brought on by campaign season? The slash-and-burn-your-opponent political ads?
The good health to make it to the polls? The comfort of watching election results roll in on your television? The fact that we take for granted -- completely and always -- the peaceful transfer of power that follows?
November 28th, election day in Haiti, is fast-approaching . . . here's just one news story intro:
"PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) - A post-earthquake cholera epidemic, fears of political violence and vote credibility questions are clouding Haiti's path to elections next month seen as crucial for stability in the Western Hemisphere's poorest nation . . ." (By Joseph Guyler Delva Wed Oct 27, 2010 3:11pm EDT )
Debate, listen, consider, vote, and yes, even wave off in annoyance those omnipresent doomsday voices in tv ads that warn that all hell will break loose if the "other" candidate is elected . . . and pray that Haitians may experience just a little less of the starved, dismembered, frightened, muddied, deathly hell on earth that they're already suffering.
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