EVERY NOW AND THEN A NEW DIRTY WORD CREEPS INTO OUR VOCABULARY, AND THIS YEAR THOSE WORDS ARE REPUBLICAN AND DEMOCRAT.  BOTH ARE EQUALLY BAD, ESPECIALLY IF YOU ARE A CONGRESSMAN.  

      FOR BOTH REPUBLICANS AND DEMOCRATS TO EARN THIS DISTINCTION, WAS NOT EASY.   IT TOOK ABOUT FOURTEEN YEARS OF SCREWING UP WHEN THEY SHOULD HAVE BEEN NAILING DOWN SOLUTIONS TO SUCH PROBLEMS AS THE WAR IN IRAQ, GAS PRICES, UNEMPLOYMENT HEALTH CARE, SOCIAL SECURITY DRUG PRICES, THE MORTGAGE CRISES AND THE FALLING ECONOMY AND RISING PRICES OF GOODS.

      FOR MANY YEARS, ONE PARTY IN POWER BLAMED THE OTHER FOR THE LACK OF PROGRESS IN PASSING LEGISLATION DUE TO THE DISHARMONY AND ANTAGONISM BETWEEN THEM.   WHEN THE CONTROL OF CONGRESS WAS FINALLY WON OVER BY THE OTHER PARTY, WE RECEIVED MORE OF THE SAME FROM THEM, AS WELL.  

     THE TRUTH IS, THAT NEITHER PARTY IS REALLY INTERESTED IN SOLVING THE PROBLEMS OF THE COUNTRY; THEY ARE PARTY LOYALISTS THAT WILL DO ANYTHING AND EVERY THING TO KEEP THEIR PARTY IN POWER AND CONTROL AND DO THE BIDDING OF THE PARTY, NOT THE NEEDS OF THE PEOPLE WHO VOTED THEM TO THAT OFFICE.    

     FOR THE LAST TEN YEARS OR SO CONGRESS HAS BEEN A PLACE OF STALEMATES AND INACTION WHEN ACTION WAS NEEDED.  CONGRESS IS OBSESSED WITH THROWING ROADBLOCKS AT ITS OPPOSING PARTY MEMBERS INSTEAD OF BOUQUETS WHEN THEY PRESENT A GOOD PIECE OF LEGISLATION.   THIS IS THE WAY OF THE POLITICAL PARTIES.   IT IS TO MAKE THE OTHER PARTY LESS AND LESS ATTRACTIVE TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE WHILE TOUTING THE MERITS OF THEIR PARTY, AND SEEKING MORE OF THEIR PARTY MEMBERS TO ELECTIVE OFFICE.

     IT IS COMMON FOR ONE PARTY TO CALL THE OTHER, BAD, STUPID IGNORANT AND DISHONEST, WHILE THE OTHER PARTY RECIPROCATES WITH THE SAME NAME-CALLING.   SUDDENLY THE AMERICAN PEOPLE HAVE COME TO REALIZE THAT THEY ARE BOTH RIGHT, THEY ALL SHARE THE SAME TRUE DESCRIPTION OF ONE ANOTHER, WHILE THEY HAVE NO TIME LEFT TO LEGISLATE.  POSTURING IS BETTER THAN LEGISLATING, TO HELL WITH THE AMERICAN PEOPLE AND THEIR PROBLEMS, WE ARE CONSUMED WITH THIS HATEMONGERING AND NAME CALLING, BECAUSE IT MAKES US FEEL GOOD TO BLAME EVERYONE ELSE BUT OURSELVES FOR THE LACK OF THE NEEDED LEGISLATION TO SOLVE ALL THE PROBLEMS.   THAT MY FRIEND IS NOT WHY THEY WERE ELECTED.

    BESIDES, THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES IS ONLY IN OFFICE FOR TWO YEARS AND THEY NEED TO SEEK OUT THE MONEY FOR THEIR CAMPAIGN TO GET RE-ELECTED.   WHAT WITH ALL THOSE LOBBYISTS AT THE CAPITAL, POUNDING AT THEIR DOOR, PASSING MONEY AROUND LIKE WALLPAPER, IT’S A MAD SCRAMBLE BY THE REPRESENTATIVES, AS WHO CAN GRAB THE MOST MONEY, IT LIKE A GAME AS TO WHO CAN OBTAIN MORE OF THIS FREE MONEY WHILE THEY FOOL THEM SELVES INTO BELIEVING THIS MONEY DOES NOT INFLUENCE THEIR VOTE.   THE POLITICAL PARTY GIVES MONEY TO EACH MEMBER OF THEIR PARTY, IN RETURN FOR THEIR PARTY LOYALTY AND CONTROL THEREIN, LAYS THE PROBLEM, THEIR RESPECTIVE PARTY AND THAT IS THE REASON THE PEOPLE PROBLEMS ARE NOT SOLVED CONTROL EACH PARTY MEMBER.   IT IS WHAT THE PARTY WANTS THAT CONTROLS THE PARTY MEMBERS ACTIONS AND NOT WHAT THE PEOPLE WANT OR NEED.

     IF YOU WERE TO READ THE U.S.CONSTITUTION, YOU WOULD FIND NO REFERENCE TO POLITICAL PARTIES, SIMPLY BECAUSE IT’S FRAMERS DID NOT ANTICIPATE THEIR CONTROL OR PLACE IN THE POLITICAL SCENE.    

    THE 2005 CONGRESSIONAL ELECTION, SENT A LOUD AND CLEAR MESSAGE TO CONGRESS THAT THE PEOPLE WANTED THE WAR ENDED IN IRAQ AND CONGRESS TO WORK TOGETHER, IN COMPROMISE TO SOLVE ALL THE PRESSING ECONOMIC PROBLEMS THAT ARE AT THE POINT OF CRIPPLING OUR NATION AND LIVES, CONTROL OF THE MAJORITY OF CONGRESS WAS GIVEN TO THE DEMOCRATS, REPLACING THE REPUBLICANS.  THE PEOPLE WAITED FOR CHANGE AND SLOWLY REALIZED NOTHING WAS CHANGING AND IT WAS THE SAME OLD SAME OLD GAME AND STALEMATE. WITH THE DO-NOTHING CONGRESS.

     IN THE LAST TWO YEARS THINGS HAVE TURNED TO THE WORSE, AND TO THE POINT THAT OUR ECONOMY IS GRINDING TO A HALT AND WE ARE LOSING OUR HOMES AND ROOF OVER OUR HEADS BECAUSE OF FALLING VALUES, WHILE FOOD, GASOLINE FUEL OIL AND EVERYTHING ELSE ARE RISING AT A DAILY RATE TO THE POINT WE CANNOT AFFORD TO DRIVE OR HEAT OUR HOMES.  CONGRESS IS SITTING ON THEIR HANDS, THREE DAYS A WEEK BICKERING AND ARGUING WITH NOTHING ACCOMPLISHED. 

       CONGRESS DID MANAGE TO RAISE THE MINIMUM WAGE A COUPLE OF DOLLARS AFTER TWENTY YEARS, WHILE THAT RAISE STILL KEEPS A WORKING PERSON AT BELOW THE POVERTY LEVEL.

      THIS YEAR, A PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION YEAR, ALONG WITH THE ELECTION OF ALL THE U. S. REPRESENTATIVES AND ONE THIRD OF THE U. S. SENATORS, THE AMERICAN PEOPLE ARE SO DISGUSTED AND DISILLUSIONED WITH THEIR REPRESENTATIVES AND SENATORS THAT THEY ARE BOUND AND DETERMINED TO VOTE THEM ALL OUT OF OFFICE, DEMOCRATS AND REPUBLICANS ALIKE, SINCE BOTH ARE NOT AND HAVE NOT DONE THE JOB THEY WERE ELECTED TO DO.  THEY WERE ELECTED TO REPRESENT ALL THE PEOPLE AND SOLVE ALL THE PROBLEMS WITHOUT DELAY.   THE FIRST REQUIREMENT IS AN EIGHT-HOUR DAY FIVE OR SIX DAYS A WEEK WITH MANDATORY ATTENDANCE IN SESSION, UNTIL THE PEOPLES BUSINESS IS COMPLETED.   
 

THE PEOPLE’S SLOGAN IS, “REWARD CONGRESS, RE-ELECT NOBODY.”   

1.         SINCE ABOUT SEPTEMBER 11, 2001 WE HAVE BEEN ENGAGED IN A WAR ON TERROR THAT COSTS ABOUT 100 BILLION DOLLARS A YEAR.

2.         THE PAYOUT GRANT TO ALL THE U.S. AIRLINES AFFECTED BY THE 9/11 TRAGEDIES AND THE RESULTING BAN ON FLYING UNTIL THE POSSIBLE EFFECTS WERE RESOLVED.

3.         THE PAYOUT TO ALL THE VICTIM’S FAMILIES AFFECTED BY THE WORLD TRADE CENTER DESTRUCTION IN LIEU OF CIVIL ACTIONS.

4.         THE INCOME TAX RELIEF MAINLY FOR THE RICH PASSED BY CONGRESS SOON AFTER THE TRAGEDY.

5.         THE HURRICANE DAMAGE RELIEF TO FLORIDA, NEW ORLEANS, MISSISSIPPI AND ALABAMA THESE LAST THREE YEARS.

6.         PAY RAISES VOTED BY CONGRESS FOR CONTRESS.

7.         NO BID CONTRACTS HANDED OUT BY THE DEFENSE DEPARTMENT TO COMPANIES LIKE HALLIBURTON FOR WORK IN IRAQ AND AFGHANISTAN.

8.         CONGRESS CONTINUES TO ADD PERKS AND PORK BARREL PROJECTS TO THE BUDGET THAT ARE NOT WARRANTED OR NECESSARY AMOUNTING TO  BILLIONS OF DOLLARS MORE.

9.         THE PRESIDENT AUTHORIZED THE FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM TO PLEDGE 30 BILLION IN CREDIT TO THE BEARS STEARNS CO, SO J.P. MORGAN MAY BUY THEM OUT AT A BARGAIN PRICE OF TEN DOLLARS A SHARE. 

 WITH THE SO-CALLED WAR ON TERRORISM, CONTINUING IN IRAQ FOR SOME YEARS IN THE FUTURE, WE CAN BE ASSURED THIS DEFICIT WILL CONTINUE TO RISE FOR MANY MORE YEARS.  PRESIDENT BUSH’S PROMISE TO REDUCE THE DEFICIT IN HALF BY THE TIME HE LEAVES OFFICE IN 2009 IS ADMITTEDLY UNATTAINABLE.  OUR GRANDCHILDREN WILL SURELY PAY FOR THESE COSTS.

         IN SPITE OF THIS FACT, AT THE PRESIDENT’S REQUEST, THE REPUBLICAN CONGRESS HAS RECENTLY VOTED THIS TAX CUT TO BE EXTENDED PERMANENTLY.  THEREBY GUARANTEEING WE, OR OUR CHILDREN, WILL BE MADE TO RAISE THIS MONEY AT A FUTURE DATE.   THIS IS NOT THE FISCAL RESPONSIBILITY YOU SHOULD EXPECT FROM OUR PRESIDENT AND CONGRESS AT THIS TIME OF OUR CURRENT RECESSION.

        THE LEAST WE SHOULD HAVE DONE IS TO FOREGO THE REQUESTED EXTENSION OF THE INCOME TAX CUT, WHICH WAS TEMPORARY IN THE FIRST PLACE.    THIS WOULD BE AN ACT IN SUPPORT OF OUR TROOPS AND TO REDUCE THE DEBT.   THIS 70 BILLION DOLLAR TAX CUT SAVING WOULD HAVE GONE A LONG WAY IN HELPING SOLVE OTHER AND MORE PRESSING PROBLEMS, SUCH AS THE SAGGING ECONOMY PRESCRIPTION DRUG COSTS, SOCIAL SECURITY, HEALTH INSURANCE FOR THE UNINSURED, THE HIGH COST OF GASOLINE AND RISING UNEMPLOYMENT. 

         RECENTLY, SOME OF US RECEIVED THE SO-CALLED “PRESIDENT’S ECONOMIC STIMULATION CHECK”, BUT FROM WHAT I CAN SEE, NOTHING WAS STIMULATED AND WE ARE RIGHT WHERE WE WERE BEFORE THE CHECKS WERE MAILED OUT.  

        WE HAVE ASKED OUR FIGHTING MEN AND WOMEN TO SERVE IN IRAQ WITH GREAT SACRIFICE TO THEM AND THEIR FAMILIES.  ABOUT 5000 OF THEM HAVE BEEN KILLED TO DATE WITH ABOUT 25,000 WOUNDED AND SCARRED FOR LIFE.  

        THE BULK OF CIVILIANS AT HOME HAVE DONE LITTLE TO SUPPORT THEIR TROOPS EXCEPT WORDS OF PRAISE THAT COST NOTHING.  THEY HAVE NOT SACRIFICED AT ALL, BUT CONTINUE TO ENJOY THEIR FREEDOM, MAKING MONEY AND LIVING THEIR LIVES WITHOUT INTERRUPTION AND MUCH WORRY.   IT IS TIME WE CONTRIBUTE OUR SHARE OF SACRIFICE AS WE DID DURING WORLD WAR II WHEN EVERYONE CONTRIBUTED TO THE WAR EFFORT WITHOUT COMPLAINT IN THE COMMON EFFORT.    WE CHEERFULLY WENT ALONG WITH SHORTAGES, PRICE CONTROLS AND RATIONING.

           SINCE CONGRESS VOTED TO EXTEND THE TAX CUT, AND ALLOWED THESE PERKS AND PORK BARREL PROJECTS, THE VOTER SHOULD ACT RESPONSIBLY BY NOT TO EXTENDING THE MEMBER’S TERM OF OFFICE, BY VOTING TO, “RE-ELECT NOBODY”, AT THE POLLS, COME NOVEMBER 2008.

          IT IS BOTH FITTING AND PROPER FOR US TO SET ASIDE A DAY EACH YEAR TO HONOR AND REMEMBER OUR FATHERS, WHOEVER OR WHEREVER THEY MAY BE.    THE IDENTITY OF ONE’S MOTHER IS A CERTAINTY, WHEREAS THE IDENTITY OF ONE’S FATHER IS A MATTER OF SPECULATION IN MANY CASES.     SOME FATHERS HAPPILY ACCEPT PARENTHOOD WITHOUT QUESTION WHILE OTHERS, ARE QUICK TO DENY FATHERING A CHILD AND CONTEST THIS AS A FALSE ACCUSATION, AND INSULT, DEMANDING BLOOD TESTS, WHILE DENYING SUPPORT OR REALITY TO THE END.

          NEVER THE LESS, EVERY ONE HAS A FATHER, BECAUSE THE LIFE OF A PERSON DEPENDS OF THE FERTILIZATION OF THE EGG AS IN ALL CASES INCLUDING THE ANIMAL KINGDOM.     OF COURSE, IF YOU WERE A CHRISTIAN, THE EXCEPTION WOULD BE IN THE CASE OF ADAM AND EVE, OUR FIRST HUMANS.    EVEN IN THE CASE OF ARTIFICIAL INSEMINATION, A MAN’S SPERM IS VITAL TO THE FERTILIZATION PROCESS FOR A WOMAN TO PRODUCE A CHILD.     IT MUST BE SAID ALSO, THAT ADOPTED CHILDREN ARE ESPECIALLY LOVED BY THEIR ADOPTING PARENTS BECAUSE THEY WERE CHOSEN TO BE LOVED AND TO BE JOINED INTO A FAMILY. 

          THEREFORE, FATHERHOOD IS A VITAL PART OF THE REPRODUCTION PROCESS AND THE NATURAL PROCESS OF PROGENY AMONG HUMANS AND ANIMAL ALIKE.    OF COURSE NATURE MAKES THIS PROCESS A PLEASURABLE ONE FOR BOTH THE PARENTS, WHILE ALL THE RESPONSIBILITIES SET IN LATER.        

          HUMAN REPRODUCTION IS MARKEDLY DIFFERENT FROM MOST ANIMAL REPRODUCTION BECAUSE OF A HUMAN’S DIFFERENCE IN ATTITUDES AND CUSTOMS.   HUMANS USUALLY MATE FOR LIFE, AND CARE FOR THEIR MATES AND THEIR CHILDREN FOR LIFE.    THEY HAVE AN EMOTIONAL BOND THAT TRANSCENDS THE PHYSICAL BOND BETWEEN THE SPECIES.

THE PAIR USUALLY MATE AFTER MARRIAGE AND LIVE A HEAVENLY TIME UNTIL THE FIRST CHILD IS BORN.    THEN, EVERYTHING DRASTICALLY CHANGES FOR THE FATHER, AS THE HUSBAND IS SOMETIMES FORCED TO ACCEPT A SECONDARY AND ALMOST ABANDONED POSITION IN THE FAMILY TREE WHILE THE WIFE AND NEW MOTHER TRANSFERS MOST ALL THAT LOVE AND ATTENTION TO THE NEEDY, HELPLESS NEWBORN CHILD.   OF COURSE THE FATHER IS SOMEWHAT UNACCUSTOMED AND UNWILLING TO ACCEPT THIS RELEGATED POSITION, HE MIGHT FEEL UNLOVED AND ABANDONED AND MAY BECOME JEALOUS, WITHDRAWN AND RESENTFUL OF THE CHILD.  HE COULD FEEL FORCED TO COMPETE WITH THE NEW ARRIVAL FOR THE LOVE AND ATTENTION OF HIS WIFE AND NEW MOTHER.   AFTER A FEW MONTHS, HE GRADUALLY BECOMES ADJUSTED TO THIS NEW ARRANGEMENT AND RESIGNS HIMSELF AS, SECOND BEST, RATHER THAN HAVING NOTHING AT ALL.   OF COURSE HUMAN SOCIETY DICTATES HIS CONFORMITY SO HE LEARNS TO CONFORM TO HIS NEW EXPECTATIONS RATHER THAN TOTALLY REJECT THEM AND CHANCE BEING OSTRACIZED BY A WATCHFUL SOCIETY.    SOON, THE CHILDREN THEMSELVES, INITIATE THE IRRESISTIBLY NECESSARY BOND WITH THE SOME TIMES RELUCTANT FATHER, WHO SUCCUMBS TO THEIR INNOCENCE AND PURITY AND TOTAL, UN-RELINQUISHED LOVE FOR THEIR FATHER.

THE CHILDREN INTERACT WITH THEIR FATHER SINCE HE IS PRESENT, PROVIDING SUPPORT, CARE AND LOVE AS AN INTRICATE PART OF THE FAMILY.   HE IS THE PROTECTOR OF THE FAMILY, THE PROVIDER, THE ADVISOR AND THE SECOND OPINION AND THE POSSIBLE OVER-TURNER IN EVERY FAMILY DISPUTE WHEN, THE CHILDREN ARE DENIED BY THEIR MOTHERS, FOR VERY LOGICAL REASONS.    HE QUIETLY FRETS OVER HIS CHILDREN WITHOUT MAKING IT OBVIOUS TO ANYONE BUT HIMSELF.   HE WANTS THE BEST FOR HIS CHILDREN EVEN WHEN THEY DO NOT REALIZE IT AND THEY REBEL AND AT TIMES WANT THEIR OWN WAY.   HE IS THE TITULAR HEAD OF THE FAMILY, ONLY BECAUSE THE MOTHER SAYS SO.    THE CHILDREN LOOK UP TO HIM, NOT BECAUSE HE IS TALLER BUT BECAUSE AND WHEN THE MOTHER SAYS SO IN ENCOURAGEMENT.    HE SOOTHES HIS CHILDREN’S EMOTIONAL AND PHYSICAL PAINS, THEIR SAD TEARS WHEN DEPRIVED OR DENIED, DURING SIBLING RIVALRY AND MOTHER’S DISCIPLINE.   HE HELPS WITH THE CHILDREN’S HOMEWORK EVEN WHEN HE IS TOO TIRED FROM A DAY’S WORK OR WORRY.     HE FRETS ALONG WITH MOTHER OVER THE FAMILY BUDGET, AND FINALLY GRUDGEDLY GIVES UP HIS OWN TOYS, LIKE THE FISHING OR HUNTING TRIPS IN FAVOR OF A FAMILY WEEKEND TRIPS TO THE BEACH OR MOUNTAINS.    HE PATIENTLY LISTENS TO HIS CHILDREN DURING THEIR MUSIC PROFICIENCY THAT SOUND MORE LIKE TORTURE THAN MUSIC.   HE IS ALWAYS DEPENDABLE FOR A SYMPATHETIC HIT FOR A FEW BUCKS WHEN MOTHER JUSTIFIABLY REFUSES.   HE OCCASIONALLY OVERRULES THE MOTHER’S RASH DISCIPLINE, TO HIS REGRET LATER THAT NIGHT IN BED.   DAD IS THE ONLY ONE THAT UNDERSTANDS YOU WHEN MOTHER IS WISE TO YOUR ANTICS AND SCHEMING PLANS, HE MAY SYMPATHIZE WITH YOU BUT DOES NOT DARE OVERRULE MOTHER, WHILE HE SOOTHS YOUR FEELINGS WITH A HUG AND KISS, BUT CONVENIENTLY, WISELY CHANGES THE SUBJECT TO SOMETHING MORE PLEASANT.

FATHER’S ARE SPOILERS OF THE DISCIPLINARY REGIMENT SET UP BY THE WEARY MOTHER TO WARD OFF DEPRESSION AND HOPELESSNESS BY EXUBERANT CHILDREN IN THEIR YOUNGER YEARS.    THEY TAKE THEIR KIDS FOR A WALK BEFORE MOTHER BLOWS UP FROM FEELINGS OF TIREDNESS AND ANGUISH; HE MIGHT TAKE THEM TO THE BALL GAME OR TO THE LOCAL POOL FOR A SWIM.   THE KIDS THINK DAD IS DOING IT OUT OF LOVE, WHEN HALF THE TIME, IT IS TO RETAIN MOTHER’S SANITY AND PEACE IN THE HOME.   MOTHER’S WANT THE BEST FOR HER CHILDREN, BUT ON THEIR TERMS WHILE FATHERS FEEL THE SAME DISCIPLINE IS AIMED AT THEM ALSO, HENCE THE CAMARADERIE BETWEEN THE FATHER AND HIS CHILDREN.

THE SUPPOSED PROUDEST MOMENT IN A FATHER LIFE IS WHEN HE WALKS HIS “LITTLE GIRL” DOWN THE MARRIAGE AISLE AND TURNS HIS PRECIOUS DAUGHTER OVER TO THAT “NO GOOD BUM” SHE IS IN LOVE WITH.    I CANNOT REPEAT HERE, THE FEW SHORT WORDS OF WARNING AND THREATS, HE QUIETLY METERS OUT TO THE GROOM, BECAUSE EVERY FATHER KNOWS THEM FROM MEMORY.

SO, LETS GIVE A CHEER AND MUCH APPLAUSE TO ALL THOSE LOVING FATHER’S THAT UNSELFISHLY SACRIFICE AND DEDICATE THEIR LIVES TO THEIR WIVES AND CHILDREN, AS THEIR WIVES AND CHILDREN DEDICATE THEIR LIVES TO THEIR FAMILY UNIT, THROUGH THICK AND THIN, GOOD TIMES AND BAD, BUT ALWAYS SURVIVING AND PERSEVERING TO NOURISH AND KEEP THE FAMILY TOGETHER IN LOVE AND RESPECT FOR ONE ANOTHER, UNTIL DEATH PARTS THEM INEVITABLY.    

AS FOR ALL THOSE FATHER’S WHO RAN AWAY FROM THEIR RESPONSIBILITIES AS FATHERS AND HEAD OF THE FAMILY, OF WHICH THERE IS NO LEGITIMATE REASON, I CAN ONLY SAY, YOU WILL NEVER ENJOY THE PLEASURE AND THE SATISFACTION OF REAL FATHERHOOD AND FAMILY UNITY, BECAUSE OF YOUR SELFISHNESS AND DISREGARD FOR THE CHILDREN YOU SIRED AND THE WOMAN YOU ABANDONED.    YOU ARE A LOSER IN OUR EYES AS YOU ARE IN GOD’S EYES, YOU SHAMEFUL QUITTER!       

          FOR THE LAST SIX MONTHS THE AMERICAN PEOPLE IN ALL OUR FIFTY STATES AND POSSESSIONS, HAVE MARCHED TO THE POLLS TO VOTE FOR THE PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE OF THEIR CHOICE.

          SOME VOTERS ARE PASSIONATE AND INVOLVED ABOUT THEIR CHOICE WHILE OTHERS MAY FEEL THEY ARE VOTING FOR THE LESSER OF TWO EVILS, AND STILL OTHERS VOTE AGAINST A CANDIDATE MORE THAN FOR A PERSON Of THEIR CHOICE.

          THIS YEAR, AS THE RACE NARROWED BETWEEN THE TWO REMAINING PERSONS, THE ULTRA LIBERAL BARACK OBAMA AND THE MIDDLE OF THE ROAD CLINTON, BOTH ARE MAKING HISTORY AS THE FIRST WOMAN AND THE FIRST BLACK PERSON TO ACTIVELY RUN FOR THE PRESIDENCY OF THE U.S.A.

          CONSIDERING THE IMPACT OF SUCH A MILESTONE, IT IS NOT UNUSUAL THAT SUPPORTERS THAT BOTH OBAMA AND CLINTON HAVE COMMITTED THEMSELVES TO THE PROSPECT WITH FIRE AND CONVICTION TO HAVE THIS LONG DENIED OPPORTUNITY COME TRUE FOR EACH OF THEM.  THIS PASSION BETWEEN SUPPORTERS AND COMMITMENT INTENSIFIED AS THE RACE PROGRESSED AND TIGHTENED WITH ONE CANDIDATE WINNING ONE STATE, ONLY TO BE MATCHED BUT THE OTHER CANDIDATE WINNING THE NEXT STATE.  ALTHOUGH OBAMA NARROWLY LED IN THE DELEGATE COUNT WHILE CLINTON NARROWLY LED IN THE POPULAR VOTE.

          WHEN YOU ADD THE MAD DASH OBAMA MADE TO PREMATURELY ATTEMPT TO WREST THE SUPPORT OF THE UNCOMMITTED “SUPER DELEGATES” AND HIS SUPPORTER’S FLAGRANT ATTEMPT TO ENGINEER HER TO QUIT THE RACE BEFORE ALL THE VOTES AND DELEGATES WERE CAST AND COUNTED, YOU HAVE A VERY GOOD IDEA OF THE TRICKERY AND TREACHERY THAT OBAMA AND HIS ADVISERS RESORTED TO UNDEMOCRATICALLY.

          IT BECAME OBVIOUS, THAT BECAUSE OF THE DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL COMMITTEE’S VOIDING OF THE MICHIGAN AND FLORIDA VOTES AND DELEGATES, THE PASSIONS OF THOSE DISENFRANCHISED VOTERS INTENSIFIED WITH CRIES OF FOUL AND AVERMENT DEMANDS THAT THEIR VOTES BE COUNTED.

          THE MAY 31, 2008 MEETING OF THE RULES COMMITTEE OF THE DNC OSTENSIBLY CALLED TO RESOLVE THIS FESTERING MATTER AND TO ATTEMPT TO RESTORE UNITY TO THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY, INSTEAD PRODUCED A MAGNIFIED OPPOSITION TO THE VOTES TO LIMIT THE VOTES TO 50 % FOR EACH STATE, WHILE AWARDING SOME DELEGATE VOTES TO OBAMA IN MICHIGAN FOR VOTES HE DID NOT RECEIVE AT THE POLLING PLACE.  ALL THIS HAPPENED WHILE THE RULES COMMITTEE KEPT INSISTING THAT THE RULES ARE THE RULES WHEN, IN FACT THEY DID NOT FOLLOW THE RULES BUT PLAYED FAVORITES WITH OBAMA.

          ALL THESE EVENTS ENFLAMED THE SUPPORTERS OF HILLARY CLINTON TO THE POINT THEY HAD NOTHING BUT DISDAIN AND A STRONG DISTASTE FOR OBAMA AND THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY AND RIGHTLY SO.  SOME CALLED IT RAW POLITICS AT IT’S WORSE AND AN UNFORGIVABLE INTERFERENCE WITH THE DEMOCRATIC PROCESS IN THE PRIMARY SYSTEM.

          IT IS NO SMALL WONDER THAT OBAMA AND THE DNC ARE LEFT WITH A REAL PROBLEM AND TASK TO HEAL THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY AND RECAPTURE THOSE EIGHTEEN MILLION CLINTON VOTES FOR OBAMA TO WIN THE PRESIDENCY IN NOVEMBER.  THE IDEA THAT THESE VOTES WILL AUTOMATICALLY OR SOMEHOW SWITCH THEIR ALLEGIANCE TO OBAMA IS A VERY FALSE ASSUMPTION AND A FALLACY.

          THE DMC HAS DELIBERATELY MORTALLY DIVIDED THE PARTY INSTEAD OF HEALING IT.  THOUSANDS OF DEMOCRATIC VOTERS ARE RUSHING TO CHANGE THEIR PARTY AFFILIATION TO INDEPENDENT, WHILE OTHER DISGUSTED VOTERS CLAIM THEY PREFER TO VOTE FOR THE REPUBLICAN, JOHN MCCAIN RATHER THAN OBAMA.  STILL OTHERS, STRONGLY DISAPPOINTED VOTERS INTEND TO SAY AT HOME AND NOT VOTE FOR ANY CANDIDATE BUT CLINTON.

          THIS IS THE DAUNTING TASK FOR THE DNC AND THE OBAMA CAMPAIGN, IF THEY HOPE TO WIN THE PRESIDENCY THIS FALL.  ALL THAT TALK ABOUT HEALING THE PARTY WAS NOTHING BUT TALK AND A FANTASY.  IF THEY THINK THEY FOOLED THE VOTERS THEY ARE WRONG.  THEIR HOPE TO WIN OVER THE CLINTON VOTERS BY DEFAULT IS FALSE AND HOPELESS.  OBAMA IS NOW FACED UNIQUELY, WITH A RESOLUTE STRONG MASS OF CLINTON SUPPORTERS WHO WILL NOT VOTE FOR OBAMA UNDER THESE CIRCUMSTANCES, BECAUSE THEIR USUAL LOYALTY TO THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY IS PERMANENTLY DAMAGED AND SEVERED AND CANNOT BE CONTROLLED EVEN AT THE URGING OF CLINTON, HERSELF.  THESE VOTERS ARE NOT TIED TO THE PARTY, AS ARE POLITICIANS WHO MUST DEPEND ON THEIR PARTY TO BE ELECTED AND RE-ELECTED.

          A RECENT MEDIA POLL INDICATES 54 % OF VOTERS WOULD LIKE TO SEE HILLARY AS THE VICE-PRESIDENTIAL RUNNING MATE, WHILE 43 % OF VOTERS DO NOT.  THIS IS REFLECTED BY THE 46 % OF MEN WHO DO NOT FAVOR HILLARY ON THE PRESIDENTIAL TICKET, WHILE A LARGER PERCENT OF WOMEN DO.  THIS GLARINGLY POINTS OUT THE FACT THAT MEN IN THIS SUPPOSED DEMOCRATIC COUNTRY OF EQUALITY, CONTINUE TO DEPRIVE WOMEN OF EQUAL RIGHTS THEY ARE ENTITLED TO UNDER THE U.S. CONSTITUTION.  THESE ARE THE SAME RIGHTS DENIED THEM SINCE THE TIME OF ADAM AND EVE, AND UNDER ALL RELIGIONS.

          IT IS A SHAME THAT MEN PERSIST TO CONTROL WOMAN, INCLUDING THEIR OWN, AND A BIGGER SHAME THAT WOMAN ALLOW THAT TO HAPPEN.  I HOPE THOSE SUBSERVIENT WOMEN ENJOY BEING TREATED AS, SECOND-CLASS CITIZENS, ESPECIALLY SINCE IT IS WITHIN THEIR POWER TO PUT A STOP TO THIS UNWISE AND SHAMEFUL PRACTICE.

          OF COURSE, WHEN YOU ADD ENOUGH OF THE WHITE SOUTHERN VOTERS, STUBBORN RESENTMENT TO THE GRANTING OR ENTITLEMENT OF BLACKS TO EQUALITY EVEN AFTER THE CIVIL RIGHTS ACTS OF THE 1960’S, YOU MAY REALIZE OBAMA HAS A MULTITUDE OF PROBLEMS AND FENCE MENDING TO ATTEND TO IF HE EXPECTS TO WIN THE PRESIDENCY.

          LASTLY, YOU HAVE NOT HEARD THE END OF OBAMA’S PROBLEMS CAUSED BY HIS ASSOCIATION WITH THE REVEREND WRIGHT AND HIS BLACK CHURCH IN CHICAGO.  REVEREND WRIGHT’S ANTI-AMERICAN, ANTI-WHITE AND ANTI-JEWISH TIRADES, TIME AFTER TIME, OVER THE LAST TWENTY YEARS TO A CONGREGATION OF JUMPING FOR JOY BLACKS, INCLUDING A DEAF OR SLEEPING OBAMA, WHO UNABASHEDLY CLAIMS HE NEVER HEARD THESE REMARKS AND WHO COULD NO MORE DISOWN THE REVEREND ANY MORE THAN HIS WHITE GRANDMOTHER WHO RAISED HIM, WHILE ALL THE WHILE CALLING HIM HIS MENTOR IN THIS BOOK “THE AUDACITY OF HOPE” IN ADDITION, HIS ASSOCIATION WITH KNOWN TERRORISTS AND CONVICTED DISHONEST PEOPLE OVER THE YEARS MAY PLAY A PART IN THE REPUBLICAN PLANS TO EXPOSE HIM TO RIDICULE AND SHAME.  HIS FREE RIDE WITH THE AMERICAN MEDIA AT THE EXPENSE OF HILLARY MAY HAVE BEEN SUCCESSFUL, BUT NOW ALL HIS FAULTS WILL BE LAID OUT FOR ALL TO SEE AND CONSIDER.  FOR ALL THAT TALK OF HOPE AND CHANGE, OBAMA WILL FINALLY BE EXPOSED AS JUST ANOTHER GREEDY POLITICIAN LOOKING FOR THE POWER OF THE OFFICE FOR PERSONAL GAIN AND NOT IN THE BEST INTERESTS OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE, WHO REALLY NEED A SAVIOR AT THIS CRITICAL TIME, NOT AN AMBITIOUS NEOPHYTE.

          OBAMA MAY HAVE FOOLED ENOUGH GULLIBLE DEMOCRATS TO WIN THE NOMINATION FOR PRESIDENT BUT NOW HE IS FACED WITH FOOLING MOST OF THE VOTERS IN THE U.S.A. IN NOVEMBER 2008.  THIS IS A TASK EVEN HIS CHAMPION PRESIDENT LINCOLN, ACKNOWLEDGED CANNOT BE ACCOMPLISHED. 

SLOWLY BUT SURELY, OBAMA’S CAMPAIGN FOR THE PRESIDENCY IS BEING EXPOSED AS A RACIST RACE HE HOPED WE WOULD NOT NOTICE.

OBAMA’S STRATEGY TO WIN THE NOMINATION WAS SIMPLE, PUT TOGETHER THE BLACK POWER OF THE REVEREND WRIGHT AND LOUIS FARRAKHAN, A BLACK POWER MARXIST AND A FEW OTHER IMPORTANT BLACKS LIKE OPRAH WINFREY AS A BASE.    HE HAD DONE THIS SUCCESSFULLY TO WIN LOCAL AND STATE OFFICES AND THEN THE STATEWIDE WIN AS U.S. SENATOR, THANKS TO THE SOLID BLACK VOTE HE RECEIVED.

OF COURSE, OBAMA IS CHARISMATIC, GOOD-LOOKING AND A VERY GOOD SALESMAN TO MOST EVERYONE HE MEETS.      HE CAN EASILY WIN OVER VOTERS WHO ARE INCREASINGLY DISGUSTED WITH THE OLD WASHINGTON POLITICS.    HE IS THE CLOSEST OF ALL THE CANDIDATES TO A NEW YOUNG FACE, AN APPEALING FEATURE, MUCH LIKE JOHN KENNEDY AND JIMMY CARTER, AFTER THE GROWLING NIXON AND THE WATERGATE SCANDAL.    

OF COURSE, HE USES THE FACT THAT HIS MOTHER WAS A WHITE AND WHITE GRANDPARENTS AS A STRONG POINT AND EMPHASIS THAT HE IS PART WHITE RAISED HIM AND THEREFORE, ATTRACTIVE TO WHITES, TOO.

THIS MAN HAS BEEN CONTINUALLY RUNNING FOR ONE OFFICE, THEN ANOTHER FOR THE LAST TEN YEARS NON-STOP AND HAS LITTLE OR NO EXPERIENCE IN BREAD AND BUTTER ISSUES AND NATIONAL OR INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS.    

HIS CHARM HAS CARRIED HIM TO THIS POINT BECAUSE OF THESE ATTRIBUTES, WHILE LITTLE WAS KNOWN ABOUT HIS BACKGROUND AND POLITICAL CONNECTIONS, NOW, HE HAS BEEN REVEALED AS A MAN WHO USES HIS CHARM AND TONGUE TO WIN FOR THE BLACK POWER HE HAS EMBRACED, FROM HIS ASSOCIATES IN CHICAGO.      HIS WIFE MICHELLE, REVEALED HER POSITION QUITE CLEARLY WHEN SHE SAID, “FOR THE FIRST TIME IN MY LIFE, I AM PROUD OF AMERICA,”   

THE REVEREND WRIGHT’S HATEFUL TIRADES AGAINST AMERICA AND WHITES SURFACED AFTER THE FEBRUARY PRIMARIES WHEN AS THE POTENTIAL FRONT RUNNER; SOME THOUGHTFUL PEOPLE THOUGHT IT WAS TIME TO CHECK HIM OUT.    ONE INQUIRY AT HIS CHURCH REVEALED A BLACK HATE CAMPAIGN OF LONG STANDING, FOR AT LEAST THE TWENTY YEARS OBAMA WAS A PARISHIONER THERE.     WHEN HE RAN FOR ALL THE POLITICAL OFFICES HE WAS BACKED ALMOST 100 PERCENT BY THE BLACK COMMUNITY AND HIS CHURCH AND WELL CONNECTED BLACK FRIENDS.

THIS WAS PART OF THE PLAN BY OBAMA IN ORDER TO WIN, PULL ENOUGH BLACK VOTES AND CON ENOUGH WHITE FOLKS, TO WIN.     HE HAS PROVEN HIS DISINGENUOUSNESS BY HIS VARIED EXCUSES ABOUT REV. WRIGHT’S PRO BLACK POWER AND ANTI AMERICAN POSITION WHICH WAS CONFIRMED BY THE REVEREND HIMSELF, RECENTLY.    HOW THIS CHURCH MAINTAINS IT’S CHARITABLE, TAX FREE STATUS IS QUESTIONABLE WHEN IT IS SO POLITICAL.  

THE PLAN WORKED UNTIL THE OBAMA’S CONNECTION TO REVEREND WRIGHT AND HIS SUPPORTERS WAS REVEALED.    NOW, IT HAS BEEN A DOWNHILL SLIDE IN THE POLLS, EVER SINCE.  

WHEN YOU ADD HIS VERY INSENSITIVE REMARKS ABOUT PENNSYLVANIA VOTERS CLINGING TO THEIR GUNS AND RELIGION WHILE NOT LIKING PEOPLE DIFFERENT FROM THEM, HE EXPOSED HIS DARK SIDE THAT HE WAS BLACK FIRST AND FOREMOST AND NOT AMERICAN.

THIS CHURCH, IT’S PASTOR AND OBAMA AND IT’S PARISHIONERS STILL HATE AMERICA AND WHITE PEOPLE FOR THE YEARS OF SLAVERY, WHICH WAS OUTLAWED IN THE SOUTH 150 YEARS AGO.     THE JIM CROW LAWS OF THE SOUTH, SEPARATE BUT EQUAL WERE ERASED BY THE CIVIL RIGHTS ACT OF 1963, AND BLACKS HAVE BEEN GIVEN MORE RIGHTS THAN WHITES FOR THE LAST FIFTY YEARS.    THEY HAVE HAD NO RIGHT OR EXCUSE TO COMPLAIN ABOUT THEIR TREATMENT FOR FIFTY YEARS.    MR. AND MRS. OBAMA TOOK ADVANTAGE IN OUR AFFIRMATIVE ACTION LAWS TO RECEIVE SPECIAL CONSIDERATION IN THEIR EDUCATION.    THEY, AMONGST OTHERS, HAVE THE LEAST TO COMPLAIN ABOUT.  

THE LAST STRAW IS HIS REFUSAL TO WEAR AN AMERICAN FLAG AND SALUTE THE FLAG OR RESPECT THE NATIONAL ANTHEM.     THIS IS VERY STRANGE BUT INDICATIVE THAT HE IS ANTI-AMERICAN.

THE MOST CONVINCING ARGUMENT I HAVE HEARD, PUTS IT THIS WAY, IF 95 % OF WHITES VOTED AGAINST OBAMA, THEY WOULD CALL US RACISTS, BUT WHEN 95 % OF BLACKS VOTE FOR HIM, IT IS OK.     HE CANNOT HAVE IT BOTH WAYS.      EITHER AND BOTH SCENARIOS ARE RACIST, MAKE NO MISTAKE ABOUT IT, THE FACT THAT THE WHITE VOTE IS USUALLY EVENLY SPLIT BETWEEN HIM AND HILLARY, SHOWS CONCLUSIVELY THAT WHITE VOTE IS AMERICAN REGARDLESS OF SKIN COLOR WHILE BLACK VOTE IS FOR BLACKS EXCLUSIVELY AND ARE THEREFORE IDENTIFIED AS PURE RACISTS.     THAT IS NOT THE AMERICAN WAY.   THE REVEREND IS NOT AMERICAN, FARRAKHAN IS NOT AMERICAN AND MR. AND MRS. OBAMA, ARE NOT AMERICANS BECAUSE THEY AND ALL THE BLACKS ARE CONFIRMED RACISTS.

        AS AN EIGHTY-FOUR YEAR OLD AMERICAN, I HAVE WITNESSED AND PARTICIPATED IN MANY, MANY POLITICAL ELECTIONS, BOTH LOCAL AND NATIONAL, THE ONE THING I HAVE LEARNED, OVER THESE MANY YEARS IS THAT THE RESULTS OF AN ELECTION IS NOT CERTAIN, UNTIL ALL THE VOTES ARE CAST, COUNTED AND CERTIFIED.

        IN THE CASE OF THE NOMINATION FOR PRESIDENT THIS YEAR, BECAUSE OF THE PENALTIES IMPOSED ON THE DEMOCRATIC VOTERS OF MICHIGAN AND FLORIDA, BY THE DNC, RULES COMMITTEE, NEITHER CANDIDATE CAN HOPE TO OBTAIN THE NECESSARY DELEGATE VOTES TO REACH THAT NUMBER NECESSARY TO INSURE THEIR NOMINATION.

        THEREFORE, IT REMAINS IN THE HANDS OF THE SO CALLED “SUPER DELEGATES” MADE UP OF ABOUT 800 DEMOCRATIC OFFICE HOLDERS THIS YEAR TO DECIDE WHO SHALL RECEIVE THEIR INDVIDUAL VOTES.  IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE DNC RULES THESE SUPER DELEGATES MUST WAIT TO VOTE AT THE NATIONAL CONVENTION TO BE HELD THIS YEAR ON AUGUST 18, 2008 IN DENVER, COLORADO.  CASE IN POINT, NEW HAMPSHIRE GOVERNOR, JOHN LYNCH (D), HAS WISELY AND PUBLICALLY ANNOUNCED…HE WILL WAIT UNTIL AUGUST TO ANNOUNCE HIS VOTE. THE FACT IS THAT MANY OF THIS NUMBER OF SUPER DELEGATES HAVE INFORMALLY PLEDGED HIMSELF OR HERSELF TO VOTE FOR ONE CANDIDATE OR THE OTHER, BUT THESE VOTES ARE TENTATIVE AND SUBJECT TO CHANGE.  IN FACT, MANY OF THESE SAME SUPERDELEGATES HAVE SWITCHED THEIR INTENDED VOTES FROM ONE CANDIDATE TO ANOTHER, BOTH PUBLICLY AND PRIVATELY.  SINCE THEY ARE POLITITIONS, THE WORD AROUND TOWN AND COUNTRY, OBVIOUSLY IS THAT AT TIMES, THEIR VOTE CAN BE PURCHASED, SOMETIME WITH CASH AND OTHER TIMES WITH “FAVORS” KNOWN ONLY TO THE DEAL MAKERS THEMSELVES.  SINCE THESE SUPER DELEGATES ARE ALL ELECTED OFFICIALS AND NOTORIOUSLY PRONE TO MAKE SELFISH DEALS FOR THEIR PERSONAL ADVANTAGE THAN WHAT IS RIGHT FOR THE COUNTRY, OR WHO THE MOST QUALIFIED CANDIDATE MAY BE.

        A PERFECT EXAMPLE OF THIS SELF INTEREST OF SOME POLITICIANS IS THE RESULTS OF THE RECENT DNC RULES COMMITTEE MEETING WHERE 50 % OF HILLARY CLINTONS VOTES IN FLORIDA AND MICHIGAN WERE TAKEN AWAY FROM HER WHILE OBAMA WAS AWARDED ABOUT AT LEAST FOUR DELEGATE VOTES FROM VOTERS THAT DID NOT EVEN VOTE FOR HIM. REMEMBER, OBAMA WAS NOT EVEN ON THE BALLOTT! THIS IS WHY I CALL THEM, MANUFACTURED VOTES.  THE RULES COMMITTEE WHO THROUGHT THE MEETING INSISTED THAT THE RULES ARE THE RULES AND THE RULES MUST BE FOLLOWED BRAZENLY AWARDED THESE VOTES TO OBAMA.  THE NET

RESULT WAS THAT THE RULES WERE NOT FOLLOWED AND NOT EVEN TWISTED AROUND, BUT THE RULES COMMITTEE MADE UP THEIR OWN RULES TO SUIT THEIR INTENT TO PUT OBAMA OVER THE TOP IN DELEGATE VOTES HOPEFULLY BEFORE THE CONVENTION.  THIS IS A PRIME EXAMPLE OF HOW CROOKED AND DISHONEST SOME OF THESE POLITICAL PARTY PEOPLE CAN BE TO FALSELY CONTROL THE OUTCOME OF A NOMINATION, IN SPITE OF THE VOTERS PREFERENCE BY THEIR VOTE.   THIS WAS ALSO A PRIME EXAMPLE OF DISENFRANCHISEMENT OF THE VOTER’S WILL IN THE BALLOT BOX.

        IT CANNOT BE SAID THAT OBAMA WAS RESPONSIBLE FOR THIS FIASCO AT THE RULES COMMITTEE, BUT SINCE HE WAS THE SOLE BENEFICIARY OF THIS DISGRACFUL CONDUCT HE MUST ACCEPT RESPONSIBILITY FOR IT, OR REJECT IT, WHICH HE HAS, INSTEAD EMBRACED, WHOLE HEARTEDLY.  IS THIS HOW HE INTENDS TO “…UNITE THE PART…?”  INSTEAD, HE IS DESTROYING THE PARTY BY STEALING HILLARY’S VOTES, VOTES THAT WERE CAST FOR HER AND HER ALONE.  IT IS NOTHING NEW TO HEAR OF STOLEN VOTES OR ELECTIONS, AND CHICAGO; OBAMA’S HOME TOWN IS FAMOUS FOR THIS ACCUSATION, SO HE MUST BE WELL VERSED IN THIS TATIC.

        VOTERS BEWARE:  DON’T BE FOOLED WHEN OBAMA REPEATEDLY SAYS,  “…IT IS OUR TURN NOW.”  HE IS NOT TALKING ABOUT, US AMERICANS, US DEMOCTRATES.  HE IS TALKING ABOUT BLACKS!!!  WHERE WOULD HIS WINNING THE ELECTION IN NOVEMBER  LEAVE YOU?

        HILLARY CLINTON AND HER SUPPORTERS, AMOUNG WHICH I AM NUMBERED, DO NOT MIND LOSING THIS NOMINATION IF IT IS DONE IN AN HONEST DEMOCRATIC MANNER, BUT WHEN IT IS STOLEN FROM HER IN SUCH A SLEEZY AND DISHONEST MANNER, WE CANNOT BE EXPECTED TO TAKE IT AND ONLY WIMPER AND LICK OUR WOUNDS.  THERE ARE MANY WAYS FOR US DISENFRANCHISED VOTERS TO SEEK RETRIBUTION FOR THESE WRONGS, AND YOU CAN BE ASSURED WE SHALL SEEK RETRIBUTION IN ONE WAY OR ANOTHER TO PREVENT OBAMA FROM PROFITING FROM PARTAKING OF THIS SHAMEFUL ACTION.  THEN AGAIN, WHAT DO YOU EXPECT FROM A BLACK MAN THAT MADE CHICAGO HIS MENTOR AND HOME.  HE IS NOTHING BUT A DISHONEST, AMBITIOUS GREENHORN POLITICIAN WITH GENERAL BLACKMAN HABITS OF IRRESPONSIBILITY AND SELFISHNESS.

        THROUGHOUT THIS CAMPAIGN, HILLARY HAS STEADFASTLY STUCK TO HER PRINCIPALS AND HAS STEADILY GAINED IN REPUTATION AND POPULARITY, WHILE OBAMA IS SLIPPING AND BEING FOUND OUT FOR WHAT HE REALLY IS, A NEOPHITE, CHARASMATIC SPEAKER WHO HATES WHITE PEOPLE AND IS TRYING TO CON HIS WAY TO THE WHITE HOUSE, BUT WILL FAIL IN THE END, AT THE NOVEMBER ELECTION.

        THANK GOD FOR YOGI BERRA, HE SAID, “IT’S NOT OVER UNTIL IT’S OVER.”  AND NOW YOU KNOW WHY HILLARY HAS WISELY REFUSED TO CONCEED UNTIL THE CONVENTION VOTE IN AUGUST.

        SIGNED, ANDY LOONEY

                       THE PRICE OF OIL IS KILLING OUR ECONOMY 

NO ONE IS HAPPY ABOUT THE PRICE OF OIL EXCEPT THE OIL COMPANIES.     THEY ARE REAPING HUGE PROFITS WHILE THE COUNTRY IS SUFFERING.    CONGRESS IS SITTING IDLY BY, DOING NOTHING AS USUAL WHILE THE PRICE IS ABOUT TO REACH FOUR DOLLARS A GALLON, AND EVERYTHING WE USUALLY BUY WE CAN’T AFFORD NOW.    

SENATOR AND PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE McCAIN’S SOLUTION, IS TO SUSPEND THE TWELVE CENT FEDERAL TAX ON GAS FOR THE SUMMER WHILE THAT SAVED MONEY, IT WILL PUT DRIVERS AT DANGER ON OUR ROADS AND BRIDGES THAT ARE ABOUT TO COLLAPSE UNDER US.   THAT SOLUTION IS NO SOLUTION.

THE TWO DEMOCRATIC PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES, CLINTON AND OBAMA, CAN BE HEARD COMPLAINING ABOUT THE OIL PRICES BUT AS SENATORS ARE THEY PROPOSING A SOLUTION AND FILING LEGISLATION TO HELP THE CRIPPLING SITUATION?  OF COURSE NOT, THEY ARE TOO BUSY RUNNING FOR HIGHER OFFICE WHILE WE ARE FORCED TO PAY THEIR SALARIES, OFFICE AND OTHER EXPENSES.  

CONGRESS, WHO IS IN A POSITION TO DRAFT AND PASS SOME SOLUTION OR RELIEF IS CONTENT TO DO NOTHING AS THEY HAVE DONE SINCE THE OPEC COUNTRIES IN 1972 TOOK CONTROL OF THE PRICE OF OIL BY FORMING A CONSORTIUM OF OIL PRODUCERS IN THE MIDDLEAST, WHICH IS BETTER DESCRIBED AS A MONOPOLY.

THE OIL PRODUCERS IN THE UNITED STATES, ENGLAND MEXICO AND VENEZUALA JUMPED RIGHT IN WITH OPEC TO REAP THE EXCESSIVE PROFITS, FOR THE LAST THIRTY FIVE YEARS, CONGRESS WHO HAS BEEN IN A POSITION TO STOP THIS, SAT ON ITS HANDS AND DID PRACTICALLY NOTHING TO SEEK ALTERNATIVE SOURCES OF ENERGY, AS THEY SHOULD HAVE DONE YEAR AFTER YEAR FOR THIRTY FIVE YEARS.

HAVE YOU HEARD ONE PRESIDENT SINCE 1972 RECOMMEND OR DO ANYTHING TO SOLVE THIS PROBLEM AND REDUCE OUR DEPENDANCE ON OIL?    YES, A COUPLE OF YEARS AGO PRESIDENT BUSH DID SAY, AT ONE OF HIS EIGHT, STATE OF THE UNION MESSAGES TO CONGRESS, THAT “WE ARE ADDICTED TO OIL” AND SOMETHING MUST BE DONE, BUT HIS SUGGESTIONS WERE ATOMIC ENERGY AND PLANS THAT COULD NOT GIVE RELIEF FOR TEN YEARS OR MORE.    STILL, HE FAILED TO PROPOSE ANYTHING CLOSE TO LEGISLATION TO HELP SOLVE THE PROBLEM.

I HAVE BEEN SAYING ALL ALONG, THAT SOMETHING IS WRONG WITH THE RISE OF PRICES WHEN IT IS DEPENDENT ON THE FUTURE PRICE QUOTES OF OIL IN THE STOCK MARKET     ALL OTHER PRODUCT ARE DEPENDANT ON THE PRINCIPLE OF SUPPLY AND DEMAND AND ARE NOT QUOTED IN THE STOCK MARKET.    AT THE PRESENT TIME THERE ARE NO CONTROLS THAT THE SECURITY AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION CAN IMPOSE TO CONTROL THESE PRICES EXCEPT TO PULL OIL OFF THE FUTURES MARKET.    THIS WILL PREVENT OILCOMPANIES AND INVESTORS FROM BIDDING UP THE PRICE OF OIL, LIKE THEY CAN DO WITH STOCKS.    THIS IS A CRUEL WAY FOR INVESTORS TO MAKE MONEY AT THE COMSUMER’S EXPENSE, AND IT SHOULD BE STOPPED BY THE S.E.C. OR BY CONGRESS, IMMEDIATELY.

THEREFORE, IF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE EXPECT RELEIF FROM THESE HORRENDUSLY HIGH GAS PRICES THEY MUST PUSH FOR THE FOLLOWING SOLUTIONS THEMSELVES AND DEMAND ACTION FROM CONGRESS:

1.   TAKE OIL OFF THE STOCK MARKET LIST FOR BIDDING.

2.   BIDDERS ON THIS LIST MUST TAKE DELIVERY OF THE OIL THEY BID FOR.   THIS ELIMINATES THE CASUAL INVESTER WHO IS ONLY INTERESTED IN MAKING MONEY AT THE CONSUMER’S EXPENSE.

3.  CONGRESS SHOULD PUT A FREEZE ON OIL PRICES BACK TO JANUARY 1, 2008.   

4.  THE S.E.C. MUST CONTROL THE WAGES, BONUSES AND STOCK OPTIONS, OF THE MANAGEMENT OF PUBLICALLY TRADED STOCK TO INSURE THAT THE STOCKHOLDERS RECEIVE THEIR FAIR SHARE OF THE PROFITS.  

5.  PASS LEGISLATION TO INSTITUTE A WINDFALL PROFIT TAX ON ALL PROFITS ON THE SALE OF GASOLINE PRICED OVER  $2.50 A GALLON AT THE PUMP.    ONE HALF OF THE MONEY RECEIVED WILL BE REFUNDED TO THE CONSUMER AND THE OTHER HALF INTO THE QUICK DEVELOPMENT OF ALTERNATIVE FUELS.   PRIORITY SHOULD BE GIVEN TO THOSE PROJECTS THAT PRODUCE ALTERNATIVE FUELS THE QUICKEST.

6.   ELIMINATE THE FEDERAL TAX ON GASOLINE UNTIL THE ECONOMY RECOVERS OR UNTIL WE BECOME FREE OF DEPENDANCE ON FOREIGN OIL.

7.   SUE THE DOMESTIC OIL COMPANIES FOR PRICE FIXING.

8.   THE GOVERNMENT SHOULD SUSPEND THE PUSHASE OF OIL OR IS RESERVES UNTIL WE ARE FREE FROM FOREIGN OIL DEPENDENCE.

9.   HAVE CONGRESS NATIONALIZE ALL OIL, GAS, COAL AND NUCLEAR ENERGY SOURCES IN THE U.S. AS A NATIONAL EMERGENCY, UNTIL THIS OIL PRICE CRISIS IN OVER.  MOST OF AMERICA IS NOT AWARE THAT THE OIL IN THE GROUND BELONGS TO THE GOVERMENT AND THEY GRANT LEASES TO THE OIL COMPANIES TO DIG IT OUT.   THE OIL IS OURS.   

10.  CONGRESS SHOULD PASS PRICE CONTROLS ON GASOLINE AND FUEL OILS AND SET THE PRICE AT $2.50 A GALLON UNTIL WE ARE INDEPENDENT OF FOREIGN OIL USE.

THIS IS WHAT THE CONSUMERS CAN DO TO HELP THEMSELVES IN THE MEANTIME.

1.   USE PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION WHERE AVAILABLE.   ALL LOCAL PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION, INCLUDING SUBWAYS SHOULD BE FREE AND PAID BY THE TOWNS USING THE SYSTEM.

2.    PEOPLE SHOULD INSTITUTE A CARPOOL SYSTEM TO AND FROM WORK AND FOR ERRANDS AROUND THE HOME.

3.    PEOPLE SHOULD BE ENCOURAGED TO WORK AT HOME TO AVOID TRIPS TO THE OFFICE MOST EVERY DAY.   A HOME, WORK PROGRAM AT EACH PLACE OF BUSINESS SHOULD BE INSTITUTED, IMMEDIATELY.

4.    CONGRESS MUST GIVE INCENTIVE TAX CREDITS FOR THE PURCHASE AND USE OF ELECTRIC AND HYBRID VEHICLES.

5.    SHOPPING AND SCHOOL POOLS SHOULD BE INSTITUTED BETWEEN A FEW NEIGHBORS TO REDUCE VEHICLE USE AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE.

6.    ELIMINATE ALL TRAVEL VACATIONS FOR ONE YEAR AND SEE THE PRICE OF OIL DROP.

7.   ESTABLISH PLANS FOR THE PRODUCTION OF ELECTRICITY FROM SOLAR AND WIND POWER FOR EACH HOME AND BUSINESS, WITH BIG TAX CREDITS FOR THEIR INSTALLATION, IMMEDIATELY.  

8.   EACH STATE, CITY AND TOWN SHOULD HARNESS ITS WATER POWER BY PRODUCING ELECTRICITY FOR ITS SCHOOL AND PUBLIC BUILDINGS, TO USE AS LIGHT AND HEAT AND ELECTRIC NEEDS.   ANY SURPLUS CAN BE SOLD TO THE LOCAL UTILITY COMPANY.

9.  WE HAVE MORE COAL IN THE U.S. THAT CAN BE CONVERTED TO GASOLINE, WHICH WILL PROVIDE A RESERVE LARGER THAN THE OIL AVAILABLE IN THE MIDDLE EAST.    WE SHOULD DEVELOP THIS SOURCE OF ENERGY IN A SAFE AND ENVIRONMENTALLY CLEAN WAY IMMEDIATELY.