Corruption From Alaska To Illinois! Why We Should Not Be Surprised.

Alternate Title: The Real Bob Roberts vs. The Real John Doe!

On the one hand we have Governor Palin, McCain's V.P. running-mate, found guilty of unethical practices concerning the treatment of an Alaska State official or officer. On the other hand we have the Tony Rezko Affair, which involves Senator Obama in a relatively minor and benign way, that simply shows how corrupt people try to buy our public officials. But let's be real! In order to become a successful politician in America you must risk rubbing shoulders with corrupt businesspersons, especially political fundraisers who are also wealthy real-estate developers and investors! It takes a dung-heap-load of money to get the publicity you need to have a realistic chance of becoming an elected official, especially in big cities like New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago, Philadelphia, Miami, Dallas and Washington, D.C.! That said, should we not be concerned about double-standards and ethics no matter which side of the political fence we're on?? Of course we should, but we must also temper and moderate our own stances based on a healthy shades-of-grey attitude that takes into account the actual degree of corruption and illegality. And on that account the actions of Governor Palin are actually much worse than the actions of Senator Obama! Why? Simple! Governor McPalin (on purpose) threatened the welfare of a public servant, while Obama, typical of almost all politicians in major American cities (City States for that matter), accepted financial support and benefit from a man who he probably knew was of questionable character, but I have no doubt that if we had a Special National Witch-Hunt and related Congressional Hearings we would discover that virtually 80% to 90% of all Members of Congress and Senators have either knowingly or unwittingly accepted support from people just as corrupt! So, should we then suspend our National Elections, go through twenty years of devastating "House Cleaning", ages-worth of Investigations, Indictments, Hearings, Trials, allow the Military to set up an Emergency Federal Government supposedly void of partisan politics (yeah, right! Like we can trust every single General!) and, in the meantime see our entire nation become the largest Third World country on Earth!!! Absolutely not! Of course, if we could be sure that all actions in the name of The Law were truly in the interest of every Average American, every John & Jane Doe, and truly supportive of the broadest intent and meaning implied by Our Great Constitution, and if we could have a Care-Taker Government made up of Real People, mostly poor but educated academics, intellectuals, artists, honorably discharged veterans and those roughly 60% of those Americans who are patriotic, non-corrupt firemen, police officers and emergency response-persons, then I'd say LET'S DO IT! But that just ain't going to happen! Oh, and what about giving in to Ralph Nader, since he is generally right about corruption and abuse of public office and government power, but is so wrong on many fundamental security issues?? The question holds the answer to that one! The answer is simply this: Ralph Nader would totally ruin America, in spite of his best intentions! No. The answer is to hold these elections and to trust that most Americans will vote based on a realistic understanding and assessment of the significant differences between the McCain-Palin Changeless Status Quo Pseudo-Republican Ticket and the Obama-Biden Real Change But We're-No-Angels Democratic Government Reform Ticket!
Now, for those of who you have any doubts about Obama's limited and relatively benign association with Tony Rezko, just take into consideration these apparent (probable or plausible) facts (Source Wikipedia NGU):

1. In 1990, after Barack Obama was elected president of the Harvard Law Review, Tony Rezko's Rezmar Corp. offered him a job, but, without hesitation, Obama turned the job offer down (did not take the job). Obama did end up taking a low-level job with law firm Davis, Miner, Barnhill & Galland,[27] which primarily worked civil rights cases, but also represented Tony Rezko's Rezmar and helped the company get more than $43 million in government funding and whose former senior partner, Allison S. Davis, later went into business with Rezko and, in 2003, was appointed to Illinois State Board of Investment by Governor Blagojevich at Rezko's request.
2. On July 31, 1995 the first ever political contributions to Obama were $300 from a lawyer, a $5,000 loan from a car dealer, and $2,000 from two food companies owned by Rezko.
3. Starting in 2003, Rezko was one of the people on Obama's U.S. Senate campaign finance committee, which raised more than $14 million. Rezko threw an early fundraiser for Obama, which Chicago Tribune reporter David Mendell and claims was instrumental in providing Obama with seed money for his U.S. Senate race. Obama has since identified over $250,000 in campaign contributions to various Obama campaigns as coming from Rezko or close associates, and has claimed to have donated almost two thirds of that amount to unspecified nonprofit groups.
4. In 2005 Obama purchased a new home in the Kenwood District of Chicago for $1.65 million (which was $300,000 below the asking price but represented the highest offer on the property) on the same day that Rezko's wife, Rita Rezko, purchased the adjoining empty lot from the same sellers for the full asking price. Obama acknowledged bringing his interest in the property to Rezko's attention, but denied any coordination of offers. According to Obama, while the properties had originally been a single property, the previous owners decided to sell the land as two separate lots, but made it a condition of the sales that they be closed on the same date. Obama also claimed that the properties had been on the market for months, that his offer was the best of two bids, and that Ms. Rezko's bid was matched by another offer, also of $625,000, so that she could not have purchased the property for less. Obama's description of the purchase was later confirmed by the previous owner of the house.
5. After it had been reported in 2006 that Rezko was under federal investigation for influence-peddling, Obama purchased a 10 foot (3.0 m) wide strip of Ms. Rezko's property for $104,500, $60,000 above the assessed value. According to Chicago Sun-Times columnist, Mark Brown, "Rezko definitely did Obama a favor by selling him the 10-foot strip of land, making his own parcel less attractive for development."Obama acknowledges that the exchange may have created the appearance of impropriety, and stated "I consider this a mistake on my part and I regret it." On December 28, 2006, Ms. Rezko sold the property to a company owned by her husband's former business attorney. That sale of $575,000, combined with the earlier $104,500 sale to the Obamas, amounted to a net profit of $54,500 over her original purchase, less $14,000 for a fence along the property line and other expenses. In October 2007, the new owners put the still vacant land up for sale again, this time for $1.5 million.
6. In June 2007, the Sun-Times published a story about letters Obama had written in 1997 to city and state officials in support of a low-income senior citizen development project headed by Rezko and partner Allison Davis. The project received more than $14 million in taxpayer funds, including $885,000 in development fees for Rezko and Davis. Of Obama's letters in support of the Cottage View Terrace apartments development, Obama spokesman Bill Burton said, "This wasn't done as a favor for anyone, it was done in the interests of the people in the community who have benefited from the project. I don't know that anyone specifically asked him to write this letter nine years ago. There was a consensus in the community about the positive impact the project would make and Obama supported it because it was going to help people in his district." Rezko's attorney responded that "Mr. Rezko never spoke with, nor sought a letter from, Senator Obama in connection with that project.
7. In the South Carolina Democratic Party presidential debate on January 21, 2008, Senator Hillary Clinton said that Obama had represented Rezko, who she referred to as a slum landlord. Obama responded that he had never represented Rezko and had done only about five hours work, indirectly, for Rezko's firm (WHICH IS THE TRUTH AND PROVES OBAMA RIGHT). Within days of the debate, a photo of Rezko posing with Bill and Hillary Clinton surfaced. When asked about the photo Hillary Clinton commented "I probably have taken hundreds of thousands of pictures. I wouldn’t know him if he walked in the door."

Fine! Obama benefited from Tony Rezko's corruption, and at worst is probably only as guilty of corruption as over 400 Republican politicians and over 400 Democratic politicians in Chicago, Illinois!!! What is certain is that no one was killed or threatened on account of Obama's association with Rezko! And the Chicago Corrupt Politics story cuts across party lines and involves almost everyone from both major political parties in Illinois! Whereas the Palin Case involves abuse of Executive Power and evidence of corruption of Public Authority! And the Palin Case is about a serious violation of ethics that only benefited the Pseudo-Republican side!

Actually, I would dare argue that when compared to the Tens of Billions of Dollars, the Massive Amounts of Money, that have not been accounted for under The Bush Administration, especially vis-a-vis the Fiasco in Iraq, involving serious violations of law concerning the awarding of Government Contracts, which has cost us dearly in terms of both the irreplaceable lives lost and tax-payer's money, with the typical local politics financial scheming (corruption), involving only tens of millions of dollars at most, that goes on all the time (which should stop), the efforts to harm Obama's campaign are despicable and much more unethical, by far, than anything he may have benefited from politically.

Clearly the Pseudo-Republicans, far wealthier than most Democratic politicians, think it is alright to steal from the majority of poor and faltering middle class, working Americans, by bad policies that allow wealthy business-people to exploit and abuse and underpay workers, poor and lower income middle class people, by swindling taxpayers of Tens of Billions of dollars into schemes that, in the name of this war or that security measure, tend to fill the deep pockets of their political financial backers! But the minute an Average Working-class American turned Community Activist, Politician and Elected Public Servant, in order to actually be able to win an election against his rich and rich--people-financed Pseudo-Republican Opponent, so as to later truly poor and working class people in his community, accepts money or other support from anyone, they, the Pseudo-Republicans, yell 'High Treason & Murder'!!! Well, if you're a Working Class American you should find these Pseudo-Republican efforts to blame the victim while beating-up the victim double-offensive and deeply insulting! There is no sense at all in voting for the Big Thief who steals your house against the Small Thief who steals the Big Thief's money and wants to share the loot with you!!! It's that simple! Don't vote for those BIG THUGS WHO LIE BIG against those small creeps who lie little! Vote for Robin-Hood and not for Scrooge!

You know what: this whole situation is almost exactly like "Meet John Doe" the 1941movie directed and produced by Frank Capra, starring Gary Cooper (love his acting) and Barbara Stanwick! Really! Watch it! And then also watch "Bob Roberts" written/directed/starring Tim Robbins (really love that guy).

The So-called Republican Party Has LOST THE ELECTIONS ALREADY!

Last week I watched my Democratic Party's uplifting and unifying and reaching-out to all Americans, exciting, patriotic, sensible Convention in Denver, and I was truly impressed by all who took the stage and spoke such fine and timely words!

This week I decided to respectfully observe the so-called Republicans Convention, and all I got was one disappointment after another! Where was the McCain we thought we knew and we thought we could trust?? How could he pick such an appalling person, regardless of her being a woman (And one who likes killing noble creatures, like Alaskan moose! That's not the kind of woman I like.), who is so wrong a choice to be one hearbeat away from Our Presidency?!? A pseudo-Republican who unashamedly represents an extremist religious agenda, who harbours anti-Semitic views, who is truly offensive to me and all of my progressive fellow Jews, and who represents nothing but the same old same old of the pseudo-Republican Neo-Con Party!

And then tonight! G-D protect our beloved country, the America of our beloved founding parents, who would be appalled by the pseudo-Republicans constant mixing public office with religious zeal and thereby violating one of the most fundamental principles of Our Great American Constitution! Using deeply and eternally painful and horrific images of our nation's 9-11 tragedy for opportunist, fear-mongering, politicking was the very last straw! And then for that man, Senator Lindsey Graham, to imply that America has no real options and does not need democracy, because, as he implied, only his party can provide us Americans with the security we need! That was shameful in the extreme, and if the majority of my fellow Americans were to accept that kind of illogical, anti-democratic stance, then America will have fully played into the hands of our enemies; those pseudo-Islamic fanatic zealots who hijacked Islam and who violated its most basic principle by murdering so many wonderful Americans, so many wonderful people from all over The World, so many Jews, Christians, Hindus, Buddhists, Atheists, Pagans and Muslims too! Well, as as far as I am concerned tonight the pseudo-Republicans shot themselves in their feet and have lost the elections! How sad that these fools have, throughout the past 80, years managed to destroy the good name of a party that once gave us a wise man like Lincoln!

As I predicted; Senator Barack Obama and Senator Joe Biden will be our next American President and Vice-President, respectively!

Good Night and Good Luck!

For all those who are not sure who to vote for this year.

What Republican, Independent & Swing Voters Should Know

By Jean-Pierre Ady Fenyo, Philosopher, a.k.a. The Original New York City Free Advice Man.

First of all, regardless of what I write here you’re going to vote for whomever you are convinced will best defend America from her enemies, domestic and foreign, and I wouldn’t want you to do otherwise, because America does have enemies, truly dangerous enemies, sick people who hate everything decent and good in the world, who hate our Democratic Republic’s Constitution and the Freedoms, Liberties and Responsibilities it entails! Our enemies want nothing less than to be able to totally hijack Islam and in its name to impose a pseudo-Islamic global fascist, Nazi-like monstrosity of an empire, in which women and children are constantly terrorized and all who do not give up their human rights and subjugate themselves to their sick ways will be tortured and murdered in gulags and gas-chambers. I have no doubt about it, myself. Which is why The Global Fight Against Terrorists (which cannot be waged in the form of a conventional war), with our brave Special Forces and elite Ninja-like precision surgical strike anti-terrorist units, with help from our allies who cherish similar democratic values, and who love their families, friends and fellow human beings as The Lord commands us in The TORAH, must continue until the day that we can be sure that their number and ability to harm us is so diminished that they are nothing more than a small band of rogue goat herders hated more by their own relatives and country-folk than even by us! For our fight is in defense of all that is truly decent, all that is respecting of the privacy, property and liberty of all individuals, all that is respecting of the freedom of all persons to choose their own way of life within their own private residencies and lands, and is against all those sick monsters who share the sick ideas of those who attacked our Homeland on 9-11, and who attacked our friends in England on 7-7, who attacked our friends in Spain, in The Netherlands, in Africa and elsewhere! We must not elect anyone who would, even by accident or neglect, fail to protect our great country, America, home of the brave, land of the free. Nor elect anyone who would jeopardize our security interests abroad, as those interests would also jeopardize our safety at home. We must not elect anyone who would fail to come to the defense of our friends in Israel and in parts of Europe, and elsewhere in the world. We must not elect a bleeding-heart naïve neo-liberal or, for that matter a megalomaniac who would confuse our real enemy with all those true Muslims in the world who did not attack us on 9-11 and who have also come to understand, over time, that those sick monsters who hijacked their religion and misrepresent its true message, are just as much a serious danger and threat to their religion, safety and security as ours! We must not elect either of these extremes, because then we will have forsaken the promise made by our founders, great men and women like Eliza Lucas Pinckney, Abigail Adams, Martha Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin and George Washington; a promise that is embodied in Our Great Constitution and our Noble Democratic Republican American Way of Life!

Now, you may be convinced that our current President, George W. Bush, though not that great at handling our economy, never failed us in protecting us from our enemies, domestic and foreign, and you would seem to be right if we only look at how our government, and the many brave, noble and loyal federal agents who work so hard to keep us safe, have managed to prevent further 9-11 type and scale attacks. Granted, regardless of what your opinion of George W. Bush may be, one cannot fault him for sincerely wanting to protect us from serious danger and harm. But the measure of security and safety cannot be based only on how things seem to be working inside America, as the cost to our economy, having managed to alienate so many of our traditional, historic allies and other friendly countries, has itself put us in very, very great danger of self-destructing! The costs of our current global military, economic and political strategy, which even some hardcore Republicans will admit has been a terrible failure, have been very steep indeed! In actual reality what the Bush Administration, perhaps inadvertently (and dangerously foolishly), has managed to do is to use the wrong global and domestic tactics to fight terrorists, because though these tactics have indeed managed to prevent large-scale single-act attacks on our Homeland, they have actually caused way too many more, individually unnoticed, attacks on our economic security, our infrastructure, our liberties and our freedoms and our safety abroad!!! The actual reality as I see it is this: the fear-mongering, color-coded and bold rhetoric ‘the enemy is right behind you…could be your own neighbor…is anyone who does not share your version of American life…is anyone who is not a Neo-Conservative Republican’ method of fighting our enemies is actually playing right into their goal of destroying us! Perhaps with the best of intentions, perhaps not, Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz and a plethora of other naïve ultra-conservative idealists have actually caused severe and utterly dangerous internal divisions in our own country, among our fellow American citizens, including patriotic Democrats and Republicans, and all along our enemies have probably, in all likelihood, sat back in the darkest corners of their filthy caves and, getting DVDs from supporters who live down in the villages of Pakistan and Afghanistan, have been watching news reports about our daily lives in America and about our many, many new and very, very dangerous conflict points arising throughout the world, especially with regards to the situation in Pakistan, Afghanistan, The Middle East, Russia, Iran, China, North Korea, and the list goes on and on and on! And maybe those sick bastards hiding in their caves may only be inheritors of the monster bin Laden’s legacy, maybe he is already dead (who knows for sure), but I have no doubt that he and his sick brood trained newer generations of sick, primitive-minded fools into becoming dangerous terrorists, and he told them to wait, watch and only strike when America is finally busy at war with other nations of the world, over economic interests, over water resources, over oil and what not! And to watch us Americans turn against one another, little by little, day by day, eroding every vestige of Our Constitution’s rights and creating a nightmarish Country of Paranoiacs that Stalin would have been proud to rule! After all, that sick monster bin Laden (I would have even nastier words to describe him, safe for the fact that I wrote this for a broader audience) was a very clever man, albeit totally lacking any real wisdom and any sense of human decency and kindness, trained by our own mixed-bag CIA in rogue warfare tactics and what not, and he knew that even more Americans would die in the aftermath of 9-11 from the cummulative effect of having driven us into the direction of senselessly self-destructive divisiveness over otherwise benign issues. He knew that Bush, under the malicious influence of Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz and Cheney, would use the occasion, the excuse (Casus Belli) of the 9-11 horrors to eventually launch an attack on Saddam Hussein and Iraq, knowing that by doing so we would manage to turn even some of the most sympathetic Arab and other Muslim national leaders and peoples against us, some who actually were just as angry and disgusted at those assaults against humanity as we ourselves were. Sick bin Laden knew that Bush was very likely to fall into his trap and thereby ruin decades of hard, serious diplomacy and friendship-building in Europe, Asia, The Middle East, and elsewhere! And, to our great disadvantage and terrible loss, he was right! Now, hold on a sec, don’t get me wrong; getting rid of Saddam Hussein and his regime, which really was a threat to relative stability in the Persian Gulf and The Middle East, was something his (Bush's) father should have done in the first place, during the First Gulf War! But, given the complexity of the world situation, and the fact that the world’s economic stability has since, as a result of 9-11, suffered a major and almost totally lethal shock to the market-economy system, had I been President I would have done the right thing! I would have realized that sick bin Laden actually wants me to fall into his trap and attack Saddam Hussein and Iraq, thereby inflaming and outraging the Arab nations, and this also angering our friends in Europe who are even more heavily dependent on the flow of Arab and Persian oil! I would have thought to myself; ‘Hah! That bastard bin Laden thinks I’m such a fool! Well, I’m not going to take his bait, and fall into his clever trap by starting a full-scale conventional military invasion of Iraq! No way Jose! Nope. I’m going to build the world’s largest coalition ever and I’m going to sweep down on Afghanistan and there won’t be a cave in any mountain, a hole under the floor of any mud-brick house, or any place where a single terrorist can hide, and I’m going try to capture bin Laden himself alive, and then put him in a special holding cell where for the rest of his life he will be shown, high up on the white walls, images, at least every day for eight hours straight, of the horrors and aftermath of what he did to my beloved Americans and our friends, and there will be the sounds and odors of the horrors recreated for him to hear, and then the words, the pleading of all those wonderful people, decent human beings, begging for help to find their lost ones, in the minutes, hours, days, weeks, months and years after he managed to murder so many wonderful, innocent mothers, children, fathers, and managed to wreck the lives of countless many more thousands and hundreds of thousands of lives, and the suffering, the extreme poverty, death and destruction his cowardly indefensible monstrous acts caused upon the least of nations, who were dependent on our great charitable efforts! And I will have scientists make special devices to insure that during those eight hours each day he cannot close his eyes or shut his ears, or clog his nose, and I and the world, after giving him the fairest of trials, will continue to watch him every now and then, as he is forced to face his evil ways! And I will have the same done to any of his close confidants and any who would dare follow in his path! And the greater number of the world’s nations will have united against all terrorists, and the majority of the world will have eventually helped create special circumstances that would allow for the relatively peaceful, precision target, removal of any and all murderous leaders who terrorize their own people! And then I would have put due pressure on all parties concerned to finally make a fair, just, comprehensive, lasting peace for Israel and a Palestinian State and for all The Middle East! And then the world would have by now begun to create the kind of alternative transportation and energy technologies which actually exist, mostly hidden from public view, that will liberate all humanity from the caustic fumes of burning oil, the deathly stench of fossil fuels, and oil would simply be used in preciously priced small amounts as lubrication for motors, and we would provide very decent alternative business models for OPEC nations, so that they may get away from having to produce fossil fuel gasoline, and benefit from those alternative energy and transportation technologies, that would eventually free humankind from greater environmental degradation, from pollution that actually kills many, many more people every day than the total of those murdered by sick bin Laden and Company on 9-11! For I would have been wise enough to understand, to see in my mind’s eye that bin Laden is actually working for the Dark Side of OPEC and their Oil Peddling Billionaires Club in Texas! And I would see that, as our great President Ike (Eisenhower) so wisely warned us, we need to tame the beast of The Military Industrial Complex and make it serve humanity, producing defensive weapons and alternative transportation and energy technologies, that we need to make the MIC moderate and cure it from its addiction to senseless violent conflict and terrible wars! For I would be wise enough to know that America’s stability and security, financial and in every other sense, would be jeopardized if we were foolish enough to destroy the source of much of our economic strength and security, the MIC! I would be wise enough to do what Ike wanted us to do; tame the MIC and gradually convert it into a total force for good! But did Bush do any of these wise things? Noooo! Not only did he and his cronies fail to do the right things and rise to the occasion, but they managed to severely damage our world standing and our overall economic security, even harming the MIC so severely that most of the MIC’s industrialists wished he had never been President!

So, in closing, you must be wondering what I am getting at, who I would like you, my fellow American patriot, to vote for this November?!? Simple! Do not vote for McCain, because the world’s so pissed-off at us already that unless we vote for someone they, the world, the world of other nations who would otherwise like to once more buy our goods in greater quantities than ever, really sense means real change, then we’ll be wasting another painful four years that we and the world really cannot any longer afford! (Not as if the world could have afforded the past 8 years already!)

But then, who am I asking you to vote for?

The bleeding-heart naïve neo-liberal Senators Barack Obama and Joe Biden?!? ‘You can’t be serious now?!’, you’re probably asking (or something to that effect).

Well, I myself will not vote for the bleeding-heart naïve neo-liberals! No way Jose! And I am as serious as one can be! I will only vote for the wise, brave, patriotic, Constitutional lawyer who will not hesitate to defend America from her enemies, even if it may sometimes mean going to war, the Constitutional lawyer whose Presidential platform is loaded with very responsible, fairly conservative economic ideas, but who will finally also save so many millions of working-class Americans from total disaster and premature death! I will vote for the Constitutional expert lawyer who knows that Ike was right, that Washington was right, that Lincoln was right, that Kennedy was right; I will vote for the man who can best unite us Americans, Black and White, and all others too! I will vote for the man who has the wisdom to know whom to seek advice from, including another great American patriot, a man who wants our Military Industrial Complex to be strong and healthy and to be a force for good! I will vote for a Constitutional lawyer who knows that America was actually founded by men and women who understood, all too well, how dangerous, wrong and evil it is for government to serve the specific ideological and/or religious interests of one set of Americans against another! I will vote for a man who really does, like Lincoln did, come from the ranks of the hardest working Americans, whose grandmother worked to make the weapons we needed to defeat the evil enemies of humanity, the enemies of freedom and liberty, the anti-Democratic, anti-Republican Fascists and Nazis who threatened to destroy human civilization! I will vote for the man who, against so many odds, managed to pull himself up and out of the hardships of poverty in America to become the best candidate, at this time, for President of The United States! I will vote for a man whose very message includes a straightforward admission of being as imperfect as the best of us Americans, and whose own family life exemplifies the very true family values that a healthy America needs to respect! I will vote for a man who has had his weaknesses and made his mistakes and thus who is truly willing to seek the wise counsel and experienced advice of wiser men like Senator Joe Biden! I will vote for someone who is very human, and very realistic and never seeking to impose his own ideas on others, Senator Barack Obama! I will vote for him because he truly understands the everyday hardships so many wonderful working-class and middle-class Americans, and even some wealthy Americans, now face! I will vote for a man who is of the people, for the people, by the people! And I will vote for him even though I already know that he will sometimes disappoint me, and that though he will be a great American President loved as much abroad as at home, he will not always do as wisely a thing as I would have done! And I will look back four years later and know that he did great for America’s image abroad, that he gave the world renewed hope and faith in America, in an America not afraid of healthy, patriotic, Democratic Republican change! And maybe, if he as wise as I sense him to be, he will give Joe Biden the chance to be President in 2012, so that his legacy will not be tarnished by what tends to happen in a second term! And I will see America once more a beacon of hope and a glorious light of reason and love among the nations of the world! And America will truly be the home of the brave and land of the free, a place for you, me and everybody, everybody regardless of their particular ideology, religion, way of life, race, sexual orientation, gender, age, whatever! Because the only colors in America that we should be truly conscious of is the green of money (noticed lately how un-green our money has been getting?! Hhm?!), the green of nature, and the Red, White and Blue of the great symbol of Our Constitution, unfortunately often abused, our American Stripes & Stars, Our Old Glory! God Bless You! And now do the right thing: go to Senator Obama’s official web-site and read his platform and speeches, and think very deeply about what I have written here and why I am convinced voting for McCain, even if he really is such a nice guy, would do NOTHING, NILL, ZILCH, ZERO to help change the world’s bad opinion of us! And without much of the rest of the world, without better, greater markets to sell our fine products (and some of our crap and junk, too!), without our ability to relatively safely travel and live abroad, for business, pleasure and what not, we Americans will only lose out BIG TIME to CHINA, RUSSIA, INDIA and The Lord knows who! So do the right thing and make a wise decision not based on simple ideological preferences only! Keep in mind this: Ike’s Republican daughter is for Obama, over 80% of Chicago’s Jewish community, many prominent citizens, fully support Obama, especially given his pro-Israel record (go to www.njdc.org if you doubt Obama is safe and properly vetted), and Palin belongs to a fanatic group that believes Jews will burn in Hell! As an American I find McCain’s choice, regardless of her being a woman, offensive! Whereas Biden has been on the political forefront in our Global Fight Against Terrorists!

Jean-Pierre Ady Fenyo, The Original New York City Free Advice Man, a proud American Original McCoy!