Good thing Dave's son didn't vote

This letter is to Dave's dad. You asked for the kind of Father's Day present that your dad might have requested. You asked that Dave give consideration to the presidential candidates and make a conscientious vote for one.

You must have called to mind a time when we voted for a president who could lead us through a great civil war; a president who would lead us to victory in a world war and lead us to prayer when that victory was uncertain; a president who would challenge us to ask not what we would receive from our country but what we could give to our country; a president who would say we do these things not because they are easy, but because they are hard; a president who would face down the threat of communism at a time mutual assured destruction was believed to be our only escape.

Your son refuses to participate in a system designed over 200 years ago he calls broken.

The system Dave calls broken is the same system that has coddled him into thinking government is the source of all goodness, the same system that protects our right to have this exchange, the same system that asks a president to serve us by leading us.

Dad, for your sake I am sorry you will not be getting your Father's Day gift. For the country's sake, I am glad Dave is not voting.

Mike Butz

Bartlett