Calls for liberty on Veterans Day: 'I think I want my country back'

Bob Talbot of American Legion Post 7 salutes POW/MIAs at Wednesday's Veterans Day ceremony in Rochester. (Rochester Voice photo)

ROCHESTER - As America on Wednesday celebrated its brave men and women in the armed forces, one veteran and former Commander of Rochester's American Legion Post 7 expressed frustration with the way the nation is headed.

"I think I want my country back," said a frustrated Bob Talbot, who laid a wreath for POW/MIAs at Rochester's Veterans Day Services.

Talbot, who is also chief of the Post's executive board, said it was unfathomable that the two men vying to lead the country in this year's election were the best the country had to offer.

Asked how he was feeling about the state of the country just four days after mainstream media declared Joe Biden the president-elect, he replied. "We need term limits. Until then, big pharma and big business will continue to run the country. Biden is nothing more than a career politician."

Mark Hudson, who organized the Veterans Day ceremony and was the only speaker at the event, said he feared the socialist movement that is fast becoming the center of the Democrat party.

"I am not happy with the rhetoric spewing forth (in Washington)," he said after the ceremony. "Hopefully checks and balances in government will keep us from becoming socialist. Biden's been around for a while, he should understand we can't succumb to radical ideas."

Most agree that if the Democrats win two runoff Senate seats in Georgia in January that will wrest control from the Republicans with the Vice President having the deciding vote in the event of a 50-50 tie. Right now the Senate stands at 50 Republicans and 48 Democrats.

In what could be an alarming development for Republicans, there is now a move afoot to recruit Democrats to move to Georgia to affect the outcome of those two Senate runoffs scheduled Jan. 5.

"I hope everybody moves to Georgia, you know, in the next month or two, registers to vote and votes for these two Democratic senators," New York Times columnist Thomas L. Friedman told CNN on Monday night.