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What Does It Take in 2008?

April 18, 2008
 
Just a quick observation-Do you recall the decisive termination of Gary Hart's Presidential bid many years ago all because a coltish and exceedingly comely Donna Rice sat on his lap with a lasivious smile fused on her pretty face and someone snapped it on a Polaroid Land Camera? That is all it took to ruin the candidacy of Mr. Hart, a bright and effective politician who since then has contributed to our country in a noble way as he has furthered many causes and agendas of great value and importance. A girl sat in his lap-he's yesterday's news. Please fast forward to 2008 and see if you can compare the many miscues, misstatements, allegations, deceptions, questionable events and buddies and on and on. Just think, Gary Hart was thrown out for doing nothing different at that particular moment in a very different era than any man worth his salt would have done and what he did was not improper. Did we the American voters over -scrutinize back then or are we too lax now in our insistence that Presidential hopefuls act legitimately and honestly in the course of their campaigns.
 
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Should We Be Bowling At The Possible Eve Of Destruction?

April 2, 2008
 
Obama went bowling yesterday and couldn't stay out of the gutter. Then, in an absurd and comedic premeditated proffer, Hillary
through the media invited Obama to participate in a bowling match. 4,000 son's and daughters have died in Iraq. Millions of Americans have lost their homes and jobs or both. Corporate customer service banks rail on consumers asking for returns and credit card companies charge $35 over the limit fees and 18% interest at the same time. Miss a payment and its worse than the juice charged by the loan sharks in my old neighborhood. Retirement is becoming unreachable as famlies are working 24/7 to pay impossible energy and rent charges. The stock market is like the Cyclone at Coney Island, a roller coater of mammoth proportions. Wall Street tanks and the newspaper stand on Broad Street goes under along with the tie shop on William Street. We hear the word Recession dozens of times a day. Kids get  into more trouble than ever before. Election 2008 is Election 1968 with John Carlos raising his defiant arm in the face of the equally troubling hatred against him.
 
The two candidates, are going on a bowling date, that is what's most important. You lose no weight and burn no calories when bowling, a do-nothing activity that does not require a lot of brain power or specificity. It's a great idea for these two and will end up accomplishing about as much for the American people as they together have achieved to date. May I suggest a blue fish trip for their next outing?
 
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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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Obama wants to bring them home and maybe send them back?

February 28, 2008

I distinctly remember I would say when I was 5 years old that I had a bag of various and sundry rubber soldiers  about 2 inches in height and poised in different stances with equipment in hand. Whenever I took a bath I would line the toy soldiers around the rim of the bathtub and in a crouch as I went down to my neck in the bathwater, I systematically played war with a squirt gun with my lilliputian pals, knocking them over the rim and unto the bathmat.

Mr. Obama, your military strategy as you expressed today reminded me of myself as a little boy squirting those soldiers with my water gun. This is serious business in 2008, not child's play. With a troubled economy and all the risks we face of a mistaken maneuver in the war zone, who would ever think of bringing our troops home into the arms of their loved ones and then for any conceivable reason boomeranging them back? Is this Obama's idea of war reruns? How much would all of this cost the American taxpayer, why would we even think of such an impractical move, and why not just get it over with per John McCain, win it and then come home as America has for the most part always done in these conflagrations. Our troops and our citizens at home are not made of rubber, all of us are flesh and blood.

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I Have Never Seen An Election Like This

February 27, 2008
 
I attended the 1956 Republican Party Convention with my Dad, an itinerant and small time politician. Since then, and having been employed in my teens by a major national pollster and then proceeding to put in many years suceeding  as a campaign worker throughout my life, I have never seen anything like this Election 2008. It not only seems to me to be surreal and unrealistic but actually although momentarily, completely absurd. I firmly believe that Obama's apparently frenetic and idolizing support comes from voters who are not necessarily considering him for his persona as a politician or leader but more for what they are sure will occur should he be elected-a big house cleaning in Washington D.C. Obama has made so many blunders and irrational , unsupportable statements and proposed strategies such as pulling out of the war and then maybe going back in addition to his wife's outrageous and polarizing behavior would have derailed any other candidate of any party a long time ago. I have never seen a First Lady with such an angered and contentious facial expression as Mrs. Obama.when she stands at the mike and this has no effect on the voters at all, Today I read about official investigators looking into a matter connected with a past Obama speech although I have seen no media coverage of it. All of this does not vex me one bit as a life long Republican because as I have already mentioned, voters may not be voting for the man as opposed to the result. Young people voting possibly for the first or second time are reacting to Obama as if he were the Myly Sirius of politics. They are certainly not quantifying his ability to accomplish the gargantuan promises he has made and also might be endorsing a Washington rotation. I will vote for John McCain and not solely because I always vote Republican. Mr. McCain is Presidential in his aspect, a military man and war hero and is a straight talker and that is why he has my vote and more importantly, my trust.
 
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Who' Saying What About John McCain?

February 21, 2008
 
If you can't stand the guy next door, you turn him in to the City Hall for not putting out his recycle bin.You have to be a little wary about the liberal slanted New York Times for drumming up this rather droll and common feature about John McCain making love to some blonde lobbyist just as the 21st century began a long time ago. Bill Clinton, Gary Hart and even Eisenhower went through this same, boring gossip unscathed because the voters do not judge our politicians by whether they step out or not. We all know that men are men and when we stop looking we are dead. Having an affair does in no way inhibit a man's ability to run the country and may actually cause him to be a little bit more relaxed and content. The influence peddling allegation as a story component and described as an issue where the paper alledges that McCain was a proponent for his supposed lobbyist girlfriend is rather glum but so far unproven and certainly not serious enough to derail him any further. Obama himself has yet to settle his possibly misunderstood 15 year relationship with the gentleman Hillary referred to as a slumlord in Chicago. The Democrates should be nice to the people they meet on the way up..............................
 
Anyway, my personal take on this matter is that everybody keeps saying how John is too old-well maybe he as a tango in him left and at my age as well I admire him for the apparent abilities that have remained with him.
 
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Another Speech To Nowhere

 

 February 20, 2008

I remember going on a Singles Cruise To Nowhere 30 years ago on the Staten Island Ferry which took its passengers around Manhattan Island in a circle and never actually went anywhere. Last night when Barack Obama verified the old Jimmy Durante adage "Everybody wants to get into the act" by giving Hillary the hook and taking us on a 45 minute cruise to nowhere with a slew of promises that will be years in the making and just as complex and unworkable as any of our bureaucratic dreams, that was his admitted attempt at specificity. The issue that struck me as most incredible was the Obama promise to give college bound kids a $6,000 tax credit and then make the kids work it off by serving food at inner city soup kitchens or even shipping out to the peace corps. There was no mention of our blossoming deficit  and the most evident creation of a Federal office with unimaginable responsibilities to oversee this program, track student activities, maintain computerization and file systems, paperwork, mailings and the induction of perhaps hundreds of Federal employees to make this unusual dream come true. As per usual, when Obama does his 45 minutes, the question invariably comes up "who is going to pay for all this".

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Solutions That Are Unrealizable

February 20, 2008
 
Barack Obama has already admitted to beating out tween aged girls for concert tickets and restaurant patrons for reserved tables. Last night Mr. Obama continued his line jumping ways by breaking in on Mrs. Clinton's speech  and proceeding to present the viewers with a rambling 45 minute tirade which Mr. Obama and his handlers characterized as specifics. I heard no specifics but more unrealizable and liberal concepts which were time honored and repetitive from a historical standpoint. One of his major theories that has always disturbed me is the one in which he gives each kid entering college a $6,000 tax relief but then they have to pay this back by going to the peace corps or an inner city soup kitchen to work off their gift. Isn't our multi billion dollar deficit big enough to create some objection to this?. Would we not need another Federal Department or Administrative office to oversee this monumental conception? That would mean hundreds of Federal workers hired to manage hardship cases where students could not fulfill their duties, tracking college students, correspondence, administration, litigious issues and much more. Obama did not address these how-to problems last night. he just made his broad brush statement and that was it. Another thing, you realize that Obama has in a subtle way changed his position on bringing home the troops. Lately he is qualifying his initial remarks by saying that he will  first consult the military before making his decision. I call for 30 minute mandatory seminars conducted across America where the unknowing voters who are going over the lemmings cliff, oblivious to any understanding of checks and balances, Congressional committees. vetoes and lobbying in Washington, and taxes and the omnipresent deficit could then vote in November in a knowledgeable and informed way. Most voters are supporting this Svengali candidate without any ability to decipher his propensity to accomplish his very lofty goals. Voter education, in my opinion is necessary in order to prevent the implosion that will be created if Barack Obama is elected on a spit and a prayer.
 
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Obama May Be Fading

February 19, 2008
 
Let's just use a little logic or specifically syllogism to parse the outrageous statement made by Mrs. Obama . Barack's wife said that she clearly was not proud of her country until today.  Logically Mrs. Obama, a Princeton educated attorney must be fully aware of the existence of John F. Kennedy, one of our most cherished Presidents. Although she may not have been on this earth to witness the bigger than life JFK, I was and although Barack Obama has ben touted as a comparable candidate to a young JFK, forget about it. I hope that she is not 50, because then she would be declaring that she is not proud of being an American around her toddler years either when JFK inspired us as a nation.AdditionallyI hope that we do not have to figuratively ressurect Senator Benson to look Obama in the eyes and repeat what he said to Dan Qualye because lately Obama and now his wife are fading. Look for a Hillary win tonight.
 
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Obama May Be Fading

  February 18, 2008

I am going to go on the record as expressing a belief that Hillary will sweep the next set of primaries which include college laden Wisconsin, blue collar Ohio and and good ol' boys Texas. I first began to contemplate this eventuality when Fox News, a few days ago interviewed an audience of young people and for the first time I heard college kids doubting Mr. Obama. One after one they captioned his evasiveness, his nebulous and non-specific speeches and his general avoidance of actually telling the voters the how tos of universal health care and the war. Just remember what they used to say "It is a shame that youth is wasted on the young". While Obama and his campaign staff sit back and assume 100% of the youth vote, just remember that a good portion of these kids are college students and very bright. They are beginning to see things in Obama that all of us are noticing and as a voting block might not be the lead pipe synch that he thinks they will be. Surprisingly, considering his political strategy, I think Obama has positioned himself correctly by being hazy in his presentation, Firstly, he is an attorney so that answers the question of why he is cloudy on his ultimate tactics. Meet lawyers anywhere you go and they will exhibit a natural tendency to evade liability and the repercussions of their statements to especially non-paying clients. What I mean is that clearly, Obama is winning and if it ain't broke don't fix it. More importantly, although I have this feeling that most candidates for any higher office cannot completely address unilaterally the complex issues we face as Americans, if together with his many advisers, Obama begins to give dates, numbers, statistics, policy structure and format he knows as an attorney that the media and the voters will pulverize him now, precluding any chances he may have should he be the one in November. While I agree that no Presidential candidate should necessarily lay down all of his cards for the voters at this early stage, Obama should at least say a few words about technical details even if it is just to calm the rising storm that almost is starting to compare him to Ed McMahon selling widgets on the Atlantic City Boardwalk (Bud Abbott used to do that job as well). Although I am a life long Republican and of course support the candidacy of John McCain, to me a legitimate Presidential timber candidate while just the idea of  either of the two Democrats acting as Commander in Chief is patently absurd and self-defeating to our country, I still must give credit to Hillary who I would vote for unquestionably over Obama if I were a voter of their party.  Hilliary to me has become much more likeable and pleasant in this Election 2008. She even seems a little bit euphoric and blase when interviewed by the press. I warn you not to be swayed concerning her capabilities. I believe that Hillary as an attorney as is Obama, or a politician, as is Obama to be much sharper, her perspicaciousness always there and she does have the guts of a lion, she will not quit and although I do disagree with her politics, I admire her pluck and spirit. Finally, Obama is starting to trip over his own two feet. Witness the statements he made a few days ago exhibiting his ability to accomplish cherished concert tickets without waiting in line and his ability to secure elegant restaurant outings without required reservations and today there apeared all over the media rather serious allegations against Obama for text copying in his speech. If Obama cannot come up with original speech material, how is he going to end the war?


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