Back when I was in school in Auburn I roomed for a few quarters with a friend from high school named Danny Cardwell. We had first met when his class at Hanover finished 8th grade and came to CCHS for the 9th through the 12th grade. Danny was the kind of guy that was impossible not to like. He and I had both attended Alex City State Jr. College after graduating from high school and transferred to Auburn in the fall of 1967. The first few quarters we had other roommates at different places but by the spring of 1968 we were roommates at Neill House over on Gay Street.
Back then everybody bought records. There were no 8 tracks, no cassettes and certainly no Cds or mp3. Everything was vinyl. 33 1/3 albums or 45 singles. One day I came in from class and there was Danny getting ready to play his new Jimmy Hendrix album. At the time I had never heard of Jimmy Hendrix and I asked him, Why Jimmy Hendrix? He said that he had been watching a news broadcast and that they had interviewed an older woman and asked her what she thought of Jimmy Hendrix. Evidently she gave a scathing review of not only his music but of him as a person. Danny said as he listened to her he realized that she was the type of person that represented everything he disliked in people. If she was that much against Hendrix, Danny felt that he would probably like him. I am pretty sure that the Hendrix album became one of his favorites.
I though of this story today when I was thinking about the current presidential election. I have never been a big fan of Donald Trump and when the nominations were all settled I went to isidewith.com and took the quiz and found out that Gary Johnson most closely represented my views. For the last few weeks I have been toggling back and forth between voting for Johnson or boycotting the election all together. Recently I have begun to realize that nearly all of the people that I find to be reprehensible are against Trump. McCain, Ryan, Rove, all the Bushes , most of the national democrats and virtually all of the mainstream media are disparaging him constantly. Anybody that has those people against him is bound to make a better president than any we have had in a long time in this country. It is still 2 weeks until the election and I may change my mind again a few more times before it gets here but if I don't, I'll be marking my ballot for Donald Trump on Nov 8th and who knows, after I do I may just go out and buy myself a Jimmy Hendrix album.
