IF NOT NOW ~ WHEN WILL AMERICA THINK FOR HERSELF?

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NOW Is The Time

The time has come for this nation to face itself. Truth will not set free a nation who cannot face truth: About George W Bush and his selected representatives, about racism of Native American Indians, Mexicans or Black African Americans, about discrimination against the poor and the children in need in this nation.

My heart feels sick because I see a Democrat candidate, Hillary Rodham Clinton, who is not interested in bringing our divided Unites States of America together ~ but will use tools of division to win at any cost her dream to be in the position of President of our divided nation. It is apparent in her campaign. And she is the master at parsing.

I want a candidate who is authentic in who she is. Someone who doesn’t use the parsing of words and misrepresentation of what Barack Obama says. Hillary is politics as usual.

Her way is not a sign of a nation’s leader who is ready to face truth, but to use its people to get the power she wants. We are manipulated. But we let ourselves be manipulated. it is historical. Look at what we let Rove give to us.

I want a candidate who is authentic, who has integrity as the guiding force behind her or his behavior. We are human and of course that means no one can be perfection personified. But we can know when people are authentic. But we have to be willing to be honest with what is in front of us. Status quo is dangerous at this time in our nation’s politics.

I hesitate to say these things, but I will and take the risk that I will be criticized. If we can't say what we think, we are not free. Our government and media is owned by corporations. Do a search on Bush’s signed bills and his signing statements, on what he has acted upon and what he has pushed away of “not important” to deal with. (A signing statement is a written proclamation issued by the government executive power that accompanies the signing of a law passed by the government's legislature. . . Notably, such statements are issued by the Presidents of the United States).

Hopefully, you will see that NOW is the time to get involved in our government. In a country, that the people are looked upon as in the way of progress and government doing its job, we have corporate kings like Don Blankenship buds with George W Bush and his people.

To spend a trillion dollars on the Iraq war*, that has reaped none of the various ever-changing claimed goals, and not be willing to spend money on and support our people by way of health care, top quality education for all children, housing, Christian principled social and humanity values, infrastructure ~ is at best obscene ~ disgusting and morally offensive, especially because of showing total disregard for other people. (*and the deaths of Iraqi civilians and U.S. troups, as well as those injured from this illegal Iraqi war.)

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Bill Moyers Journal on Clinton, Obama, King and Johnson on PBS

We need to learn about our government and what and who are ruling Washington, D.C. ~ our national government. We need a government and people who sees that the Federal Reserve has tremendous power and not given to it by the U.S, Constitution and without the gold standard for the dollar. We need a government that doesn’t undermine her citizens, including when it comes to electronic voting machines with no paper back-up. We need a government that recognizes that all of her people are equal parts of the government and that paid corporate lobbyists and corporate media are not protected by the U.S. Constitution ~ all opposed to the elevation of We the People as the core of our democracy.

Are you aware that computer voting machines can be rigged and there is no way to ensure that vote is counted?

Californians join a national lawsuit to restore verifiable and open ballot count, meaning they don’t want any more electronic vote fraud. Voter registration irregularities and notorious vote count manipulation have become standard procedure in recent elections. “We have the Right to cast an effective vote, meaning we have the Right to have our vote counted accurately if our right to self-govern is to have any meaning at all.”

Are you aware by May of 2008 that our law will require you to carry a national identification card?

Are you aware that there are plans being developed to have all Americans embedded with a Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) computer chip under their skin so they can be tracked wherever they go?

Are you aware the Supreme Court has ruled that the government has no authority to impose a direct unapportioned tax on the labor of the American people, and the 16th Amendment does not give the government that power? Do we know what is going on in our government? Do we care enough to learn?


AUTHENTIC IS NOT A WORD THAT I CAN ANY LONGER ASSOCIATE WITH HILLARY CLINTON

I find her pretentious, a politician who fits the stereotype of willing to do anything she can get away with to win or get what she wants. Some call her phony. I prefer the word pretentious. Of course, Hillary is a good politician whose dirty stuff that her campaign is doing via mail flyers in the states that are having their caucusses and primaries, her local representatives saying intentional distorted things about Barack Obama are under the radar of most, especially those who don't daily keep up.

When going to door to door as a volunteer in New Hampshire for Barack Obama, people told me if John McCain doesn't get the Republican nomination that they would vote for Barack Obama. One woman told me that she had many friends that she thought would vote for Hillary, but she found out they definitely said they would not vote for Hillary.

I hear a lot of this stuff, but still many are for Hillary. I don't claim to know why~ for each and every one of them ~ but it worries me that people choose Hillary based on Bill. And they are not seeing Hillary's campaigning behavior that illustrates "old school politics" and certainly not a "change" like she has adopted from Barack's "A Change We Can Believe In". And I worry that Hillary brings that continual "vetting" baggage with her. How can it be otherwise?

I like that Barack is calling on us to step up and become engaged in his campaign and his Presidency, should we give him the opportunity to pull some of the shreds of hope left in our hearts together and move proactively and thoughtfully forward with some ideals lifted up. That is the USA I want to be a part of.
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Eva Cassidy singing Imagine

Barack Obama speaking at Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s church in Atlanta this past Sunday

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