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The Economic & Spiritual Drain of Bigotry

“The Road to the gates of Heaven is not paved with the dishonor of creating further injustice through self righteousness here on earth about god’s will with respect to the gay community. Bigotry is furthermore an economic drain on society, unless you think the work of gay capitalists, entrepreneurs, blue collar workers, professionals and creatives is not part of the GDP, so please do not try to tell me that the economy and gay marriage are separate issues. The civil rights of all of our citizens and all of god’s children are relevant to the progress of our nation.”    – Christopher London (2012)

Equal Rights For Gays Do Not Undermine the Rights of Non-Gays

This past week, the President of the United States of America, for the first time stated publicly and unequivocally, directly from the White House, his support of marriage equality for same sex couples. This was truly a watershed event in the civil rights movement for the LGBT Community that traces its rise to the Stonewall Riots in New York City in 1969.    Opponents of marriage equality, traditionalists and those guided by traditional family values ought to relax, recognize and comprehend that gay marriage has not bee mandated upon straight people. I am pretty sure that straight folks are still free to be straight, marry and procreate with members of the opposite sex. Those who are not gay certainly remain free to live their own lives in accordance to their interpretation of biblical law. Even those of us who are of the belief that gay pairings fly in the face of God’s natural law must recognize and understand that no where in scripture or elsewhere has God licensed individual citizens to enforce the power and judgment of God upon individual citizens.  To do so would also be in further contravention of equal rights under the law under the U.S. Constitution, which is actually the ruling document of this nation.

God’s Law Should be Enforced by God not Moralists who Claim to Speak for God

If gays are truly living unholy lives not in accordance with God’s law, and God is to render any kind of judgment therefor, he or she can do it in his or or her own time. You and I both are alleviated of performing God’s role here on this earth and should thus be  liberated to focus on your own life, and not the private life of your neighbor. The exercise and pursuit of  so called traditional family values ought not to stand in defiance of exhibiting humanity towards our fellow citizens. With all due respect to the eloquent Tony Perkins,  a conservative politician who heads the Family Research Council, I respect those among us who fight to insure that families and children of this nation receive their rightful priority in our national agenda both in terms of sustaining our civilization and working towards creating more humane environments for our nation’s children and their parents.  Your role in that regard is valid to a point.  You are not God. God has not licensed you to determine how our citizens should be treated under the law of the land which is the U.S. Constitution.  When you thus take things a step further to prevent gay people from marrying and committing to one another, challenging their individual liberty, that is a manipulative distraction and definitely not the key to vaulting America into leading the world.  Doing so will not further stabilize traditional families but only lead to greater tension and societal instability.   Am I my brother’s keeper? Yes I am, but I am certainly not his overlord. Nevertheless, I must love him as I would myself. Forward and onward my fellow Americans.

FORWARD: Weaving & Mending the Tapestry of American Life

The political debate in America ought to be about how to get business thriving, how our country can compete better in a more competitive global economy, how we can elevate the forgotten pockets in the Appalachian region where our countrymen are hurting from the impact of globalization, how we can repair urban blight and social decay while building the security of the middle class and luring the elite of the world who live in more oppressive environments in other countries to come get their educations and fulfill their entrepreneurial dreams here in America. We can better Rebuild America and ‘Drive America Forward’ but luring the top talent from around the world to build their dreams in our nation.  We should invite and allow the world’s elite minds and souls to weave themselves in and become part of America’s tapestry. New York City should commit itself to being the model city for the best and brightest the world over and then it can serve as a shining example to the rest of the country that differences among people are not to be feared but perhaps celebrated.

The challenges we face as a nation are different ones in some respects than we faced before. New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg’s thought process on enlightened immigration policy is one which needs to be examined, understood and embraced. New York is where it is in 2012, regardless of one’s critique of the Mayor on individual issues because he was forward thinking on a grand scale and he also ultimately came to embrace aspects of the Giuliani legacy, even in times where the cities coffers were less flush with cash than they were in the 1990’s. That post 9/11 New York City did not slip into a 1970’s abyss is testament to New York City’s political leadership. Consider that the Mayor has as many critics on the right and on the left and I would say that when you infuriate folks on all sides you are in all likelihood striving to do what is best for the whole of society. To that I say Mazel Tov. Do I agree with every decision made by every leader? Hardly, but I see merit often in the grander mosaic and vision. We are all human and we all fail and succeed.  I am a New Yorker, I have seen the best and the worst in my lifetime over the last 50 years and was informed by those in my family who were here at the turn of the last century. Frankly, I think we are lucky to have had the Mayoral leadership that we have had for the last 20 years. That is just New York.

On a national level, we ought not fighting about how to prevent some folks who relate to the same sex differently than the majority of us do from partnering with one another, so that they too can be liberated to fight the fights that matter and also be focused in elevating our society. The LGBT Community and immigrants to America alike contribute to the economic vitality, prosperity and spiritual core of this country whether you like it or not and whether you respect how they live. And truthfully, why should we be at all concerned or shall I say be pre-occupied with denying the LGBT Community equality? How will it advance America to remove from the team certain folks by reclassifying them as lesser Americans?

BIGOTRY = An Economic Drain on Society

Is the American way ‘truth and justice for all’ or only for some? Which is it?  And please do not try to tell me that the economy and gay marriage are separate issues, (see:  the position taken by GOP: ‘GOP: Economy tops gay marriage as campaign issue’) for  I would argue that they are intertwined. A divided society is less productive ultimately. Bigotry is thus an economic drain on society. Intolerance and injustice are very much tied to the economy because it unsettles otherwise productive members of society from their pursuits in life that drive the economy to defend their station as citizens of this land.  As we seek to move this nation forward, it is important and perhaps critical to consider that economically speaking, the LGBT Community is a somewhat vital contributor to the nation’s economy and our Gross National Product (GNP). Unless you think that the work of gay capitalists, entrepreneurs, professionals and creatives is not part of the GNP or GDP, you might want to consider that gays make steady contributions to society by working in Science, Technology, Venture Capital & Finance, Manufacturing, Entertainment, Medicine, Law, Academia, Publishing, the Arts, Theater, Fashion etc. Many members of the LGBT Community own enterprises that employ gays and non-gays alike. And many are significant philanthropists funding causes near and dear to many of us who seem to be less sympathetic to their shared desire for equal standing.  Don’t believe me? Ask the owners of restaurants and hotels, wedding planners, florists, photographers in your own community whether gay marriage is useful for their business.

Think twice before you condone the idea of treating members of the LGBT Community as lesser Americans. Maybe if you do, then all those “homo’s” will move overseas and build the economy of other nations and America can be a productive “gay free” nation like……. IRAN.  Productive members of society should not have to expend time and effort defending their sexuality and the manner in which they love from citizens who believe that God has given them license to discriminate. If they do, we all lose.

Rational Discourse vs. Dehumanization Tactics

This is why regardless of whether you are a Democrat, Republican or Independent you have to appreciate that Barack Obama, the sitting  President of the United States has finally stated public support for marriage equality.  Obama has evolved like many of us, myself included, continue to on this issue.  This does not mean that there are not thoughtful and rational arguments to challenge any candidate for high office or his or her re-election effort.  President Obama is not above reproach as a leader and like any sitting leader deserves to be challenged.  There is nothing wrong with having a legitimate policy debate and bringing it to the American people. The case against the Obama Presidency all to often has been made on false terms and via use of dehumanizing code words and divisive and ridiculous rhetoric that appeals to our fears and not to our intellect. Andrew Sullivan in the Daily Beast, makes some valid points in a piece wherein he postures that Obama’s long game may end up out smarting all of his critics:

“The right calls him a socialist, the left says he sucks up to Wall Street, and independents think he’s a wimp. The attacks from both the right and the left on the man and his policies aren’t out of bounds. They’re simply—empirically—wrong.”

Where  I take further issue is when that debate degenerates into blaming this President for every misfortune befallen to the people of this land, as if we were in such a stellar place in 2008, and then further attempt to  radicalize a President who inherited a country in the verge or in the midst of economic collapse and at a major crossroads,  by dehumanizing him and referring to him as a radical socialist, terrorist Muslim sympathizer, a thug and not cut of the same American cloth but different and then further when all else fails, through the use of angry white male’s rhetoric of last resort….gay bashing and inferences of ‘you’re so gay’.  A perfect example of gay bashing is yesterday’s cheap shot at President Obama by Senator Rand Paul (R-Kentucky), whose testicles I would personally like to stuff down his down throat, for playing to his own ignorance and those listening to him with his cheap shot on the President. Then again that is just me as I usually find that men of such ilk don’t have the balls to truly refer to themselves as “Men”.

As reported in the LA Times: U.S. Senator Rand Paul remarked on President Obama’s decision to publicly support same-sex marriage by saying, “Call me cynical, but I wasn’t sure his views on marriage could get any gayer.”

Senator Paul’s juvenile remark only illustrated for the wider public the depth of the man’s ignorance and undermined the stature he was building in wider society, at least in my eyes, by effectively dismissing the President with all the veiled disrespect of calling someone a silly or “stupid homo.”

The Road to Heaven is Not Paved by Injustice & Self Righteousness

We ought not, however, to be engaged in these unproductive battles to differentiate rights between citizens based on their sexual preference. We need to move beyond unproductive and divisive dialoque’s on these wedge issues so that the entire country is charging forward in all cylinders. That is the America I want to live in. My values may in many cases be far more traditional but nevertheless should not traditional values embody loving all those that are different than you or me? Are we not all God’s children? I do not profess to know what is God’s plan or the path to heaven, if it exists, or what kind of life  is the most holy, and I have and will continue to make every conceivable mistake there is to make in the remainder of my time here on earth, but I do not think that the road to the gates of heaven is paved with the dishonor of creating further injustice through one’s own self anointed self righteousness and judgment exhibited thereby, here on this earth, towards the gay community – and about what other consenting adults should be doing or not doing behind closed doors and who they cannot help loving. And yes that is an evolution for me as well.

Forward:  With More Humanity, Love,  Sanity & Tolerance

As stated to me by another one of my enlightened female role models: “We groom our generations to want more, do less, take as much as you can and give as little as possible.” So instead maybe we should come to be happy with preserving our health, taking responsibility for ourselves and the community we live in and commit to loving and supporting family units of all kinds and commit to building a more humane society over all and at least figure out what we can do to make our society more humane and just and spread our love to more and more of our fellow citizens. I think only great things can come from spending more time loving our fellow man than judging him.

It seems so simple on so many levels and so utterly achievable if we as Americans appeal to our better angels rather than fermenting politics of division.

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See also

-The True Colors Fund: The True Colors Fund was co-founded by Cyndi Lauper to inspire and engage everyone, especially straight people, to become active participants in the advancement of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender equality and to raise awareness about and bring an end to gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender youth homelessness. For more information please visit: http://www.truecolorsfund.org

-Andrew Sullivan, The Daily Beast – Barack Obama’s Gay Marriage Evolution

-NPR Interviews Andrew Sullivan on Obama’s Support of Gay Marriage: Obama’s ‘Marriage’ Move Is ‘Conservative’ and He ‘Let Go Of The Fear’

-Andrew Sullivan, The Daily Beast – How Obama’s Long Game Will Outsmart His Critics

-Bruce Gottlieb, The Atlantic – Of Course Obama’s Gay Marriage Stance Is Political—So What?

-Michele Weiser, Boston.com – OPINION: Obama Supports Gay Marriage… So What?

-Politico, Cyndi Lauper Loves Obama’s True Colors

-NY Times, P. Baker & R Swarns – After Obama’s Decision on Marriage, a Call to Pastors

-Daily Kos: An open letter to the people who hate Obama more than they love America

ECHOS OF GEORGE WALLACE: The Southern Strategy,  Racial Pragmatism, Pseudo Nationalism & More Tea Party Propaganda by the folks at Breitbart

At the Conservative Political Action Conference this year, Andrew Breitbart promised a crowd of activists damning videos of President Barack Obama as a student at Harvard Law School. The videos, Breitbart said, would show people “why racial division and class warfare are central to what ‘hope and change’ was sold in 2008.” “In this election we’re going to vet him,” Breitbart famously vowed. As noted in the Washingto Post, in retrospect, given what his progeny at Breitbart have since brought forth, this was a case where ‘Showmanship Prevailed’ over meaningful discourse.

‘Big Ideas’ Don’t Come out of Mad Boys with Little Minds and small…packages

The bluster surrounding the release of the video of Barack Obama hugging the deceased Harvard Professor Derrick Bell at a rally in support of greater faculty diversity and in particular in support of Ms. Regina Austin, a then visting faculty member at Harvard Law School in 1991 (who happened to be my former Torts professor at the Universty of Pennsylvania Law School and who is now The William A. Schnader Professor of Law back at Penn Law) and the voluminous right wing blogs written in support of this so called scandal come across with all the depth, reflection, anxiety of a “man” (figuratively speaking) who is perhaps a tad consumed if not entirely cuckolded by a girlfriend  who might prefer a thick slab of KOBE BEEF to Hebrew Frank or a Vienna Sausage. The foregoing statement is actually quite kosher and not anti-Semitic. I have been advised that Hebrew National Franks are of high quality and may in fact be quite tasty, but they do not come in the size of Polish Kielbasa or Mustamakkara (black sausage).  While I empathize with their plight, that is perhaps something he, depending on which Breitbart writer you are referring to Ben Shapiro or Joel Pollak,  can better work out in therapy with a psychiatric professional. And I am only half kidding.  You see the dialogue that Breitbart and his progeny bring forth may expose some old but deep rooted insecurity about their own masculine prowess in terms of  not measuring up, behind closed doors, to the successful, powerful and endowed black man.

Nevertheless, In the video of the rally at Harvard,  Obama asks a crowd to “open up your hearts and your minds to the words of Professor Derrick Bell.”

As reported by CNN:

On Thursday morning Joel Pollak, Breitbart.com’s editor-in-chief, appeared on CNN’s Starting Point to defend the importance of the video.

“The bombshell is the revelation of the relationship between Obama and Derrick Bell,” Pollack said. “Derrick Bell is the Jeremiah Wright of academia. He passed away last year but during his lifetime he developed a theory called critical race theory, which holds that the Civil Rights movement was a sham and that White Supremacy is the order and it must be overthrown.”

This characterization of critical race theory sparked a feisty debate between Pollack and CNN’s Soledad O’Brien, who contended that it was a “complete misreading of critical race theory.”

In the article that accompanies the video, Breitbart.com’s editor-at-large Ben Shapiro calls it a “smoking gun” and promises that more information on Bell’s activism will be released soon.

“This is just the beginning,” Shapiro writes. “And this video is a smoking gun showing that Barack Obama not only associated with radicals, he was their advocate.”

BREITBART’S ‘Dirty White Boys’ Get Their Panties in a Twist Over Nothing

So let me make sure I got this right.  Barack  Obama, then the Editor in Chief of the Harvard Law Review, hugged the first black  tenured professor at Harvard Law School, who was veteran of the civil rights movement in America and who engaged in controversial and thoughtul scholarship involving  CRT – Critical Race Theory on issues of race, law and power in America at a rally promoting greater diversity in Harvard’s faculty and thereby Obama is a “radical”?   Some ‘dirty white boys’ who wanna be Breitbart and lead the Tea Party got  their panties in a twist over this? Really?  Only in America is having a conversation or expressing support for critical thinking or critical thinkers, ‘radical’.  And if you are asking me do I know whether any of these intellectual thugs have small Weiner-Schnitzel, I do not, but when you behave like a man with one…you know what they say.

The rage of Joel Pollak and Ben Shapiro of Breitbart over Obama’s association with black intellectuals while a student at one of our nation’s most elite instituions of learning, at the top of the food chain, in the Ivy League,  is frankly surreal and beyond ludicrous.  This is, however, ultimately one of many shots to be fired over the bow by the lunatic fringe in the effort to paint the nation’s first non-white President as radical, extreme and not at all like you and me. As suggested above, it may also belie some deep rooted anxiety about their own masculinity.

OPPRESSED GROUPS HAVE A RIGHT TO INTROSPECTION, SCHOLARSHIP & SPEECH

Know that I do not feel threatened by ‘Black Power’, Gay Pride, Native American pride, La Raza or Zionism. Those who have risen from an oppressed history have a right and dare I say a duty to question the evolution of society, the treatment of their people henceforth and to engage in rational and critical thinking, scholarship and public speech even, in an effort at preserving their station if not rising up beyond it and all perceived or real challenges to their continued progress. That is America.  Now for the record, while I come from a multicultural background, I have never been a slave so I cannot not identify personally with the history of the  black man in America. Nor can I personally identify with the the Jewish people and a Jew who may have had relatives who died or survived  the Holocaust in the century just passed. But I can say that were I either a Black or Jewish man, I would be cautious of getting too comfortable and might not ever take my freedom or standing in society for granted.

SEEDING WHITE ANGER & JEWISH MISTRUST OF THE PRESIDENT IS THE END GAME

America is a melting pot of people who understandably have pride and an interest in understanding the truth about their history and national origin. As an American of Spanish, Colombian, Italian and German/Austrian heritage I might be able to sign up for a few pride related groups myself.  I am not Irish but ‘Kiss the Blarney Stone’ if I won’t be celebrating St. Patrick’s Day. Movies like Gangs of New York fascinated me, if only because it exposed, how politicians took advantage of racial and ethnic differences for political gain. Now we have “journalists” or social media entrepreneurs who do so to gain traffic, notoriety and mainstream media TV appearances and to have a role in GOP politics.  There are far too many racial pragmatists still to this date, who when pushed come to shove, probably truly do not hate individual people based upon the color of one’s skin or nationality, but who given the opportunity to gain power might seek to play off steroetypes and racial fears for political gain and/or personal profit. These folks I would argue can be every bit as dangerous to the fabric of our nation as the men in white sheets and pointed hats, the KKK or the Nazi’s in Germany, if they are allowed to rise unchecked in a vaccum of intellectual critique

Critical thinking and scholarship is perhaps a radical idea for some folks. For them,  critical thinkers who operate outside their acceptable paradigm, are in essence radical.  Can Pollak and Shapiro be this stupid?  I highly doubt it. Like Obama, they both got their law degrees from Harvard Law School, that elitist institution that Breitbart and others famously referred to as “Beirut on the Charles” River. They are Tea Party operatives, not journalists, who are politically and ideologically motivated to achieve an intended result, the removal of a black Democratic President from the White House.  In that regard and towards that end, anything and everything is justifiable.  They will echo George Wallace if they have to in coordination with the Republican candidates who at present seem to running a template of the Southern Strategy playing on white fear.  What they are doing is feeding into the irrational threat that some insecure white men have of the radical black man rising up to challenge the white man to his very station in life, his job, his pension and even his woman.

Obama’s record as President over the last three years has its strengths and weaknesses.  Some which can be defended. Other aspects  which can be fairly critiqued.  Say whatever you will but the man’s record is not that of a  ‘radical.’  And given his propensity for wearing ’Mom Jeans’ Obama is clearly more of middle America than Breitbart’s Tea Party hipsters.  You see because regardless of what the truth is about Derrick Bell’s critical race theory or CRT, the black man is hardly in a position to take over America at the present time and turn the white man into his slave but much like the Jew who fears a repeat of the Holocaust, its fair for the Black man to consider or contemplate a downgrade in his societal stature and a repeat of his enslavement on a whole other level.   Hell if he should dare speak up or hug some one that certain white men deem radical, passionate men will rouse the militia to come get him and bring his ass down a level.  One is hard pressed to find such a fundamental shift in the existing paradigm, especially at a time when America’s white elite have consolidated power and wealth at the very top.

So forgive me if you will, but for all of the hoopla surrounding the release of this ‘bombshell video’ of Obama at a rally for Derrick Bell at Harvard Law School in 1991, it is truly underwhelming.  As crtics have noted, it is a ‘ total dud’ and ‘falls flat’.  Furthermore, it exposes the barren hypocrisy in the agenda of some quarters on the right and how far they will go to achieve certain aims in their effort to “silence African-Americans attempting to seriously discuss race in America.” Stand up, speak out and get shut down and called a racist radical.

Obama’s statement as a Harvard Law School student in 1991 to “open your hearts and mind” to Professor Derrick Bell, even if his scholarship is controversial or even radical in the minds of some is not of concern to me nor should it be to people of rational minds and hearts.  Even if one cede’s to the right a  misinterpretation of Bell’s critical race theory, that still is not evidence that Obama is a radical, as much as he was a man enveloped and engaged in the learning process.   Furthermore, the real world changes the idealism of many a student, myself included.   Breitbart’s echos of George Wallace will not succeed in painting Obama as a radical, nor will it ultimately succeed in putting a fissure between the Black and Jewish community as intended.  ‘Pray for Andrew Breitbart.’ The charlatan’s blogging for Breitbart are not on a mission for truth in America. They are instead simultaneously pursuing a Southern Strategy seeding white anger and attempting to undermine the Jewish vote which traditionally has gone to Democrats in an effort to regain the White House for the Republican Party.  They are also I suspect hoping to provoke a cautious but determined Democratic President with bonafide military credentials into a premature war with Iran, not on his terms or at a time that is in the best interest of the United States of America but on those preferred by AIPAC and Israeli President Bibi “Nyet and Yahoo!”

In conclusion, my response in short is to stand down and piss off. President Barack Obama is the Commander in Chief. So yes little boys, a black man (partially to be exact since he is also half white) is in the White House and as far as anyone can tell, he has not done anything radical yet except engage in critical thinking. For some, that is truly radical indeed.

NJ GOVERNOR SERVES AS AMERICAN ICON’S FINAL BODYGUARD — Politically Small minded Rabbi Engages in Pseudo Intellectual Mishagas

Can Gingrich’s Conservative Gestalt Beat Back Romney’s Hollow Assault?

On the eve of the Florida Republican Primary, I am forced to channel my inner Oliver Stone or Jesse Ventura,  for I see 2000 all over again; and yet I recognize that is an analogy that not too many Republicans are comfortable with. Newt Gingrich, one of the legitimate heirs to the Regan Conservative mantel, after his landslide victory in South Carolina over the Illuminati’s Manchurian Mormon Madoff which truly zinged the elites in his party, surged ahead of Romney in the latest and most recent National Gallup Polls.

With the establishment’s ‘inevitable’ nominee winning only 1 primary race in his adopted home state of New Hampshire and sliding in the polls at the national level, his campaign went into full full firewall mode in Florida to slow the Newt Express.  Romney and his surrogates went on the ’the warpath’, rolling out the ‘heavy ammunition’ and discarding any sense of decency and fair play, to discredit and delegitimize Newt Gingrich’s accomplishments and standing as a critical foot solider in the Reagan Revolution. Thus far they have outspent the Gingrich campaign by nearly $13 million or 5-1 with a non-stop blistering assault over Florida’s airwaves to poison the electorate. Romney’s tactics have been so severe that leading conservatives Mark Levin, Rush Limbaugh and Reagan’s son Mike Reagan have spoken out against Romney and the patent dishonesty of his campaign.  Mark Levin raised concerns about Romney’s character and ultimate fitness to be President, drawing an analogy of Romney as the new Richard Nixon, aka “Tricky Dicky.” Limbaugh lashed out at what he believes is a ‘coordinated effort’ to smear or tarnish Gingrich and thereby dismantle his campaign.

President Ronald Reagan’s son, Mike Reagan in an attempt to put the assault on Gingrich in a grander context of historic inter party battles between different wings of the Republican Party, went on Fox News and stated: “there are two people running for President of the United States, there is the Reagan Conservative, grassroots which is Newt Gingrich and the Rockefeller Republican and that is Mitt Romney.”  Maybe Reagan is right, much like Goldwater and Reagan, Gingrich faces a party in the hands of the eastern establishment who seem to have selected their guy already unfortunately.

As Wall Street’s horse in this race, Romney enjoys having the most powerful forces in American Society, who control ALL the levers of power in the United States and the wider free world, very much aligned in his favor. Leadership of the Anglo American Establishment – The Pilgrims Society (George H.W. Bush/CIA/Wall Street Banks), the same folks who distrusted Ronald Reagan and Barry Goldwater, seemed poised to take out Gingrich, by any means necessary, with the assistance of dead voters and Diebold machines (or what has replaced them), if it is closer than expected.  Gingrich’s arguments for ‘ethical capitalism’ hardly endeared him to this crowd; for they prefer the King of Bain’s indifference. As pointed out by the Mark America blog, In Florida: It Isn’t Over. The Corporate media continues, however, to mislead the public with a false narrative stoking Romney’s inevitability and incessant polls and stories promoting a Romney in a landslide before a single vote has been cast and despite the fact that a majority of voters in every state, including those in his own party, simply do not like the man. Remember TIME Magazine’s Cover in December featuring Romney and puppy dog eyes (never mind his dog problem) with the headline ‘Why Don’t They Like Me?’ and now we are to believe everyone has fallen in love with the Mormon Madoff ?  Florida voters should maybe ignore the mainstream media narrative that Romney is inevitable. Nebraska Attorney General Jon Bruning, Red State blog and Forbes have noted, Romney is ‘resurgent, but not inevitable’. American Thinker has made rather clear that ‘the Romney Myth’ is essentially a misleading falsehood propagated by establishment Republicans and their friends in the media. As stated by  Mark America:

“The fix really has been in,” in Florida.  The polls over the last six days have been so unreliably diverse and skewed as to make it impossible to sort out, but this much is clear: They used last week’s Drudge extravaganza combined with ceaseless reporting of a Romney double-digit lead to build an impression that Gingrich will lose big, but as I warned you, don’t be surprised if this race is well within the margin of error of the best polls available, which actually isn’t saying much this week.”

Reasonable and engaged citizens across America still believe that there are legitimate questions about Romney’s honesty and integrity as well as his fitness for office yet he continues to garner favorable coverage from mainstream media forces who continue to exhibit a high tolerance for a clearly fraudulent man. He lies with impunity.  Although recent polls in Romney’s own family have him up over Gingrich by a comfortable 38%-34% margin with 18% for Ron Paul and the remainder undecided. That is a joke to make the point.

NEWT’S DILEMMA: ROMNEY BAPTIZED THE DEAD, NOW HE GETS THEIR VOTES

Wall Street, Bain Capital, Clear Channel and the media illuminati are determined to do all that they can to help Romney secure the nomination and perhaps even make him President, and thereby give the man who has baptized dead people including Jewish Holocaust victims into the Mormon faith, the votes of dead people in the Republican race.

Dead voters are a tad less discerning and as some observant commentators have noted, they have been breaking for Romney in a big ‘Bain way’ in Iowa, NH & South Carolina. Gingrich may be about to experience in Florida what Al Gore did in the Unprecedented 2000 Presidential election. If the media spin does not manipulate or dissuade voters sufficiently, ‘they’ will take out  or bury Newt Gingrich with the assistance of dead voters and some creative engineering or post electoral processing of the vote (i.e., “hacking”) by remote control.  The difference this time few will care and even fewer conservatives will dare speak about election fraud against one of their own by one of their own. Only thing is, Romney is not one of their own. Therein lies the rub my friends.

ILLUMINATI ‘HEAD FAKES’: BUSH & SOROS

WHERE’S JEB BUSH – IS WHAT ROMNEY MUST ALSO BE CONCERNED ABOUT

White House Photo: President Obama met with former president George H. W. Bush and his son, former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, at the White House 1/27/12

But before Romney can rest, he ought to be asking himself at all times, where’s Jeb? And by that I mean Jeb Bush, George H.W. Bush (‘Bush 41′)  other son. This past week, there were a few, what one might consider Illuminati ‘head fakes’ with Bush 41, Jeb Bush in a rather cozy meeting at the White House with President Obama.

On the eve of the Florida Republican Primary, Obama Has Oval Office Meeting With Bush 41 and Jeb Bush. And what was discussed during this moving show of bipartisanship? From Politico:

When asked what the men discussed and why it wasn’t on the schedule, the White House released a statement saying, “The three men enjoyed a personal visit in the Oval Office – as they have done on previous occasions when President Bush is Washington.”

On the eve of the Florida Primary, with an endorsement by Jeb being the big prize he will not endorse any candidate.  The New York Times pointed out,  Jeb Bush Remains Silent and to Many, That Says a Lot.  They all attended the elite Alfalfa Club dinner the following evening on Saturday night. With Occupy DC protesters outside, President Obama in the company of the 1% reportedly cracked some jokes and mocked himself with a playful nod to Jeb Bush for those who want him to see him enter the race.  As reported in the NY Times:

Former President George Bush has endorsed Mr. Romney. Former President George W. Bush has told friends he is following the race but has no plans to become involved. All three Bushes were at the Alfalfa Club dinner in Washington on Saturday night, when Mr. Obama joked that many people hoped Jeb Bush would run for president.

“I am not one of them,” Mr. Obama declared at the private dinner, one attendee said.

Is that because the deal is that Jeb Bush is Mr. 2016? That only happens if Romney loses to Obama. Would that make the Republican party that much more hungry to turn to the Bush Dynasty once again for their nominee? Interesting indeed.  Poppy may have endorsed Romney but I have to think he prefers his own son, Jeb to succeed Obama.  History books are written by the winners. And the winners usually have a long term plan.

GEORGE SOROS SUPPORTS ROMNEY?

Billionaire financier George Soros in an interview with Reuters India stated that there is ‘not much difference’ between Romney and Obama, and offered that he is even a little disappointed with Obama. According to Newsmax, Talk radio host Rush Limbaugh described Soros’ move this way: “He’s endorsing Romney. ‘Romney, that’s cool, no difference, I could go either way that way.’”

Only time will tell if Romney is the sacrificial lamb and Gingrich an inconvenient man getting in the way of a sacrifice.

A Facebook application today on my friend Anna Ogle’s page, led me to a site where I was made aware that on the day I was born, the song He’s A Rebel by the Crystals was Number 1 on Billboard’s Hot 100 Charts in America. Ironically enough, I always liked this song but never understood why. According to Wikipedia:

“The song is about a girl in love with a young man who spurns society’s conventions. Despite his being misunderstood by others, the singer claims that he is sweet and faithful, and she vows to be the same towards him.”

As much as it all makes sense to me now, I wonder about the Twilight Zone where pop culture intersects with human destiny; in particular my own.

Although I am not suggesting that Phil Spector wrote this song about me, I wonder if I may have heard this song in the womb with no view,  shortly after my arrival into the free world at Jamaica Hospital in Queens, New York in 1962 or in my mothers arms in our Doo Wop Shop in Kew Gardens.  I was born under a Democratic President, who was a rebel in his own right, one who may have paid a tremendous penalty for daring to tell the truth, costing him his life and the opportunity to continue to lead his country. Before my mother passed away in 2011, she advised me to follow my own truth. Here I am.

See the way he walks down the street
Watch the way he shuffles his feet
My, he holds his head up high
When he goes walking by
He’s my guy

When he holds my hand, I’m so proud
‘Cause he’s not just one of the crowd
My baby’s always the one
To try the things they’ve never done
And just because of that, they say

He’s a rebel and he’ll never ever be any good
He’s a rebel ’cause he never ever does what he should
But just because he doesn’t do what everybody else does,
That’s no reason why I can’t give him all my love
He’s always good to me,
Always treats me tenderly