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FATE, DESTINY, & PLANES

October 25, 2003

This modern world that we seem to condense more and more each year offers us some dangerous and difficult situations. It’s one thing when a candidate decides to drop out six weeks before the election as Torricelli did in New Jersey a couple of weeks ago. It’s quite another when a candidate is killed in a plane crash eleven days before the election.

The death of Sen. Paul Wellstone in Minnesota is sending more than the normal shock waves through the emotional community that knew him. It’s sending a tsunami through the political circles. With a one seat advantage, the Democrats are now in a quandry: a major one.

Interestingly, it was two years ago that a plane brought the end to life for Senator Mel Carnahan and his wife was appointed by the Governor to fill the seat til she could run on her own this year. That seat could be lost as a close race is on.

Fate is dealing some interesting hands to the political climate, not to mention to the personal lives of those involved. I know much about that- personally, emotionally.

My first wife was killed in a plane crash delivering campaign tapes in Western Kansas for the governors race- one week before the election. I’ve often wondered how my life would be different had that plane not crashed killing her and the pilot. It’s a question Jean Carnahan has asked numerus times and one that Sheila Wellstone cannot now ask.

Fate deals many different hands and all we are asked to do is play them the best we can. Some of us have help!

Written by Ernie · Filed Under Daily Commentary 

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