Ferguson, you have spoken, LOUDLY...

Ferguson police chief said in his press conference a few minutes ago, "I didn't see a lot of peaceful protests out there, I'm a little disappointed".

Duh!!! This guy really doesn't have a clue. Although I don't support the destruction of property, but the protesters should have/ did exercise their constitutional right. Did the chief really expect Fergusonians to accept a no indictment? In his Willie Lynch world, he probably did. But, what kinda signal would that send...that black lives don't matter? If you're non black or brown, perhaps they don't.

North Korea's Kim Jong-il, Texas Gov. Rick Perry...

Cherokee Nation's Election held on June 25th STILL remains unresolved.  Principal Chief Chad Smith, having appointed or reconfirmed all 5 Supreme Court justices, it makes it difficult for the election process to have legitimacy if somehow Smith prevails in the most contitious election in Cherokee history.

Over time, the longer a leader remains in power, the more power he craves. Just ask Texas Gov. Rick Perry and a leader he most admires.

FoxNews Reported, FoxNews Decided...

Last week, we learned that Fox News maliciously reported that President Obama had been assasinated and alledging that that their twitter account had been hacked and was responsible for its content.  Their vice president and general manager, Jeff Misenti, claimed that he was WORKING with Twitter to address the situation".

He further alleges that "we (Fox News) will be requesting a detailed investigation from Twitter about how this occurred, and measures to prevent future unauthorized access into FoxNews.com accounts,"

He further states that FoxNews.com regrets any distress the false tweets may have created. I kept reading and looking for harsh language scolding twitter. They did not even say they would even cancel or consider canceling their twitter account for such a reprehensible and treasonistic act.

One question. Would FoxNews have handled the situation exactly the same had not the President been African American?

U.S. Judge Dismisses Charges Against 6 Somalis

Back on April 16, 2009 and November 18, 2009, I wrote about several situations involving Somali teens accused of Piracy, as many then termed it.

Seems appropriate that a judge has seen fit to declare the then labeled pirates as not fitting a nearly 200-year-old Supreme Court decision, United States v. Smith as well as the international definition of piracy.

Since there is no viable stabilized government in Somalia, teens, including adults, are simply seeking means of sustainability. I say cudos to U.S. District Judge Raymond A. Jackson...

Mr. President, U.S. Needs NEW Constitution

Since extremists; Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity, who openly state "I hope Barrack Obama fails" (they don't even call him President) are so synchronized against defeating the nation's 1st Black and 44th American President's agenda, including heath care for children, they promote, at a minimum, racial divisiveness.

Maybe the President should send his Secret Service to pay those guys a friendly visit.

Racial tensions has never been worse since President Johnson predicted that the southern Democrat and the Dixiecrat would switch parties after the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1964. Well, they did switch, from Democrat to Republican.

And sadly, republican governor, Richard "Rick" Perry, he's governor to at least the first Tuesday in November, publicly supported Succession, succeeding from the union. Mr. Perry knew or should have known that this was a code word for confederacy, slavery, lynchings and Jim Crow. I contend it's the latter.

Hum, did he really mean that or was he running to the far right of the party, racism and bigotry, for the nomination? To be fair, the republican racists and bigots are the democratic equal to the left coast environmentalist wackos. Conveniently, party candidates that prevail in their primaries tend to come toward the middle and claim to be centrist.

And now comes self proclaimed "states' right" proponent, another confederacy like code word, Rep. Louie Gohmert, garnering support to repeal the 17th amendment. Well, congressman, while you're at it, why not repeal the 13th amendment, abolishment of slavery.

This is why America needs a new CONSTITUTION.

"Let's just start all over with a clean sheet of paper," as Senator Lamar Alexander and his republican cohorts rationaled, because "we were not consulted" nor were we invited at the table when the Health Care Bill was written.

Well senator, Blacks, Latinos and Asians were not consulted nor were they invited at the table when the all white, all males wrote the Constitution.

Mr. President, let's have real change, let's have an all inclusive summit and let's draft a NEW U.S. Constitution.

US Treasury Secretary Should Be Fired, NOW!!!

Timothy Geitner is the financial overseer of a 9.7% unemployment rate. But, some economists has estimated it to be more around 15% -17%. That said, as chairman of the New York Federal Reserve Bank under the Bush Administration, Mr. Geitner advised, in error, then secretary Hank "Henry" Paulson on the 2008 Wall Street bailout, now known as TARP, Troubled or Toxic Asset Relief Program.

He knew or should have known that once bankers were bailed out, they'd return to their same old greedful ways. Believing that if they shored up their finances, they'd circulate the funds back into the economy via loans. Naivete.

Instead, bankers' advocates had the audacity to tell an unassuming public that financial institutions need not only be given billions, but their employees should also continue to be enriched, fearing that they'd leap to the competition.

Gee whiz.

These are some of the scoundrels that facilitated the economic downturn via massive fraud. Now, Mr. Treasurer reportedly made ANOTHER ridiculous deal with Citi last December when it agreed to sell the remaining $25 billion stake in 2010 after they (Citi) repaid $20 billion 4 months ago. This move was simply for bonuses that weren't eligible for 2009 because of specific bailout restrictions would be removed by year end of 2010. Cha ching!!!!

History shows that after a financial rescue, the violators tend to return to the same behavior, as simply evidenced in bankruptcy cases. You relieve the debt, the debtor tends to return to the very same negative behavior.

Further, Timothy is simply not savvy enough to oversee a $14 trillion economy. While cuddling with his fair skinned blue eyed cohorts near Manhattan's 23 Liberty Street, America's checkbook has dwindled within shillings of the former Rhodesian government.

President Obama, selecting an academician and a theorist as Treasury Secretary was not a good choice, a reach at best. But, there's a ray of hope. Albeit unlikely, with congress on break, make a bold recess appointment, along with the other 15 you're expected to make, a new Treasury Secretary.

Republicans Introduce Bill to Repeal NEW Health Care Law... ALREADY?

Sens. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, Robert Bennett of Utah, Kit Bond of Missouri, Saxby Chambliss of Georgia, Mike Crapo of Idaho, John Ensign of Nevada, Kay Bailey Hutchinson of Texas, James Inhofe of Oklahoma, George LeMieux of Florida, James Risch of Idaho, Pat Roberts of Kansas and David Vitter of Louisiana have joined on a Tea Party like insurgency along with at least 14 Republican Attorney Generals (at last count) to attempt to undo the President's signature campaign pledge, the passage of comprehensive Health Care Reform for America, now known as the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.

Shame on these blatant obstructionists as they were never concerned about Health Care Reform or its associated costs. Remember, President Obama added 50-100 of Republican suggestions into the final bill and it still garnered no republican support. So obviously, Republican leaders had decided they weren't supporting health care reform, regardless. Hence, Republican Senator Lamar Alexander of Tennessee uttered in the conference committee with Democrats and the President, "...shelf the current bill and let's start over with a clean sheet of paper." This appeared to become one of their primary talking points as fellow republicans started reiterating this mantra constantly through the press and on their network, Fox News.

Alexander and his cohorts had 16 years to draft comprehensive Health Care Reform since defeating Clinton Administration's attempt since 1994, instead, they chose to pursue deregulation, tax cuts and war.

March 1, 1875: Congress passes the Civil Rights Act? Really?

Seems unbelievable that the US Congress passed another Civil Rights Act 135 years ago to this day only the be struck down by a Klansian-like Supreme Court 8 years later.

Worse, Civil Rights Act legislation passed as early as 1866 and withstood a veto by then President Andrew Johnson who argued that the Act violated states' rights.

States Rights? Yeah, states rights!

This argument is exactly as today's ultra right winged and often high tempered Tea Party goers and even a current sitting southern governor. But, is this a valid argument or is it a modern shield of Jim Crow advocacy.

Obama Administration Announces NEW Funds for US Housing Market

Mr. President, announcing $1.5 billion in additional funding for ONLY five states may be your most partisan decision yet when $23 billion has already been allotted via the US Treasury Department. Coincidentally, the additional funding press conference being announced in Senator Harry Reid's state of Nevada, where he happens to be trailing a Dick Cheney-like Republican miserably by double digits doesn't lend credence to bipartisanship.

Oh, the WORST decision, your support of George W. Bush's initiated WALL STREET BAILOUT.

Allow the marketplace to market...

$3.8 Trillion Budget? Are You Serious Mr. President?

Don't go spending like your predecessors whose fool hearted supply side economists believed that if government cut taxes, treasury receipts would increase. But, they didn't curb their drunken sailor-like spending.

To cut deficits, government must cut spending, PERIOD.

OBAMA: Tax on Big Banks' TARP Funds?

While listening to President Obama's decision to propose legislation to tax the largest recipients of the Toxic Asset Releif Program (TARP), I could not help from quietly applauding.

While every Wall Street analyst/commentator will coordinate a barrage of negitivisms against the President for this strategy to repay tax payers "every dime", this is the BEST economic decision this administration has made since announcing its support of TARP...

U.S. Treasury's Decision on Bailout Funds Flawed...

U.S. Treasury's June '09 decision on early paybacks is a major, major mistake.

Why allow this policy? Besides an entourage of lobbyists' pressuring congressional representatives on Capital Hill, pure corporate greed are the banks' incentives in repaying their TARP funds early in a can't wait enviroment to give its executives the elaborate bonuses that principally helped facilitate the global economic downturn of the past two years.

Shareholders will bear the brunt of this fool hearted decision.

European Union accuses Israel of seeking to annex east Jerusalem...

The European Union is accusing Israel of pursuing the annexation of Arab east Jerusalem which obviously inferiates Palestinians as both claim Jerusalem as the capitol of their homeland. The Palestinans want to make it the capital of their promised state and Israel occupied and annexed east Jerusalem in 1967 (six day war) and considers it its "eternal indivisible capital".

Since both sides seem to never and WILL NEVER agree on a resolution, there's only one impending and ultimate solution. Unfortunately, it will have to be war.

Corporate Bonuses: The culprit for the global economic downturn...

Who's to blame for the global economic downturn?

Principally, corporate bonuses which not only provided the enviroment for excessive risk-taking, it encouraged it.

Institutions, when bonuses are threatended, management retaliates and advises those receiving bonuses to threaten to resign publically.

I say go ahead, RESIGN.

Iranian President Ahmadinejad meets with Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez...

Iran's President Ahmadinejad meets with Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez to discuss bilateral relations.

How will Fox News blame President Barack Obama for this?

Will they say it's because of his relentless focus on healthcare reform?
Will they say it's because of his focus on the dual wars left by the Bush Administration?
Will they say it's because of his focus on trying to reduce the 10.2% U.S. unemployment rate?

Ex US Military Generals and execs paid $340 an hour by Pentagon as consultants...

Ex US Military execs paid $340 an hour by Pentagon as consultants. But, why does the world blasts Somalia, Nigeria and Afghanistan as most corrupt?

Will there be change that we can believe in?

Somali's attempts hijacking on the Maersk Alabama, AGAIN...

Somali attempted hijacking on the Maersk Alabama, AGAIN, reinforces the real problem, starved teens of a destabilized country is akin to U.S. illegal immigrant issue.

(See 4/16/09 blog)

Obama urges U.S. installed Afghan president to wipe out corruption

Pres. Barack Obama urges U.S. installed Afghan president Hamid Karzai to wipe out corruption. C'mon, are you kidding?

IT WON'T HAPPEN!!!

French Prosecutors seeking a mere 6 year sentence for two top accused businessmen in $790 mil. dollar 'Angolagate’ like trial....

French Prosecutors seeking a mere 6 year sentence for two top accused businessmen in the so-called $790 mil. dollar 'Angolagate’ trial.

CRIME DOESN'T PAY, IT REALLY PAYS.

UN's Millennium Development Goals go unmet...

UN's Millennium Development Goals of halving poverty unmet. Halving world poverty is unachievable. How bout' trying something seemingly alot simpler, clean drinking water. One third of the World's population lack safe drinking water. Shamefully, six thousand children die daily from waterborne diseases such as typhoid, diarrhea, hepatitis and cholera.

Something's got to give...

Presidential runoff election no real solution for Afghanistan...

Ex-foreign minister Abdullah Abdullah will definately defeat Hamid Karzai in a presidential runoff election in Afghanistan'. Results: TOTAL CHAOS.

President Nicolas Sarkozy appoints 23-year-old son chairman

President Nicolas Sarkozy appoints his 23-year-old son, Jean Sarkozy, chairman of France's largest business district.

BAD, BAD MOVE NICK...

Gabon's former interior minister, Mba Obame, on a hunger strike...

Gabon's former interior minister, Mba Obame, on a hunger strike in protest of Ali Bongo's disputed presidential election.

Mr. Obame, MOVE ON!

President Obama, Nobel Peace Prize?

Why not?

Israel, once again, (albeit briefly) detains another leader it disagrees with, Islamist leader Sheikh Raed Salah...

You can't lock up or kill everyone you disagree with. This only incites the opposition and its followers. Hasn't there been anything learned on the war on terror?

Former intelligence chief Idelphonse Nizeyimana, arrested in Uganda...

Nizeyimana, one of the most-wanted suspects in the 1994 Rwandan genocide has been arrested in Uganda.

Question. Why did it take so long?

Costa Rican ex-president Calderon sentenced to 5 years for corruption...

What if other countries sentenced their former presidents for same? There probably wouldn't be very many ex-presidents.

Libya and Venezuela believed to be seeking alliance between Africa and South America to counter the West

It's not likely to happen...

Lawyers expected to sue French Pres. Sarkozy over guilty claims of ex French PM Dominique de Villepin

Bad idea...

Mugabe says West is dividing Zimbabwe

I think not...

Message to Obama Administration: Executive Pay Oversight Not Needed

(Article to Publish 9/25/09)

North Korea sentences US journalists to 12 years, NOT A BIG DEAL

(ARTICLE TO PUBLISH BY JUNE 14, 2009)

Teen Somali Pirates has same issue as U.S. illegal immigrants

Although the U.S. military had two armed ships in the third largest body of water on earth, the U.S. military should not have rescued the vessel, Maersk Alabama. Similar to an ill advised invasion of Iraq by the George W. Bush Administration, an administration that did more harm that will ultimately adversely affect humanity worldwide for decades to come than any administration in modern world history, you invite other wannabe tyrants, sometimes, more tyrannical than the first. As of yesterday, electronic media had already reported threats of more childlike pirate attacks.

The message that the forward leaning Obama Administration should send is, if you have commercial interests in the Indian Ocean, not only should you provide for your own security, moreover, if you choose not to provide financial incentives, not ransoms, to the starved and unemployed teenagers of a destabilized country such as Somalia, at least show empathy toward 10, 12 or 14 year old teenagers that are simply looking to earn income for there families, albeit against an ill advised by any means necessary approach.

More disturbingly, major print and electronic media failed to focus on these so called pirates' ages. Could it be that this would be a major distraction from the real issue of not only Somalia, but all of subsuharian Africa, the head of households in these unstable countries are teenagers for one basic reason, an exceptional high mortality rate due to preventable and infectious diseases such as malaria. What the Obama Administration, European Union, the African Union and the G20 should do, is to assist in stabilizing subsuharian Africa economically. According to the World Bank, in 2006, the gross national product of the world's ten poorest countries were all in Africa.

Consider this, some argue that the estimated 20 million illegal immigrants come across California, Arizona and Texas' 2,200 mile southern border to simply earn a living. Can the thought provoking argue that Somali's hijack the less than one percent of commercial ships are likewise doing it, to simply, earn a living?

Gas at $1.60 per gallon in China, why not in the United States?

With oil in the $140 a barrel range and no real signs of relief, it's no secret that a $14 trillion economy and another $12 billion wasted monthly on an Iraqi occupation and an infrastructure whose errantly dependent upon a volatile Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), sadly, the United States, a Goliath since World War II through 2000, is hemorrhaging for its economic existence.

How did a country that virtually welcomes citizenry to any and everyone, excluding Haitians of course, ever get to this point? For starters, record tax cutting with a spend thrift Administration of the 1980's and more recently, Bush junior, on the advice of unintelligent supply side theorists who proved to have small brains, after all, and a poor mixture of sound fiscal policy. While war mongers Dick Cheney and Paul Wolfowitz puppeted a tunnel visioned president to slay Uday and Qusay and overthrow a pious Sadaam Hussein as the world watched a public hanging, did not win us any friends either. Worse, junior's attempt to bring his style of western values to ancient Mesopotamia has covertly rallied the Muslim world to dethrone the Great Satan, as the U.S. is so affectionately referred to, they'll defeat us economically, guerrilla style. Of course, we have shown our effectiveness in fighting guerrilla style in Vietnam, 58,000 times. But, today, our biggest concerns are those guerrillas that hurt us economically. It is widely believed that those that attack American multi-national corporations' oil fields in Nigeria, Sudan, Ethiopia or even our fair-weather friends of Saudi Arabia have one common denominator, all Muslims. Coincidence. Perhaps, but, highly improbable.

With few U.S. refineries and China's increased demand for oil as they continue to buy more vehicles, $5 gasoline prices are simply supply and demand. Right?

Wrong!

Ongoing massive trade deficits leads to a weak dollar and an Administration that spends like a drunken sailor actually accounts for about half of the increase at the pump we've seen since about 2002. China most recently was paying less than $1.60 per gallon. Russia, $1.45, Venezuela, $0.14 cents per gallon.We could buy more oil from Venezuela and the likes and it would still be enviromentaly less costly than drilling in the politically sensitive Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.

Even with the United State's fat bellied consumption of around 22 million barrels per day, Venezuela's surplus of 2 million daily barrels would do little to curb our demand. But, until this pickup truck loving country does something to curb its thirsty appetite for oil, anything helps. But, seems that Pat Robertson and this Administration has so demonized Hugo Chavez's countrymen even after he offered below market heating oil to American families a few years ago, it's highly unlikely that the Administration will be sending a Fathers Day card to South America.

Some things we have to keep in mind. Like, the United States is no longer in the position to give ultimatums. Remember Bush's "...you're either with us or against us..." comment. The whole world was listening and the American people have been paying for it every since.

Lastly, we must admit that we understand things we pretend not to understand. The world no longer requests nor requires our permission and the current Iraqi situation isn't really about oil, ITS ABOUT RELIGION.

If the United States engages in constructive dialoge with Iran, North Korea, Russia, Cuba and maybe Zimbabwe, that will be change that Democrats, Republicans and Independents alike can all believe in.

Clintons, No help to 800,000 Dead Africans in 94', No Real Help to Black America Today

Some believed Bill Clinton's policies of the 90's were good for Blacks. While it is true, the forty-second President of the United States did preside over an economy that was arguably the best in my adult lifetime. But was it the policies of Mr. Clinton or House Speaker Newt Gingrich’s Congress and a GOP controlled Senate that forced Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan to keep interest rates low and to keep spending in check? But still, did William Jefferson Clinton actually lead during this period or was he simply following? Let's examine. Are leaders sidelined while tacitly watching Africa’s Rwandan Tutsis being slaughtered by their extremists counterpart Hutu militia for nearly 100 days? Perhaps Mr. Clinton could have loaned supportive muscle to the Arusha Peace Agreement (APA). But, as the Commander and Chief of the world’s only superpower, should his failing to act during Rwanda’s international crisis eliminate him from being considered a leader or just a detriment to those living on the continent where God first created man? Take John Fitzgerald Kennedy, he sat a tone of leadership with the “we choose to go to the moon not because it is easy but, because it is haurrd (hard).” At 83, James Earl Carter, Jr., (Jimmy Carter) was just in the Middle East last week trying to broker a deal between arch rivals Hamas and Fatah. And although Ronald Reagan’s economic policies was described as voodoo economics, even he, a man that would succumb to Alzheimer in his later years, challenged the Soviet Union in a buffoonery, yet tactful manner. And now, a partial thanks to Nancy Reagan’s Ronnie, America has no military equal. Mr. Clinton, however, if you wanted to be a leader, you would have strong armed the United Nations' Security Council into putting some real troop muscle in APA, not the mere 2,500 troops that was sent, and provide a safe haven for the 800,000 Rwandans that were horrifically bludgeoned to death by a death squad of Huttus using guns and machetes. Why didn't you, Mr. Clinton, the great savior to black America, intervene? You intervened in Bosnia and Herzegovina. It too was a civil conflict where the death toll was less than a third of Rwanda's. You not only failed to publicly denounce the Rwandan genocide, but you were relatively mum on the subject. Was it because of America's 93' embarrassment in Mogadishu, Black Hawk Down? Or was it simply because of the hue of their skin? No? Why were there such opposite policies for Sub-Saharan Africans or Haitians compared to Europeans, Asians or even Cubans that entered into this country? Did the Clinton Administration do anything constructive to change it?

The Clintons of 94' are the same in 2008. Their euphemistic and slurred code language against Barack Obama, a then passive Democratic presidential candidate during the South Carolina primary, proved to be polarizing and divisive as Fox News’ front man Roger Ales and the late Lee Atwaters’ campaign add in 88', Willie Horton.

By the way, where were you Hillary? Did you immediately refute any of your husband's characterization of Mr. Obama? Did you disagree with any of his positions during your eight years as First Lady? If so, have you since gone on record with the National Archives requesting your husband to release all non classified documents for the eight years in the White House? If not, maybe you simply agreed with them. Mrs. Clinton, if you're going to keep fronting the prosperity years of your husband's Administration, you should also take the heat for its mishaps as well. But, we won't go there. Finally, Hillary, if you were asked in a public forum of your whereabouts during the 94' Tutsis massacre, what would you say? Don't ask, don't tell? I know, you decided to wait for a real challenge to bring real peace, Bosnia. Remember, that’s the place where you were dodging all the bullets.

Supreme Court: Right On Voter ID, Wrong In Timing

On Monday, the Supreme Court voted 6-3 in favor to allow states to require voters to present proper identification at the voting polls. With Justices Clarence Thomas, Scalia, Alito, Kennedy, Stevens and Chief Justice Roberts voting with the majority, the fallout of the this decision lends furtherance to the American divide. While it is a novel gesture to try and legitimize our elections, the timing of this decision is democratically genocidal and highly speculative. Is it coincidental that Indiana, a state that the Republican presidential candidate has won for at least the last 48 years, so happens to be the test case that will surely effect this years presidential election? Was it the left winged ACLU's undoing to push it to the Supreme Court? Maybe. However, while this may lend credence to our election system, its unintended effect will not only shun democratic voters in GOP states like Texas, Indiana or Kansas, but also Liberal, oops I mean Progressives in states like California, New York and in swing states Florida and Georgia. How so? While voters are faced with a global recession and a housing market in its highest foreclosure rate in history, gas prices at an all time high and the downtrodden are living paycheck to paycheck, if possessing a meager voter's registration card and another form of valid identification at the polls was a requirement to vote, would the majority still vote? I say yes...

If I were Rev. Jeremiah Wright

Whether pro or con, politicians spend millions to get the sort of publicity that Dr. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr., a 66 year old Marine and recipient of eight honorary doctorates, the former pastor of the Trinity United Church of Christ has lost the very thing that he’s worked for nearly 37 years and loved the most, his ministry. So what alternatives are there and given the current political turmoil he appears to still be in, it's not that all complicated to advise him on what his next endeavor should be. Well, let's see. What did we learn from Don Imus, Martha Stewart and Britney Spears' fiascoes? The more stories out in the media , especially negative, the smart and resilient tend to bounce back bigger than ever. Take Imus, he got $20 million from CBS after outbursts from perennial protester Al Sharpton and within a few months after of being yanked off the airwaves, he was soon hired and back on the airwaves by a New York radio station. In the case of Ms. Stewart, she is now richer than she had ever dreamt before she did the roughly 18 months in prison. As for the case of Ms. Spears, the first time I ever heard of her, my soon to be 15 year old mentioned her name a couple of years ago and I've heard it everywhere since. Even actor Wesley Snipes in a couple of years, assuming he'll actually do time from his recent IRS tax conviction, after he gets out of the slamma, he'll command $10 million more per film than before his conviction. What does this all mean? Victims of constant negative public attacks are often sitting in the catbird seat and don't even know it. Rev. Wright should simply capitalize on his new found persona; speaking tours, write a fifth book, paid public and private appearances, the WWF, his own cartoon series, an appearance on Dancing with the Stars and American Idol.

Why Hillary Clinton's NOW deemphasizing "Rodham"

Ever wonder why you don't hear or see much of the Rodham name anymore when Mrs. Clinton is campaigning? She proudly angled the Rodham name when she was First Lady during her years in the nation's capital. Call it crazy, but she only started dropping the central Pennsylvanian Rodham name when she announced she was running for Republican Alphonse Demato's U.S. Senate seat back in 99'. It's been said before, Mrs. Clinton only stayed married to the philandering 42nd President of the United States because she angrily decided to use him after the testy Lewinsky ordeal as a stepping stone and disavowing the feminists in referring to her as a softy. Remember the infamous "I could have stayed at home baking cookies" comment?

If for some reason Mrs. Clinton were to capture the nomination via coup, she would have her husband served divorce papers while she would be at her throne, I mean office. Call it far fetched thinking, but, women never forget when you wrong them, especially while in public. William Jefferson, you'd better watch out.

Mr. Obama: Choose Bill Richardson NOW for VP...

You may say it's premature for Mr. Obama to be thinking about his choice for Vice President when Hillary has swept the states with the largest delegate count. But, let's be real here. Mrs. Clinton has not won a single red state that the GOP garnered in the 04' presidential election. No, NOT even one. Mr. Obama will get the usual blue states and can win Florida and maybe even Texas, yes Texas with Bill Richardson. Richardson gives Mr. Obama a large delegation of Hispanic voters he now lacks. If the Democratic party is to recapture Pennsylvania Avenue and to make good on a real task, not bringing the troops home, but the undoing of George W. Bush's tax cuts, it will be more because of Richardson and surprisingly, not Barack Obama.

Who is the real John McCain?

Is Mr. McCain the maverick he purports to be? He often speaks about how he breaks with his GOP colleagues when he believes it's for the best interest of the American people. Did he believe voting against a holiday for Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was in the best interest of the American people? He states he regret making an error in judgment by not believing Dr. King was worthy of a holiday. Was this a straight shooting comment or the usual political fodder? Why haven't we heard about the infamous Keating Five anymore? Wonder what would Charles Keating and Democrats Dennis DeConcini, Donald Riegle, John Glenn and the late Alan Cranston all of which were accused of strong-arming federal officials to back off their investigation of Mr. Keating's Lincoln Savings and Loan association back in 89' have to say about John McCain. Would they call him a straight shouter?

Is he a war hero? Well, as I recall, wasn't Mr. McCain a Navy pilot that was shot down by the Vietnamese and held captive for five years? Were there ever any accounts of him being wounded while trying to escape or subduing the enemy? Mr. McCain, are heros captured ALIVE?

Hillary, Enough Already...

I can't stomach this any longer, the continued saga of Hillary Clinton's attempt to garner the Democratic nomination at the risk of bringing down her Party. I mean, Mrs. Clinton, what are trying to accomplish? With the defections of five former members of her husbands Cabinet: Bill Daley, Norman Mineta, Federico Pena, Robert Reich and Bill Richardson, you continually loose slippage and putting henchmen such as gargoyle looking James Carville and Gerry Ferraro who are using code language to incite racist politics, doesn't exactly help your case with the remaining 300 uncommitted super delegates. The say anything do anything at all cost tactics could backfire. Remember Willie Horton? Michael Dukakis does. George H.W. Bush's election team of the late Lee Atwater and Roger Ales (now President of Fox News) used the Horton fiasco against Mr. Dukakis, the democratic nominee back in 88' with results the democratic party does not want to remember. Mrs. Clinton, don't hortonize the future of your party, Barack Obama.

We need ALAN KEYES! But ..Why?

C'mon. Are you serious? This guy's a joke. He's been running since 96'. He has no economic solutions and only trumps his moral aptitude. Give me a break.

Why am I saying this? OK, for those of you with short memories, Mr. Keyes is the guy the Republicans recruited, a resident of Maryland at the time, to run in Illinois against Barack Obama for the US Senate back in 2006. He lost then and perceived by many as a loser now. Of course, certainly not this writer. Worse yet, the Republicans refuses to even acknowledge him as a Presidential primary candidate, garnering less than 5 percent in the polls. Mr. Keyes, unfortunately, was used as a pawn, a last minute stint to neutralize the Illinois black vote.

Mr. Keyes, since most of your dialog regularly purports morality, you may consider campaigning to serve on the board of Oral Roberts University. Maybe..... lend some moral direction to its former president, Richard Roberts.

80th Texas Legislature Begins with Less Hoopla

While awaiting this past Tuesday to see who would be selected speaker of Texas' 80 th legislature, I find it quite interesting to see what would happen to those who publicly opposed Tom Craddick , Speaker of the House and former lieutenant of the befallen former Minority Whip of the U.S. congress, Tom Delay. The question is, exactly how far down in the pecking order they actually sink, ala fellow republicans Rep. Brian McCall and Rep. Jim Pitts. But, I must admit, I wanted to see if Mr. Craddick's own party loyalists would actually go forward with their public comments in saying that they would not only challenge Mr. Craddick's tenure, but that they had commitments in writing to even win the speakership. They even had the gaul to release the list of those that supported them. My ole rural professor once told me in a democracy, it's healthy to have a festive dialog with your foes. But, in this case, no one seemed to be up to the challenge, except those who knew that they had no chance of winning, HELLO, Rep. Senfronia Thompson. No pun intended. But, Ms. Thompson, there is something to said about your gutsy bravado. Reps. Thompson, McCall and Pitts, you are likely to be reassigned to unwanted sub-subcommittees. As for Rep. Thompson, you at least stood up for what you believed in before gracefully bowing out and regardless of whether you actually meant it or simply jockeying for chief spokesman for the democratic house minority, is that the 63 year old three term west Texan Craddick never forgets whose perceived as a challenge. They'll pay a heavy, heavy political price. And for all you right leaning Clintonian democrats that supported Mr. Craddick, a few top names didn't even win their primaries; Rep. Ron Wilson and Rep. Al Edwards, two of some of the longest serving democrats in the Texas state house, both black, coincidentally.