Anna Quindlen

Anna Quindlen does a column every other week in Newsweek called The Last Word. I really, really enjoy reading it. George Will does it the weeks Anna doesn't. I don't enjoy his.

In the September 29th edition Anna's piece was titled "This Is Important". Please check it out. I have quoted the end of it below in italics.

"Who cares if you like Sarah Palin, if your kid plays hockey and so do hers? Here is the only thing about anyone's kids that matters now: every time you vote you make your kids a promise. It's a promise that you will look past cheap slogans and lazy alliances to try to find a way to make America worthy of a new generation. And if we keep that promise in November, we not only keep faith with our children, we keep faith with the country."

Maybe you don't have kids. Maybe your brothers or sisters do. Maybe your cousins or nephews or nieces do. Maybe your friends or their friends do. Maybe your co-workers do. Make them a promise!