DISHONOR, IN THE U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

THE RECENT VOTE OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TO REQUEST THE ANTI-TRUST DIVISION OF THE ATTORNEY GENERALS OFFICE TO POSSIBLY BRING CHARGES AGAINST THE OPEC OIL PRODUCERS IN THE MIDDLE EAST IS NOTHING BUT A GRANDSTAND PLAY AND CRUEL TRICK TO PLAY ON THE WORRIES OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE.     IT IS OBVIOUS TO MOST ATTORNEYS AND EVEN SOME SAVY PEOPLE THAT OPEC IS NOT SUBJECT TO OUR U.S. ANTI-TRUST LAWS BECAUSE THEY ARE NOT U.S. COMPANIES DOING BUSINESS IN THE U.S.     IN OTHER WORDS, OPEC IS NOT SUBJECT TO THE JURISDICTION OF THE U. S. LAWS.

THE IRONY OF THIS VOTE WAS THAT CONGRESS DID NOT INCLUDE THE U.S., CANADIAN, ENGLISH, MEXICAN OR VENEZUELIAN COMPANIES IN THIS REQUEST, SINCE FOR THE SAKE OF UNIFORMITY, THAT’S THE LEAST THEY COULD DO.     IT IS RATHER OBVIOUS THAT THESE UNINCLUDED COMPANIES, ARE THE FAVORITES AND UNTOUCHABLES OF CONGRESS AND THE LOBBYISTS THAT REPRESENT THEM IN CONGRESS. 

ALL THESE OIL PRODUCING COMPANIES SHOULD BE LUMPED TOGTHER FOR SUCH ANTI-TRUST ACTION, SUCH AS PRICE FIXING, BECAUSE THEY ARE ALL GUILTY OF IT, BASED ON THE UNIFORM PRICE OF GASOLINE AND FUEL OIL IN THE THIS COUNTRY.    IF ANYTHING, THE U.S. PRODUCERS ARE THE BIGGEST OFFENDERS, SINCE THEY DO NOT HAVE THE TRANSPORTATION EXPENSES OF THE OTHER NATIONS.    SECONDLY, THEY ARE TAKING ADVANTAGE OF THE UPBIDDING OF PRICES IN THE STOCK MARKET AND OBTAINING UNCONSCIONABLE PROFITS AT THE COST OF THE AMERICAN CONSUMER WHEN IT DOES NOT COST THEM A PENNY MORE TO PUMP THE OIL OUT OF OUR AMERICAN WELLS.   THEY ARE BITING THE HANDS OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE WHO REALLY OWN MOST THE OIL FIELD HELD UNDERGROUND AND GENEROUSLY LEASE THE OIL DRILLING RIGHTS TO THE GREEDY OIL COMPANIES, SOME DOMESTIC AND SOME FOREIGN.   SAID LEASES SHOULD HAVE HAD PROVISIONS AGAINST PRICE GOUGING AND EXCESS PROFITS, WITH CANCELLATION CLAUSES FOR ANY SERIOUS VIOLATIONS.     AS MATTERS NOW STAND, WE ARE PAYING TWICE AS MUCH FOR OUR OWN GAS AND FUEL OILS WHILE THE LOCAL OIL COMPANIES ARE LAUGHING AT THE AMERICAN PEOPLE, ALL THE WAY TO THE BANK.

CONGRESS SHOULD BE MADE TO STOP PLAY ACTING AND GET SERIOUS ABOUT THIS VERY SERIOUS SITUATION BY PASSING MEANINGFUL LEGISLATION TO IMMEDIATELY HELP THE AMERICAN CONSUMER BEFORE IT IS TO LATE FOR THE CONSUMER AND THE MEMBERS OF CONGRESS.

I AM LOONEY ENOUGH TO THINK OF THE FOLLOWING SOLUTIONS, THAT CONGRESS AND THE PRESIDENT MIGHT CONSIDER NOW, AND WITHOUT FURTHER DELAY:

1.   ORDER THE SECURITY AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION TO TAKE OIL AND FOOD OFF THE LIST OF FUTURES IN THE STOCK MARKET.    THIS ACTION WILL PREVENT GREEDY OIL COMPANIES AND UNAMERICAN INVESTERS FROM BIDDING UP THE FUTURE OIL DELIVERY PRICES.     THAT SHOULD RETURN THE OIL AND FOOD MARKET TO THE TIME HONORED AMERICAN SYSTEM OF SUPPLY AND DEMAND.    THIS ACTION CAN BE TAKEN OVERNIGHT.

2.    IMPOSE PRICE CONTROLS ON ALL ENERGY SOURCES AND MAKE THEM RETROACTIVE TO JANUARY I, 2008.    THIS SHOULD REDUCE THE PRICE OF LOCALLY PRODUCED OIL TO ABOUT $ 2-75 PER GALLON.    UNTIL ALTERNATIVE ENERGY SOURCES CAN BE DEVELOPED TO COMPETE.

3.    THE PRESIDENT SHOULD DECLARE A NATIONAL EMERGENCY AND NATIONALIZE ALL SOURCES OF ENERGY, IN A WAY TO CONTROL OIL AND FUEL PRICES AND INCREASE PRODUCTION OF OIL IN THIS COUNRTY, INCLUDING REFINERIES.    IN THIS WAY THE GOVERNMENT CAN CONTROL THE PROFITS OF OUR LOCAL OIL COMPANIES WHO ARE PROFITING ON BOTH IMPORTED AND LOCAL SUPPLIES UNNECESSARILY.

4.     PASS LEGISLATION TO SET UP VARIOUS PROGRAMS FOR EACH SOURCE OF ALTERNATIVE ENERGY, WITH TAX CREDITS AND INCENTIVES FOR THESE COMPANIES AND THE CONSUMER TO ENCOURAGE THE USE OF THESE ALTERNATIVE ENERGY SOURCES.    IT IS VITAL TO THIS PROGRAM TO KEEP IT OUT OF THE CONTROL OF ANY OIL PRODUCING OR IMPORTING COMPANY SO THAT COMPETITION MAY BE GUARANTEED.

5.      PASS LEGISLATION REQUIRING MANUFACTURERS TO MAKE 50% OF AUTOMOBILES PRODUCED TO PROVIDE THIRTY MILES TO THE GALLON OF FUEL BY 2012.     THE OTHER 50% OF AUTOMOBILES PRODUCED TO HAVE ALTERNATIVE SOURCES OF ENERGY, SUCH AS ELECTRICITY ETHENAL, HYDROGEN OR ANY COMBINATION THEREOF WITH THE SAME MILAGE REQUIREMENTS.

6.    ALL LAND PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION MUST REDUCE PRICES ABOUT 50% TO ENCOURAGE MORE PUBLIC USE, ESTIMATED TO MORE THAN DOUBLE.

7.    GRANT TEMPORARY LEASES TO DIG MORE OIL IN UNEXPLORED AREAS IN THE U.S. AND OFFSHORE, ON CONDITION THAT THEY SELL THE OIL PRODUCED AT A REASONABLE PROFIT ONLY. 

8.    LOOSEN REQUIREMENTS FOR NUCLEAR ENERGY TO ENCOURAGE THE BUILDING OF SUCH PLANTS NATION WIDE FOR THE NEXT TEN YEARS, OR UNTIL WE BECOME FREE FROM OIL IMPORTS.

9.    STOP THE PRACTICE OF PAYING FARMERS NOT TO PLANT AND ORDER THEM TO PLANT AND NOT KEEP THEIR LAND FALLOW UNDER THREAT OF CONFISCATION BY THE GOVERNMENT TO ENLARGE THE SUPPLY OF MATERIALS FOR ALTERNATIVE FUELS.

10.  SUSPEND STORAGE OF GASOLINE UNDER THE STRATEGIC OIL RESERVE.   (FORTUNATELY, CONGRESS AND THE PRESIDENT CAME UP WITH THIS SMALL SAVING MEASURE, FIRST ON MAY 20, 2008).

11.  RATION GASOLINE AND FUEL OILS TO PREVENT WASTE AND OTHER ABUSES.

CONGRESS AND THE PRESIDENT HAVE THE POWER TO INITIATE ONE OR ALL OF THESE PLANS OR SOMETHING SIMILAR, TO HELP REDUCE THE PRICE OF GASOLINE AND FUEL OILS.    THE QUESTION IS WILL THEY COME TO THE AID OF THEIR COUNTRY?   THE TIME FOR STUDIES, PUBLIC HEARINGS AND QUESTIONING OF OIL EXECUTIVES IS OVER.   IT IS TIME FOR ACTION, AND NO MORE TALK, NO MORE GRANDSTANDING!   IF CONGRESS FAILS TO ACT QUICKLY, WE WILL ACT QUICKLY AND VOTE THEM OUT OF OFFICE AS A “DO-NOTHING CONGRESS.”

THE HAPPENINGS IN THE 2000 PRESIDENTIAL RUNOFF, WHEN AL GORE WON THE POPULAR VOTE AND THE SUPREME COURT SHUT OFF THE RECOUNT IN FLORIDA FOR THAT STATE’S ELECTORAL VOTES, STARTED A BUZ THAT HAS GROWN TO A ROAR IN THIS YEAR, 2008.     FIRST, FLORIDA AND MICHIGAN MOVED UP THEIR PRIMARY DATES, COMTRARY TO DEMOCRATIC PARTY RULES, THEN THE D.N.C. DETERMINED THAT THE VOTES CAST AND THE DELEGATES ASSIGNED WOULD NOT BE SEATED AT THE DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION.

THIS CAUSED THE VOTERS IN THESE TWO STATES TO BE DISENFRANCHISED AND THEIR PREFERENCE CANCELLED, THROUGH NO FAULT OF THE VOTER.    THIS HAS CAUSED NONE OF THE DEMOCRATIC CHALLENGERS THE ABILITY TO GARNER ENOUGH DELEGATES TO REACH THE MAGIC NUMBER OF 2025 BEFORE THE NATIONAL CONVENTION.   

IN THE MEANTIME, JOHN McCAIN REACHED THAT NUMBER IN EARLY FEBRUARY AND WAS DECLARED THE WINNER.   HILLARY CLINTION AND BARACK OBAMA WERE LEFT TO BATTLE IT OUT BETWEEN THEM WITH NO HOPE OF REACHING THAT MAGIC NUMBER OF DELEGATES, SHORT OF THE CONVENTION WHEN THE SO-CALLED SUPER DELEGATES WILL VOTE AND HOPEFULLY A WINNER WILL BE DETERMINED. 

IN AN ATTEMPT TO END THE EMBITTED BATTLE BETWEEN THESE TWO CANDIDATES, THE DEMOCRATIC CHAIRMAN, JOHN DEAN, FIRST HAD PUBLICLY REQUESTED THAT THE SUPER DELEGATES MAKE THEIR CHOICE BY THE END OF THE PRIMARY VOTING IN APRIL.     THIS WOULD PREVENT THE VOTERS IN THE BALANCE OF THE STATES TO VOTE AND VOICE THEIR CHOICE.       THE RESULTING PROTEST CAUSED MR. DEAN TO THEN SUGGEST THE SUPER DELEGATES SHOULD DECIDE BY THE   SCHEDULED, JUNE 6^THDATE WHEN N.CAROLINE AND INDIANA VOTES.    HE CLAIMS THE TIME IS NEEDED “FOR THE PARTY  TO HEAL AND PREPARE FOR THE GENERAL ELECTION IN NOVEMBER.    THIS IS ALL WELL AND GOOD, BUT THAT IS NOT HOW THE RULES READ.     THAT DECISION MUST, ACCORDING TO THE RULES, BE MADE AT THE CONVENTION IN AUGUST.    THE D.M.C. CLAIMS IT WANTS TO AVOID A DRAGGED OUT BACK ROOM DEALING FOR SUPER DELEGATES VOTES THAT MIGHT HURT THE PARTY.  

THE PROBLEM WITH THAT, IS THAT THE RULES AND POWER OF THE SUPER DELEGATES WAS ESTABLISHED BY THE DEMOCATIC PARTY FOR JUST THAT PURPOSE, TO SWING THE VOTE AWAY FROM A FRONTRUNNER, IF IT SUITED THE SUPER DELEGATES PURPOSES.    THERFORE MOST VOTERS INSIST THAT THE PROCESS BE PLAYED OUT ACCORDING TO THE RULES UNTIL THE CONVENTION WHEN A NOMINEE WILL BE CHOSEN.

FOR MANY YEARS NOW, THE VOTERS HAVE BEEN DISSATISFIED BY THIS DELEGATE RULE, SUCH AS IN THE FINAL ELECTION, THE WINNER IN A STATE IS GRANTED ALL THE DELEGATES OF THAT STATE WHILE THE POPULAR VOTE IS NOT CONSIDERED, SEPARATELY.   INSTEAD, MOST AMERICANS BELIEVE WE SHOULD HAVE A POPULAR VOTE COUNT OF THE ENTIRE VOTES NATION WIDE TO DETERMINE THE WINNER.

IN ADDITION, THE MANNER IN WHICH THE NOMINATION OF THE PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES IS SELECTED HAS PROVEN UNWIELDLY AND CONTROLLLED BY THE POLITICAL PARTIES. WHEN IN REALITY IT IS THE GOVERNMENT AND THE PEOPLE WHO SHOULD HAVE THE CONTROL.    THE POLITICAL PARTIES HAVE DEMONSTRATED THEY HAVE TOO MUCH POWER IN THIS PROCESS AS EVIDENCED OF WHAT HAPPENED THIS YEAR (2008).

UNFORTUNATELY, ARTICLE 2 ENTITLED “EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT” OF THE U.S. CONSTITUTION, DOES NOT SPECIFICALLY PROVIDE FOR A PRIMARY SYSTEM FOR THE SELECTION OF NOMINEES FOR THE PRESIDENCY, UNDER SECTION, b. HEADED, “ELECTORS” EACH OF THE STATES, “SHALL APPOINT, IN SUCH MANNER AS THE LEGISLATURE THEREOF MAY DIRECT, A NUMBER OF ELECTORS--------.”   THE 12^TH AMENDMENT, (1804) PROVIDES FOR THE ELECTORS TO VOTE BY BALLOT FOR PRESIDENT AND VICE PRESIDENT.    THEREFORE, REGARDLESS OF ANY PRIMARY SYSTEM IN THE PRESIDENTIAL SELECTION PROCESS, ONLY THE ELECTORS HAVE THE ALTIMATE POWER AND RIGHT TO SELECT BY A MAJORITY WHO THE PRESIDENT AND VICE PRESIDENT SHALL BE EVERY FOUR YEARS, NOT THE VOTERS, AND REGARDLESS OF THEIR VOTE.

THEREFORE, UNLESS THIS PROCEDURE IS CHANGED BY CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT, SOON, WE CAN EXPECT A REPEAT OF THIS YEAR’S FIASCO OF THE YEAR 2000 RESULTS, WHICH WERE ULTIMATELY DECIDED NOT BY THE VOTERS BUT BY THE SUPREME COURT OF THE U.S.

        TO PREVENT THESE PROBLEMS FROM EVER RISING AGAIN, THE CONSTITUTION SHOULD BE IMMEDIATELY AMENDENDED AS FOLLOW:

1.   ARTICLE 2, PARAGRAPH .b ENTITLED, “ELECTORS” SHOULD BE REPEALED, ALONG WITH THE TWELTH AMENDMENT AND THE FOLLOWING SUBSTITUTED: EACH STATE SHALL HOLD A PRIMARY BY REGISTERED VOTERS ON THE FIRST TUESDAY IN FEBRUARY OF EACH PRESIDENTIAL TERMINATING YEAR IN OFFICE.    THEY SHALL NOMINATE FOR PRESIDENT, THOSE PERSONS RECEIVING THE MOST VOTES FOR EACH POLITICAL AND NON-POLITICAL PARTY OR PERSONS.     SAID NOMINEES FOR EACH PARTY AND EACH NON-PARTY NOMINEE   SHALL BE DEEMED THE ONLY NOMINEES ELIGIBLE FOR SAID CANDIDACY AND NO WRITE IN CANDIDATES SHALL BE CONSIDERED IN THE SUBSEQUENT FINAL ELECTION.

A RUN OFF, ELECTION, OF SAID NOMINEES FOR PRESIDENT AND HIS OR HER SELECTION FOR VICE PRESIDENT, BOTH OF WHOM SHALL NOT BE RESIDENTS OF THE SAME STATE, SHALL BE HELD ON THE FIRST TUESDAY OF THE FOLLOWING NOVEMBER, IN EACH STATE, BY VOTE OF THE ELIGIBLE VOTERS OF THAT STATE.    THE RESULTS OF THE VOTE FOR EACH PARTY AND NON-PARTY NOMINEE SHALL BE TABULATED AND CERTIFID BY THE SECRETARY OF STATE OF EACH STATE AND TRANSMITTED UNDER SEAL TO THE PRESIDENT OF THE U.S.SENATE.    HE SHALL, IN THE PRESENCE OF THE SENATE AND HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, OPEN ALL THE CERTIFICATES AND THE VOTES SHALL BE COUNTED AND TABULATED.   THE PERSON WITH THE GREATEST NUMBER OF VOTES FOR PRESIDENT FROM ALL THE STATES COMBINED SHALL BE PRESIDENT AND HIS OR HER CHOICE FOR VICE PRESIDENT, SHALL BE VICE PRESIDENT, BUT NO PERSON CONSTITUTIONALLY INELIGIBLE TO THE OFFICE OF PRESIDENT SHALL BE ELIGIBLE TO BE VICE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES.    IN THE EVENT OF A TIE VOTE FOR PRESIDENT, THE TWO PERSONS WITH THE HIGHEST VOTES SHALL DRAW   STRAWS, PUBLICLY, THE PERSON WITH THE LONGEST STRAW, SHALL BE DECLARED PRESIDENT, BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE SENATE.

                    MEMORIAL DAY IS PERSONAL TO EACH OF US

EACH MEMORIAL DAY, WE REMEMBER AND HONOR THOSE PEOPLE WHO HAVE PREDECEASED US IN LIFE.       USUALLY WE PAY OUR RESPECTS AT THE CEMETARY OF OUR LOVED ONES LIKE GRANDMA OR GRANDPA WHO WERE SO NICE AND LOVING TO US WHILE WE MAY HAVE BEEN TO YOUNG TO REALIZE HOW MUCH THEY REALLY HAD CONTRIBUTED TO OUR FOLKS AND FAMILY.      OUR FOLKS MAY BE BURIED THERE, ALSO, A FINAL RESTING PLACE FOR THOSE TIRED, LOVING PEOPLE WHO FRETTED AND DID SO MUCH FOR US AND WHOM WE NEVER REALLY REALIZED HOW MUCH THEY SACRIFICED AND DID WITHOUT FOR US, THEIR CHILDREN, FAMILY AND COUNTRY.

ALL WE CAN DO NOW, IS TO BRING FLOWERS, SIGNIFYING LIFE, TO THE GRAVE ON THIS DAY, SET ASIDE FOR REMEMPRANCE OF THEM.    AS WE PAUSE FOR A MOMENT AT THE GRAVE SITE, IN SILENT PRAYER, WE THINK OF HOW MUCH MORE WE COULD HAVE DONE FOR THEM BUT DIDN’T AND HOW MUCH WE MISS THESE LOVING PEOPLE, THEIR WORDS OF ENCOURAGEMENT, EVEN, THAT TWENTY DOLLAR BILL STUFFED IN OUR HAND SO MANY TIMES JUST TO MAKE US AND THEM FEEL GOOD AND CARING, AS WE LEFT AFTER A BRIEF VISIT TO “GRANDMA’S HOME”.

OH!  IF ONLY THEY WERE STILL ALIVE.   SO WE CAN REALLY EXPRESS OUR GRADITUDE AND TRUE LOVE FOR THEM JUST ONE MORE TIME.    BUT, IT IS TOO LATE AND WE REALIZE THOSE ARE THE WORDS AND DEEDS THAT MUST BE EXPRESSED DURING THEIR LIVES.   

MAYBE, IF THEY PASSED ON WHILE YOU WERE ESTRANGED, OR NOT ON THE BEST OF TERMS WITH THEM, FOR SOMETHING YOU NOW REALIZE WAS YOUR FAULT, YOU WISH YOU COULD TELL THEM HOW SORRY YOU ARE AND, MAYBE, THAT YOU WERE NOT THERE FOR THEM, AND HOW FRUSTRATED AND ANGRY YOU FEEL ABOUT THAT ERROR YOU MADE.   THEN YOU REALIZE, ALL YOU CAN DO NOW, IS SAY YOU ARE SORRY IN PRIVATE AND PROMISE TO BE A BETTER PERSON TO THOSE STILL LIVING UNTIL YOU MEET THEM AGAIN IN HEAVEN.

AS YOU WALK OR RIDE AROUND THE CEMETARY IN NOSTALGIC MEMORY, YOU SEE THE FLUTTERING AMERICAN FLAGS AND WHITE MARKERS IN THE LARGE VETERANS SECTION, OF THAT RESTING PLACE AND THINK OF THOSE MEN AND WOMEN, SOME OF WHOM YOU SERVED WITH, WHO DIED THEN OR SINCE AND YOU PAUSE AND BOW YOUR HEAD IN RESPECT OF THEM WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES, AS THE ULTIMATE SACRIFICE, SO WE MAY LIVE IN PEACE AND SAFETY TODAY.    AT THE SAME TIME YOU THINK HOW FORTUNATE YOU WERE TO HAVE SURVIVED TO RETURN HOME TO YOUR LOVED ONES.    YOU THINK SYPATHETICALLY OF THE MANY WOUNDED SERVICEMEN RETURNING FROM THE WAR WOUNDED BOTH PHYSICALLY AND MENTALLY AND SCARRED FOR LIFE, BUT NOT BROKEN IN SPIRIT, BECAUSE THEY ARE THE LIVING AMERICAN HEROS.    OUR HEART CRIES OUT FOR THEM AND THEIR QUICK RECOVERY.     YOU THINK ALSO OF THE OBVIOUS VALUABLE CONTRIBUTIONS AND SACRIFICES OF THEIR FAMILIES, WHO HAVE SERVED THEIR COUNTRY IN THEIR OWN PRIVATE WAY.     

     YOU THINK OF EVERY ONE BURIED AT THIS PLACE AND EVERY OTHER CEMETARY, FOR THEIR FAMILIES AND COUNTRY AND REALIZE HOW IMPORTANT WE ALL ARE TO EACH OTHER.   WHETHER THEY WERE RELATIVES, FRIENDS, NEIGHBORS OR COUNTRYMEN, THEY EACH MADE THEIR CONTRIBUTIONS AS BEST THEY COULD THE WEAK AND THE STRONG, WHETHER RICH OR POOR, IT DID NOT MATTER, AS LONG AS THEY CARED FOR SOMEONE DURING THEIR LIVES, THEY MADE THAT CONTRIBUTION TO MAKE US AND THIS COUNTRY STRONGER.

EACH TOWN, CITY, STATE AND OUR NATION, CELEBRATE THIS MEMORIAL DAY WITH PARADES, FANFARE AND SPEECHES OF APPRECIATION.     IT IS OUR OPEN TRIBUTE AND DEDICATION, IN MINDFULL RESPECT TO THOSE THAT HAVE PREDECEASED US, AND OUR THANKFULNESS FOR THEIR VALUABLE CONTRBUTIONS TO US AND THIS GREAT COUNTRY AND ITS PEOPLE.

IF WE COULD ONLY KEEP THEIR UNSELFISH CONTRIBUTIONS AND SACRIFICES IN OUR MINDS YEAR ROUND, WE WOULD NEVER BE TEMPTED AWAY OR FORGET OUR LOYALTY AND LOVE FOR OUR BROTHERS AND SISTERS IN OUR FAMILY AND COUNTRY, THIS WONDERFUL HOME OF FREEDOM, WE ARE PRIVILEGED TO LIVE, IN CITIZENSHIP WITH EACH OTHER.

ON WEDNESDAY MAY 14, 2008 THE U.S. CONGRESS AWAKENED TO THE DEMANDS OF THE LOBBYISTS AND PASSED A FARM BILL, EVEN THEY SAY SMELLED LIKE A NEWLY FERTILIZED FIELD, BEFORE PLANTING.   

THE PRICE TAG FOR THE AMERICAN PEOPLE IS 290 BILLION DOLLARS.

THE BREAKDOWN CONTAINS:

1.      30 BILLION DOLLARS, AS A FARM SUBSIDY FOR FARMERS, NOT TO GROW ANYTHING ON THEIR FARM.   THIS IS AKIN TO PAYING SOMEONE FOR NOT SHOWING UP FOR WORK, A COMMON AND REGULAR PRACTICE IN WASHINTON AND IN CONGRESS, THESE DAYS.    IT SEEMSTO ME, WITH THE PRICE OF FOOD CLIMBING STEADILY, AND WITH CORN AND SOYBEANS NEEDED FOR OUR ALTERNATIVE ENERGY SOURCES, WE OUGHT TO ENCOURAGE FARMERS TO GROW MORE, NOT LESS PRODUCE.   THIS IS UNBELIEVABLE, BUT NOT TO CONGRESS, THEY ARE IN ANOTHER WORLD, THEY ARE THE LACKYS FOR THE LOBBYISTS.

2.       40 BILLION DOLLARS FOR OTHER FARM SUBSIDIES, NOT EXPLAINED IN THE NEWSPAPER ARTICLE, I READ RECENTLY.   MY GUESS IS THAT IT IS TO SUPPORT MILK PRICES AND OTHER FARM PRODUCTS THE POOR FARMER NEEDS TO LIVE ON.   IT SEEMS TO ME, PRICES OF FARM PRODUCE HAS RISEN SHARPLY THIS YEAR TO THE POINT WE CANNOT AFFORD TO BUY THEM NOW, SO THE FOOD MARKET WILL LOSE EVEN MORE WHEN THEY DON’T SELL AND THEY WILT AND ARE THROWN OUT WITH THE GARBAGE, RATHER THAN TO SELL THEM AT A LOWER PRICE.   INCLUDED IN THIS FIGURE IS AN INDETERMINATE AMOUNT FOR ENVIRONMENTAL PROGRAMS WE ARE NOT PRIVY TO KNOW ABOUT, BUT YOU CAN BET A LOBBYIST ASKED FOR AND PAID FOR IN CONTRIBUTIONS.

3.       220 BILLION DOLLARS FOR NUTRITION MONEY FOR SCHOOLS AND FOOD STAMPS FOR THE POOR AND THE SAVY PEOPLE WHO LIVE OFF THE DOLE OF US GENEROUS AMERICANS, WHETHER WE LIKE IT OR NOT.

HOUSE SPEAKER NANCY PELOSI, DEM.-CAL., SAID, THE MEASURE WILL DRASTICALLY INCREASE NUTRITION THAT WILL HELP 38 MILLION AMERICAN FAMILIES PUT HEALTHY FOOD ON THEIR TABLE.    HOW ABOUT THE REST OF US THAT ARE HAVING TROUBLE PUTTING ANY FOOD ON OUR TABLE NUTRITIONAL, OR NOT?    THIS IS ABOUT TWO THOUSAND DOLLARS PER AMERICAN FAMILY.   WOULDN’T IT BE MORE SENSIBLE JUST TO MAIL THIS MONEY OUT TO US, ALONG WITH THE STIMULIS MONEY WE WERE PROMISED, BUT WAS SENT TO SOMEONE ELSE BY MISTAKE BY THE TREASURY DEPARTMENT.   DOESN’T ANYONE CHECK THE CHECKS BEFORE THEY ARE MAILED OUT?    WE CAN THANK CONNECTICUT REP., ROSA DELAURO FOR PUSHING FOR MORE MONEY IN THE BILL.   WE CAN NEVER GIVE ENOUGH TO THOSE POOR UNDERNOURISHED PEOPLE WHO FIND THEMSELVES ON WELFARE BECAUSE THEY GET MORE MONEY TO STAY HOME, RATHER THAN WORK FOR A LIVING.  THE ONLY BALANCED MEAL WE CAN AFFORD IS TO BALANCE OUR PLATE ON TOP OF OUR HEADS.    WHEN I WAS A KID WE WERE TEN AT THE TABLE, AND I WAS SEATED AT THE FAR END.   WEDNESDAYS WAS CHICKEN DAY, MOTHER WOULD CUT UP THE ROASTED CHICKEN: 2 BREASTS, 2 LEGS, TWO THIGHS, TWO WINGS, THE PART THAT FLYS OVER THE FENCE LAST (THE BACK) AND THE NECK, NOTHING WAS WASTED.   NEEDLESS TO SAY, WHEN THE PLATE WAS FINALLY PASSED TO ME, EVERY TIME I WAS LOOKING DOWN AT THE NECK.   I CAN TELL YOU THERE ARE 66 BONES IN A CHICKEN’S NECK.    I GREW UP SO THIN THEY CALLED ME “SARDINE”.    WHEN I SAT SIDEWAYS IN SCHOOL THE TEACHER MARKED ME ABSENT.   NEVER THE LESS, WE ALL SURVIVED WITHOUT WELFARE.   

IT IS OBVIOUS THAT CONGRESS ONLY ACTED BECAUSE THIS IS AN ELECTION YEAR, AND THEY MUST BE RE-ELECTED TO KEEP THE MONEY FLOWING INTO THEIR POCKETS.     IF THIS IS THE BEST THEY CAN DO WHEN PEOPLE ARE LOSING THEIR JOBS, THEIR HOMES, THEIR CARS AND THEIR MINDS, WORRYING HOW THEY WILL GET BY, WE CAN DEPEND ON THEM CONTINUING TO “DO NOTHING” AND LIVING UP TO THEIR REPUTATIONS FOR THE LAST DOZEN YEARS.   THE LAST I HEARD ABOUT THE MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE PROBLEM, CONGRESS WAS PROPOSING A BAILOUT OF THE BANKS AND LENDERS AND GRANTING MONEY TO THE CITIES AND TOWNS TO CLEAN UP AND RESELL FORECLOSED HOMES SO THE TOWN WOULD NOT LOOK BLIGHTED.   OF COURSE, THE QUESTION IS, WHAT WILL THEY DO FOR THE POOR HOMEOWNER WHO WAS PUT OUT ON THE SIDEWALK AND STREET, FURNITURE, KIDS, DOGS, CATS AND ALL.   THE ANSWER IS NOTHING BUT A PROD TO GET MOVING OR BE ARRESTED FOR LOITERING.   THE ANSWER IS GOOSE EGGS.

WE DO NOT NEED A FARM BILL AT ALL.   BIG CORPORATIONS, TODAY RUN MOST FARMS.   NO FARMER, SHOULD BE IN TROUBLE THESE DAYS, WITH SHORTAGES OF FOOD AND THE VERY HIGH DEMAND ALL OVER THE WORLD.    WE DON’T NEED TO SUPPORT SUGAR PRICES ANYMORE BECAUSE IT CAN BE TURNED INTO ALTERNATIVE ENERGY AS BRAZIL IS, WHILE THEY ARE FREE OF THE NEED FOR FOREIGN OIL.

ALL THIS MONEY IN THE FARM BILL SHOULD BE DIVERTED TO THE ENERGY BILL CONGRESS SHOULD BE WORKING ON INSTEAD.      

CONGRESS CAN COTTON UP TO THE LOBBYISTS WITH THE FARM BILL BUT THEY WILL NOT GET OUR VOTE IN THE MEANTIME.   

IT IS NOT BAD ENOUGH THAT THE DRUG CARTELS AND THEIR LOBBYISTS WROTE THE DRUG PRESCRIPTION LAW, A COUPLE OF YEARS AGO FOR RETIRED SENIORS.     THEY INCLUDED IN THE LEGISLATION, PASSED BY CONGREESS, A PROVISION, THAT IS UNLAWFUL FOR ANY AMERICAN TO BUY DRUGS OUTSIDE THE UNITED STATES.     THE REASON WAS GIVEN CLEARLY AND EMPHATICALLY BY PRESIDENT BUSH HIMSELF MANY TIMES THAT “WE CANNOT BE ASSURED THOSE FOREIGN DRUGS WILL BE SAFE FOR USE BY AMERICANS”.

IN THE MEANTIME, SENIORS WERE CLAMMERING AND SUFFERING OVER THE HIGH COSTS OF PRESCRIPTION DRUGS THAT EVERYONE KNEW WERE TWICE WHAT THEY COULD BUY OUTSIDE THE USA.   AS A RESULT, THE DRUG COMPANIES WERE ALLOWED TO WRITE AND SPONSOR THE SENIOR DRUG PRESCRIPTION LAW THAT BASICALLY PAYS MOST OF THE PRESCRIPTION BILL FOR THE FIRST $2500, EACH YEAR FOR EACH PERSON.   WHILE THAT PERSON PAYS IN FULL FOR THE NEXT $2500. AFTER THAT, THE GOVERNMENT PICKS UP THE BILL AS CATASTROPHIC EXPENSES, THE NET RESULT IS THAT MOST RETIRED PERSONS NEED ABOUT $5000 IN DRUG PRESCRIPTIONS PER YEAR, SO IF EFFECTIVE THEY ARE PAYING THE WORLD PRICE FOR THESE DRUGS ANYWAY.  

      THE OBVIOUS THEORY BEHIND THIS PLAN IS, IF THE ILLNESS DOESN’T KILL YOU $5000. WORTH OF PILLS, WILL FOR SURE.

THE SAVING TO THE DRUG COMPANIES IS THAT THEY ARE ASSURED THE SENIORS BUY ALL THEIR MEDICINES HERE IN THE US, ASSURING THEM OF THE PROFIT.

NOW, I UNDERSTAND THE US GOVERNMENT WANTS TO SEND INSPECTORS TO CHINA TO TEST THE DRUGS MANUFACTURED THERE FOR EXPORT TO THE US.     THIS CAME AS A SHOCK TO MOST AMERICANS THAT WERE LED TO BELIEVE THAT ALL THE DRUGS WERE BEING MANUFACTURED HERE IN THE US.   NOW, WE LEARN THAT OUR LOCAL DRUG COMPANIES HAVE ARRANGED TO MANUFACTURE MANY OF THEIR DRUGS IN CHINA WHERE COSTS ARE MUCH LOWER.    

THE NET RESULT IS THAT PRESIDENT BUSH AND HIS ADMINISTRATION HAD LIED TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE AND WORSE YET, PUT AMERICANS AT RISK TO OUR HEALTH AND SAFETY, SO THE DRUG COMPANIES CAN OUTSOURCE DRUG MANUFACTURING TO CHINA OR ELSEWHERE.

IT WAS BAD ENOUGH THAT CHINA PUT OUR PET’S AT RISK WITH POISON IN OUR PET’S FOOD; THEY ALSO PUT OUR CHILDREN AT RISK WITH LEAD PAINT TOYS.    IT IS OBVIOUS THAT SAFETY MEASURES HAVE NOT AND IS NOT BEING EMPLOYED IN CHINA AND NOW THE SAFETY OF MEDICINE BEING IMPORTED INTO OUR COUNTRY FROM CHINA IS PUTTING OUR NATION’S SICK AND INFIRM PEOPLE AT FURTHER RISK.  

WHAT CAN YOU DO?   WE AMERICAN PEOPLE SHOULD CONTACT OUR REPRESENTATIVES AND SENATORS TODAY IN WASHINTON AND DEMAND THEY PASS LEGISLATION, IMMEDIATELY TO STOP ALL IMPORTS FROM CHINA UNTIL WE CAN BE ASSURED THEY ARE SAFE.    WE SHOULD NOT ACCEPT LESS OF OUR PUBLIC SERVANTS.  AN IMMEDIATE AND FULL INSPECTION SHOULD BE DONE NOW AND AT NO EXPENSE TO THE USA.

HOWEVER, SINCE OR PUBLIC SERVANTS ARE BEING PAID OFF BY LOBBYISTS FOR THE DRUG, ANIMAL FOOD AND TOY COMPANIES, YOU CAN EXPECT NOTHING BUT EXCUSES AND NO REAL ACTION FROM OUR PUBLIC SERVANTS, WHO ARE BOUGHT AND PAID FOR.

DO YOU KNOW THAT THERE ARE ABOUT 41,000-REGISTERED LOBBYISTS IN WASHINGTON, D.C. AND THEY CONTRIBUTE ABOUT $250 MILLION DOLLARS A YEAR TO OUR ELECTED OFFICIALS IN WASHINGTON, D.C.   THAT AMOUNTS TO AN AVERAGE ABOUT $500,000 TO EACH REPRESENTIVE AND SENATOR TO LOOK THE OTHER WAY.    THIS SHOULD GIVE YOU AND IDEA OF WHO CONTROLS THE VOTE OF YOUR PUBLIC SERVANT.   I STAND CORRECTED, THE LOBBYIST’S PUBLIC SERVANT.   “NOTHING CORRUPTS A PERSON MORE THAN MONEY OR SEX”, A FAMOUS POLITICAN ONCE SAID OR SHOULD HAVE SAID.

THE PRESCRIPTION DRUG LAW FOR SENIORS IS JUST WRONG.  WE MUST INSIST UPON NEW SAFETY MEASURES BEING PUT INTO PLACE IN CHINA TO PROVIDE THE SAFETY OF MEDICINE BEING IMPORTED INTO OUR COUNTRY.  WE MUST STOP PLACING OUR COUNTRY’S SENIORS AT RISK!  

IT IS TIME FOR THE AMERICAN VOTERS TO WAKE UP AND TAKE OUR REPRESENTATION AWAY FROM THE POLITICIANS THAT ARE SUPPOSED TO REPRESENT US AND RETURN THE POWER OF OUR VOTE TO OURSELVES BY VOTING OUT ALL OUR WASHINGTON REPRESENTATIVES AND SENATORS REGARDLESS OF THEIR PARTY AFFILIATION.

THE MESSAGE IS CLEAR, “REWARD CONGRESS, RE-ELECT NOBODY.”        

Thanks for writing Gracepool, tell all your relatives and friends to read my Web site.  I'd like to stop writing about the "battle" between Clinton and Obama, but I just cannot.  Some say it is because I am Looney!  I think that it is really because their "battle" isn't over yet.  I just heard that Hillary is celebrating because she took Kentucky.  It seems as though that Kentuckians weren't fooled by the truly un-American Obama.  Way to VOTE Kentucky!  Keep reading.  I promise to keep you interested and thinking about the future of our great country. Thanks for requesting the window sticker, it is on its way.  Best regards, Andy Looney

THE BATTLE FOR THE NOMINATION IN THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY FOR PRESIDENT, THIS YEAR, 2008, HAS BEEN EXCITING BUT STRANGE AND PUZZLING.

FOR THE FIRST TIME, THE EMERGING FRONTRUNNERS ARE A WHITE WOMAN AND A BLACK MAN, THE FIRST TIME EITHER HAVE RUN FOR THIS OFFICE WHILE FOR THE FIRST TIME, ALSO, THE VOTERS ARE SERIOUSLY CHOOSING BETWEEN A WHITE WOMAN AND A BLACK MAN AS PRESIDENT OF THE U.S.A.

AT THE START, SENATOR HILLARY CLINTON, A FORMER PRESIDENT’S WIFE, WAS CONSIDERED THE FRONT RUNNER, IN SPITE OF THE TRADITIONAL DIFFICULTY FOR MEN TO TREAT WOMEN AS EQUALS.    ALTHOUGH THE PUBLIC POLLS SHOWED HER TO HAVE A 40% NEGATIVE RATING NATION WIDE, THIS WAS PERCEIVED AS A RESULT OF THE “GUILT BY ASSOCIATION” FEELINGS OF MANY AMERICANS BECAUSE OF THE TRANSGRESSIONS OF BILL CLINTON.   THE TRUTH MAY LIE WITH THE REPUBLICAN’S OBVIOUS UNDERCURRENT EFFORT TO BESMIRCH HER AS SHE PREPARED TO RUN FOR THE PRESIDENCYAS THE APPARENT FRONRUNNER.  ALSO THE NEWS MEDIA MAY HAVE CONTRIBUTED TO HER PROBLEM, WITH ITS STARRY EYED ATTRACTION TO A YOUNG, CHARISMATIC AND SWEET TALKING NEW BLACK SENATOR FROM ILLINOIS.   HIS APPEARANCE WAS A DRAMATIC CHANGE AT A TIME THE AMERICAN PEOPLE WERE LOOKING FOR A CHANGE AND TIRED OF THE BICKERING BETWEEN THE TWO POLITICAL PARTYS FOR THE LAST EIGHT YEARS, WHILE THE WAR AND ECONOMY WERE CAUSING MOUNTING AND VERY SERIOUS PROBLEMS IN THE COUNTRY.

IN THE 2005 CONGRESSIONAL ELECTION THE VOTERS SENT A CLEAR MESSAGE TO CONGRESS AND THE PRESIDENT, THAT THEY WANTED THE WAR ENDED AND FOR CONGRESS TO WORK TOGETHER TO FIX THE SAGGING ECONOMY.   THEY VOTED THE DEMOCRATS A CLEAR MAJORITY FOR A CHANGE, BY DEFAULT NOT ACCLAIM.   THE RESULTS WERE, MORE OF THE SAME BICKERING BETWEEN THE POLITICAL PARTYS AND CONGRESS CONTINUED TO DO NOTHING TO HELP THE COUNTRY.    

OBAMA CAME ON THE SCENE WHEN THE AMERICAN PEOPLE WERE DESPARATE FOR A CANDIDATE TO CHANGE THE COURSE OF THE WAR, HELP THE SAGGING ECONOMY AND HOPEFULLY GET THE COUNTRY BACK ON THE RIGHT TRACK AGAIN.   THE AMERICAN DEMOCRATIC VOTER, TIRED AND DISGUSTED, SAW THIS NEW FACE AND BLACK MAN AS THE ONLY PERSON, OUT OF THE FIELD OF CANDIDATES, CAPABLE TO GIVE THEM NEW LEADERSHIP AND A TRUE CHANGE.   ALTHOUGH, IT WAS OBVIOUS TO MOST DEMOCRATS THAT CHANGE MUST BE MADE FROM THE REPUBLICAN ADMINISTRATION WHO HAD FAILED THE COUNTRY FOR THE LAST EIGHT YEARS, THEY JUMPED ON THE OBAMA BANDWAGON AS THEIR QUICK CHOICE FOR THE CHANGE THEY DESIRED AND NEEDED.

OBAMA, A SLICK POLITICIAN FROM CHICAGO, WHO HAD RISEN TO POWER WITH THE ACTIVE HELP OF REVEREND WRIGHT AND HIS NUCLEUS OF BLACK PARISHIONERS, HAD BEEN RUNNING SUCCESSFULLY FOR OFFICE IN ILLINOIS FOR TWENTY YEARS.   HIS ATTRACTION WAS AIDED BY HIS YOUNG LOOKS, HIS SWEET TALK AND PLEASANT DEMEANOR, THAT SOME CALLED, “JOHN KENNEDISH”.  IT DID NOT TAKE HIM AND OTHERS LONG TO CONVINCE HIM THAT HE COULD USE THIS TALENT TO CHARM HIMSELF TO THE PRESIDENCY, AT THIS CRITICAL TIME OF NEED TO THIS COUNTRY.  THEREFORE, HIS RUN FOR THE PRESIDENCY WAS BECAUSE OF SHEER AMBITION AND NOT ANY DESIRE TO HELP THIS COUNTRY.   MONEY WAS NO DETERRANT SINCE HE HAD THE BACKING OF OPRAH WINFREY AND HER MANY, MANY MILLIONS OF DOLLARS TO HELP HIM WIN THE NOMINATION AND ALSO THE ELECTION.     HE CONVINCED HIMSELF AS A FIRST TERM SENATOR FROM ILLINOIS , HE HAD NOTHING TO LOSE AND EVERYTHING TO GAIN.    HE WOULD PUSH HIS POPULARITY TO THE LIMIT AND SEEK THE FIRST PRIZE FOR ALL POLITICIANS, THE PRESIDENCY OF THE UNITED STATES.   THE FACT THAT HE LACKED EXPERIENCE DID NOT MATTER TO DISCOURAGED AND DESPERATE VOTER LOOKING FOR A CHANGE FOR THE BETTER.

AS A RESULT, HE CONVINCED THE IOWA VOTERS, THE FIRST IN THE NATION, TO VOTE FOR HIM AS HE ESPOUSED THE “HOPE AND CHANGE” THE VOTERS WERE SEEKING.   OVER THE SAME OLD FACES IN WASHINGTON, INCLUDING HILLARY CLINTON A WOMAN WHO JUST WAS RE-ELECTED TO THE SENATE FROM THE STATE OF NEW YORK.    HE MADE IT A POINT TO PAINT HER AS OLD SCHOOL BECAUSE OF HER SEVEN YEARS IN WASHINGTON, AND AS THE FIRST LADY TO A PRESIDENT THAT EMBARRASSED THE COUNTRY AND ONE OF THE MAJORITY OF SENATORS WHO GAVE PRESIDENT BUSH THE VOTE TO INVADE IRAQ.     HIS COMMENT WAS, “YOU NEED A PRESIDENT WHO IS RIGHT THE FIRST TIME”.   THIS STANCE RESONATED WITH THE DISGUSTED VOTERS, TIRED OF THE ENDLESS WAR IN IRAQ BUT FORGETFUL OF THE FACT THE AMERICAN PEOPLE THEMSELVES WERE ALSO IN FAVOR OF THAT WAR, AFTER SMARTING FROM THE EFFECTS OF 9/11 AND ANXIOUS TO LASH OUT AT ANYONE ACCUSED OF BEING A TERRORIST.    HOW CAN YOU BLAME HER FOR THAT VOTE WHEN THE AMERICAN PEOPLE WERE IN FAVOR OF THE WAR ALSO?     IT WAS NOT A MISTAKE TO OVERTHOW THE THREATENINGS OF SADAAM HUSSAIN, IT WAS A MISTAKE TO STAY THERE AFTER THE MISSION WAS ACCOMPLISHED AND NO WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION WERE FOUND.    THAT IS THE EXCLUSIVE FAULT OF OUR COMMANDER IN CHIEF, PRESIDENT BUSH.       

OBAMA WON IOWA BASED ENTIRELY ON HIS NEWNESS AND PROMISES OF HOPE AND CHANGE; THE FRUSTRATED VOTERS YEARNED TO HAVE.

THEN, HILLARY TOOK NEW HAMPSHIRE. TO THE SURPRISE OF OBAMA, WHO THOUGHT HE WAS INVINCABLE WITH HIS MESSAGE.   HOWEVER, THE PEOPLE OF NEW HAMSHIRE WERE SMART ENOUGH TO LOOK BEYOND THE PROMISES AND INSTEAD, TRUSTED THE SINCERITY OF CLINTON’S WORD AND THE PROVEN RECORD OF SUCCESS BY THE PRIOR CLINTON ADMINISTRATION.    IN ADDITION, NEW HAMPSHIRE IS NOT A LIBERAL DEMOCRATIC STATE, BUT A MIDDLE OF THE ROAD, STATE.  

THE PRIMARY IN SOUTH CAROLINA, WITH ITS 95% BLACK VOTE, AWAKENED THE DEMOCRATS TO WHAT OBAMA REALLY STOOD FOR, THE LIBERAL VOTE OF THE BLACK COMMUNITY AND THEIR RACIST VOTES.   NOW THE WHITE AMERICAN DEMOCRATS SAT UP AND TOOK NOTICE OF OBAMA AND LOOKED BEHIND THE WORDS AND LOOKED FOR THE REAL PERSON THEY WERE VOTING FOR.   WHAT THEY FOUND WAS REVEREND WRIGHT AND HIS ANTI-WHITE AND ANTI-AMERICAN TIRADS AND THE APPLAUDING APPROVAL OF HIS PARISHIONERS WITH OBAMA SITTING IN THE MIDDLE OF THEM FOR TWENTY YEARS JOINING THEM EVERY SUNDAY MORNING AND SOAKING UP THE HATE LIKE A SPONGE. THIS GUY IS NOT THE AMERICAN THEY THOUGHT HE WAS.   HE HAS NO RESPECT FOR THE AMERICAN FLAG OR THE NATIONAL ANTHEM AND REFUSES TO WEAR AN AMERICAN FLAG IN HIS LAPEL AS A SIGN OF RESPECT FOR THE AMERICAN TROOPS FIGHTING TWO WARS IN THE MIDDLE EAST.   HIS WIFE IS NO DIFFERENT AND WAS EXPOSED WHEN SHE SAID, “FOR THE FIRST TIME IN MY LIFE I AM PROUD TO BE AN AMERICAN.”   THE OBVIOUS MEANING IS THAT SHE WAS NOT PROUD OF AMERICA UNTIL THEN, EVEN THOUGH SHE RECEIVED A SCHOLASHIP TO HARVARD LAW SCHOOL ALONG WITH OBAMA AT THE EXPENSE OF MORE DESERVING WHITES, DUE TO AFFIRMATIVE ACTION LAWS.  

BY THIS TIME, HOWEVER, OBAMA WAS IN THE LEAD AND STILL MESMORIZING VOTERS WHO REFUSED TO BELIEVE OBAMA WAS A RACIST OR, A LIBERAL.  WHO IS PROMISING ALL THE COMPLAINING BLACKS MORE OF THE SAME FREE RIDE AS THEY RECEIVED UNDER THE CIVIL RIGHTS ACT OF 1963.

WHEN PENNSYLVANIA GAVE HILLARY A RESOUNDING VICTORY, OBAMA AND THE COUNTRY REALIZED THE AMERICAN MIDDLE OF THE ROAD DEMOCRATIC VOTERS CONTINUE NOT TO BE FOOLED BY THE OBAMA PROMISES AND HIS EXPOSED LIBERAL PHILOSOPHY AND INTENTIONS.    THEY ARE FED UP WITH THE UNGRATEFUL BLACKS WHO HAVE AMPLY DEMONSTRATED THEIR CONSTANT HATE OF THE COUNTRY AND THE WHITE MAJORITY.   SOME, BLACKS, ARE NOT SATISFIED TO HAVE BEEN TREATED, AS EQUALS FOR THE LAST FIFTY YEARS, AT THE EXPENSE OF MANY MORE DESERVING WHITES WHO WERE LEFT BEHIND.    THEY WERE NOT HAPPY WITH THE COST AND EXPENSES OF BUSING TO INSURE BLACKS THE SAME QUALITY OF EDUCATION AS AVAILABLE TO THEIR WHITE NEIGHBORS.   THEY WANT MORE, LIKE REPARATIONS MORE FREE MONEY AND A FREE LUNCH WITHOUT WORKING FOR IT!

THE VOTE TUESDAY IN W. VIRGINIA CONFIRMED OBAMA’S WORST FEARS, THE MIDDLE OF THE ROAD DEMOCRATS PREFER HILLARY TO HIM, BECAUSE HE HAS BEEN EXPOSED AS A LIBERAL ALONG WITH HIS PRINCIPAL ENDORSERS LIKE THE KENNEDYS, JOHN KERRY, CHRIS DODDS, BILL RICHARDSON, FORMER SENATOR GEORGE MCGOVERN AND, JOHN EDWARDS, ALL LIBERALS, LOSERS AND REJECTS IN PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGNS.    WITH THESE BACKERS, WHERE WILL THE CHANGE BE?  OR WILL HE THROW THEM UNDER THE BUS AS HE FINALLY DID WITH REVEREND WRIGHT TO SAVE HIS OWN SKIN.

IN SPITE OF THE FACT THAT HILLARY HAS AMPLY DEMONSTATED HER COURAGE AND TENACITY TO CONTINUE TO SHOW SHE IS BETTER QUALIFIED AND EXPERIENCED TO BE PRESIDENT THAN OBAMA, HE HAS CORALLED ENOUGH WHITE DEMOCRATS WHO ARE EITHER ANTI-WOMAN OR JUST PLAIN DISGUSTED WITH POLITICIANS OF THE PAST TO TURN TO HIM, AS THE SAVIOR.    THEY ARE BLIND TO THE FACT HE IS MORE OF AN OLD POLITICIAN THAN SHE WILL EVER BE.   LOOK AT HIS LIST OF ENDORSERS, ALL WANABEE LIBERAL FAILURES YEAR AFTER YEAR. 

NOW ALTHOUGH OBAMA’S LEAD SEEMS INSURMOUNTABLE, NEITHER ONE CAN REACH THE MAGIC NUMBER OF 2025 DELEGATES WITHOUT THE VOTES OF THE SUPER DELEGATES, AT THE CONVENTION    

      THERE IS NO QUESTION IN MY MIND THAT A DEMOCRATIC PRESIDENT SHOULD WIN IN NOVEMBER.     THE CONTINUING STRANGE VOTES IN SEPARATE STATES, SOME WON BY OBAMA AND OTHERS BY HILLARY SHOW THE DIVISION AMONGST DEMOCRATS THEMSELVES, IN THIS BIZARRE, DIVISION BETWEEN STATES, BECAUSE OF COLOR, GENDER AND THE STRUGGLE BETWEEN LIBERAL AND MIDDLE OF THE ROAD DEMOCRATS.     THIS DIVISION IS REAL AND MAY PREVENT THE DEMOCRATS FROM WINNING THE PRESIDENCY THIS NOVEMBER.    IT WILL BE INTERESTING TO SEE IF THE NOMINEE PICKS THE SECOND BEST TO HEAL THESE PARTY DIFFERENCES, IF NOT THE DEMOCRATS ARE DOOMED TO FAIL, ESPECIALLY BECAUSE OF THE INNOCENT DISENFRANCHIZED VOTERS OF MICHIGAN AND FLORIDA.    ENOUGH OF THEM MAY VOTE FOR REPUBLICAN JOHN MCCAIN TO MAKE THE DIFFERENCE AND MAKE HIM PRESIDENT.       

THE VOTERS REALIZE OBAMA CAMPAIGN IS ALL ABOUT HELPING THE BLACKS AND LIBERALS IN THE COUNTRY BUT THEY DON’T CARE.  I THINK MANY MALE DEMOCRATS PREFER TO VOTE FOR A BLACK MAN THAN A WOMAN OF ANY COLOR, NO MATTER HOW GOOD A PRESIDENT SHE WOULD BE.   THIS IS THE TRAGEDY OF THIS CAMPAIGN.   WOMEN HAVE BEEN FIGHTING FOR EQUAL RIGHTS FOR THOUSANDS OF YEARS AND STILL ARE BEING DENIED EQUAL STATUS, TODAY, AS EVIDENCED IN THIS CAMPAIGN.    SO, IF THE TREND CONTINUES, EXPECT A RETURN OF THE AMOS AND ANDY SHOW FOR THE NEXT FOUR YEARS.  THE CONGRESS WILL RETURN TO THE LIBERALISM OF THE PAST BECAUSE IT IS DESTINED TO THROW OUT ENOUGH REPUBLICANS FOR THE DEMOCRATS TO HAVE A CLEAR AND VETO PROOF MAJORITY, AND MATTERS WILL GET WORSE WITH MORE TAXING AND SPENDING FOR LIBERAL CAUSES, IN FOUR YEARS WE WILL BE WORSE OFF AND IN THE SAME MESS WE WERE EIGHTY YEARS AGO, IN A DEEP DEPRESSION.   THEN, WE WILL BE DESPERATELY LOOKING FOR A NEW SAVIOR AGAIN, UNLESS WE DEMOCRATES WAKE UP AT THE LAST MOMENT AND VOTE FOR HILLARY CLINTON AS THE DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATE FOR PRESIDENT.

Response to Grace P. :  Yes, I agree we should get out of Iraq, bring our troops home without delay to a hero's welcome and spend the necessary money to help them with their physical and emotional wounds, along with their families, who also have suffered deeply we need to provide a GI Bill to help them get educated or trained for decent jobs and pay them full pay while mending and half pay while schooling.  If we repeal the tax cut for the rich we will have a combined amount necessary to help an alternate fuel program started so we can be free from foreign oil in four years.  Immigation must wait until we seal the borders and stop all work visas until we Americans are fully employed.  If we paid Americans $10 a hour as a minimum wage, we would not have welfare and our farms and plants can afford it just tell those damn CEO's to take a lot less for pay, bonus and stock options.  The SEC must control public corporations so the worker has a fair living wage and the stockholder gets a fair share for their investment.  Thank you for your suggestions, Grace, we agree on this I think, and I'm Looney enough to keep trying.  Andy Looney

Comment submitted by: Grace P.
     Ok, my first priority would be getting us out of Iraq.  I do not want to see one more death of injury as a result of this obscene war.  By getting out of Iraq, the billions of dollars we have hemmoraged over there can now be used here to help us get our own economy back on the right track.  I want to ensure troops who have returned to the US receive whatever services they require to heal from their personal wounds.  And I'd start a vigorous program to develop sustainable energy and fuels that would limit our need for dependance on oil from the Middle East.  And, I don't have THE answer, but I would start working on a plan for how to deal with illegal immigrants.  SOMETHING IS BETTER THAN NOTHING.

BARACK OBAMA HAS EMERGED AS THE APPARENT NOMINEE AS THE DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATE FOR THE PRESIDENCY IN 2008.    HE IS A FIRST TERM JUNIOR SENATOR FROM ILLINOIS, WHOSE CHARISMA AND CHARM. COUPLED WITH HIS YOUTH AND NEWNESS TO THE SCENE HAS PROPELLED HIM INTO THE LEAD.      HIS PROMISES OF CHANGE, HOPE, AND CAN DO IN A CAPITAL THAT HAS DONE JUST ABOUT NOTHING FOR THE LAST EIGHT YEARS, ALSO SUGGESTS HE CAN GET ALL OUR PROBLEMS SOLVED WHERE OTHERS HAVE FAILED.    HE HAS CRITISIZED THE OLD WASHINGTON GANG AS OLD HAT AND THE CAUSE OF ALL THE PARTY BICKERING AND STALEMATES, AND PARTICULARLY HILLARY CLINTON HIS LAST OPPONANT STANDING.

HOWEVER, WHEN YOU LOOK AT WHO HAS ENDORSED HIM, YOU SEE THAT SAME OLD WASHINGTON CROWD OF OLD HATS AND DO NOTHINGS.    TO LIST A FEW, THEY ARE SENATOR KILLER KENNEDY, THAT DRUNK FROM MASSACHUSETTES, SENATOR JOHN KERRY, THE ANTI AMERICAN AND THE ANTI VIETNAM WAR AND PHONEY WAR HERO.    SENATOR DUMMY DODDS FROM CONNECTICUT, A PROFESSIONAL POLITICIAN, AND FORMER CANDIDATE FOR THE POWER OF THE PRESIDENCY, BUT A REJECTED FAILURE, NONETHELESS.   THEN THERE IS, GOVERNOR BILL RICHARDSON OF NEW MEXICO, ANOTHER FAILED AND REJECTED PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE, HUNGRY FOR POWER AND MOST RECENTLY THE TWICE FAILED FORMER PRESIDENTIAL CANIDATE, JOHN EDWARDS.      THESE ARE, BUT A FEW OF THE OBAMA BACKERS AND FAR LEFT LIBERALS THAT HAVE BEEN REJECTED BY THE VOTERS FOR THE PAST FORTY YEARS SINCE THE GREAT SOCIETY GIVAWAY DAYS OF L B JOHNSON.    

SO HOW CAN OBAMA MAKE CHANGES WITH THESE ULTRA LIBERALS AROUND HIM AS EXCESS BAGGAGE?    WHEN YOU ADD THE ANTI AMERICAN RANTINGS OF REVEREND WRIGHT, HIS CLOSE FRIEND AND CONFIDENT, YOU GET A PRETTY GOOD PICTURE OF WHO OBAMA REALLY IS. 

MOST VOTERS ARE SO DIGUSTED WITH THE POLITICS OF WASHINGTON, THEY COULD NOT SEE WHAT OBAMA REALLY STOOD FOR, NOT WHAT MOST POLITICIANS SAY TO WIN THE OFFICE.

OBAMA HAS CRITISIZED THE OLD WASHINGTON GANG AS OLD HAT AND THE CAUSE OF ALL THE PARTY BICKERING AND STALEMATES, AND NOW HE HAS JOINED THEM.

EENIE MEENIE, MINIE MOE-

CATCH OBAMA, TODAY’S PIED PIPER

      EVERYONE REMEMBERS THE STORY ABOUT THE PIED PIPER WHO’S MUSIC CAPTIVATED ALL THE CHILDREN AS HE MARCHED THEM TO THE SEA TO DROWN.

      IT SEEMS HISTORY IS ABOUT TO REPEAT ITSELF.   EXCEPT, THIS TIME IT IS OBAMA MARCHING THE VOTERS TO DISASTER WITH HIS SWEET TALK AND CATCH PHRASES, THE YOUNG VOTERS ARE RUSHING TO REGISTER TO VOTE FOR A MAN THAT HAS THEM HYPNOTIZED WITH HIS GOOD LOOKS AND SWEET PHRASES ABOUT “CHANGE AND “CAN DO”.

        IF THESE YOUNG PEOPLE KNEW ANYTHING ABOUT OBAMA, THEY WOULD KNOW THAT HE NOT ONLY LOOKS LIKE A BLACK MAN BUT IS A BLACK MAN FIRST, WHO ONLY CARES ABOUT BLACK PEOPLE, THE SOURCE OF HIS STRENGH AND REPEATED VICTORIES IN CHICAGO AND ILLINOIS.

       IF THEY DIDN’T LIKE THE WORDS OF REVEREND WRIGHT, THEY SHOULDN’T LIKE OBAMA’S WORDS BECAUSE OBAMA IS A PRODUCT OF THE REVEREND’S RACIST TIRADES AGAINST THIS COUNTRY AND THE WHITE AMERICAN PEOPLE.    HE ALWAYS REFERS TO HIM, AS HIS UNCLE, BEST FRIEND AND MENTOR FOR TWENTY YEARS AND EVEN ENTITLED HIS BOOK “THE AUDACITY OF HOPE” IN HONOR OF HIS REVEREND.    THE REVEREND, PROUDLY CALLS THE LIKES OF LOUIS FARRAKHAN AND THAT TERRORIST AYERS, BOTH BLACK POWER ADVOCATES AND BOMBERS OF AMERICAN PUBLIC BUILDING AS “HEROS” AND EVEN HONORED THEM WITH AWARDS AT HIS CHURCH.  

        OBAMA SAT IN THAT CHURCH AND PARTOOK OF ALL THAT HATRED FOR TWENTY YEARS.  WE KNOW HE IS NOT DEAF, AND NEITHER IS HIS WIFE, WHO ADMITS SHE WAS NEVER PROUD OF AMERICA UNTIL OBAMA STARTED TO GAIN THE ADVANTAGE IN THE PRESIDENTIAL PRIMARY.

        NOW, WE KNOW THE BLACKS ARE COMPLAINING THAT WE HAVE NOT DONE ENOUGH FOR THEM IN THE LAST FIFTY YEARS, SINCE THE CIVIL RIGHTS ACT OF 1963.    THE FACT IS, WE COULD NOT HAVE DONE MORE, SHORT OF SUPPORTING THEM ON WELFARE, AND THAT IS WHAT THEY WANT, MONEY IN THEIR HANDS WITHOUT WORK SO THEY CAN PLAY AROUND WITH BLACK WOMEN AND LEAVE THEM PREGNANT AS THEY HAVE DONE FOR 200 YEARS, FUN WITHOUT RESPONSIBILITY, AND JIVE AROUND LIKE KIDS AT PLAY.  THE NORTH HAS ALWAYS TREATED THEM AS EQUALS IN SPITE OF THE SLAVERY IN THE SOUTH, AND THESE BLACKS ARE COMPLAING, IN CHICAGO?    THAT IS AN INSULT TO US WHITE PEOPLE.  

       IT WAS OKAY FOR BOTH OBAMAS TO RECEIVE SCHOLARSHIPS TO HARVARD LAW SCHOOL THROUGH AFFIRMATIVE ACTION PREFERENSES GIVEN BLACKS OVER MORE DESERVING AND QUALIFIED WHITE APPLICANTS.   NOW THEY ARE INTENT ON WINNING WITH THE ALMOST EXCLUSIVE 100% OF THE BLACK VOTE WHILE SOME FOOLISH WHITES ARE MESMERIZED BY HIS SWEET TALK AND FALSE PROMISES.   HE CAN NO MORE DELIVER THAN YOU CAN.    OBAMA IS PLAYING TO THE WHITE VOTERS, ESPECIALLY THE YOUNG WHITES AS FOOLS LED TO THE SLAUGHTER AS THE PIED PIPER DID YEARS AGO.

       OBAMA IS ONLY INTERESTED IN WINNING.     HE IS A PROFESSIONAL POLITICIAN WHO HAS CONTINUOUSLY RUN FOR SUCCESIVE POLITICAL OFFICES FOR THE LAST TWENTY YEARS, WITH THE HELP OF THE BLACKS HE HAS ORGANIZED AGAINST THE WHITE CANDIDATES.     WHAT HAS HE ACCOMPLISHED EXCEPT TO WIN AND WIN?    HE KNOWS HE HAS CHARISMA AND THE ATTRACTIVE NEW YOUNG LOOK OF THE NEW GENERATION, WHICH HE PURPOSELY USES TO HIS ADVANTAGE.   BUT, THAT’S ALL HE HAS, WHEN WE REALLY NEED SOMEONE WITH THE KNOW HOW TO QUICKLY SOLVE OUR VERY PRESSING PROBLEMS.   

       THE ULTIMATE QUESTION IS NOT THE CLICHÉ “CHANGE” OR “CAN DO”, THE QUESTION IS, HOW ARE YOU GOING TO PRODUCE GOOD CHANGE, WHAT’S THE PLAN WHERE ARE THE DETAILS.    WHEN ASKED THAT QUESTION, ALL HE CAN SAY BE, YOU’LL SEE.    THAT IS PRECISELY WHAT I’M AFRAID OF, WHAT WE WILL SEE, BY THEN, IT WILL BE TOO LATE AND WE ARE DEAD IN THE WATER, AND DROWNED IN PROMISES OF HOPE AND CHANGE.

       THE VOTERS OF AMERICA BETTER WAKE UP AND VOTE WITH THEIR HEADS INSTEAD OF THEIR EYES, BEFORE THEY WAKE UP MARRIED TO A MONSTER, WHO WILL TEAR DOWN WHAT IS LEFT OF AMERICA AFTER EIGHT YEARS OF THE BUSH CROWD OF BIG BUSINESS THIEVES WITH BLUNDER IN THEIR MINDS, THEY ARE LEAVING THE COUNTRY BROKE.   

       MOST REPUBLICANS NOW REALIZE HOW THEY WERE FOOLED BY, BUSH, AND THE OIL CARTELS, ONE ONLY HAS TO TAKE A LOOK AT THE PRICE OF GAS AND FUEL OIL TODAY.   THEY WERE FOOLED BY BIG BUSINESS, WHO OUT SOURCED THEIR BUSINESS OVERSEAS TO SAVE ON LABOR AND MAKE MONEY WHILE OUR ECONOMY IS FALLING AND UNEMPLOYMENT IS UP.   OUR CONGRESS HAS BEEN PAID-OFF BY LOBBYISTS AND BIG BUSINESS INTERESTS, THEY JUST LOVE MONEY.  

       WE SHOULD BE MORE WORRIED AND DEMANDING OF WHAT CONGRESS CAN AND SHOULD DO, THAN WHICH PERSON WE CHOOSE FOR THE PRESIDENCY.    THEY ARE THE ONLY BODY OF GOVERNMENT THAT CAN HELP US BY PASSING THE NECESSARY LAWS TO HELP OUR ECONOMY AND COUNTRY AT THIS CRITICAL TIME.   

       A PRESIDENT CAN “HOPE FOR CHANGE” AND SAY “CAN DO” BUT ONLY CONGRESS CAN ACT AND DO IT.   DO YOU HEAR ANY PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE ADMIT THEY MUST FIND A WAY FOR CONGRESS TO ACT?    NO, BECAUSE THEY ALL WANT YOU TO THINK THEY CAN AND WILL ACT AS THE CHIEF EXECUTIVE.    THIS IS NOT TRUE, BECAUSE ONLY CONGRESS CAN LEGISLATE SOLUTIONS UPON WHICH THE PRESIDENT MAY ACT.   THAT’S WHY THE PRESIDENCY IS CALLED THE EXECUTIVE BRANCH OF GOVERNMENT.   CONGRESS PASSES THE LAWS AND THE EXECUTIVE, EXECUTES AND ENFORCES SAID LAWS.    MAYBE THOSE OBAMA VOTERS   SHOULD GO BACK AND READ THE U.S. CONSTITUTION.

       PEOPLE, THESE DAYS, SHOULD NOT FOLLOW ANY POLITICAL PARTY BLINDLY.    THAT IS WHY, WE ARE IN THE MESS WE FIND OURSELVES.     THE VOTERS HAVE FOLLOWED THAT PIED PIPER TOO LONG, TO OUR DOOM.   OUR REPRESENTATIVES ARE NOT REPRESENTING THE INTEREST OF THE PEOPLE.   IT IS TIME WE THINK FOR OURSEVES TO SAVE OURSELVES, IT IS OUR ONLY CHOICE, TODAY, REPUBLICANS THINK ONLY OF GETTING RICHER, WHILE THE OBAMA LIBERAL DEMOCRATS, WANT GIVAWAYS WITH A TAX AND SPEND PROGRAM, FOR THE BLACKS.   THIS IS A TIME FOR A CONSERATIVE VOTER AND A PRESIDENT CONCERNED WITH THE PLIGHT OF THE AMERICAN WORKER AND THE SO-CALLED MIDDLE CLASS.    WE ARE LOSING OUR HOMES, OUR JOBS AND ARE MAXED OUT IN DEBT AND TROUBLES.   WE NEED HELP NOW, AND CANNOT NOT WAIT UNTIL WE HAVE A NEW PRESIDENT.   CONGRESS IS NOT ACTING IN THE BEST INTERESTS OF THE PEOPLE; THEY ARE ACTING TO HELP BIG BUSINESS AND THEMSELVES.    WE SHOULD BE PRESSING CONGRESS FOR ANSWERS AND SOLUTIONS, NOW.     BUT THIS IS STILL A DO NOTHING CONGRESS, IN SPITE OF THE CONGRESSIONAL VOTE OF 2006.

       THIS IS NOT A BEAUTY CONTEST OR A POPULARITY CONTEST FOR THE PRESIDENCY.    IT IS A CONTEST FOR A PROVEN LEADER FOR OUR COUNTRY, SOMEONE WE DESPERATELY NEED AT THESE DANGEROUS TIMES FOR OUR COUNTRY.    WE CONNOT AFFORD TO MAKE THE SAME MISTAKE THREE TIMES IN A ROW.    THREE TIMES AND YOUR OUT, WAY OUT!   IT IS UP TO YOU TO SELECT THE BEST PERSONS FOR THE JOB OF PRESIDENT AND YOUR REPRESENTATIVES IN CONGRESS.    THIS, BY FAR, IS THE MOST IMPORTANT ELECTION OF YOUR LIFE AND THAT OF OUR CHILDREN’S LIVES.    THIS IS THE DESPERATE DEPRESSION ELECTION OF 1932, ALL OVER AGAIN, AND WE MUST ELECT A TRIED AND PROVEN SAVIOR, WHO CARES ABOUT THE PEOPLE’S PLIGHT, LIKE FRANKLIN DELANO ROOSEVELT, AND NO SWEET TALKING GREEN HORN NEED APPLY.  

       DON’T LET OBAMA’S MEZMIRIZING MUSIC AND PROMISES CAPTIVE YOU, AS HE MARCHES US TO THE SEA TO DROWN.

THE LAST FOUR MONTHS HAS REVEALED AN ALARMING TREND IN THE VOTES FOR PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE, BARRACK OBAMA THAT DESERVES THE ATTENTION AND CONCERN OF THE DEMOCRATIC VOTERS.

OBAMA WON THE FIRST PRIMARY VOTE IN IOWA, IN A SURPRISE FINISH WHILE HILLARY CLINTON WAS THE SUPPOSED FRONTRUNNER.     POLITICAL PUNDITS TOOK NOTICE THAT A HANDSOME AND CHARISMATIC, BLACK VERY JUNIOR U.S. SENATOR FROM ILLINOIS, COULD JUMP OUT AS THE FIRST FRONTRUNNER IN A LONG CAMPAIGN FOR THE PRESIDENTIAL NOMINATION.   HE EASILY DISTANCED HIMSELF AHEAD OF SIX OTHER CAPABLE AND SEASONED POLITICAL CANDIDATES ALONG WITH THE FIRST WOMAN EVER TO SEEK THE PRESIDENCY.    HILLARY DID NOT COME IN SECOND BUT THIRD BEHIND JOHN EDWARDS, THE FORMER VICE PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE.    NO ONE WAS MORE SHOCKED THAN HILLARY HERSELF.  

THE NEW HAMPSHIRE PRIMARY, THE FOLLOWING WEEK PROVED TO BE A BOOST AND RENEWAL FOR HILLARY, AS SHE EASILY CAME IN FIRST IN THAT PRIMARY, THIS WAS SOMEWHAT OF A SHOCK TO OBAMA, WHO, AT THIS POINT WAS COUNTING ALMOST ENTIRELY ON HIS PHYSICAL ATTRACTION TO WHITES AND BLACKS ALIKE TO WIN.    AS A RESULT, HE SHIFTED HIS EMPHASIS TO ATTACKING HILLARY BASED ON HER BEING PART OF THE OLD WASHINGTON CROWD OF PROFESSIONAL POLITICIANS WHO HAD BROUGHT THIS COUNTRY TO THE BRINK OF A RECESSION AND CAST THEIR VOTE AND LOT WITH BUSH IN FAVOR OF AN UNPOPULAR WAR IN IRAQ.   HE CLAIMED HER VOTE FOR THAT WAR WAS A MISTAKE SHE SHOULD NOT HAVE MADE.     THE RESULT WAS A SETBACK FOR HILLARY.

AS A RESULT, COMBINED WITH THE BLACK VOTE IN SOUTH CAROLINA, OBAMA EASILY WON THERE, THE NEXT STATE TO HOLD A PRIMARY.    THIS RE- IGNITED HIS IMPETUS AND GAVE HIS CAMPAIGN THE NEEDED ENCOURAGEMENT THAT HE COULD WIN.    HOWEVER, SINCE OBAMA HAD RECEIVED 95 % OF THE BLACK VOTE, SOMETHING SEEMED OUT OF BALANCE.     WHEREAS, OBAMA HAD RECEIVED A MAJORITY OF THE PREDOMINATELY WHITE VOTE IN IOWA AND A RESPECTABLE SIZE OF THE VOTE IN NEW HAMPSHIRE THIS WAS CONSIDERED NORMAL IN AMERICA, REGARDLESS OF RACE, AS IT SHOULD BE.   

IF OBAMA HAD ONLY RECEIVED FIVE PERCENT OF THE WHITE VOTE, AN IMMEDIATE CRY OF RACISM WOULD RISE FROM THE BLACK COMMUNITIES.     BUT WHEN THIS HAPPENED IN SOUTH CAROLINA AS TO THE BLACK VOTE NO ONE DARED SPEAK UP AGAINST THIS OBVIOUS RACIST VOTE.     HOWEVER, WHEN THIS TREND CONTINUED FROM STATE TO STATE WHERE BLACK VOTES WERE FAIRLY PREDOMINANT, ESPECIALLY IN THE SOUTH, THIS PATTERN REVEALED A CONSISTENT ALMOST 100 % OF THE BLACK VOTES FOR OBAMA.  

THIS IS CONTRA TO THE SPIRIT OF AMERICA AND THE DEMOCRATIC PROCESS, ESPECIALLY SINCE THE BLACKS HAVE BEEN TREATED BETTER THAN EQUALS FOR THE LAST FIFTY YEARS, SINCE THE CIVIL RIGHTS ACT OF 1963.     THEY HAVE ALSO HAD THE ADVANTAGE OF THE AFFIRMATIVE ACTION LAWS WHERE THEY HAVE BEEN FAVORED OVER WHITES IN COLLEGE ADMISSIONS WITH SCHOLARSHIPS AND PREFERENTIAL TREATMENT.   THEY HAVE BEEN GIVEN ACCESS TO THE SAME SCHOOLS AS WHITES AND EVEN BUSED THERE, FREE.   MOST AMERICANS HAVE ACCEPTED BLACKS AS EQUALS UNDER OUR U.S.CONSTITUTION AND MANY WHITES JOINED IN THE FREEDOM MARCHES WITH MARTIN LUTHER KING AND OTHER BLACK LEADERS AND SOME EVEN DIED FIGHTING FOR THE EQUAL RIGHTS DENIED BLACK FOR THE PREVIOUS TWO HUNDRED YEARS, UNDER SLAVERY.     AS A CONSEQUENCE, MOST AMERICANS HAVE FELT THAT ANY PREJUDICE AGAINST WHITES HAS BEEN ERASED DURING ALL THESE FIFTY YEARS.

HOWEVER, UPON CLOSE EXAMINATION, AS A RESULT OF THIS LOPSIDED AND CONSISTENT VOTE BY BLACKS FOR OBAMA EXCLUSIVELY, IT BECAME ABUNDANTLY CLEAR THAT THEY HAD A RACIST ATTITUDE AGAINST WHITES IN THIS RACE FOR THE PRESIDENCY.     

WHEN SOMEONE LOOKED INTO OBAMA’S CHURCH AND FOUND THE ANTI-WHITE AND ANTI-AMERICAN HATE BEING ESPOUSED BY HIS CLOSE FRIEND, REVEREND WRIGHT AND HIS APPROVING FLOCK, PEOPLE WERE NATURALLY SHOCKED AND DISMAYED.     IT WAS OBVIOUS THE BLACK COMMUNITIES OF THE COUNTRY STILL HAD A GRUDGE AND BONE TO PICK WITH AMERICANS.    ALL IMMIGRANTS ARRIVING TO THE U.S. HAVE RECEIVED AND ENDURED SOME DEGREE OF PREJUDICE AGAINST THEM, EVEN IF ONLY FOR THE COMPETITION FOR THEIR SERVICES OR THE FACT THAT THE NEWCOMERS WERE “DIFFERENT” OR “FOREIGN.”     HOWEVER, IT DID NOT TAKE LONGER THAN ONE GENERATION FOR THESE NEWCOMERS TO MELT INTO AND JOIN AMERICAN SOCIETY BY LEARNING THE LANGUAGE, AND PROVING THEIR WORTH AS AMERICANS WHO QUICKLY ADOPTED THIS COUNTRY’S ATTITUDE OF FREEDOM AND OPPORTUNITY FOR ALL.    

     IT IS UNDERSTANDABLE, THAT BECAUSE BLACK HAD BEEN TREATED AS SECOND CLASS CITIZENS FOR NEARLY 200 YEARS AND SEGREGATED FROM THE WHITES IN THE SOUTH UNTIL THE EARLY 1960’S THAT THOSE TORTURED MEMORIES ARE IMBEDDED IN THOSE STILL LIVING WHO ENDURED THOSE INDIGNITIES.     HOWEVER, THIS WOULD ACCOUNT FOR SOME RESENTMENT OF WHITES AND AMERICA IN BLACKS MORE THAN FIFTY YEARS OLD, HOWEVER, THEY SHOULD AND MUST REALIZE THE OPPORTUNITIES AND ADVANTAGES PROVIDED FOR THEM, THEIR CHILDREN AND GRANDCHILDREN, AS EQUALS FOR THE LAST FIFTY YEARS, IN ADDITION BLACKS WERE ALWAYS TREATED AS EQUALS IN THE NORTH SINCE THE DAYS OF SLAVERY, 250 YEARS AGO.

IN OBAMA’S BOOK, “THE AUDACITY OF HOPE” HE MAKES A CONCERTED AND DELIBERATE ATTEMPT TO EMBARRASS WHITES INTO VOTING FOR HIM WHILE USING THE RACIST CARD TO WIN THE BLACK’S SOLID VOTE.    HE EVEN COMPLAINED WHEN THIS PLOY WAS NOT WORKING WITH POOR AND SUFFERING WHITE VOTERS OF PENNSYLVANIA, CALLING THEM RACISTS BECAUSE THEY DID NOT TRUST THE EMPTY PROMISES OF A GREEN HORN, NEWCOMER, WHO THOUGHT THE SENATE CHAMBER SIGN WAS FOR THE TOILET.     

FOR THE MINISTER AND OTHER BLACKS TO DWELL ON PAST INJUSTICES OF BLACKS AS REASONS FOR HATING TODAY’S WHITES AND AMERICA IS JUST WRONG AND UNJUSTIFIED.    IT IS NO DIFFERENT THAN HOLDING A CHILD OR GRANDCHILD RESPONSIBLE FOR THE ACTIONS OF THEIR PARENTS OR GRANDPARENTS.      IT IS TERRIBLY WRONG FOR A MINISTER AND ITS PARISHIONERS TO COMPLAIN AND CONTINUE TO HOLD A GRUDGE AGAINST A PEOPLE AND A COUNTRY FOR SOMETHING THAT HAS BEEN ASSIGNED TO HISTORY FOR HALF A CENTURY WHILE AT THE SAME TIME PARTAKE OF THE EQUALITY AVAILABLE TO ALL AMERICANS, AND AT THE EXPENSE OF WHITE’S OPPORTUNITIES.

IT IS OBVIOUS THAT OBAMA HAS PLAYED TO THIS HATE TO ORGANIZE HIS BLACK BRETHREN, INTO A SOLID BLACK VOTE FOR HIM AND AGAINST THE WHITE CANDIDATES IN THE PRESIDENTIAL FIELD TODAY, AS HE HAS DONE FOR YEARS IN CHICAGO IN SUCCESSIVE CAMPAIGNS FOR ELECTION.   THIS IS WRONG AND UN-AMERICAN; THIS IS RACISM IN ITS RAWEST FORM.       

A CANDIDACY BORN, NURTURED AND ADVANCED UNDER THE SECRET BANNER OF RACISM IS BOUND TO DIVIDE AMERICA AT A TIME THIS COUNTRY NEEDS TO UNITE AS ONE PEOPLE IN THIS TIME OF EXTREME ECONOMIC STRESS AND WAR.

OBAMA HAS SHOWN HIMSELF TO BE A FAR LEFT LIBERAL, WHICH IS CONTRARY TO THE MIDDLE OF THE ROAD DEMOCRATS, IN THE MAJORITY TODAY.    HIS ELECTION MEANS MORE TAX AND SPEND, PRIMARILY FOR THE BLACKS AND LIBERAL WING OF THE PARTY ONLY.

BE ASSURED THAT THESE ACTIONS BY OBAMA AND THE BLACKS OF THIS COUNTRY IN UNITING AGAINST THE WHITES IS FOR A SPECIFIC PURPOSE, TO EXTRACT MORE AND MORE RETRIBUTION FROM THE WHITES AND THE COUNTRY, UNDER THE LEADERSHIP OF A BLACK MAN.

OBAMA REFUSES TO WEAR A FLAG ON HIS LAPEL, OR SALUTE THE AMERICAN FLAG, PROOF ENOUGH THAT HE IS NOT AN AMERICAN.   WHY WOULD HE EXPECT US TO VOTE FOR HIM?    WE SHOULD NOT!

THE ONLY WAY TO COUNTERACT THIS HATEFUL BLACK MOVEMENT IS TO ORGANIZE THE WHITE VOTER TO VOTE FOR A WHITE CANDIDATE TO STOP THIS MISSION OF HATE AND RETRIBUTION AGAINST OUR COUNTRY AND THE WHITE POPULATION BY THESE UNGRATEFUL BLACKS BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE.

IT IS BOTH FITTING AND PROPER FOR EACH OF US TO COMMEMERATE A PARTICULAR DAY EVERY YEAR TO PAY TRIBUTE TO OUR MOTHERS.     THAT IS NOT TO SAY, WE SHOULD NOT RECOGNIZE OUR MOTHERS’ VALUE EVERY DAY, BECAUSE WE SHOULD.    TO SET ASIDE ONE PARTICULAR DAY EACH YEAR, BY NATIONAL DECREE, ONLY GIVES SAID RECOGNITION THE NATIONAL ATTENTION BEFITTING OF ALL MOTHERS.

EVERYONE HAS ONLY ONE MOTHER, WHOSE IDENTITY IS A MATTER OF CERTAINTY, WHILE MANY CHILDREN SPEND A LIFETIME SEEKING OUT THE IDENTITY OF THEIR FATHERS, A MATTER OF SPECULATION, AT TIMES.

EXCEPT FOR THE RECENT INNOVATION OF ARTIFICIAL INSEMINATION, TRADITIONALLY FATHERS WERE REQUIRED TO BE PRESENT AND PUT TO THE LABORIOUS, BUT PLEASANT TASK, TO START THE PROCESS OF CONCEPTION WHICH CULMINATES, AFTER ABOUT NINE MONTHS IN THE MIRACLE OF BIRTH, A CHILD, GENETICALLY CONNECTED TO ITS PARENTS.

IT IS A MOTHER’S LOVE AND HER BODY THAT TRANSFORMS THIS ACT INTO HUMAN REPRODUCTION.      IT IS THIS SAME LOVE AND DEDICATION, WHICH CARES FOR EVERY CHILD AFTER BIRTH FOR THE MANY YEARS THROUGH INFANCY ADOLESCENCE TO ADULTHOOD AND SOMETIMES, BEYOND.

THE UMBILICAL CORD, CONNECTING THE MOTHER AND THE NURTURING CHILD, DURING ITS DEVELOPMENT IN THE WOMB, IS PHYSICALLY CUT AT BIRTH, BUT THE CLOSE EMOTIONAL BOND BETWEEN THEM REMAINS THROUGHOUT THEIR LIVES.

AT BIRTH, THE CHILD IS SMALL, FRAIL AND HELPLESS, BUT FOR THE LOVE, PROTECTION AND CARE FROM ITS MOTHER.     IT IS SHE, WHO NURTURES THE CHILD AFTER BIRTH AS SHE DID BEFORE BIRTH.     IT IS HER LOVE, DEVOTION AND DEDICATION THAT INSURES THE CHILD’S GOOD HEALTH AND SURVIVAL DURING THOSE EARLY, CRITICAL YEARS.

             NEITHER GOD, SCIENCE NOR NATURE HAS DEVISED A WAY FOR THE MALE PERSON TO BECOME PREGNANT AS DOES WOMEN TO PERFORM THE MIRACLE OF BIRTH.

IT IS A MOTHER WHO DEDICATES HER WHOLE LIFE TO HER CHILDREN, THEIR BIRTH AND UPBRINGING, WHILE THE FATHERS RESPONSIBILITY IS TO BE THE PROVIDER, BY WORKING AWAY FROM THE HOME FOR MOST OF THE DAY.     WHEN HE ARRIVES HOME AFTER WORK HOWEVER, HE MAY BE PRESSED INTO SERVICE BY THE MUCH OVERWELMED MOTHER AND WIFE.

FATHERS ARE USUALLY RELEGATED TO SECONDARY AND TEMPORARY POSITIONS BY SUBSTITUTING FOR THE MOTHER AT A TIME OF NEED AND THE RARE ABSENCE OF THE MOTHER. 

MOTHERS NEED NOT PROVE THEIR LOVE TO THEIR CHILDREN; THEY HAVE ALREADY DONE THAT BY THE TIME THEIR CHILDREN GROW UP.     ALL THE MOTHER NEEDS AT THIS TIME IS A LITTLE SIGN OF RECIPROCAL LOVE FROM HER CHILDREN.    IT IS MOTHER WHO MUST TAKE THE CHILDREN TO SCHOOL, CHILDRENS’ SPORTS AND ACTIVITIES.    WHEN SHE NEEDS TO SHOP OR RUN ERRENDS, SHE MUST BUNDLE UP THE CHILDREN AND TAKE THEM WITH HER, MOST EVERYWHERE.    SHE DOES THIS, DAY AFTER DAY WITHOUT COMPLAINT AND USUALLY PROUD TO SHOW OFF HER TALENTED AND BEAUTIFUL CHILDREN.    SOMETIMES A MOTHER IS REQUIRED TO MOTHER HER HUSBAND TO MAKE HIM FEEL WANTED AND LOVED HAVING BEEN RELEGATED TO A SECONDARY POSITION OF ATTENTION, SOME FATHERS HAVE DIFFICULTY ADJUSTING WHEN CHILDREN COME INTO THE FAMILY AND HE IS NO LONGER THE CENTER OF ATTENTION. 

NOWADAYS, THE TASKS AND CHALLENGES TO A MOTHER ARE MAGNIFIED BY SOCIETY.    OUR PRESENT STANDARD OF LIVING CAUSES MOST MOTHERS TO WORK OUTSIDE THE HOME TO HELP WITH THE FAMILIES FINANCES.    AS A RESULT THE MOTHER IS REQUIRED TO JUGGLE BETWEEN DUTIES AND RESPOSIBILITIES TO HER CHILDREN AND THOSE OF HER WORKPLACE.    SOMEHOW, THESE MOTHERS, MANAGE TO PERFORM THESE EXTRA DUTIES, WITHOUT ANY NOTICEABLE LOSS TO THE FAMILY WHILE INWARDLY MOTHERS SENSE A VOID WITHIN, WHEN THEY LEAVE THEIR CHILDREN AND GO TO WORK EACH DAY.

MOTHERS ARE AND HAVE ALWAYS BEEN THE FIRST LOVE OF EVERY CHILD.     EVENTUALLY A CHILD’S ATTENTION MAY BE DIVERTED TO MANY OTHER PEOPLE MALE OR FEMALE.      CHILDREN MARRY AND MAKE THEIR OWN LIVES AND FAMILIES WITH THE MATE OF THEIR CHOICE IN MARRIAGE, BUT THEIR LOVE OF THEIR MOTHER REMAINS CONNECTED AND INDISTRUCTABLE, FOREVER.

THEREFORE, WE SHOULD MAKE EACH DAY, MOTHERS DAY, BY REMEMBERING OUR MOTHER’S DEDICATED ROLE IN OUR LIVES, THEIR LOVE, CARE, SACRIFICE AND GUIDANCE, WITHOUT WHICH WE WOULD NOT HAVE BEEN THE OFFSPRING WE HAVE BECOME.   

MOTHERS ARE ALWAYS PROUD OF THEIR CHILDREN IN WHATEVER ENDEAVOR THEY CHOOSE, WHILE CHILDREN ARE ALWAYS PROUD OF THEIR MOTHERS FOR THEIR PROVEN ENDEAVOR AS MOTHERS.

HAPPY, HAPPY MOTHERS DAY TODAY AND ALWAYS, TO ALL YOU DESERVING MOTHERS. 

SINCE THE LAST PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION, THE PEOPLE OF THE UNITED STATES HAVE BEEN DISSATISFIED WITH PRESIDENT BUSH’S WAR IN IRAQ AND AFGHANISTAN.    THEY ARE TROUBLED BY THE LOSS OF LIFE, LACK OF PROGRESS, AND SEE NO ENDING, WHILE THE U.S. TREASURY IS SO MUCH IN DEBT OUR GRANDCHILDREN MUST PAY FOR OUR FOLLY, THESE LAST EIGHT YEARS.  

IF KOREA AND VIETNAM TAUGHT US ANYTHING, IT WAS, THAT OUR ARMED FORCES MUST WIN THE FIGHT AGAINST THE ENEMY IN A MILITARY WAY, AND GET OUT AS SOON AS POSSIBLE.    THEY CANNOT BE PEACEKEEPERS OR FREEDOM BUILDERS AND, THEY ARE NOT EQUIPPED TO BE NATION BUILDERS OR DIPLOMATS, IN A COUNTRY WHERE SECTARIAN VIOLENCE IS A NORM.  

THE NATIONAL CONGRESSIONAL ELECTION OF 2006, GAVE A CLEAR SIGNAL TO CONGRESS, THAT THE PEOPLE WERE NOT SATISFIED WITH THE OBVIOUS BICKERING BETWEEN DEMOCRATS AND REPUBLICANS MEMBERS, THE LACK OF FINALITY IN THE COURSE OF THE WAR IN IRAQ, CONGRESS’S LACK OF ACTION ON MANY IMPORTANT ISSUES, LIKE HEALTH CARE, IMMIGRATION, UNEMPLOYMENT CAUSED BY THE LOSS OF JOBS TO OUTSOURCING COMPANIES AND THE RESULTING SAGGING ECONOMY.   THE ELECTION SAW, THE MAJORITY IN FAVOR OF REPUBLICANS, IN CONGRESS TAKEN AWAY BY THE VOTERS AND GIVEN TO THE DEMOCRATS, MORE BY DEFAULT THAN BY ACCLAIM.     THE VOTERS, EXPECTING SOME RESPONSE BY CONGRESS, BECAUSE OF THEIR CLEAR SIGNAL OF DISSATISFACTION, WAITED FOR CHANGE AND IMPROVEMENT THEIR VOTE EXPRESSED.    INSTEAD, THEY RECEIVED, MORE OF THE SAME BICKERING AND STALEMATE, INDECISION AND INACTION IN SOLVING THE PRESSING PROBLEMS OF THE NATION.

PRESIDENT BUSH STUBBORNLY HELD ONTO TO HIS INTENTION TO STAY IN IRAQ, UNTIL VICTORY IS ACHIEVED.     HE ORDERED MORE TROOPS INTO THE FIGHT FOR THE LAST YEAR IN WHAT HE CALLED “A SURGE.”

CONGRESS, CONTROLLED BY THE DEMOCRATS, KNUCKLED UNDER THE PRESSURE AND INSTEAD OF CUTTING OFF THE FUNDS FOR THE WAR, IN ORDER FOR THE TROOPS TO COME HOME, VOTED MORE MONEY FOR THE TROOPS THAN REQUESTED BY THE PRESIDENT.     THE PEOPLE’S HOPES, PLACED ON THE NEW HOUSE SPEAKER, NANCY PELOSI, WERE TRASHED BY THE GUTLESS PELOSI AND THE DEMOCRATIC CONGRESS.

IN THE MEANTIME, GASOLINE PRICES CONTINUED THEIR OUT OF CONTROL SPIRAL UPWARD TOWARD FOUR DOLLARS A GALLON, WHILE CONSTRUCTION, THE LAST VESTIGE OF A MOVING ECONOMY GROUND TO A STOP AND HOUSE VALUES AND FORECLOSURES CONSUMED THE NATION LIKE A WILDFIRE.     THE STOCK MARKET REMAINED AS THE ONLY PLACE TO INVEST MONEY BY BIG PORTFOLIO COMPANIES AND THE GREEDY.     WHAT THEY ARE DOING IS TO BID UP THE PRICE OF OIL TO OVER $200 DOLLARS A BARREL AND RISING ALONG WITH COMMODITIES, THEIR UTTER GREED AND LACK OF COMPASSION AND CONCERN FOR THE ECONOMY IS PUSHING THE COUNTRY DEEPER INTO A RECESSION WITH RISING PRICES FOR MOST EVERYTHING EXCEPT WAGES.    

WHILE WE FACE AN URGENT NECESSITY FOR THE CONGRESS TO DO SOMETHING, THEY SIT ON THEIR HANDS AND DO NOTHING.     AT LAST REPORT CONGRESS IS SERIOUSLY CONSIDERING A PLAN TO BAIL OUT BANKS AND MORTGAGE COMPANIES BY HAVING THE GOVERNMENT GUARANTEE THOSE MORTGAGE LOANS IN DEFAULT BECAUSE OF THE GREED OF THE BANKS AND LENDERS THEMSELVES.    THIS WILL LEAVE THE AMERICAN PEOPLE TO PICK UP THE LOSS AS WE DID IN THE LATE 1980’S WHEN THE BANKS WERE BAILED OUT OF BAD LOANS BY THE FDIC, IN A SCHEME THEY KNEW WOULD HAPPEN AND DID.   THIS PLAN BY CONGRESS IS PLAIN INSANITY AND THE AMERICAN PEOPLE BETTER STAND UP AND COMPLAIN BEFORE THEY ARE SOLD OUT BY THEIR OWN CONGRESSMEN, BOTH REPUBLICAN AND DEMOCRATS.    PEOPLE WILL STILL DEFAULT ON THEIR MORTGAGES AND THE GOVERNMENT WILL BE FORCED TO PICK UP THE TAB, WHICH MEANS YOU.

IT IS NOW LESS THAN SIX MONTHS FROM THE NOVEMBER ELECTION.     BOTH POLITICAL PARTIES AND CONGRESS NOW HAS HAD ALMOST TWO YEARS TO ATTEMPT TO HELP THE ECONOMY, WIN THE WAR AND BRING OUR TROOPS HOME.   THEY HAVE DONE ABSOLUTELY NOTHING BUT CHASE DOWN CAMPAIGN MONEY FOR RE-ELECTION FROM THE LOBBYISTS WHOM WE CAN BE SURE CONTROL OUR CONGRESSMEN’S VOTE WITH MONEY.    IT IS OBVIOUS THEY DO NOT INTEND TO DO ANYTHING SO WE HAVE A CHOICE, CONTINUE TO RE-ELECT THE DO NOTHING CONGRESSMEN OR REWARD THEM BY RE-ELECTING NO ONE.    WE MUST CLEAN THEM ALL OUT, NOT JUST A FEW.    THE MESSAGE MUST BE CLEAR AND UNAMBIGUOUS.   WE CANNOT AFFORD TO CONTINUE TO ELECT CONGRESSMEN WHO DO NOT FOLLOW THE WISHES AND NEEDS OF THE PEOPLE THEY REPRESENT.   

REMEMBER A PRESIDENT CAN ONLY PROPOSE, IT IS UP TO CONGRESS TO VOTE LEGISLATION TO CARRY OUT ANY PROGRAM EITHER WANTS.   

THE VOTERS IN THIS COUNTRY MUST BAND TOGETHER IN THIS CONCERTED EFFORT TO ELECT PEOPLE WHO WILL LISTEN TO THE VOTERS AND ACT EXCLUSIVELY FOR THE NEEDS OF THE COUNTRY.    THIS IS THE TIME; THIS IS THE YEAR, TO DO THIS TO SAVE OUR LIVES AND OUR COUNTRY FROM THESE POLITICIANS WHO ARE IN BUSINESS FOR THEMSELFS AND NOT FOR THE COUNTRY.   

AS A WITNESS TO THE LAST TWO PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS AND THE CURRENT CONTROVERSY ABOUT DELEGATES FOR THE NOMINATION OF PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES, WE ALL KNOW WE SHOULD CHANGE THE MANNER IN WHICH OUR PRESIDENT AND VICE PRESIDENT ARE NOMINATED AND ELECTED, FOR A FOUR-YEAR TERM.

          THE NATIONAL ELECTORAL SYSTEM IN GROSSLY OUTDATED AND ARCHAIC AND DOES NOT REFLECT THE WILL OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE.  EVERYONE EXPECTS AND WANTS THIER VOTE TO COUNT AND THAT THE TOTAL POPULAR VOTE SHOULD DETERMINE WHO IS BOTH OUR NOMINEES AND PRESIDENT.

          FIRST, THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE VOTED IN BY THE REPRESENTATIVES OF EACH STATES, PROVIDE FOR THE WINNER TO HAVE THE VOTES OF ALL THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE, ALTHOUGH IT IS NOT SPECIFIED THAT THESE DELEGATES ARE BOUND TO VOTE BASED ON THE POPULAR VOTE THESE DELEGATES ARE BOUND TO VOTE BASED ON THE POPULAR VOTE CAST BY THE AMERICAN VOTER AT THE ELECTION TIME.  IN ADDITION THIS PRACTICE DOES NOT INSURE THAT THE CANDIDATE WITH THE MOVE VOTES NATIONALLY WILL WIN THE PRESIDENCY.  THIS WAS DRAMATICALLY SHOWN IN THE 2000 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION WHEN PRESIDENT BUSH RECEIVED THE ELECTORAL MAJORITY BUT NOT THE MAJORITY OF VOTES, SEPARATE AND APART FROM THE DUBIOUS ACTIONS OF THE U.S. SUPREME COURT.

          NEXT, THE MANNER OF CHOOSING OUR PRESIDENT HAS REMAINED THE SAME FOR 200 YEARS.  DID YOU KNOW THAT PRIOR TO 1804 THE RULE WAS THAT THE PERSON WITH THE MOST ELECTORAL VOTES WAS ELECTED PRESIDENT WHILE THE PERSON WITH THE SECOND MOST VOTES BECAME THE VICE PRESIDENT?   SINCE THE ADVENT OF POLITICAL PARTIES THIS PROVED TOO BURDENSOME, THUS THE TWELFTH AMENDMENT WAS PASSED.  SO THE TWO CANDIDATES COULD RUN AS A TEAM.

          IN ADDITION, THE CONSTITUTION, AT ARTICLE 2, WHICH DICTATES THE MANNER IN WHICH A PRESIDENT IS ELECTED BY ELECTORS, LEAVES IT TO EACH INDIVIDUAL STATES LEGISLATURES, AS TO THE MANNER IN WHICH ELECTORS ARE SELECTED.  AS A RESULT PRACTICALLY EVERY STATE HAS A DIFFERENT AND UNIQUE MANNER AND PLAN FOR THE SELECTION OF ELECTORS.  SOME STATES HAVE SUPER DELEGATES AND SOME HAVE NOT.  SOME ARE BOUND BY THE POPULAR VOTE, IN THE NOMINATION PROCESS AND SOME ARE NOT.   SUPER DELEGATION, IN ANY EVENT, ARE NOT BOUND TO VOTE OTHER THAN AS THEY PLEASE, WHICH BASICALLY IS AN INVITATION TO FRUSTRATE THE VOTERS CHOICE AT THE POLLS.  SOME STATES DO NOT HAVE POPULAR VOTES IN THE NOMINATION PROCESS AND RELY ENTIRELY ON THE VOTE OF DELEGATES APPOINTED BY THE LEGISLATION, NOT THE PEOPLE.  THIS WHOLE PROCESS RESULTS IN SPECULATION, SURPRISE AND POSSIBLE CORRUPTION AND THE ABUSE OF POWER.

          TO FURTHER COMPOUND THE PROBLEM, THE SELECTION OF A NOMINEE IN EACH STATE IS BASED ON THE TWO PARTY SYSTEM, NOW DEMOCRATS AND REPUBLICANS.  AND MANY STATES DO NOT PROVIDE FOR ANY INDEPENDENT VOTER TO BE INCLUDED IN THE NOMINATION PROCESS.  OTHER STATES ALLOW WHAT WE CALL “CROSSOVERS” AND ALSO THE INDEPENDENTS TO SELECT EITHER PARTY’S BALLOT.  THE FORMER RULE DEPRIVES A VOTER OF HIS RIGHT TO VOTE UNLESS HE IS A “DECLARED” DEMOCRAT OR REPUBLICAN.

          IN ADDITION, MANY STATES PUT SUCH STRINGENT RULES AND CONDITIONS ON A NON-PARTY CANDIDATE TO RUN FOR OFFICE, ANY QUALIFIED PEOPLE ARE DISCOURAGED FROM ENTERING THE ARENA. 

          “WELL”, YOU MIGHT SAY, “LET’S CHANGE IT!”  THAT WILL TAKE A FEW CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS, WHICH, AT BEST, WILL TAKE A FEW YEARS, AND BUCK UP AGAINST THE POLITICAL POWER OF MOST STATE LEGISLATURES, SINCE THEY WILL NOT BE HAPPY TO LOSE THIS ADVANTAGEOUS CONTROL OF PRESIDENTIAL NOMINATION AND ELECTIONS.

          ARTICLE 5 OF THE U.S. CONSTITUTION SPELLS OUT THE PROCEDURE TO AMEND THE CONSTITUTION, IT WILL REQUIRE THE VOTE OF TWO THIRDS OF EACH HOUSE OR CONGRESS OR TWO THIRDS OF THE STATES’ LEGISLATURES TO ADOPT AND TO RATIFY THE AMENDMENT.

          IT IS SUGGESTED THAT THE AMERICAN VOTER, EITHER ARRANGE TO HAVE THE MATTER PUT ON A BALLOT AS A QUESTION OR CONVINCE THEIR FEDERAL LEGISLATURES TO VOTE FOR SUCH AN AMENDMENT.  IF THE PUBLIC DEMANDS THIS ACTION AND MAKES THEIR FEELINGS NOTED BY VOTE OR POLL, CONGRESS MUST BE MADE TO ACT OR THE VOTER CAN USE THE POWER OF THEIR VOTE TO REWARD THEM BY “RE-ELECTING NOBODY” AT THE NEXT NATIONAL ELECTION.  THE CONGRESS MUST BE MADE TO FOLLOW THE MANDATE OF THE PEOPLE OR WE SHOULD CONSISTENTLY TURN THEM OUT UNTIL THEY GET IT RIGHT.

          WE CAN START BY ASKING EACH CONGRESSMAN IN OFFICE NOW AND THOSE ASPIRING TO THE OFFICE TO MAKE THIS COMMITMENT TO CHANGE THE NOMINATION AND ELECTION OF OUR PRESIDENTS IN THE FUTURE.

HEADLINE: “OBAMA IS BEING DESTROYED POLITICALLY BY HIS OWN

MINISTER FRIEND AND MENTOR”,

OR

“OBAMA, DESTROYED BY FRIENDLY FIRE”

 THE ANTICS, WORDS AND ACTIONS OF REVEREND WRIGHT WILL GO DOWN IN HISTORY AS THE ONLY PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE DESTROYED POLITICALLY BY HIS OWN MINISTER, BEST FRIEND AND MENTOR.    THE ONLY QUESTION IS, WAS IT ACCIDENTAL OR DELIBERATE, OF COURSE IT MAKES NO DIFFERENCE IN THIS CASE, BECAUSE, IN EITHER CASE THE WOUNDS ARE FATAL AND PERMANENT TO OBAMA’S GOAL AS THE DEMOCRATIC NOMINEE FOR THE PRESIDENCY.   OBAMA WAS THE VERY PERSON MANY PEOPLE LOOKED UPON AS THEIR SAVIOR FROM ECONOMIC AND POLITICAL PROBLEMS EARLY IN THE 2008 PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN.       HE WAS ALMOST CHOSEN AS THE AGENT OF HOPE AND CHANGE FROM THE OLD TO THE NEW AND YOUNG.

THE QUESTION IS, HOW COULD THIS TRAGEDY HAPPEN AND WHY?   THE ANSWER MUST LAY IN THE HEARTS AND MINDS OF OBAMA AND REV. WRIGHT AND THEIR INTERACTION FOR THE LAST TWENTY YEARS, SINCE OBAMA JOINED THAT REVEREND’S CHURCH IN CHICAGO.      

IT IS TRUE THAT OBAMA SOUGHT OUT THE REVEREND AND HIS CHURCH BECAUSE THEY WERE THERE BEFORE OBAMA ARRIVED IN CHICAGO AFTER GRADUATING FROM LAW SCHOOL.   WHY OBAMA WENT TO CHICAGO IS ANYONE’S GUESS, BECAUSE WITH THAT HARVARD LAW DEGREE IN HAND IT COULD OPEN A MULTITUDE OF OPPORTUNITIES FOR HIM ANYWHERE IN THE U.S.A.    HE DID DO SOME UNION ORGANIZING WORK FOR THE STEEL WORKERS IN CHICAGO BUT THAT ORDINARILY WOULD NOT ATTRACT A HARVARD GRADUATE OF THE CALIBER OF OBAMA, WHO WAS EDITOR OF THE LAW REVIEW PUBLICATION.    

THE FACT THAT HE SOON ENTERED LOCAL POLITICS AS A CITY COUNSELOR MAY HAVE BEEN HIS DRAW TO CHICAGO, ESPECIALLY THE SOUTH SIDE.   IT IS A HEAVILY POPULATED BLACK NEIGHBORHOOD AND STOMPING GROUND OF SUCH FAMOUS PEOPLE AS JESSE JACKSON AND OPRAH WINFREY OR INFAMOUS PEOPLE LIKE LOUIS FARRAKHAN AND A MR. AYERS AND OTHER KNOWN BLACK POWER ADVOCATES, WHOM HE ADMITS HE MET OVER THE YEARS.

“POLITICS DO MAKE STRANGE BEDFELLOWS,” IS AN OFTEN-QUOTED REMARK AND IT IS DIFFICULT TO REJECT OFFERS OF SUPPORT FROM UNSAVORY CHARACTERS SINCE IT IS A CARDINAL RULE IN POLITICS TO MAKE FRIENDS NOT ENEMIES.    SUCH AN EXPLANATION IS NOT ONLY PLAUSIBLE BUT ALSO ACCEPTABLE IN POLITICS AND THE REASON FOR ALL THESE ASSOCIATIONS BY OBAMA.   BUT, THIS DOES NOT MAKE IT RIGHT. 

IT IS KNOWN THAT AT SOME POINT, OBAMA SOUGHT OUT THE REVEREND’S CHURCH FOR RELIGIOUS AS WELL AS POLITICAL REASONS.  HE WAS BEFRIENDED BY THE REVEREND EARLY ON AND HE WAS MARRIED BY THE REVEREND THAT HAS ALSO BAPTIZED HIS TWO YOUNG DAUGHTERS.

SINCE, BY THIS TIME OBAMA HAD ASPIRATIONS AND POLITICAL INTENTIONS, IT WOULD HAVE BEEN NORMAL FOR OBAMA TO SEEK THE SUPPORT OF THE REVEREND AND HIS OBVIOUS INFLUENCE OVER HIS SEVEN THOUSAND LOCAL PARISHIONERS.    THEREFORE, IT WAS IN OBAMA’S INTEREST TO SEEK AND KEEP A CLOSE RELATIONSHIP WITH THIS MINISTER AND THIS CHURCH FOR MORE THAN PURE RELIGIOUS REASONS.      IT IS OBVIOUS THAT OBAMA DID OBTAIN THE SUPPORT AND BLESSINGS OF THE REVEREND AND HIS PARISHIONERS SINCE HE SUCCEEDED IN BEING ELECTED AND RE-ELECTED TO SAID CITY COUNCIL AND THEN TO THE STATE SENATE OF ILLINOIS.     HE ALSO OBTAINED THE SUPPORT OF THE BLACK COMMUNITY WHERE OBAMA RESIDED.    YOU CAN BE ASSURED THAT OBAMA MADE FREQUENT VISITS TO THIS CHURCH DURING THE NEXT TWENTY YEARS SEEKING SALVATION AND POLITICAL HELP WHEN NEEDED.       HIS COMMUNITY ALWAYS RESPONDED WITH THE HELP AND SUPPORT OF REVEREND WRIGHT, A VERY HIGHLY INTELLIGENT AND KNOWLEDGEABLE AND EXPERIENCED MAN, IN HIS OWN RIGHT.    EACH WAS ATTRACTED TO THE OTHER.   OBAMA IS A VERY WELL SPOKEN YOUNG MAN, WITH PLENTY OF CHARISMA AND CHARM AND A PLEASANT DISARMING SMILE THAT IS ATTRACTIVE.      

OBAMA SOON LEARNED THAT HE ENJOYED POLITICS AND THAT HE HAD THAT CERTAIN ATTRACTION TO WIN, ESPECIALLY WITH THE HELP OF BLACKS THROUGHOUT THE COUNTRY.      IN 2005, HE DECIDED TO RUN FOR THE OFFICE OF U.S. SENATOR FROM ILLINOIS AND AGAIN RECEIVED AN OUTPOURING OF LOCAL SUPPORT AND NATIONAL HELP FROM THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY AND MANY OTHER NATIONAL DEMOCRATS INCLUDING THE CLINTONS.   THE BLACK SUPPORT MADE THE DIFFERENCE THAT YEAR.   AFTER SIX YEARS OF REPUBLICAN BUSH, OBAMA A DEMOCRAT WON THE CONTEST AND WAS SEATED IN THE SENATE IN JANUARY 2006.   AFTER THE CAMPAIGN, HIS CHIEF FUNDRAISER, TONY REZKO, NOW UNDER INDICTMENT, HELPED HIM BUY A” MORE APPROPRIATE” MILLION DOLLAR HOME AT A $300.000 DISCOUNT AND FREE USE OF THE EMPTY LOT NEXT DOOR, PURCHASED BY HIS WIFE AT THE SAME TIME OBAMA, FELT THE MOMENTUM TO SERIOUSLY BECOME A CANDIDATE FOR PRESIDENT.    THE COUNTRY WAS READY FOR A NEW FACE AND CHANGE IS SPITE OF HIS INEXPERIENCE IN MANY FIELDS.   

EARLY ON, HE SOUGHT THE ADVICE AND SUPPORT OF MANY PROMINENT AND SUCCESSFUL BLACKS, AS OPRAH WINFREY AND REVEREND WRIGHT WHO ENCOURAGED HIM TO PLAY OUT HIS POPULARITY TO SEE HOW FAR HE COULD GO AND THEY PLEDGED THEIR SUPPORT IN EVERY WAY.    OPRAH EVEN HAS APPEARED IN PERSON AT SOME OF HIS RALLY’S AND HAS CONTRIBUTED BIG MONEY TO HIS CAUSE.  OBAMA, VALUED THE REVEREND’S SUPPORT SO HIGHLY HE PUT HIM ON ONE OF HIS ADVISORY BOARDS.   OF COURSE OBAMA SOUGHT OUT THE SUPPORT OF WHITES, AS WELL AS BLACKS, HIS BASIC SUPPORT FROM THE SOUTH SIDE OF CHICAGO.    HE WISELY SET UP A REGISTRATION DRIVE. AND POLITICAL COMMITTEES IN IOWA AND IN MANY PREDOMINATELY

BLACK COMMUNITIES AND STATES AND HAS CONSISTANTLY OBTAINED MORE THAN 90% OF THE BLACK VOTE IN EVERY STATE TO DATE.     HIS CONCENTRATED WORK EARLY IN IOWA PROVED TO BE THE SPARK AND FIRE TO PUSH TO HIM BECAUSE HE WON IOWA OVER THE EXPECTED FRONTRUNNER, HILLARY CLINTON.    WHEN CLINTON BEAT HIM IN NEW HAMPSHIRE, A WEEK LATER, THE STAGE WAS SET FOR A REAL BATTLE BETWEEN A WOMAN AND A BLACK CANDIDATE.    AFTER FEBRUARY FIFTH THE OTHER DEMOCRATIC CHALLENGERS BOWED OUT BECAUSE OF THEIR LACKLUSTER PERFORMANCES AT THE POLLS.      OBAMA TOOK THE LEAD AT THAT POINT WITH MORE DELEGATES AND MORE VOTES SINCE HILLARY WAS DENIED THE WINS IN MICHIGAN AND FLORIDA, DUE TO THE PRIMARIES BEING ADVANCED BY THOSE STATES.      EACH CANDIDATE BALANCED THE OTHER WIN FOR THE NEXT MONTHS, UNTIL AFTER THE TEXAS VOTE IN MARCH, WHICH HILLARY WON.

AS A RESULT OF OBAMA’S LEAP TO THE LEAD PEOPLE BEGAN TO TAKE A GOOD LOOK AT HIM AGAIN AND SOON SAW THINGS THEY HAD NOT BEEN AWARE OF.    THE REPUBLICAN SIDE STARTED CHECKING OUT OBAMA’S PAST AND FOUND SOME DISTURBING THINGS GOING ON IN HIS CHURCH FOR THE LAST 20 YEARS.    HERE WAS A BOMBASTIC PREACHER WHO WAS PREACHING HATE AGAINST AMERICA AND WHITE PEOPLE JEWS AND AMERICAN SOLDIERS.     HE USED PROFANITY IN CHURCH, WHEN MANY WOULD NEVER USE IT, EVEN IN PUBLIC LIFE, “GOD DAMN AMERICA,” WHILE COMPLAINING THAT “RICH WHITE PEOPLE WERE RUNNING THE COUNTRY” HE ALSO SAID THAT “AMERICA’S IMPERIALISM WAS THE CAUSE OF 9/11 AND YOU REAP WHAT YOU SOW”.   HE ADDED THAT AMERICA INTRODUCED THE AIDS VIRUS INTO THE U.S. AS A WAY OF DOING AWAY WITH BLACK PEOPLE.    

WHEN THESE STATEMENT BECAME PUBLIC THE AMERICAN PEOPLE WERE SHOCKED THAT A MINISTER WOULD MAKE SUCH HATEFUL REMARKS IN A CHURCH AND SECOND, THEY ASKED THEMSELVES WHY OBAMA HAD NOT LEFT THE CHURCH UPON HEARING THESE RACIST AND ANTI-AMERICAN TIRADES.

OBAMA’S FIRST REACTION WAS TO CONDEMN THE REMARKS BUT NOT THE SPEAKER.   HIS DEFENSE WAS THAT HE HAD NEVER HEARD THE REVEREND MAKE SUCH DAMAGING REMARKS, BUT THERE WAS NO NEED TO LEAVE THE CHURCH NOW, SINCE THE REVEREND WAS RETIRING.    NO ONE COULD BELIEVE THAT OBAMA COULD BELONG TO A CHURCH FOR TWENTY YEARS, BE CLOSE TO THE REVEREND, WHOM HE CALLED A MENTOR AND FRIEND AND BE OBLIVIOUS TO SUCH STATEMENTS.   IT IS MORE LIKELY THAT HE, HIS WIFE AND CHILDREN HEARD THESE STATEMENTS AND THAT HE DID NOT PROTEST BECAUSE A BLACK MINISTER MADE THEM IN A BLACK CHURCH TO A BLACK CONGREGATION. SO IT IS OK TO KNOCK THE WHITE S, IT’S A POPULAR THING TO DO.    THESE STATEMENTS ARE OBVIOUSLY COMMONPLACE AMONGST THE BLACK WHO, FOR SOME REASON STILL HOLD A GRUDGE AGAINST THE WHITES FOR SOMETHING THAT HAPPENED MORE THAN FIFTY YEARS AGO.      THE ADVENT OF THE CIVIL RIGHTS ACT OF 1963 UNDER PRESIDENT JOHNSON, THE BUSING RULINGS OF MANY COURTS THAT BROUGHT BUSING OF BLACKS TO WHITE SCHOOLS AND THE MANY STATUTES CONCERNING AFFIRMATIVE ACTION IN FAVOR OF BLACKS TO THE DETRIMENT OF WHITES APPARENTLY HAS NOT CHILLED THE HATE BLACK STILL HAVE FOR THE WHITES.    OBAMA MUST HAVE HEARD THESE INSULTING, UNTRUE AND ANTI-AMERICAN REMARKS MANY TIMES IN CHURCH AND SHOULD HAVE LEFT, IF HE DID NOT AGREE WITH THEM.     THE FACT THAT HE DID NOT LEAVE LEADS US TO ONLY ONE CONCLUSION, HE MUST HAVE AGREED WITH THIS HATE AND DAMNATION.   OBAMA, ONE HALF WHITE AND NOW A SENATOR FOR TWO YEARS HAD AN OBLIGATION, AT LEAST TO LEAVE, IF NOT TO SPEAK OUT AGAINST THESE REMARKS.     HOWEVER, AS A POLITICIAN, IT IS CLEAR THAT “YOU DO NOT BITE THE HAND THAT FEEDS YOU”.    THESE PEOPLE AND THE REVEREND, WERE OBAMA’S BASE OF SUPPORT AND THE VERY REASON HE HAS REACHED THE POINT HE HAS AS A U.S. SENATOR.

OBAMA TRIED TO QUELL THE COMPLAINTS AND ALL THE QUESTIONS WITH A LONG SPEECH ABOUT BRINGING EVERYONE TOGETHER IN A HEALING FASHION.     THIS CUT LITTLE ICE WITH US WHITES BECAUSE WE FELT WE HAD TRIED THIS HEALING FOR AT LEAST THE LAST FIFTY YEARS AND WERE NOT AWARE OF ANY REASON TO BELIEVE THIS HEALING HAD NOT TAKEN PLACE, SINCE WE HAVE HONESTLY TRIED TO TREAT EVERYONE EQUALLY, INCLUDING WOMEN.     WHEN OBAMA TRIED TO DIVERT ATTENTION AWAY FROM QUESTIONS ABOUT REVEREND WRIGHT, BY SAYING, ”LETS GET TO THE ISSUES”, WE KNEW HE HAD MORE TO HIDE. AND THE OTHER SHOE WAS ABOUT TO DROP.

IT WAS AT THIS POINT HE TRIED TO GET HILLARY OUT OF THE RACE, BUT HILLARY WOULD NOT GO FOR THE BAIT, AS SHE IS NOT A QUITTER.     LIKE YOGI BERRA SAID ”ITS NOT OVER UNTIL ITS OVER”. 

THERE WAS SOME SPECULATION AND SIGNS THAT OBAMA WAS NOT HURT TOO MUCH BY THE REMARKS OF REVEREND WRIGHT UNTIL ON THE EVE OF THE PENNSYLVANIA PRIMARY, WHEN OBAMA PUT HIS FOOT IN HIS MOUTH BY MAKING THE DEROGATORY REMARK THAT “SOME PENNSYLVANIA PEOPLE CLING TO THEIR GUNS AND RELIGION WHEN THEY ARE DISCOURAGED” AND ”DO NOT LIKE PEOPLE WHO ARE DIFFERENT FROM THEM”, IMPLYING WHITES IN PENNSYLVANIA DID NOT LIKE BLACKS.   WHAT MAKES THESE REMARKS MORE DAMAGING WAS THAT OBAMA MADE THEM AT A FUNDRAISER WITH ELITE DONORS IN SAN FRANCISCO AND THOUGHT THEY WERE NOT BEING RECORDED.    THIS REALLY CONFIRMED THAT OBAMA SAYS ONE THING PUBLICLY WHILE FEELING THE OPPOSITE PRIVATELY.    THIS WAS ALSO BECAUSE OF THE PRIVATE STATEMENT MADE BY HIS CAMPAIGN MANAGER TO A CANADIAN OFFICIAL REASSURING HIM HIS PUBLIC STATEMENTS AGAINST NAFTA WERE TO BE IGNORED IN REALITY.   NOW OBAMA’S TRUTHFULNESS’ IS PUT IN QUESTION AND WE HAVE AT LEAST TWO INSTANCES THAT HE SAYS ONE THING AND MEANS ANOTHER FOR POLITICAL EXPEDIENCE.    THE FACT IS THAT HE IS DECEIVING THE VOTERS IN ORDER TO GET THEIR VOTE BUT DOES NOT INTEND TO KEEP HIS PROMISES, A SURE SIGN HE CANNOT BE TRUSTED.

THE PENNSYLVANIA VOTE WAS WON BY HILLARY BY TEN PERCENT, A SIGN THAT OBAMA’S POPULARITY WAS OVER THE TOP AND WANING.    THE NEXT CONTESTS ARE ON TUESDAY, MAY 6^TH IN NORTH CAROLINA AND INDIANA.   RECENTLY, REVEREND WRIGHT CAME OUT OF HIDING AND SPOKE AT THREE EVENTS THE LAST BEINGON MONDAY 4/28/08.   FIRST HE SPOKE IN AN INTERVIEW WITH BILL MOYERS.   HE STATED THAT HE FELT HIS CHURCH HAD BEEN ATTACKED AND HE WANTED TO CLEAR ITS NAME.   HE CALLED OBAMA A POLITICIAN WHO SAYS WHAT HE MUST SAY (TO WIN VOTES) IMPLYING OBAMA WILL SPIN THE TRUTH WHILE HE SAID HE WAS A PASTOR AND MUST ANSWER TO GOD.  HE FELT HIS ACTION WERE SOUND BITES AND MANY WERE QUOTES FROM OTHER PEOPLE BUT THE FACT IS HE BROUGHT THEM UP IN HIS CHURCH IN A FIERY SPEECH THAT LEFT NO QUESTION HE HAD ILL FEELINGS FOR AMERICA AND THE AMERICAN PEOPLE.   HE NEVER SAID HE LOVED AMERICA BUT SAID HE SERVED SIX YEARS IN THE MARINES.   I SERVED THREE YEARS IN THE ARMY IN WARTIME OVERSEAS AND WOULD NEVER ATTACK OR DEGRADE MY COUNTRY.   FIGHTING FOR YOUR COUNTRY AT WARTIME IS AUTOMATIC AND YOU ARE PREPARED TO DIE FOR YOUR COUNTRY, THAT’S YOUR JOB IN THE SERVICE.  HE JUST ADMITS HE HATES THIS COUNTRY AND PROBABLY ALWAYS HAS, BECAUSE OF IMAGINED WRONG PERPETRATED ON BLACKS, WHICH ARE PATENTLY FALSE.    TO SAY, WE DESERVED TO HAVE 9/11 HAPPEN BECAUSE WE ARE IMPERIALISTS IS SO WRONG IT IS UNFORGIVABLE.    HE STATES THAT LOUIS FARRAKHAN IS AN AMERICAN HERO BECAUSE HE BELIEVES IN BLACK POWER IS JUST TOO FRIGHTENING AND SHOCKING.

TO SAY AND CLAIM THESE THINGS IN THE FACE OF A MAN HE HAS BEFRIENDED, WHO IS BLACK LIKE HIM, KNOWING IT WILL BE HURTFUL TO OBAMA’S CAMPAIGN INDICATES WITHOUT QUESTION THAT A FALLING OUT HAS OCCURRED BETWEEN THEM.    THIS IS STRANGE BECAUSE JUST A SHORT WHILE AGO WHEN REV. WRIGHT’S TIRADES IN CHURCH WERE FIRST AIRED, OBAMA REJECTED THE WORDS OF HATE BUT NOT THE MAN THAT SPOKE THEM.    OBAMA JUSTIFIED THAT STANCE BECAUSE AS HE SAID, “I NO MORE CAN REJECT REV. WRIGHT ANYMORE THAN I CAN MY GRANDMOTHER WHO RAISED ME” NOW, LESS THAN A MONTH LATER, AFTER REV. WRIGHT LAMBASTED OBAMA AGAIN IN A SERIES OF THREE

SPEECHES OVER A RECENT WEEKEND, IT IS OBVIOUS THAT THE TWO FRIENDS OF LONG STANDING, HAVE HAD A SERIOUS DISAGREEMENT ABOUT SOMETHING TO RESULT IN A COMPLETE REVERSAL OF ACTIONS AND ATTITUDES TOWARD EACH OTHER.     THE REVEREND COMPLAINS THAT OBAMA HAD THE OPPORTUNITY AND OBLIGATION TO COME TO HIS AID WHEN THESE SO CALLED “SOUND BITES” WAS REVEALED PUBLICLY.  HE CLAIMS OBAMA SHOULD HAVE DEFENDED HIS WORDS, HIS CHURCH, AND HIM, BECAUSE FOR TWENTY YEARS HE HAD AGREED WITH HIM AND TOOK ADVANTAGE OF THE MINISTER’S POSITION AND INFLUENCE EVERY TIME HE SOUGHT PUBLIC OFFICE, BY ACCEPTING HIS UNQUALIFIED AND TOTAL SUPPORT AND THAT OF HIS EIGHT THOUSAND BLACK PARISHIONERS.    WHEN THE FIRST TEST OF HIS LOYALTY FOR THE MINISTER CAME, THE REVEREND FEELS OBAMA LET HIM DOWN, BECAUSE WHEN HE DAMNED HIS WORDS SPOKEN IN CHURCH, HE HAD REJECTED BOTH THE MINISTER AND THE CHURCH THAT HAD DONE SO MUCH FOR HIM.    IN OTHER WORDS THE REVEREND FELT USED BY OBAMA TO GAIN WHAT HE WANTED AND NOW HE IS REJECTING HIM, HIS WORDS AND CHURCH, BECAUSE AT THIS POINT HE DID NOT NEED THE SHEPHERD OR HIS FLOCK, HE HAD MANAGED TO CAPTURE ENOUGH THE WHITE VOTES.

POPE BENEDICT XVI AND THE CATHOLIC CHURCH

RECENTLY, WE WERE HONORED TO HAVE THE CATHOLIC POPE, BENEDICT, XVI, COME TO THE UNITED STATES FOR A VISIT.    AS A CATHOLIC MYSELF, I WAS PROUD THAT HIS EMINENCE CHOSE TO COME HERE AND MINGLE WITH HIS FLOCK AT SO MANY CAPACITY FILLED PLACES IN WASHINGTON AND NEW YORK HIS VISIT TO THE SITE OF THE WORLD TRADE CENTER WAS SYMBOLIC OF HIS PAIN FOR THE VICTIMS WHO DIED AND SUFFERED INJURY THERE ON SEPTEMBER 11, 2001.    IT IS HOPED HIS PRESENCE AND PRAYERS FOR THE DEAD VICTIMS WILL ALSO HELP HEAL THE PAIN OF THOSE MEN AND WOMEN AND THEIR FAMILIES WHO SURVIVED AS WELL IT IS HOPED AND WE PRAY, THAT SUCH AN INCIDENT DOES NOT HAPPEN AGAIN, ANY WHERE IN THE WORLD.   

THE PRESIDENT AND THE COUNTRY GAVE THIS POPE OF PEACE, A WELCOME THAT WAS SOMETHING TO BEHOLD IN WASHINGTON AND IT SURPASSED ANYTHING I HAVE EVER BEEN PRIVILEGED TO WITNESS FOR ANY HEAD OF STATE.

THE CROWD OF FIFTY THOUSAND WORSHIPPERS AT THE WASHINGTON NATIONAL BALLPARK SHARED THE RESPECT OF THE ELDERLY POPE AND THEY FOR HIM, AS HE CIRCLED THE FIELD IN HIS HASTE TO SEE AND PERSONALLY GREET EVERYONE THERE.   AT VARIOUS TIMES THE CROWD RUSHED TO SHAKE HIS HAND OR KISS HIS RING SOME, CRIED WITH JOY AND OPENLY WEPT, WHILE OTHERS APPLAUDED HIM IN RESPECT AND AS AN EXPRESSION OF JOY, AT THE PLEASURE OF BEING IN THE PRESENCE OF SUCH A DEDICATED HOLY MAN.    

THIS SPECTACLE WAS REPEATED AGAIN THAT SATURDAY AT YANKEE STADIUM IN NEW YORK CITY, WITH THE SAME RESULTS, AN ENORMOUS OUTPOURING OF LOVE AND AFFECTION FOR THE POPE AND THE CATHOLIC CHURCH, HE REPRESENTS. 

THE POPE OFFICIATED IN THE CELEBRATION OF TWO HIGH MASSES DURING THE WEEK, THE FIRST AT THE CATHOLIC CATHEDRAL IN WASHINGTON, DC AND THE OTHER AT THE FAMOUS ST. PATRICK’S CHURCH IN DOWNTOWN NEW YORK CITY. 

WHILE HERE, THE AGING POPE CELEBRATED HIS 81^ST BIRTHDAY AND HIS AGILITY BELIED HIS AGE AS HE SCUDDED AROUND THE AREAS AND JUMPED UP AND DOWN FROM HIS CHAIR TO ACKNOWLEDGE THE CHEERS APPLAUSE AND ADULATION FROM THE CROWDS EVERYWHERE.

THE POPE ALSO FOUND TIME TO ADDRESS THE UNITED NATIONS AND SPOKE OF THE HOPE FOR PEACE AROUND THE WORLD AND THE END OF ALL CONFLICTS WITH PEACEFUL SOLUTION RATHER THAN WAR, DEATH AND DESTRUCTION OF INNOCENT CIVILIANS.

UNFORTUNATELY, A FEW IRATE JEWISH NEWSMEN OR COMEDIANS SEIZED UPON THE POPE’S VISIT TO VENT THEIR ANGER AGAINST THE CATHOLIC CHURCH AND THE POPE IN ROME DURING THE NAZI REGIME BECAUSE, THEY CLAIM, THE CHURCH DID NOT DO ENOUGH TO SAVE THE JEWS FROM EXTERMINATION.    THE POPE’S GERMAN HERITAGE MAY HAVE HAD SOME INFLUENCE ON THESE DETRACTORS, EVEN THOUGH THEY KNEW HE WAS A MERE CHILD DURING MOST OF THIS PERIOD.    FIRST OF ALL, AS A HEAD OF STATE, VISITING THIS COUNTRY THE POPE IS ENTITLED TO ALL THE COURTESIES OF A WORLD LEADER, ESPECIALLY A MAN OF GOD AND PEACE LOVING MAN DURING HIS VISIT, IT IS BAD MANNERS TO THROW ACCUSATIONS AT HIM WHEN THIS COUNTRY IS HONORING HIM FOR THE VISIT.   SECONDLY, IF THESE JEWS HAD ANY LEGITIMATE COMPLAINTS THEY SHOULD HAVE EXPRESSED THEM DIRECTLY TO THE POPE AT THE VATICAN AND NOT ON A RADIO OR TV SHOW DIRECTED TO THE GENERAL PUBLIC.  THEIR ACTIONS WERE STUPID, RUDE, UNEDUCATED AND IGNORANT AND THEY SHOULD BE CONDEMNED; PUBLICLY IN ADDITION THEY SHOULD APOLOGIZE TO THE AMERICAN PUBLIC AND THE POPE.  

THE POPE, MET WITH AT LEAST THREE PERSONS FROM THE BOSTON AREA WHO HAD BEEN MOLESTED WHEN VERY YOUNG BY PARISH PRIESTS IN THE U.S. AND HE APOLOGIZED TO THEM, ON BEHALF OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH.    WHEN THE MEDIA, INTERVIEWED THE PERSONS LATER, THEY CONFIRMED THE POPE’S SINCERE ATTITUDE AND EACH ACCEPTED THE POPE’S APOLOGY AND PRAYERS THAT THEY WILL HEAL FROM THEIR MISTREATMENT.     

THE CHURCH SCANDAL CONCERNING PEDOPHILE PRIESTS HAS SHOCKED THE NATION AND COST THE CHURCH BILLIONS OF DOLLARS IN CIVIL DAMAGES, PAID TO THOSE MISTREATED CHILDREN OVER THE LAST TEN YEARS.

I AM A CATHOLIC SINCE BIRTH AND A PARISHIONER FOR ABOUT EIGHTY YEARS AND BELIEVE I HAVE SEEN ENOUGH AS A CATHOLIC, A PARISHIONER AND ATTORNEY AT LAW FOR FIFTY YEARS TO FORM A JUDGMENT AS TO HOW THESE TERRIBLE ATTACKS ON OUR CHILDREN CAN AND MUST BE STOPPED AND AVOIDED IN THE FUTURE.    IN THE FACE OF THE KNOWLEDGE THAT THE POPE AND THE CHURCH ARE RESISTANT TO CHANGE AND NOT IN FAVOR OF THESE SUGGESTIONS I FEEL AN OBLIGATION TO CHURCH, MY FAITH AND MYSELF TO MAKE MY FEELINGS ON THESE VERY IMPORTANT MATTERS HEARD.   THEY ARE AS FOLLOWS:

1.   THERE ARE ABSOLUTELY NO REASONS WHY OUR PRIESTS SHOULD NOT MARRY AND HAVE CHILDREN OF THEIR OWN.   WHAT BETTER WAY TO BE ABLE TO COUNSEL PEOPLE THAN TO HAVE THE EXPERIENCE OF MARRIAGE AND FATHERHOOD?      THERE IS NO CANON OR CHURCH LAW THAT PREVENTS THIS, SINCE PRIESTS COULD MARRY IN THE PAST.   

     WE NEED TO RECRUIT NEW PRIESTS FOR OUR CHURCHES, WHILE LESS AND LESS MEN ARE ATTRACTED TO THE CELIBACY THE CHURCH REQUIRES.    MINISTERS, RABBIS AND LEADERS OF ALL OTHER RELIGIONS AND CHURCHES, ARE ALLOWED TO MARRY AND THEY HAVE PERFORMED THEIR DUTIES JUST AS WELL IF NOT BETTER THAN CATHOLIC PRIESTS.    THE BENEFITS TO THE CATHOLIC CHURCH IN THIS MATTER, IN THIS DAY AND AGE, DICTATE ADOPTION OF THIS PROGRAM, SINCE IT WILL ALSO REVITALIZE THE CHURCH AND ITS MEMBERS.    THE CHURCH HAS BEEN LOSING PARISHIONERS AND PRIESTS FOR THE LAST FIFTY YEARS AND THIS TREND MUST BE REVERSED FOR THE CATHOLIC CHURCH TO SURVIVE.

2.    WOMEN SHOULD BE ALLOWED TO ENTER THE CATHOLIC CHURCH AS PRIESTS IN THIS DAY AND AGE OF EQUALITY OF THE MASSES, REGARDLESS OF GENDER.    IT IS TIME FOR THE CHURCH TO TREAT WOMEN EQUALLY, RATHER THAN AS SUBSERVIENT.   ANYTHING ELSE, WOULD BE A DENIAL OF EQUALITY FOR THE FEMALE SEXE, SOMETHING THE CATHOLIC CHURCH MUST ACCEPT IN TODAY’S WORLD AND, AS OTHER RELIGIONS HAVE DONE.

3.    IT IS TIME FOR THE CHURCH TO ALLOW DIVORCES FROM THE BOND OF MATRIMONY.    THE CHURCH’S RULE IN GRANTING ONLY ANNULMENTS IS A STANDARD JOKE AMONGST MOST RELIGIONS INCLUDING CATHOLICS.     THE IDEA THAT A MARRIAGE MAY BE ANNULLED AFTER A MONTH OR AFTER TWENTY YEARS OR SO, ON SUCH GROUNDS ARE LUDICROUS ESPECIALLY AFTER THE MARRIAGE HAS PRODUCED AND RAISED CHILDREN.   THE PRESENT CATHOLIC CHURCH RULE OF EXCOMMUNICATING CATHOLICS THAT DIVORCE AND REMARRY CIVILLY IS A CERTAIN WAY TO DISCOURAGE AND LOSE PARISHIONERS, AND ADD PROBLEMS FOR THE CHURCH.

4.    THE QUESTION OF ABORTIONS, A LONGSTANDING PROHIBITION BY THE CHURCH AND ITS TEACHINGS, SINCE IT RUNS CONTRA TO THE PROLIFERATION OF THE FAITH MUST BE REVIEWED IN A PRACTICAL WAY, AGAINST THE RIGHTS OF WOMEN AND THE EXPLOSION OF POPULATIONS IN A MODERN SOCIETY THAT CANNOT SUPPORT LARGE FAMILIES.   IF ABORTIONS CONTINUE TO BE BANNED BY THE CATHOLIC CHURCH, MAYBE WE SHOULD OSTRACIZE MEN FOR NOT PRODUCING ONE CHILD A YEAR DURING MARRIAGE, ALSO.    

5.    THE CATHOLIC MASS HAS BECOME A BORING, RIGID, RITUAL FOR THE PARISHIONERS, WEEK AFTER WEEK, MONTH AFTER MONTH AND YEAR AFTER YEAR.   ITS ATTRACTION IS LIMITED TO THOSE FEW INTERESTING SERMONS BY ENLIGHTENED PREACHERS, THE CHURCH HAS LOST ITS SOCIAL ATTRACTION AS A PLACE OF LOVE, NEED AND RESPECT BETWEEN PARISHIONERS.    THEY HAVE DRIFTED AWAY FROM THE CHURCH, TO THE ATTRACTION OF THEIR TELEVISION SETS AND OTHER MEDIAS FOR INFORMATION, ENTERTAINMENT AND EDUCATION, LEAVING THEIR SCHOOLING BEHIND, ALSO THE PERCEIVED STRONG BOND OF NEEDED AND SPIRITUAL COMFORT OF THE CHURCH HAS BEEN SLOWLY BUT SURELY

SEPARATED BETWEEN THE CHURCHES, ITS PARISHIONERS AND ITS INFLUENCE DEMISED TO THE POINT OF INSIGNIFICANCE.    

6.     THE FAMILY UNIT HAS BEEN STRAINED BY THE ECONOMICS AND SOCIAL STATUS OF OUR SOCIETY, IN MANY CASES, BOTH PARENTS, WORK AWAY FROM THE HOME LEAVING THEIR CHILDREN TO FEND FOR THEMSELVES DURING THE DAY, AS A RESULT, THE EDUCATION OF THEIR CHILDREN IS LEFT TO THE EXCLUSIVE RESPONSIBILITY OF THEIR TEACHERS, WHO LACK THE AUTHORITY TO DO LITTLE MORE THAN TEACH.     AFTER WORK, PARENTS SEEK OUT THEIR CHILDREN FROM THE STREETS, THEY RARELY EAT TOGETHER OR TALK TO EACH OTHER EXCEPT TO COMPLAIN AND ARGUE, IT IS ONLY NATURAL FOR THE PARENT, ALSO TO SEEK OUT THEIR ESCAPE IN THE WORLD OF ENTERTAINMENT THROUGH THEIR TV SETS , OR COMPUTERS AS THEIR OWN DIVERSION FROM THE DRUDGERY AND FATIGUE OF EVERY DAY LIFE.    PARENTS HAVE WILLINGLY LOST CONTROL OF THEIR CHILDREN, AND MORE OUT OF GUILT DOTE ON THEM AND SPOIL THEM WITH MONEY, TOYS, CELL PHONES AND COMPUTERS, WHICH TEND TO ISOLATE THEM FROM EACH OTHER EVEN MORE.    THE FAMILY UNIT IS BREAKING DOWN FAST AND THIS EVENT WILL DESTROY OUR SOCIETY, ITS MORALS AND ITS FAITH IN A SUPREME BEING, A FAITH WITHOUT WHICH, WE HAVE NO HOPE FOR A HEREAFTER FREE FROM PAIN AND SUFFERING AND FULL OF EVERLASTING LOVE IN THE SPIRIT WORLD.    IF WE LOSE OUR FAITH AND GUIDANCE OF OUR CHURCH, WE ARE REDUCED TO NOTHING MORE THAN ANIMALS.

7.    THE CATHOLIC CHURCH, TODAY MUST KEEP ABREAST OF SOCIETY AROUND THE WORLD, SIMPLY BECAUSE IT CANNOT RELY ON THE DEPENDENCE OF THE FLOCK ON THE CHURCH, AS IT WAS IN THE PAST, FOR SPIRITUAL, EDUCATIONAL AND MATERIAL COMFORT AND ASSISTANCE.    ALL CHURCHES WERE LOCAL THEN, AS WAS SOCIETY, THE LOCAL NEIGHBORHOOD.    EVERY TOWN WAS ITS OWN WORLD FOR THE MANY.     TODAY, SOCIETY IS NATIONAL AND UNIVERSAL AND INDIVIDUALS HAVE A VERY BROAD OUTLOOK ON LIFE.     THE MEDIAS, FIRST THE RADIOS, NEWSPAPERS AND MAGAZINES, THEN TELEPHONE AND LATER, TELEVISIONS AND NOW COMPUTERS AND CELL PHONES HAVE PULLED OUR INTERESTS AWAY FROM THE CHURCH AND ITS OLD STAID METHODS OF TEACHING AND ATTRACTION TO HOLD THE FLOCK TOGETHER WITH A STRONG BOND.   

       UNLESS THE CATHOLIC CHURCH MEETS THE CHALLENGES OF THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY AND FINDS THE MEANS AND METHODS OF RE-ATTRACTING ITS FLOCK, TO ITS FAITH TO RE-STRENGTHEN ITS BOND WITH ONE ANOTHER, IT IS DOOMED TO CONTINUE TO LOSE ITS ATTRACTION AND ATTENDANCE AND NUMBERS UNTIL ONLY THE EMPTY EDIFICE REMAINS AS A SYMBOL OF WHAT WAS A GLORIOUS AND THRIVING RELIGION BASED ON THE TEACHINGS OF JESUS CHRIST, AND HIS FOLLOWERS.

THE OBAMA BOOMERANG

 

IT MUST BE REMEMBERED THAT A FEW DAYS AFTER THE NEW HAMPSHIRE PRIMARY, WHEN HILLARY REBOUNDED FROM THE IOWA LOSS TO OBAMA, HE STARTED THE FIRST NEGATIVE CAMPAIGNING AGAINST HER.     HE CLAIMED, THAT HER VOTE FOR THE IRAQ WAR WAS A MISTAKE AND THAT THE COUNTRY COULD NOT AFFORD A PRESIDENT WHO DOES NOT GET IT RIGHT THE FIRST TIME.   THIS MAY HAVE CAUSED HILLARY A TEMPORARY DIP IN POPULARITY THROUGH THE FEBRUARY PRIMARIES.

      NOW, OBAMA HAS A REAL PROBLEM WITH THE REVEREND WRIGHT REMARKS AND HIS REFUSAL TO BOTH OBJECTS TO THESE REMARKS AND LEAVE THAT CHURCH FOR TWENTY YEARS.    THERE IS NO QUESTION THAT THOSE DAMNING ANTI-AMERICAN AND RACIST REMARKS AGAINST WHITES WERE WRONG, AND UNCALLED FOR. AND OBAMA WAS CORRECT IN REJECTING THEM IMMEDIATELY, HOWEVER HE SAID THEY WERE MERE SOUNDBITES AND THAT HE NEVER HEARD THEM.    HOWEVER, HIS REMARK THAT HE “COULD NO MORE DISOWN HIS REVEREND OF TWENTY YEARS THAN HE COULD DISOWN HIS GRANDMOTHER WHO RAISED ME” SURPRISED MANY, UNTIL A MONTH LATER.    IT WAS ONLY AFTER THE REVEREND HIMSELF CONFIRMED THOSE SO-CALLED SOUNDBITES WITH A CONFIRMATION AND ALLEGED JUSTIFICATIONS FOR THOSE REMARKS, THAT OBAMA’S EXCUSES FOR THE REVEREND BOOMERANGED INTO HIS FACE.     IN ADDITION, WHEN THE REVEREND CONFIRMED THAT OBAMA WAS “A POLITICIAN WHO SAYS WHAT HE HAS TO SAY, WHILE I MUST ANSWER TO GOD” THAT OBAMA FINALLY DISOWNED HIM AND DISAVOWED HIS REMARKS FOR WHAT THEY IN FACT WERE, ANTI-AMERICAN AND RACIST.    

NOW, YOU MIGHT THINK AS OBAMA SUGGESTS,” FINE THAT’S THE END OF THE STORY, LETS GET BACK TO THE ISSUES IN THIS CAMPAIGN”. BUT THERE IS ONE MORE BOOMERANG FOR OBAMA TO DEFLECT.      IT IS HIS OBVIOUS FAILURE TO DISAVOW AND CONDEMN BOTH THE REVEREND AND HIS STATEMENTS NOT ONLY WHEN BUT ALSO BECAUSE THEY WERE MADE PUBLIC FOR THOSE TWENTY YEARS THAT BOTHER’S AND PERPLEXES PEOPLE.      HE OBVIOUSLY HEARD OR KNEW OF THEM OR MISJUDGED THE CHARACTER OF THE MAN THAT SPOKE THEM, WHOM HE CALLED HIS MENTOR AND UNCLE.     APPARENTLY IT TOOK OBAMA TWENTY YEARS TO LEARN ABOUT THE REVEREND, AND THEN, ONLY WHEN THE PUBLIC EXPOSED THOSE HATEFUL AND HURTFUL REMARKS.

IT IS NOW PAINFULLY CLEAR, THAT A VOTE FOR OBAMA IS A VOTE TO HELP THE BLACK MAN WHO IS “DIFFERENT” AND THAT OBAMA, THE MOST LIBERAL OF OUR CANDIDATES, WILL COME TO THEIR AID BECAUSE THAT’S PART OF THE PLAN WITH REV. WRIGHT AND ALL THE BLACKS, FOR THEIR VOTE, A FREE RIDE, AND A FREE LIFE, FOREVER UNDER OBAMA, THEY WANT THE WELFARE LINES BACK AND THE PUBLIC DOLE AND IRRESPONSIBILITY TO REIGN AGAIN. 

AS DISASTER BEFALLS MOST EVERY ONE WITH UNEMPLOYMENT, RISING GAS AND FUEL OIL PRICES ALONG WITH FOOD AND EVERYTHING ELSE, IN THE CONSUMER MARKET WHILE VALUES OF THEIR HOMES ARE DROPPING LIKE A SHIP SINKING WITH YOUR FAMILY ON BOARD.    OVER THE LAST EIGHT YEARS, WITH RISING PRICES AND STAGNENT WAGES, PEOPLE HAVE REFINANCED THEIR HOMES SEEKING MONEY TO LIVE ON AND PAY EXPENSES THEY CANNOT PAY OUT OF THEIR WAGES. 

IN ADDITION THEY HAVE MAXED OUT THEIR CREDIT CARDS FOR THE SAME REASONS AND WITH THE VALUE AND EQUITY IN THEIR HOMES DROPPING THEY ARE FACED WITH THE ONLY CHOICE LEFT TO ESCAPE THEIR INSUMOUNTABLE PROBLEM, THAT OF THE BANKRUPCY COURT.    AS A RESULT, WE ARE EXPERIENCING A FURTHER DROP IN VALUE OF REAL ESTATE WHILE MORE AND MORE PROPERTIES ARE ADDED TO THE “FOR SALE” MARKET AND NEW CONSTRUCTION IS STOPPED IN THEIR TRACKS, WITH THE ADDED SURPLUS OF NEW HOMES.  

THIS ENTIRE SURPLUS HAS VIRTUALLY STOPPED THE CONSTRUCTION OF NEW HOMES AND COMMERCIAL BUILDINGS.    IT IS ESTIMATED THAT THESE UNSOLD HOMES WILL NOT BE DISPOSED OF UNTIL AT LEAST TWO YEARS IN THE FUTURE AND UNTIL THE ECOMONY IMROVES.   AT PRESENT THE ECONOMY IS GOING IN THE OPPOSITE DIRECTION AND THERE IS NO LIGHT SEEN AT THE END OF THE TUNNEL, PRICES OF REAL ESTATE IS STILL DROPPING AND WITH THE PRICE OF CONSUMER GOODS RISING WHILE WAGES ARE STAGNENT AND UNEMPLOYMENT IS INCREASING, THE FUTURE IN AMERICA IS NOT BRIGHT, IT IS BLEAK, ESPECIALLY BECAUSE OUR PRESIDENT AND CONGRESS ARE EITHER INCAPABLE OR UNWILLING TO COME TO THE AID OF THE PEOPLE.

BECAUSE OF THIS SERIOUS PROBLEM WITH THE ECONOMY, THE VOTERS ARE AGAIN ASKING THEMSELVES, “YES, WE WANT CHANGE IN THE FUTURE, BUT FROM WHICH CANDIDATE CAN WE REALLY HOPE TO EXPECT THIS CHANGE?  IS IT A GOOD LOOKING, CHARISMATIC SPEAKER WITH LITTLE OR NO EXPERIENCE IN THE OPERATION OF THIS NATION AND ITS POLITICS AND WHOSE MOTIVATION IS SERIOUSLY QUESTIONED, OR ONE WITH THE TRACK RECORD OF YEARS OF ACTUAL EXPERIENCE IN THE WHITE HOUSE AND IN THE SENATE OF THE U.S.   

      WE CANNOT HOPE NOR AFFORD TO TAKE A CHANCE WITH A CHANGE THAT IS UNKNOWN AND EXPERIENCE THAT HAS BEEN LACKING AND UNTESTED.    THE PROBLEMS WE FACE ARE FAR TOO SERIOUS AND COMPLICATED, WE HAVE NO TIME FOR ON THE JOB TRAINING WE HAVE NO TIME TO WASTE, AND WE NEED ACTION FROM DAY ONE.    WE NEED THE RIGHT CHANGE NOW, WE CANNOT TRUST HOPE FOR CHANGE WHEN WE KNOW WE HAVE THE CANDIDATE THAT CAN GIVE US THE CHANGE WE NEED AND THE GOOD TIMES UNDER THE SUCCESSFUL PREVIOUS PRESIDENT BILL CLINTON’S ADMINISTRATION OF EIGHT YEARS.    WE CANNOT AFFORD TO MAKE A MISTAKE FOR THE THIRD TIME.

          END OF PART IIII

OBAMA‘S LIGHT IS FLICKERING, AND HIS ATTRACTION FADING

PART II

       THE FIRST PRESIDENTIAL PRIMARY IN IOWA SHOCKED EVERYONE WITH ITS RESULTS.    HUCKABEE A FORMER GOVERNOR FROM ARKANSAS, WON OUT OVER A REPUBLICAN FIELD OF WELL KNOWN ASPIRING POLITICIANS.    WHILE OBAMA, THE NEWEST OF THE DEMOCATIC POLITICIANS ON THE SCENE WON THIS PRIMARY TO THE SURPRISE AND DISMAY OF EVERYONE ON THE TICKET.     EVERYONE SCRAMBLED FOR A REASON, BUT THE REALITY WAS OBVIOUS.    THE VOTER IS DISGUSTED WITH THE ACTIONS OF THESE PERENNIAL POLITICIANS AND THE CONDITIONS IN THIS COUNTRY, AND JUST LIKE THE VOTER DID IN THE NOVEMBER 2006, THEY MADE THEIR VOICE HEARD IN THE ONLY WAY DEMOCRACY ALLOWED SHORT OF A REVOLUTION, BY THEIR INDIVIDUAL VOTES, THAT SWELLED TO A MANDATE.    THE SO-CALLED FRONT RUNNERS, NAMELY McCAIN AND HILLARY WERE SHOCKED TO THE REALITY THAT NAME RECOGNITION AND EXPERIENCE WILL NOT WIN OUT THIS TIME, UNDER AN EXTREMELY DIFFERENT ECONOMIC SITUATION.        IT ALSO SEEMS THAT HUCKABEE AND OBAMA PULLED OFF THIS UPSET BY WORKING VERY HARD, IN A GRASSROOTS WAY, SUBROSA AND QUIETLY, IN A EFFICIENT WAY, FOR MONTHS AND MONTHS BEFORE THE PRIMARY.

THIS FIRST VICTORY HOWEVER, WAS SHORT LIVED, AS THE RESULTS IN NEW HAMPSHIRE A WEEK LATER, RETURNED THE SPOTLIGHT TO THE THEN FRONTRUNNERS, McCAIN AND HILLARY, WITH REBOUNDING VICTORIES.      IT SEEMS THAT NEW HAMPSHIRE DEMOCRATS WERE NOT TAKEN IN BY THE CHARISMA AND PROMISES OF CHANGE AND HOPE OFFERED BY OBAMA, A RELATIVELY UNKNOWN CANDIDATE IN THE FACE OF THE MORE EXPERIENCED AND TRUSTED KNOWN CANDIDATE HILLARY.

THE NEW HAMPSHIRE REPUBLICANS DID NOT FORGET JOHN McCAIN’S 2001 INDEPENDENCE AND POPULARITY AND THEIR PREFERENCE FOR RELIABILITY AND EXPERIENCE AT THIS TIME OF ECONOMIC DISASTER AND DISAPPOINTMENT WITH THE REPUBLICAN REGULARS UNDER PRESIDENT BUSH    THE VERY INDEPENDENT N.H. REPUBLICANS NATURALLY CHOSE McCAIN OVER THE OTHERS, AS A MAN AS FAR DIFFERENT AND OPPOSITE TO BUSH AND THE RANK AND FILE PRO-BUSINESS REPUBLICANS THAT SUPPORTED BUSH, AND CHENEY THE OIL MEN FROM TEXAS.    JOHN McCAIN’S HONESTY AND OPEN OPPOSITION TO THE BUSINESS ORIENTED ECONOMIC POLICIES OF BUSH WERE THE REAL REASONS FOR HIS EMERGENCE AS THE REPUBLICAN STANDARD BEARER.

HIS PRO WAR STANCE OF “NEVER SURRENDER” FIT RIGHT IN WITH THE BUSINESS REPUBLICANS PROFITING FROM THE WAR AND THEY NOW SUPPORTED HIM WITH ENOUGH CONTRIBUTIONS TO COME OUT AS THE VICTOR.     IN THE NOMINATION BEFORE THE VOTE IN N.H. HE HAD BEEN COUNTED OUT AND WAS WITHOUT FUNDS TO PAY HIS DAILY CAMPAIGN EXPENSES.  

        THE RESULTS OF IOWA AND N.H., GAVE BOTH OBAMA AND HILLARY IMPETUS TO CONTINUE, ALTHOUGH THE HILLARY CAMPAIGN STRATEGISTS HAD ORIGINALLY PLANNED, HOPEFULLY, TO WRAP UP THE NOMINATION BY THE END OF THE FEBRUARY PRIMARIES ASSUMING WRONGLY SHE WOULD AMASS THE NECESSARY 1225 NEEDED DELEGATES BY THAT DATE.     OF COURSE, HER STAFF HAD FAILED TO CONSIDER THE INITIAL POPULARITY OF OBAMA AND HIS WELL HEELED AND FINANCED CAMPAIGN, AND WORKERS WHO CONTINUED TO ORGANIZE A CONCERTED EFFORT TO REGISTER AS MANY YOUNG AND BLACK VOTERS TO VOTE AT EACH PRIMARY.   ALL THE WHILE OBAMA RACED AROUND FROM STATE TO STATE IMPRESSING EVERYONE WITH HIS CHARM AND MESSAGE OF HOPE WHICH IS A GREAT SELLING POINT TO THE AVERAGE DISGUSTED VOTER, EAGER FOR A CHANGE IN THE GOVERNMENT DIRECTION, WHICH IS SORELY NEEDED.

AFTER N.H., OBAMA REALIZED HIS CHARM ALONE COULD NOT WIN HIM THE NOMINATION, SO HE EMBARKED ON A SUBTLE SMEAR CAMPAIGN AGAINST HILLARY.    FIRST, HE COMPLAINED THAT HILLARY HAD MADE THE MISTAKE OF VOTING FOR THE NOW UNPOPULAR WAR IN IRAQ, WHILE HE WAS NOT IN FAVOR OF THE WAR AS A PRIVATE CITIZEN.   THAT THIS COUNTRY NEEDED A LEADER, WHO DOES NOT MAKE MISTAKES, IN THE FIRST PLACE, A PRESIDENT WHO IS RIGHT THE FIRST TIME.    OF COURSE, THE FACT THAT MOST OF CONGRESS INCLUDING HIS BACKERS LIKE SENATORS KENNEDY AND KERRY, VOTED FOR THE WAR ALSO DID NOT FAZE HIS SPIN NOR DOES THE FACT THAT MOST AMERICAN WERE IN FAVOR OF THE WAR ALSO.    IT IS ALSO IMPOTANT TO NOTE WHAT THE AUTHORIZATION WAS TO INVADE IRAQ AND SECURE WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION INCLUDING ANY NUCLEAR CAPABILITIES.

THEREFORE, WHEN PRESIDENT BUSH LANDED ON THAT AIRCRAFT CARRIER AND PROCLAIMED “MISSION ACCOMPLISHED”, HE WAS RIGHT AND THE TROOPS SHOULD HAVE LEFT AND THE INSPECTORS RETURNED.    THAT DATE WAS JUNE 2003, SO WE HAVE BEEN THERE FIVE MORE YEARS AT THE INSISTANCE OF BUSH AND CHENEY FOR THEIR OWN UNKNOWN PURPOSES BUT PROBABLY FOR HALLABURTON, CHENEY’S COMPANY TO MAKE MANY BILLIONS IN SPOILS.   

THEN, OBAMA ATTACKED HILLARY AS A REMNENT OF THE OLD SCHOOL OF POLITICIANS WHO HAVE NOT SOLVED OUR PRESSING ECOMONIC PROBLEMS FOR YEARS AND NOW WAS THE TIME FOR CHANGE.    IN THE MEANTIME, HE HAS ACCEPTED THE CONTRIBUTIONS SUPPORT AND

ENDORSEMENT OF A MAJORITY OF SENATORS LIKE KENNEDY, KERRY, DODD AND BIDEN, ALL OF WHOM HAVE MADE A CAREER OF POLITICS.     WHAT KIND OF CHANGE CAN OBAMA BRING ABOUT WITH THOSE MEN BEHIND HIM?    WHY DID HE ACCEPT THEIR BACKING EXCEPT TO BE ONE OF THEM?   THE ONLY CHANGE HE CAN BRING IS THE COLOR OF HIS FACE AND HIS RACE.

THIS SMEAR CAMPAIGN AGAINST HILLARY DID BRING SOME POSITIVE RESULTS FOR OBAMA.     BASICALLY AS DEMOCRATS BOTH THEIR PLANS DIFFER LITLE FROM EACH OTHER INCLUDING ENDING THE WAR IN IRAQ.    AFTER HILLARY BEGAN TO LOSE SUPPORT TO OBAMA IN ONE PRIMARY AFTER ANOTHER THROUGH FEBRUARY OF THIS YEAR, SHE REALIZED OBAMA WAS SUCCEEDING WITH THE NEGATIVE CAMPAIGN AGAINST HER AND SO SHE ARGUED HER EXPERIENCE AND KNOWLEDGE OF FOREIGN POLICY AS A REASON FOR A VOTE FOR HER, WHICH HE TRIED BUT FAILED TO DISCOUNT BECAUSE OF HIS TOTAL LACK OF COMPARATIVE EXPERIENCE AND KNOWLEDGE.     SUDDENLY IN MARCH THE REPUBLICANS, APPARENTLY DID SOME DEFENSIVE CHECKING ON THE UNKNOWN BACKGROUND OF OBAMA AND CAME UP WITH THE UNAMERICAN TIRADE OF HIS MENTOR AND PASTOR REVEREND WRIGHT, WHO BLAMED AMERICA AND THE “WHITE PEOPLE” FOR EVERYTHING THAT IS WRONG IN AMERICA WHILE DAMNING AMERICA OPENLY IN HIS CHURCH TO THE APPROVAL OF ALL ITS PARISHIONERS ALL BLACK, WHO JUMPED WITH JOY AT THESE INSULTS.    WHEN CONFRONTED WITH THESE STATEMENTS, OF COURSE OBAMA HAD NO CHOICE BUT TO CONDEMN THE STATEMENT BUT HE ALSO REFUSED TO CONDEMN HIS CLOSE FRIEND, THE PREACHER    HIS POOR EXCUSE FOR NOT LEAVING THAT CHURCH WAS THAT THE REVEREND WAS RETIRING ANYWAY AND BESIDES HE NEVER HEARD THESE INSULTING REMARKS ABOUT THE U.S.A. AND ITS WHITE PEOPLE, HE SAID.    ALSO A FEW DAYS LATER, OBAMA GAVE A PASSIONATE SPEECH ABOUT RACE RELATIONS AND HOW WE STILL NEEDED TO RECONCILE THE DIFFERENCES BETWEEN BLACKS AND WHITES.   OF COURSE THIS EPISODE PLANTED THE FIRST SEEDS OF DOUBT ABOUT OBAMAS HONESTY AND REAL INTENTIONS IT SEEMS, HIS INTENTIONS ARE MORE TO CARRY A TORCH FOR THE “ABUSED” BLACKS THAN ANYTHING ELSE EXCEPT BLIND AMBITION TO WIN THE PRESIDENCY.  

THIS IS VERY UPSETTING TO MOST AMERICANS WHO, SINCE 1963 AND THE CIVIL RIGHTS ACT HAVE GIVEN THE BLACKS MORE RIGHTS AND OPPORTUNITIES THAN IN THE LAST ONE HUNDRED YEARS.   AFTER FORTY FIVE YEARS AND TWO GENERATIONS BLACKS HAVE NO RIGHT TO FEEL ABUSED AND UNTREATED AS EQUALS WHEN WHITES HAVE ALLOWED THEMSELVES TO TAKE A BACK SEAT AND BE TREATED WITH LESS RIGHTS BECAUSE OF THE AFFIRMATIVE ACTION LAWS THAT ADVANCED BLACKS BEFORE WHITES AFTER ALL THAT, BLACK HAVE NO RIGHT TO PUT A GUILTY FEELINGS ON US WHITES FOR SOMETHING THAT HAS BEEN CORRECTED FOR NEARLY FIFTY YEARS IN THE SOUTH.     THE BLACKS IN THE NORTH HAVE ALWAYS BEEN TREATED AS EQUALS IN EVERY WAY.

HOWEVER, THIS EPISODE TURNED THE ATTENTION OF THE AMERICAN PUBLIC TO THE POINT THEY REALIZED THEY KNEW LITTLE ABOUT OBAMA AND THUSLY THEY BEGAN TO TAKE ANOTHER HARD LOOK AT HIM AND HIS BACKGROUND AND AS A RESULT, THEY DID NOT LIKE WHAT THEY FOUND.  

 END OF PART II