As a young girl, I waited with the great anticipation for the arrival of the Great Heartland Fair every year. The fair was a fantastic smorgasbord of beautiful bright lights that lit up the cold dark sky along with the incredible sounds of music, animals and the loud clanging of the mechanical rides.

It’s impossible to forget the flood of scents from the fresh-cut field, hotdogs, cotton candy, new sawdust and men smoking cigars. The delight of the senses was so strong that six months later you could still close your eyes and your mind would recreate the lights, sounds and smells of that wonderful carnival atmosphere.

Every year the great fair brought some human oddities that were so peculiar that you had to pay before you could walk into the tent to see them.

My mother didn’t have a lot of money and I was never able to pay the fee for admittance to see the various wonders of humanity.

There was a woman with a beard, Siamese twins connected at the hip, the incredible strong man and a snake charmer.

Most of all, I wanted to see the Amazing Politsdon, the vanishing man who would disappear right before your eyes. All of the grown-ups told me to not waste my mother’s money and that it was literally smoke and mirrors and that he never really vanished.

I can now say beyond the shadow of a doubt, years later, that the grownups were wrong, as I have witnessed the vanishing man with my own eyes.

Candidate Harold Logsdon campaigned for 10 months and never really made an impression. However, when he was called by the citizens to debate on Thursday, he literally vanished!
Just like the lingering memories of the old fair, Logsdon is reminding us of what insensitive government is like after not having it for four welcoming years.

It seems only reasonable that the candidate who complained about the incumbent working too many hours should show us that he intends to do just the opposite.

Our living example of the vanishing candidate features indifference towards the citizens, proficiency in negativity and a severe lack of creative solutions.

You know, when you finally get to witness the vanishing man in action, it’s not such a big deal after all. If the guy can’t show up at the request of our students, then we don’t need to vote for him.

M. Eudura Johnson
mommytired (at) lycos.com

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