<a href="http://new.corepurpose.com/a-few-key-maxims/grandmas-100th-christmas/" rel="attachment wp-att-998"><img class="wp-image-998 alignleft" style="margin: 10px;" title="Grandmas 100th Christmas" src="http://new.corepurpose.com/wp-content/uploads/Grandmas-100th-Christmas.jpg" alt="Marie Gleason Carmichael" width="309" height="430" /></a>Marie G. Carmichael was a pretty wise lady. She lived to see 100 Christmases and 17 Presidents. She loved politics too. I wonder what she would say if she heard the news today?

It's hard to find a space in the media today that is not filled with incumbents, candidates and presumptive candidates sharing their message with "the people."

Perhaps, like many of us, you are tired of it all; the repetition, the name calling, the bickering and worse. I know I am.

There are a couple of things you can do.

<strong>Option #1 - Turn it off.</strong>

Turn off the TV and the radio, advise the newspaper you are on vacation so please suspend delivery until election day, and avoid opening email, accessing Facebook, Twitter, Google+, or any other form of social media.

<strong>Option #2 - If you think Option #1 is a bit too extreme.</strong>

Each time you hear a politician, newscaster, or other pundit continue to behave in a way that creates dissension instead of creating solutions, send them the gift of these words that my Grandma shared with me:
<blockquote>"Have your facts in your head before opening your mouth. "

"Don't complain about a problem, without offering its solution."

"Pointing fingers does not solve anything, you have a brain and two good hands, use them to fix it."

"Always remember, if you can't say anything nice, don't say anything at all."</blockquote>
<p style="text-align: left;">Perhaps if our current and hopeful politicians hear this a few million times, they will get the message.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">We can only hope.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">Otherwise we may just have to go back to seriously considering Option #1.</p>