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Marvin Gaye Said It Best-What's Going On?

March 25, 2008
 
I remember the Motown iconic soul singer Marvin Gaye who started in the 1950's as a gospel performer and ended up as a prophetic political soul soothsayer replete wih wool beret. He sang the memorable anthem of American problems, What's Going On? I also remember my father-in law as he became old and sedentary watching Iran-Contra news on his Zenith and suddenly exclaiming "Is there an honest man left in politics"? I was very disappointed upon discovering that Hillary once again is spinning yarns and being deceptive with the public. Between what happened in back to back scandals in New York State and really sleazy stuff  being dragged from New Jersey I am almost becoming totally disillusioned with these characters. Why  can't the parties just interview all the university presidents across America and send two of them running for important positions. Admittedly, this particular stable, the educational arena, would produce although not political individuals, offer voters men and women of all races and backgrounds with much higher intellectual abilities, polish and probably honesty as well. Although I consider myself to be Republican-Conservative and would not be voting for either Democrat as I will assuredly vote for John McCain, I am nevertheless astounded that Hillary might try to con us as if we were back in time again. I really hope that this story about prior events in Bosnia was an inadvertent mistake versus some kind of deliberate and invented cartoonish attempt to deceive us. You have to think that "I made a mistake" sound bytes are happening far too often. Mistakes in high places are not as easily accepted by the voting public as they are easily excused among the hoy poloy.
 
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Election 2008 Is All About Race

March 19, 2008
 
I myself marched during the Civil Rights Movement in 1963 to voice my insistence on achieving racial equality. Those were the days of Selma and Montgomery, the slain civil rights workers, Bull Connor and the water hoses and police dogs, Faubus, Wallace and Thurmond. At that time I lived on the Upper Upper West Side of Manhattan and in 1964 race riots broke out 1 mile north of where my family lived in our apartment. But that was a long time ago and today Black people go to the finest universities instead of a Governor blocking their way. They are professionals in law, medicine, professorship and become astronauts.
Race relations will never be perfect for anyone in America in our lifetime but before the emergence of Barack Obama in this Election 2008 we all, black and white were doing pretty good and getting along better than we have for many years. Suddenly I am looking at a 1964 election with racial divides popping up everywhere from all sides and the media bogged down with Obama's personal problems instead of concentrating on the issues that if not addressed in lieu of racial considerations and events in Obama's complicated lifestyle will only begin to ruin black and white families together. Of course race relations is an issue to contend with and attempt to improve at all times. The economic meltdown consisting of the spiraling stock market, the housing crisis, the sub-crime mortgage situation, universal health care, the war, rogue enemy nations, oil prices and education are all far more important at this time to deal with. Obama has maneuvered this country into an unnecessary and damaging discussion of race relations that while important were essentially launched by his personal involvements and may end up causing the media and voters to be mired in a quixotic and meandering trip down memory lane hurling this secondary discussion around and around possibly into the General Election which will be devastating, causing us to be enjoined from attacking the big problems at hand. Just remember, Obama's relationships (2) in Chicago, his lack of experience mostly walking out of the room on meetings and discussions, his slick and non-specific speeches, his unclear and super repetitive "change" word which deluded young and inexperienced voters, his wife's disrespectful remarks about our country and much more, originally caused justifiable criticism of him by voters and the media. That vetting of a Presidential Candidate angered his community who in their frenzy to win the Presidency even if it meant electing an ersatz  Black President initiated a feud that was unknown in 2007. The preacher screamed out an allegation that the US had created HIV in the Black community and supplied Black people with illegal material and then jailed them. He also simulated sexual events from the pulpit referring to President Clinton. In that old New York neighborhood I spoke about if this preacher screamed like that on 79th Street and Broadway it is very likely that a passerby would dial 911 and the preacher may have been taken by police to a famous hospital on second avenue called Bellevue. There are many  commentators on news programs who are legitamizing Obama's ties as a listener to what are actually truly psychotic statements and behavior. His preacher clearly said that America created the infusion of HIV Aids in Black people, meaning that in his estimation this country committed attempted murder against it's citizens. Bizarre statements from the preacher surrounded our greatest tradgedy as a nation in 2001. Obama denies that he knew any of these revelations during an intimate 20 year relationship with the preacher. The other 15 year relationship in Chicago is still under investigation by the press and media. I don't know what else is going to surface but perhaps the preacher should ask Obama to set him up with a good doctor who may possibly suggest an Abilify or Seoquel perscription.
 
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Obama Was Supposed to Offer His Explanantions

March 18, 2008
 
When I heard Barack Obama give his speech this morning I did not see too much of a difference between his usual stump speech and what he offered to the American people this morning. I was under the impression that we the American voters were  entitled to some explanations surrounding the recent events concerning his questionable associations with apparent heretics and individualsin serious legal trouble. Mainly, his attendance at specified events and his knowledge of the material espoused at these specific times were supposed to be addressed. My conclusion is that he was given free air time to go on a political bender with specificity in the back seat as usual. This entire Democratic campaign has evolved into a 1960's Bull Connor and Malcolm X free for all. We are now as the voting public more ensconced with race relations than the war or the economy or health care, items that effect all of us black and white much more than Obama's problems. I have said before, he should have written this speech in a less trivial and Aesop Fable laden manner today. Obama should tell stories about his grandma at Thanksgiving dinners instead of at speeches that are of world wide importance. I do not think that any voter of any backgtound really wanted race to be the central issue of the election, whilethis issue will never be perfect I believe we were all getting along pretty well and can afford to focus on more troubling problems such as the economy.
 
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American Voters Need Political Science Seminars

March 11, 2008
 
All across this nation American Drivers voluntarily attend defensive driving courses and as in the case of New York State receive various incentives to stimulate their attendance which happens to be impressive in numbers. I think Congress should legislate a similar deal for those willing to partake in political science seminars which also would address the inner workings of our government. Again, incentives such as tax credits, gift certificates or insurance points could be offered that would cause maybe a large number of American voters to learn how to decipher the implausable rhetoric we are hearing in this campaign. Candidates offering nebulous and unsupportable promises would be stopped in their tracks by the one thing that I am noticing in today's voting public that is now lacking-political knowledge and education. I firmly believe that our voters erroneously believe that everybody working in Washington can be cleaned out in the name of change. Did anybody listen to Rudy Guiliani (this is like reviving a dead body) when he said at one of the debates "what change". And that is exactly what I am referring to, an ignorance of the facts that is actually attracting voters to a "rock star" who even has his own Internet and media groupie (she is really stunning, I saw her on a late night program). So every time I see a 19 year old on a newsreel coming home feet first or people losing their jobs and their homes and children with no health care, I must remind everyone that a 2 hour seminar would transform these lemmings into informed voters who never in the future will fall for evasive Jim Morrisons (he also had groupies but he had no chance of being President). My belief, in summation is that all of us need to take more responsibility in how we vote because a wishy washy candidate, if elected on the backs of voters who are easily led by catch phrases that cannot be translated into reality can turn into a leopard with very different spots once securely in the Oval office.
 
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SOMETHING IS ROTTEN IN THE STATE OF DENMARK

March 5, 2008
 
I am just going to say that the chain of events surrounding Barack Obama's Chicago unpleasantness in the home buying and political fundraising arenas cannot be probatively explained by anyone other than Mr.Obama himself. The news media has indicated Obama's plan to answer whatever is "pertinent" in the questioning. To me that does not mean an all inclusive rendering of the facts because by Obama signalling that he will only address what is ordinarily central to what is inquired from him, he is clearly saying that he intends to omit items that he does not consider to be necessary for him to reveal. Barack Obama is running for Leader of the Free World so I think the media and the voters get to hear the whole truth and nothing but the truth. Although Hillary has had her own problems as we all know. "Guilt by association" when applied or questioned of presidential hopefuls as opposed to some plumber or a crossing guard somewhere in my view is not only valid but a necessary appraisal of an individual who must be held to a higher order and sometimes commonlaw must be amended for the purposes of protecting our nation. I think that because of this matter and the Canada mishap and Mrs. Obama's troubling remarks, the tide is turning big time for Hillary Clinton.
 
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Obama'a Real Estate Purchase

 

March 2, 2008
 
This morning on ABC's Roundtable discussion on Election 2008, the subject came up concerning Obama's long term relationship with a Chicago developer who presently is experiencing what may be serious legal difficulties. Hillary brought this up in a 10 second sound bite at one of the debates awhile ago and most abruptly and certainly way out of the context of the debate. But on ABC this morning not one individual could reveal any details concerning what has been described as a real estate purchase jointly made by the two in Chicago. Hillary, incidentally at that prior debate and to my knowledge not since then, referred to Obama's friend as a slumlord. I do not know why everybody is so mum on the entire matter of the friendship or the property in question. Maybe there is nothing here other than two guys buying a lot with one in politics and one involved in real estate development. Obama, however, is running to be the Leader of the Free World and therefore it is not on the table that the public and the media simply brush anything under the table. I suggest two things as a freelance writer who has only been to Chicago once in1977 and has no specific knowledge about this issue and that is to explore whether at any time Obama failed to practice due diligence principles applied to politicians only if required and secondly, appropriate and experienced professionals in real estate or the legal field should simply appear on an unofficial investigatory basis only (real estate documents are considered to be constructive evidence and some are public records where anyone can view them free of any implication) at the appropriate County Clerk to at least locate the real property in question. If years ago the two men purchased a vacant lot, by now it may be developed and we can all see the nature of the property and it's character and whether these two individuals still own it or whether they have sold it and to whom. Remember this, the American people have an absolute right to vet and investigate the backgrounds of Presidential candidates especially where some concerns were brought up by Hillary, a United States Senator as opposed to a doubting thomas somewhere mired in a far less aura of credibility.
 
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