OBAMA HAS "CHANGE" OF MIND

From the moment Barack Obama was dubbed a political rock- star by the entertainment kingmaking lobbyists , I became suspicious of his credibility as a true representative of the middle and working classes.

As the campaign to find a Democratic candidate became the main news, his opponent Hillary Clinton was constantly abused and disrespected for every act , word or deed that Obama's mouth piece, MSNBC, could find.

If you are an American candidate for the Presidency and could afford a network corporation to openly support your campaign then you cannot claim to be an agent of change and a true representative of the middle and working classes. The reason being, the interest of these classes and American corporations and their class interests have drifted miles apart in the last eight years.

Then you add Barack's attempt at undermining the status of the one politician and senator that has stood as a positive and progressive representative of the bullied by the Bush administration over the last eight years. Hillary Clinton was the hope of a possible better candidate for president than has been served up before with such lame ducks as John Kerry and Howard Dean. As a Mr Johnny -come -lately, Barack Obama claimed he was the agent for change in American politics . This claim was followed by a train of 'foot-draggers' as his endorsers, men and women who had shown no previous interest in any major change of the American political culture and outlook.

So right there you knew that Barack is a "fooler", a street term for a sweet talking conman politician. But African Americans were feeling that, this time, white America may judge a black man fairly and give a genuine shot at being President of the United States. As long as this black man was not sounding as a classic "Uncle Tom" and the normally racists political choices were not seem to be happening, they thought they felt the "earth move", like a seismic change was taking place in American voting principles.

But no principled and scientific analysis was made as to the reasons for this new attitude by white voters. Were they, the voters, influenced by the arrogance and anti american people positions of the Bush Administration.Or did they make a conscious decision to transfer their support to the Democratic Party this time around, come what may ?

Did that mean they going to tolerate and support a new face with a cultural difference? Maybe, they are thinking , he is a Mohammed Ali, with a fresh and enjoyable style, or maybe he can perform like some of the black entertainers that thrill their audiences?

For sometime, the favorable reporters were telling us about his message, a fresh analysis they said. So I and the rest of the world awaited the opportunity to hear Obama mesmerise and enthrall us during the debates, as Mohammed Ali would have, if he was a conventional politican.


But all the masses heard was the word "change". We waited months with anticipated breathe for what he was going to change. He said I am going to change the way Washington does business. Was he going to change the direction of their policies, towards hard working Americans NO..NO ..he said he was going to change the way the lobbyists lobbied. That was it ???

Then one night we heard at a debate that he was going to change the way American foreign affairs philosophy was directed. He said that he would immediately have Head to Head diplomatic talks with Governments America normally treat as rogues and cause international tensions. At first glance that sounded revolutionary and talented but after it was digested , it was really a nonsensical and infantile approach to developing a progressive process of building international relations with trust and respect. Hillary, I remembered schooled him on that subject right there in front of the world.

As the primaries and caususes continued we heard more support growing for Obama but we remained unclear what was his program and plans . But we knew that whatever it was he was talking about "change" was the overriding word. Last week we heard that Obama went to Florida and changed his commitment to change American foreign affairs policy towards Cuba.

He refused to commit to change the economic embargo the American right wing has enforced on the hard working Cuban people. His policy remained unchanged to that of George Bush and all the former Presidents. If he cannot commit to that kind of international change of foreign affairs, then he ain't doing nothing.

If he cannot convince Cuban Americans that America does not have an economic stranglehold on the Chinese or Vietnamese people for their choice of economic systems. Then why should America continue to impose an economic stranglehold on a people that are practically our family and neighbors.
If he can't convince Cubans Americans that "change" for Cuba begins with us and the removal of the embargo. Then he is not good enough to be marketed by his favorite media darlings as a charming and convincing speaker. So in the final analysis he does not present any new stuff that should convince the middle and working classes America that he should be the nominee ahead of Hillary Clinton.

I maintain that Barack Obama is a fraud. He does not truly represent the middle and working classes with any true position , "or change we can believe in"; that is why the working class in most states voted against him. The black votes he has received so enthuiastically, are really a sentimental vote and not a vote for any policy African Americans can remember Obama stands for at the time of their voting for him.

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WILL AMERICA UNITE?

I am back after a long sabattical. I have been blogging on those political blog sites, such as HUFFINGTONPOST, and ABCNEWS .COM, expressing my views on the DNC contest to choose a nominee for President of the USA.

I have been even doing phone calls for the Hillary Campaign, in the states where she has won impressively. Although Hillary is NO revolutionary nor did she promise any deep or cosmetic change , I sensed that she was in a mindset that allowed her to enarmour herself against the misinformation and undermining that characterizes the McCain/ Republican Presidential campaign. In fact she was arming herself for future battles with Karl , George, Dick and the Republican party when she voted to give the President the option. The leading executives of MoveOn.Org were not wise enough to understand Hillary's calculated move. A decision I applauded.

The campaign of the messiah Barack Obama was orchestrated by MoveOn .Org with enormous talent and scientific strategy aimed mainly at undermining Hillary Clinton. As a member of MoveOn .Org, I disagreed with that approach because it has the potential to create many negatives things.

With such an enormous organisation, Moveon .Org while attracting hundreds of thousands of new politicos to the DNC , they basically came as an army of anti hillarists without being introduced to the principles of the democratic party. This in fact means that moveon.org rather than create bridges for unity, they have inserted an antagonistic thread in the Party, that hopes to guide this country from the pershed positions of the White House and the Congress.

If the party and the leadership encourages its members to hate a leading member of the party for arbitary reasons to justify support for another DNC candidate, that is tragic and can only lead to disaster. Although Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton has vowed to UNITE the party against the Republicans for the general election , this is going to be easier said than done.

The new cadres of DNC members brought in as a result of the contest, or as a result of young America wanting to re-create a new America that's united, but were ignited by hatred for a member , Hillary, who they were indoctrinated and told is an enemy.

Who is going to re-indoctrinate these youths and inform them that the internal DNC "hate party" is over, the anti Hillary hatemongering was just for show and to get Obama the nomination, and the real enemy is now John McCain and the Republican Party ?

The Chinese ruling party tried that same trick and it had disastrous consequences, with the over energized new youth cadres, turning their new found hatefulness into the Chinese" Cultural Revolution". Where in their blindness they used violence to resolve internal ideological and issues differnces.

CHILDREN OF KARL ROVE

The question will arise soon after the DNC nominee is decided , what kind of ruling party will the DNC be and how are they going to utilise the political energy of the new recruits?

Sometimes I get the distinct impression that the best lesson we have learnt over the last 8 years of George Bush presidency, is how to hate and find glowing and embllished words to justify the hatred.
The methods of KARL ROVE to undermine and discredit a person has formed a pattern by which to assess a person. Karl Rove first used this method on Bill Clinton while preparing the American voter to elect a Republican. It was Hillary Clinton that brought this evil system of hate to our attention. It was system of character assasinations that was used in the Party and in the media to discredit a wonderful woman called Hillary Clinton. How are we going to tame it ??

The best and only way to tame and re-direct that energy, is popularise the ideals, aspirations and principles of the DNC, let it be the guiding light that builds a strong organisation and ignites a dream for a new united America.

BARACK OBAMA'S SPEECH WAS LAME

HE DID NOT ATTACK...LOUDLY.. OLD RACISM ...AND THE OLD REACTIONS

Everyone is proclaiming Barack Obama's speech was great, I agree. But that was all it was.It was not a working speech. It provided not prospect for solutions, as it HAD to DO in
order for it to be Presidential.

Obama wasNOT making the speech as a community leader, he NOT making speech as a civil
rights leader, he was making the speech, a few steps in the process from being President of
the USA. In that respect he failed and consequently lost his opportunity to get the
superdelegates to give him the nod over Hillary Clinton.

The main problem with his analysis, was he showed he did not have answers or a projection of
ideas as a progressive blackman wanting to be President. It was the same weak analysis he
keeps making throughtout his campaign thus far. The 'yes we can"..mantra could not work here
and therefore he was at a lost to project solutions, ...as he could get away with on the
campaign trail.

THE SAD TRUTH IS THE DEMOCRATIC NOMINEE CANNOT NOW BE A CANDIDATE( THAT IS BLACK) WHO DOES NOT OR CANNOT, PROJECT ..A VISION FOR AMERICA THAT DOES NOT, AT LEAST, INCLUDE A METHOD TO BRING THIS COUNTRY TOGETHER AT THE RACIAL...LEVEL..... Barack has failed to understand that his main attraction as a leader, was the potential, he displayed that he can break the old mold of anger of our black community, and layout the whole situation in a unique analysis that provided the steps to the NEW
RECONCILIATION. ..

We cannot believe he has the tools to do so in such company as his pastor
and Church. He will have to be a social scientist..armed with great powers of analysis,
together with his oratory skills to convince oppressed America; white , black and hispanic
that he is of a new world view, bringing a new approach .

Hillary has informed him many times ,' you can't go around speecifiying thousands of
people with out outlining steps and methods for a solution'. He SIMPLY answered that he was a good
speech maker....Bro. that ain't it ..that means you did not get it. That means you were posturing and is not good enough to be President over Hillary Clinton.

Someone has to make a proper class analysis of our country..correctly identify who are the
true enemies within America against the UNITY OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE. Then we will have to reconcile who benefits from the injection and practice of racism and sexism. To which class do they belong?

We have to deal with both 'isms' as hindrances to the progress of the USA.
Someone has to be brave and tell black , and other minority Americans that racism is the
by-products of an economic system that prevails on discrimination and disqualifications. Our
system has always being built on individualism. Meaning...... I am for me and will hurt
..you.. to get as much of the American pie as possible. The 'for' family was eventuallyadded
as an excuse to justify the haste for greed.

It is in this context , it is in this house of actions and reactions that racism lives. It is
this house that has to be destroyed in order for the NEW WIND OF RECONCILIATION TO BLOW..
Barack was not willing to be honest..with the American people..and our black community. He kept pointing a finger at the "special interests"...and..lobbyists.. but these were employees of who??? Obama never told us about them. In fact he was misleading America as they are NOT the real culprits ..IN MYSTERY OF ..WHO IS KILLING AMERICA

Barack Obama's speech had to have said that, and most importantly,.. he would have had to
destroy his relationship , contacts, and belief in the old racism..and its old reactions. and
those of his Pastor ans mentor...... He HAD TO VEHEMENTLY SHOUT IT DOWN... in order to show
those,.... that want to destroy the old racism and subsequently the old reactions... that he was serious, in order to win the nomination...AND HE DID NOT......maybe the next four years........So he better get
next to Hillary...and sweet to talk her to be her Vice President .

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The audience for bloggers' creative thoughts have segmented themselves into as many levels of people that go into a library seeking various outlooks. As a consequence the business world has taken notice, and advertisers are directing budgets, so that bloggers can get paid to blog. Which means fellow bloggers, you can join the world of blog advertising , promoting a product or service, using your developed talent to communicate thru the wide world.

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JOHN MCCAIN.. DON QUIXOTE... REBIRTH ....

I just sat thru an embarrassing, display of verbal and ideological incompetence, called the GOP debate ,on MSNBC. My first impression of the debate was that John McCain is the Don Quixote of American politics. His politics and policies sound very much like Bob Dole on steroids. Mr Mitt Romney is royalty in American politics, his head appears swooning in cloud nine, far away from from the real life of the American middle and lower income population.

The militarist upper class view that America , has to win friends and isolate the enemy slapping and threatening all peoples of the world. Has proven to be extremely wrong for America, while at the sametime very rarely confronting the Islamic militants in their lair.

The militarist outlook reflects a weakness in the confidence in the America people. This method of ruling is evident in the way the old monarchy regimes of old Europe saw themselves in relation to their people. They saw them as fire wood useful only to stoke their fire, of expansionism and warfare.

John Mc Cain is an old soldier, forever delusionarily chasing victory in vietnam.

What we are facing in America , after eight years of the best Upper Class (republican)mismanagement of our affairs, in politics, education, social development, financial ,economic and foreign relations, that has brought us to our knees, just as Reagonomics did all the way thru George Bush snr.

If you had the unfortunate distinction to listen to this group of eloquent incompetents promising what George Bush jnr. said he could deliver, if given a chance. Everything George Bush Jnr talked about in his run for the white house. We wanted a Corporate bigshot, to manage the success of the 1990's and we did, blindly.

Mitt Romney is another version of George Bush Jnr. coming from the Corporate world and a successful governship. Romney, Huckabee and Guiliani recklessly promise to take down the same path of bad decisions, we experienced for eight years.

I hope my fellow Americans could understand the difference, between people who will lie to justify their desire to serve exclusively the interest of the Upper Class and leave the rest of the society to fend for its self. Not one of the bunch of incompetents at the GOP debate, accepted responsibility for the imposition of Ruling class economics, that has brought this proud economy to its knees, by the collective called the Republican Party. Not one of them lost a close relative in Iraq.

The smartest Republican in the race for the white house, throughtout this process has been RON PAUL. His arguments are always logical and meant to serve middle America , but because the others candidates are better dressed, have the ears of the media, etc, he gets no play...

My advice to us all is; GOD HELP THIS GREAT NATION, IF WE ALLOW ANOTHER CANDIDATE AND HIS UPPER CLASS POLICIES TO LIVE IN THE WHITE HOUSE.

Dear God, let a woman with the fire and desire to serve most of Amerca, win the battle for the White House. Yes......!

HILLARY IS DOING THE RIGHT THING

I think Hillary exposed Barack, as a somebody's make up political rock star.
He ain't no Martin Luther King Jr. From his voting records it shows that he was a shoe shine boy for some interest, in Chicago. In my opinion he was promised support , if he behaved in a certain way. He has done exactly that.

From all indications it appears as if he was planted by the camouflage movement of the neocons.
The giveaway? No progressive person or progressive blackman has anything praiseworthy to say about Ronald Reagan, and Obama has found a way to issue the buzz word of the neocons.
Mr Barack Obama is a fraud. A chosen black "plant" by someone who does'nt have have the interests of America at heart. The neocons has given him more support than African Americans. In fact he has become the political spoiler distracting the audience from hearing indebt contributions from John Edwards as well.

Additionally if NEWSMAX .COM, as a right wing and anti people information center, as there could ever be , could express happiness for Barack Obama, then the whole thing stinks like fish. Black people we need to run , and run fast, the shit is about to hit the fan.

Boooooo, you were found out.
We should thank the smart American political investigators for exposing another episode by the classical hatefilled american LOOSERSsss

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AMERICA , WE ARE SCARED OF THE AMBITIOUS WOMAN.

America is not a progressive country. America is becoming an old conservative country that has lost its desire to break new ground, open new frontiers,or be a major international leader. This 21st century America , we are living in, is showing the same social backwardness, as the old imperial Rome , when science and modern thinking were as feared, as the then, radical thoughts of christianity , and got you thrown to the Lions.

Let it be told , that American men ( mainly white men) are afraid of the modern, aspiring, ambitious, intelligent woman. They are also equally afraid and noticeably jealous of black openly ambitious and successful men. But in this period, they are conveniently more afraid of the white ambitious strong woman.

White American men portray all the weaknesses, that black working class mothers frantically beat the hell out of their sons and grandsons.

While the civil rights movements of Dr Martin Luther King, and the radical follow-ups of Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton, have exposed and reduced, somewhat , open and glaring racial attacks (verbally and physically), attacks on and hate for women have persisted. Just count the number of deaths and violence on women, exclusively by men, and men known by the victims, just in the last five years.

American men have developed a penchant for hating and hurting women, so much so that when you listen and read the comments of hate not mistrust, but brutal disdain, without rational and intelligent justification, for HILLARY CLINTON you get the sense of what it must feel like for black men , since landing in America, centuries ago, to work here for free.

In the other gender aisle of women, the prototype white ( and some black as well) successful, professionally educated, ambitious females behave like predators with no knowledge of their history or civil circumstance. The female intelligentsia in our America has accepted that there are two staircases to the glass ceiling . One that is requiring the tough skin approach, unyielding and determined, the one Hillary is accused of having.

Or the other staircase, that requires the Marilyn Monroe and Anna Nicole approach.where you say; " where shall I like down?" or/and "where is the champagne"?

We can imagine that Hillary Clinton will not be a hero for Marilyn Monroe or Anna Nicole, understandably so. But to hear the Bullcrap recited by females of middle class America about why they can't support her is quite disheartening and should bring tears to "women of substance" eyes. American, mainly, white middle class women, are weak , victims of male dominated social brutality, devoid of compassion for their historical responsibility

Thank god the women of New Hampshire are bred in the working class environment of their State.Where the principles of unity, and unity of purpose, are the foundations of their community, so that they and not the farmer's wives of Iowa ,could recognise the historical importance of supporting a progressive female politician like Hillary Clinton.

Even if Hillary Clinton does not win another primary, the women of New Hampshire saved 21st century America from a historical embarrassment at this time.

It should be noted that Barack Obama, and his politics , is a man after my own heart. So this is not anti Obama rap.

But I am sufficiently comfortable that there is not much disparity between the two(Hillary and Barack) on major issues, and given this historic event and Hillary's general world outlook, she gets the nod over Barack.

You too should re-examine the situation .

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The following is an article from .."antiwar.com"

It may help explain some of the revelations of the last couple of days.

December 8, 2007

The Warpath to Regime Change by Gareth Porter

' Vice President Dick Cheney and his neoconservative allies in the George W. Bush administration only began agitating for the use of military force against Iran once they had finally given up the illusion that regime change in Iran would happen without it.
And they did not give it up until late 2005, according to a former high-level Foreign Service officer who participated in U.S. discussions with Iran from 2001 until late 2005.
Hillary Mann, who was the director for Persian Gulf and Afghanistan Affairs on the National Security Council (NSC) staff in 2003 and later on the State Department's Policy Planning Staff, told the Inter Press Service (IPS) in a recent interview that the key to neoconservative policy views on Iran until 2006 was the firm belief that one of the consequences of a successful display of U.S. military force in Iraq would be to shake the foundations of the Iranian regime.
That central belief was conveyed to conservative columnist Arnaud de Borchgrave of the Washington Times in April 2002 by prominent neoconservative figures who told him the Bush administration "had decided to redraw the geopolitical map of the Middle East," he wrote later.

The Bush doctrine of preemption, they told him, "had become the vehicle for driving axis of evil practitioners out of power." The removal of Saddam Hussein, according to this scenario, would bring a democratic Iraq that would then spread through the region, "bringing democracy from Syria to Egypt and to the sheikhdoms, emirates, and monarchies of the Gulf."
Under the influence of this central myth, after the 9/11 attacks, some of Cheney's allies in the Pentagon conceived the objective of removing every regime in the Middle East that was hostile to the United States and Israel.

In November 2001, Gen. Wesley Clark, who had then recently retired from his post as head of the U.S. Southern Command, learned from a general he knew in the Pentagon that a memo had just come down from the office of the secretary of defense outlining the objective of the "take down" of seven Middle Eastern regimes over five years.
The plan would start with the invasion of Iraq, and then target Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, and Sudan, according to an account in Clark's 2003 book, Winning Modern Wars: Iraq, Terrorism, and the American Empire. The memo indicated the plan was to "come back and get Iran in five years."

The neoconservatives were particularly serious about going after Syria. In the weeks following the initial U.S. invasion of Iraq, Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz, the chief neoconservative architect of the Iraq invasion, argued unsuccessfully for taking advantage of the presumed military triumph there to overthrow the Syrian regime of President Bashar Assad, according to an account from the right-leaning Insight magazine.
But contrary to the popular notion that the neoconservatives believed that "real men go to Tehran," no one was yet proposing that Iran should be the military target.

In September 2003, Cheney brought in David Wurmser (a close friend and protégé of Richard Perle and one of the key proponents of the plan for regime change in Iraq) as his adviser on the Middle East. Wurmser had previously articulated very specific ideas about how taking down Hussein by force would help destabilize the Iranian regime.
In a 1999 book, Wurmser had laid out a plan for using the Iraqi Shi'ite majority and their conservative clerics as U.S. allies in the "regional rollback of Shi'ite fundamentalism" – meaning the Islamic regime in Iran.

But Wurmser also believed that the Ba'athist regime in Syria was an obstacle to regime change in Iran. Beginning with the 1996 "Clean Break" memo, written by Wurmser with the help of other future Bush administration figures like Perle and Douglas Feith for the then-incoming Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Wurmser had argued that once Hussein was removed, the next step was to take down the Assad regime in Syria.
In a September 2007 interview with the Telegraph, a few months after he had left Cheney's office, Wurmser confirmed his belief that regime change in Syria – by force, if necessary – would directly affect the stability of the Tehran regime. If Iran were seen to be unable to do anything to prevent the overthrow of the regime in Syria, he suggested, it would seriously undermine the Islamic regime's prestige at home.

From 2003 to 2005, Wurmser and his neoconservative colleagues were in denial about the increasingly obvious reality that the U.S. occupation of Iraq was actually boosting Iranian influence there rather than shaking the regime's power at home, according to former NSC specialist Mann. She was well acquainted with the neoconservatives' thinking from her associations with the Washington Institute for Near East Policy in the 1990s, and she told IPS that she was "astounded" to hear neoconservatives in the administration suggest as late as 2005 that the situation in Iraq was on track to help destabilize the Iranian regime.
The neoconservatives had long viewed the Iranian reformists, led by President Mohammed Khatami, as the primary obstacle to the popular revolution against the mullahs for which they were working. As French Iran specialist Frédéric Tellier noted in an early 2006 essay, they believed the electoral defeats of the reformists in 2003 and 2004 would also help open the way to a revolutionary political upheaval in Tehran.

In an appearance on the Don Imus show on January 21, 2005, Cheney said the Israelis might attack Iran's nuclear sites if they became convinced the Iranians had a "significant nuclear capability." That remark underlined the fact that Cheney was not thinking seriously about a U.S. strike against Iran.

By the end of 2005, however, the neoconservatives had finally accepted the reality of the failure of the Bush administration's military intervention in Iraq, according to Mann. She also notes that the electoral victory of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, representing a new breed of nationalist conservative with a mass base of popular support, in Iran's June 2005 presidential election, spelled the "death knell" to the neoconservative optimism about regime change in Iran.
Mann observes that the neoconservatives had never foresworn the use of force against Iran, but they had argued that less force would be needed in Iran than had been used in Iraq. By early 2006, however, that assumption was being discarded by prominent neoconservatives.

Reuel Marc Gerecht of the American Enterprise Institute had been more aggressive than anyone else in arguing that Iraq's Shi'ites, liberated by U.S. military power, would help subvert the Iranian regime. But in April 2006, he called in a Weekly Standard article for continued bombing of Iran's nuclear sites until the Iranians stopped rebuilding them.
Within the administration, meanwhile, Wurmser was looking for the opportunity to propose a military option against Iran. In his September 2007 interview with the Telegraph, he insisted that the United States must be willing to "escalate as far as we need to go to topple the [Iranian] regime if necessary."

That opportunity seemed to present itself in the aftermath of Israel's failed attempt to deal a major blow to Hezbollah in southern Lebanon in the summer of 2006.
Neoconservatives aligned with Cheney argued that Iran was now threatening U.S. dominant position in the region through its proxies in Lebanon, Iraq, and the Palestinian territory, as well as with its nuclear program. They insisted the administration had to push back by targeting Iran's Quds Force personnel in Iraq, increasing naval presence in the Gulf, and accusing Iran of supporting the killing of U.S. troops.
Although the ostensible rationale was to pressure Iran to back down on the nuclear issue, in light of the previous views, it appears that they were hoping to use military power against Iran to accomplish their original goal of regime change'.

Reprinted with permission from Right Web.

SEVENTY-FIVE PERCENT AMERICANS WANT CHANGE

Let us have a street parade, a street party, yes everybody, the American people, have UNITED and are calling for change .With 364 days until the next Presidential election, America has decided, we will sweep the Republican Party into obilivion . This could mean that we will not only have a progressive leader ,who is a lover of the American people,but who wants , all Americans to succeed.

In case you have not heard, the largest margin of dissatisfied Americans with an incumbent President was released over the weekend.. Seventy five percent of all Americans want a change of President, a change of party influence in Congress, a change of economic and political directions.

We may ask, who makes up the outstanding 25% of this American population. It is not surprising to know that the very wealthy amongst us ,who do not share our national despair, will be a large portion of the happy bunch of " leave alone we like it the way it is" twenty-five per cent selfish Americans.

But on the other side of the economic and social scale , there are a significant section of the poorer and working classes who will be counted amongst the twenty-fivers, as well. We may find the majority of the twenty-fivers living in enclaves, called trailer parks, all over the southern states and mid west. These unfortunate dwellers in the trailers parks are like the unforgetten people of America ,living in deplorable conditions, without health care protection, yet supporting the party of the rich.

They won;t be dancing in the street,one year from today,as America heads in the opposite direction.away from the Republicans and George Bush. The Trailer Park dwellers and their lovely story telling Country music won't be serenading a progressive America, that would not attack and ostracise African Americans ,minorities and immigrants. They won't serenade any attempts to bring them out of the malaise of poverty,either,that they have been living in since the civil war of the mid 19th century.

The rest of America and the world ,nevertheless, will be looking forward to a progressive America and an eager Hillary Clinton as President.

THE DEVIL RESIDES IN THEIR HEART

There is an old proverb or saying, that suggest those who are closest to the image never gets to see the whole picture. This is true when describing the general reaction of Americans to the scary national leadership in the White House.

The international community on the other hand are sitting in the comfortable viewers balcony seats and charting the development path of our national and international activities. They sensed where we were heading.

What is actually happening, a Rush Limbaugh follower asked me recently, via email ? In simple terms the answer is "very bad things are taking place in the "brain" of the USA. Just as in Columbine and other areas of mass violence , "very bad things" were happening in the "brain" of the attackers before the chaos occurred.

Similarly just as those closest to the attackers, never interpreted the signs of insanity as anything dangerous,until after the fact. That's the way Americans all over this beautiful land are ignoring the sins and signs of a Leadership gone bonkers, consumed by the corrutpness of the power they wrestled from the congress , in particular and we, the American people in general.

It is quite obvious to those who are paying attention, and reading the actions and reactions coming from the President and his joint co President, that something very bad is going to happen soon. In my opinion the DEVIL IS RESIDING IN THE HEARTS OF OUR MAXIMUM LEADERS thirsting for more blood; your blood, my blood, the Iranians blood, more Iraqis blood, Chinese blood, Immigrants blood, American children's blood or just plain blood.

In an interview with Huffington Post, Speaker Nancy Pelosi has intimated that she has told the Leadership, namely the President, ( in private) things about his administration that are unlady like. She too has seen the insanity close up, and is unwilling to do or say anything courageously, in fear of causing a political nightmare.

The sad question is how could so many people have missed this potential insanity. How could the media of all institutions not recognise something wrong. Journalists like Paula Zahn and Wolfe Blitzer spread themselves out, like red carpets looking up at this Leadership, from very early and did not see this pending evil and to alert us. Yet every country and their citizens were connecting the dots , making precise predictions.

THE ROYAL IMPERIAL US PRESIDENCY

Keith Olberman of MSNBC's countdown , talk show, calls it the decision to break the Great US Constitution, to break the congress, to make US citizens obsolete in influencing the direction of their government. The Vice President of the USA, Dick Cheney, apparently has been dreaming up a scheme, since avoiding and dodging servicing his country in Vietnam, to impose an Imperial Presidency, a kind of , elected Monarchy, in diametric contradiction to our cherished American Constitution.

A former adviser to Richard Nixon, John Dean, painfully explained to the talk show host, that the neocons Republicans had been planning for a long time to transform Americas democratic principles, and Presidency, into anti democratic dictatorship, with powers of a King, called President. He said they had the plans in a draw waiting for a big bang, to trigger the opportunity. When 9/11 came they just opened the draw, immobilise and demoralise Congress , neutralise the American people and put the plan into effect.

Mr.John Dean, former adviser to Richard Nixon, now the author of "Broken Government",revealed that Mr. Dick Cheney thought that disgraced President Richard Nixon should not have resigned. Since as President and Commander in Chief he did not owe any explanation to Congress or the American people for breaking the law and being dishonest.

I sat there listening to this assessment of President Bush and Dick Cheney's visions of grandeur to rule world using the US military forces , and thought of those comic book villians that had working plans to rule the world, like Adolf Hitler, with his outlandish blue printed dreams, and bring pain to the world. Up till now those dreamers' plans were smashed by great American heroes like, Spiderman, Batman, Superman,or Captain America. Or as in the case of Hitler himself, by the great liberating US armed forces of world war 11.

People in and outside America, are all earnest;y praying, asking their heavenly Gods, who will be the Great American hero to liberate the Great American Constitution, the US Congress, the Great American children without Health Insurance and the American people generally, from these forces of evil residing in the Great American Palace.

Do we know who that person is? I don't we do. But we know that person has to be here soon, because we may not have an opportunity before the November 2008 Election. We may be too busy agreeing with the decision to invade and blow up Iran. Then , again,we may not have an Election in November 2008.
What if the Blackwater mercenaries, inspires military action here at home, that forces President Bush to declare Martial Law and postpone indefinitely the Presidential Elections? Neither the US Congress or the US Supreme Court will be able to help us. I don't know.....I am just asking, about the Powers, that the Imperial Royal President of the USA, will have to give up January 20th 2009. Do you think Vice President Cheney will want to spend his own money to support the Blackwater Mercenary Army? Do you think the neocons will crawl back into their holes, after tasting our blood, and give back power to the American people , because we democratically voted them out?

AMERICA , WE WERE SCAMMED

President George Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney pulled of the greatest money making scam in the history of Planet Earth. It is so bad that at the end of this Dick and George Show, America could be dead broke.

I am confident that not since the expedition of Alexander the Great, that broke the Greek Empire and made it possible for the Roman Empire to emerge, have we seen such a drain of a country's resources.

The hearings of the Blackwater mercenary Army, which in fact is the private army of the Dick and George Show, clearly reveals that, we may be thinking of a" war on terror" but it is really a trick , to burglarise Americas national treasury. If we look with uncontaminated eyes, you will see that the war in Iraq ended about 90 days later after the invasion and occupation began.

But there were , first ,an Iraqi national response to the occupation called a terrorist insurgency, then followed a series of well documented military abuses on the Iraqis. This seem to fuel an all out conflict between factions and between the religious factions and the US forces.

In the absence of an International peacekeeping force, from the United Nations or from individual Countries of Europe etc., the private army of Dick and George were used for multiple purposes including the old colonial military policy of 'enflame divisions amongst the population to better control them'.

So the ending of the war in Iraq (90 days after the invasion)was counter productive to the Goals of , controlling a Foreign country, in the middle east, using it as a staging post for more conquests, at the same time controlling the revenue from Iraq's oil, and building a network of private contractors to support their grand plans while having all this financed by the US treasury. The income to the our treasury, in the final analysis will be zero. A big fat nothing.

Have you noticed that England declared that they are no longer using the phrase.. "War on Terror" Have you noticed that all the countries of the socalled 'axis of the willing'all pulled out. They appeared to have made an agreement, not to give details for their reasons for doing so.

It is my belief that Nancy Pelosi and the leadership of the Democratic Party, have eventually found out the scheme, and the depths to which its revelation could destroy, or at least threaten, our national security, together with the financial and economic foundations of the USA. They, as a conquence, have decided ,( it appears), to allow themselves to be held hostage, to protect this country from collapse and ruin, by the White House Administration until a new President is sworn in, and has the capacity and power to rectify the situation.

This may explain the softer tone of the Democratic Party Leadership , as opposed to the more radical approach called for by the rank and file and some members of the media . Many people in the hierarchy of Americas social and financial levels are aware of the impending disaster, so big donors are throwing all their money at the Democrats , indicating their desire to stay far away as possible from the Republican Party and its sins.

Hillary Clinton in the meantime has taken a quiet middle of the road philosophy to her campaign for the Democratic Party's nomination, trying to neutralise and dampen the mood of discontent amongst the middle and working classes of America.
They all know that ,we , who live in America are not ready for the bad news. I feel disappointed for us Americans but I feel sad for the poor white folks of the Red States, the Trailer Congregation, who has been the backbone of support for the Republican Party in the White House.

Since before the civil war these poor white folks have been misguided and misled by con men from amongst them and uppity white folks from the big cities, promising ,in return for their hatred of African Americans and other minorities, to alleviate them from poverty and improve their living conditions. They are going to be terribly disappointed again when the mess hits the fan.

NO SYMPATHY FOR JUSTICE CLARENCE THOMAS

My mother had a saying ,that she picked up from her mother, which said: 'The bed you make, its there you shall lie'. Justice Clarence Thomas was interviewed on "60 Minutes" , the television Show on Sunday night. He gave the interview, to help sell his personal life, written in his auto biography book.

In his interview, he sounded and looked like a hurt man, begging for understanding from the African American population. In my opinion the man is unrepentant for utilising his talent as a Law Professional, in the service of those who principally administered and benefitted from an uneven system of Justice and Economic virtues to middle and lower income families, especially African Americans and other minorities


Justice Thomas is a product of cruel poverty managed by the evil Laws of Jim Crowe in the oppressive Old South. He is man Black American with a brilliant mind that sought to see about himself, joined the political organisation that supported and mostly encouraged the brutal violence against African Americans. The Republican Party , as an American institution, cannot be used as a sanctuary by the oppressed or children of the victims of racism and exploitation and hope to , years later beg for understanding.

Have you noticed that the Jewish Community shows no mercy to those who encouraged or supported the oppression of Jews during the period of fascism in Germany.

Justice Clarence Thomas lamented that he could not get a job after receiving a law degree from Yale University. It is no shame for an oppressed person to choose to work for someone who is willing to pay an acceptable salary. But it is done with the full knowledge that you will pay a price in Life or Death, that is heavier than a mountain. More importantly you are always judged by your actions after you have attained success.
There is no greater achievement in Life , than to have the ability to receive, the admiration ,love and respect from people of your community. If you did not get that love or admiration, it is only because you showed that community no respect by not serving their interest.

Therefore Justice Clarence Thomas has no sympathy to receive. Nelson Mandela served 27 years in prison for serving the interest of those who were most oppressed. what did he do???