Wandering Along the Path: Right Speech

As I was walking the dogs this morning I was humming "Suzanne", Leonard Cohen's song, which I consider sad but beautiful.  I'm glad there was a huge voter turnout and sad personally because the person didn't win I voted for.  She sent a generous, kind heartfelt email to all of us who supported her:  the epitome of right speech.  But mostly this campaign has been chock a block full of wrong speech.  By everyone, all the time.  We're all tired of it.  I don't know if this campaign will cause a shift toward or away from civility, but I hope all the old tricks will no longer work.  Let's try to somehow get back to policies and principles.  Let's expect morals and character to be prerequisites to leadership.  And maybe I'm just going to be writing a whole lot of letters to the editors.