Sowell. I have a lot of respect for this guy and this article
does a good job of describing how I also look at their character flaws.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Hillary's character flaws have had a big, negative impact on our country and its security and Donald's character faults certainly include being extremely
shallow and boorish to women. Though I certainly don't like this, it's hard to believe that people can consider this as completely disqualifying, in and of itself, especially when you reflect how America held and still holds JFK in such high regard even though
he's also known as a complete womanizer! <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> So, I guess, I can say I am voting for Trump, not because I like the man in any personal way or because I can respect his character but because
of, what I believe are a few very important positions that he holds. I list them below and I think they have huge long term consequences for this nation. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b>Supreme Court Justices</b>- Trump has given a list of what I understand ( have read) are justices who would interpret and make their decisions
based on the US Constitution. This is exactly what the Supreme Court and it's justices should be doing. All their decisions should be based on the US Constitution. Hillary's answer in the third debate on the Supreme Court justices absolutely floored me! It
certainly must have made you very uncomfortable? She wants to choose Supreme Court justices to be there "to represent the little people" against the powerful. In our system, it's the legislature that represents the people! The Supreme Court justices are there
to be NEUTRAL arbiters in their decision, on whether a law passed by Congress, is Constitutional or not! That's it! I thought her answer was a nice, thinly veiled way of saying that she's quite fine with activist judges who are more driven by the outcome they
want then a decision based on what's allowable by the Constitution.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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to be controlled and it needs to be based on what is good for the country. Right now, we don't know who's coming in and whether they truly want to be Americans or just get away from where they're coming from? Some of them could very well even be dangerous
to our country! <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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and has been going in the wrong direction for quite some time ( not just because of our current President!). I am for small government. Though this has tended to make me vote Republican in the past, I've come to realize that whether we are run by Democrats
or Republicans, the direction of our country never really changes and the scope of government just keeps growing. I am not sure of this, maybe I am just more hopeful that Trump can be such a shock to the system that some changes, large and small, will be
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b>Corruption</b>- we have seen significant scandals under the current president. The IRS scandal, the VA scandal, Benghazi, Hillary's emails and
the following FBI/DOJ coverup , Fast and Furious, and the monitoring of reporters phones and emails in an attempt to stop leaks. On top of all of this, we have the Clinton Foundation and it's evident pay to play? How did the Clintons who even Hillary famously
stated were "broke" when they exited the White House in 2000, come to now have a worth of around $200M 15 years later? Something smells to high heavens!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Donald Trump in charge carries its risks! But I am confident that good people around him, like Mike Pence, will limit his possible overreach. I also am quite confident that, if Mr. Trump does get to the White House, the media will immediately start to do it's
job again and any abuses will be fully investigated and exposed! <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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