MY LETTER TO SAINT NICK

My Letter to St. Nick

Dear Santa:

I hate to start out with a complaint but your refusal to acknowledge my letter last year asking for a number of things that could improve the lives of my fellow citizens and myself really put me in a funk for an entire twelve months.

Now that unhappy year has passed and I feel confident you will acknowledge this year’s letter with its reasonable requests. Moreover, I feel certain you will be sliding down my chimney with a bag full of what I have asked.

This Christmas I am hoping you will bring me:

1.   Really experienced candidates for the presidency.

2.   A great turnout in the primary states and in the subsequent general election.

3.   Good debates where all the important issues get discussed and in which there are no “cheap shots” or “throw-aways” or outright untruths.

4.   An end to wars, hostile actions, nation building, self serving decisions in international relations, and the abandonment of former friends and supporters around the world.

5.   An improvement in the housing picture for all Americans.

6.   A huge increase in the employment numbers and a subsequent decrease in unemployment.

7.   A return to a simpler time where neighbors helped one another and the downtrodden at home and abroad.

8.   Greater confidence in government as a result of greater participation in the electoral process by all citizens.

9.   A new sense of teamwork in Washington and willingness to compromise in the interests of all people.

So you see Santa, my list is not overly long nor does it contain things that would benefit only me.

Please hitch Rudolph up to your sleigh.

In the interest of fair play, I am sending you a new team of reindeer.

It is always good to have choices.

Just whistle and shout, and call them by name.

Now! Obama, now! Romney, now! Gingrich and Paul,

On! Santorum, on! Perry, on! Bachman and Huntsman;

To the top of the polls! To the top of the Convention!

Now dash ahead! Dash ahead! Dash ahead all!

It is my hope Santa that one of your team will be adequate to bring me the small requests I have made.

Yours sincerely,

Jackie Blair

P.S.

In addition to the usual cookies and milk, I am mixing you a strong martini with bleu cheese stuffed olive. With the new team of reindeer I have sent you, it will be necessary that you be fortified for the ride.