When I was about 5 my baby cousin died from SIDS.

When I was in my twenties my friend put a shotgun into his mouth and ended his life.

When I was in my 30’s I slept with my phone because on some nights because  I was ” On Call ” as a Mortician’s Apprentice and those calls meant that I was going somewhere to meet a family who were going through a devastating experience.

All of these events unfolded in my life with the same thing.

A ringing phone.

 Years later I still equate the sound of a phone ringing me out of sleep with Death.

And now there’s this campaign ad:

“It’s 3:00 am and your children are safe and asleep. But there’s a phone in the White House and it’s ringing,” the male narrator says in the  ad. “Something’s happening in the world. Your vote will decide who answers that call.”

The only word that comes to my mind now in regards to a candidate

who has so much to offer

 would use this tactic….

is

Why.