I believe you will agree with me that this is one election season that all of us will be happy to see come to an end. One of the candidates for president . . . I won’t say which one . . . was campaigning in West Virginia recently. Some of the coal miners were not real happy about it when the candidate asked for their vote.
“Vote for you?” one of them jeered. “Why, I’d sooner vote for the Devil!”
“Fair enough!” called out the candidate, “But in the event that your friend doesn’t run, may I have your support?”
Well, that’s one candidate who wasn’t put off by a little opposition. That’s good. The mark of a successful person is that he or she doesn’t give up just because things are not going his or her way.
One man who never gave up was Thomas Edison. Edison’s wife died at a very young ag…