The Elect: Change

Graphic source: Michael Ramirez

In his cartoon, Michael Ramirez captures The Elect and Change.

Myth of Young, Small Donors for The Elect

The Fox News/Opinion Data exit polling showed that the vote cast by people under 30 held steady at 11% percent, the same level the organization's 2004 exit polls had found. Edison Media Research/Mitofsky International found a higher proportion of the vote cast by 18-29 year olds--18%--but, by the same methodology, the firm found the 2004 voter base was 17 percent composed of people in that age cohort. The fact is that neither polling firm found any real increase from the levels they found four years ago.

The myth of the small donor is even more instructive. Fred Lucas, CNSNews.com, reports that the Campaign Finance Institute (CFI) found that only 26% of the donors to Obama's campaign gave $200 or less, compared to 25% for Bush's campaign in 2004. Most of the money raised came from the fat cats. CFI found that he got 80% more money from large donors (over $1,000) than from those who gave less than $200.

Busta Koran

Busta Rhymes' new single, "Arab Money," has proven to be controversial. Galaxy FM suspended a DJ over the single. The title is claimed to be offensive and racist while the rapper is accused of mixing up elements of the Koran, but this is hardly the first time the Koran was mixed in a pop song. Busta has just joined Salman Rushdie, Theo van Gogh, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Geert Wilders, he is in good company.

Activist/Originalist Interpretations Constitution

Activist and Originalist interpretations of the Constitution divide the Court today.

Vieira On the Constitution

Edwin Vieira, Jr., PhD, J.D. discusses the original intent and living document interpretations of the Constitution of the United States of America. While considering Vieira's comments, he provides reliable guidance to interpreting the Constitution today.

Ex-KGB Agent Describes How to Bring Down the U.S.

Ex-KGB agent and defector, Yuri Bezmenov, in an interview of 1984, describes the perfect ‘demoralization’ of the populace which then paves the way for ‘destabilization’ of a country in the foreign affairs, national security, and economic arenas.

Samuel Adams Quote

“The liberties of our country, the freedom of our civil Constitution, are worth defending at all hazards; and it is our duty to defend them against all attacks. We have received them as a fair inheritance from our worthy ancestors: they purchased them for us with toil and danger and expense of treasure and blood, and transmitted them to us with care and diligence. It will bring an everlasting mark of infamy on the present generation, enlightened as it is, if we should suffer them to be wrested from us by violence without a struggle, or to be cheated out of them by the artifices of false and designing men.”

Samuel Adams

The Elect Hiding in Plain Site

One of the most effective uses of the con is to hide in plain site or to get your mark to look left when you should be looking right. Also, I learned from the monster, LBJ, that bad news or disinformation breaks on a Saturday when news is slow and sure enough, it broke again today in the Shinseki appointment. CNN took pains to point out in that story that he was born in Hawaii, just like The Elect. The idea is to plant the Hawaii birth more firmly in people's heads, to get them looking where it does not matter. And, due to the research and SCOTUS filing by Leo Donofrio, he points out that President Chester Arthur concealed that he was a British Subject at birth, thus disqualifying him from the presidency. He covered it up so that he could be president.

The Elect on the Road to Recovery

The Elect stated:

First, we will launch a massive effort to make public buildings more energy-efficient. Our government now pays the highest energy bill in the world. We need to change that. We need to upgrade our federal buildings by replacing old heating systems and installing efficient light bulbs. That won't just save you, the American taxpayer, billions of dollars each year. It will put people back to work.

Second, we will create millions of jobs by making the single largest new investment in our national infrastructure since the creation of the federal highway system in the 1950s. We'll invest your precious tax dollars in new and smarter ways, and well set a simple rule - use it or lose it. If a state doesn't act quickly to invest in roads and bridges in their communities, they'll lose the money.

Third, my economic recovery plan will launch the most sweeping effort to modernize and upgrade school buildings that this country has ever seen. We will repair broken schools, make them energy-efficient, and put new computers in our classrooms. Because to help our children compete in a 21st century economy, we need to send them to 21st century schools.

As we renew our schools and highways, well also renew our information superhighway. It is unacceptable that the United States ranks 15th in the world in broadband adoption. Here, in the country that invented the Internet, every child should have the chance to get online, and they'll get that chance when I'm President - because that's how well strengthen America's competitiveness in the world.

In addition to connecting our libraries and schools to the Internet, we must also ensure that our hospitals are connected to each other through the Internet. That is why the economic recovery plan I'm proposing will help modernize our health care system - and that won't just save jobs, it will save lives. We will make sure that every doctor's office and hospital in this country is using cutting edge technology and electronic medical records so that we can cut red tape, prevent medical mistakes, and help save billions of dollars each year.

The Elect will save billions of dollars by replacing heating systems, changing light bulbs, and he will be a life saver.

The economic road to recovery includes the creation of jobs including:

1. heating system replacer;
2. light bulb installer;
3. road and bridge construction worker;
4. school construction worker;
5. Internet installer for schools and hospitals.

I did not want to quote The Elect out of context but this is what he said, he will be saving billions of dollars and he is a life-saver.

The Elect's Economic Recovery Plan: Light Bulbs, Heating

"We need to upgrade our federal buildings by replacing old heating systems and installing efficient light bulbs. That won't just save you, the American taxpayer, billions of dollars each year. It will put people back to work."

Where exactly do you purchase those billion dollar light bulbs? And, I take it Americans will now be working as light bulb changers and heating system replacers.

I am pleased to see that The Elect has thought through and developed a rock solid economic recovery plan.

The Elect: No Idea for Jobs

The Elect announced his--no change--plan to fix the economy:

"There are no quick or easy fixes to this crisis, which has been many years in the making, and it's likely to get worse before it gets better. But now is the time to respond with urgent resolve to put people back to work and get our economy moving again. At the same time, this painful crisis also provides us with an opportunity to transform our economy to improve the lives of ordinary people by rebuilding roads and modernizing schools for our children, investing in clean energy solutions to break our dependence on imported oil, and making an early down payment on the long-term reforms that will grow and strengthen our economy for all Americans for years to come."

Has it not become obvious that he has no idea what to do? A future working on roads is not what young people have been dreaming to do as part of the American dream.

Iraq Order of Battle: December 2008

The agreement sets 30 June 2009, as the deadline for U.S. combat troops to withdraw from all Iraqi cities and towns; the date for all U.S. troops to leave Iraq is 31 December 2011.

No Office of the President Elect

Pay no attention to that man behind the podium, there is no "Office of the President-Elect" in the United States Constitution; furthermore, the Electoral College has not met yet so there is no President Elect just yet.

Signature? Signatures?

Is this the same signature appearing on each document? Some people consider what look like The Elect's signatures, on different documents, and have questioned whether it is from the same hand. For example, people have questioned one from an allegedly counterfeit Selective Service Registration and the other is from his Statement of Candidacy. Has anyone compared the signatures?

The Elect: No Paper Trail

The Elect has no paper trail for the past 48 years. There is no documentation, records, or paper trail.

List of possible documentation:

Original, vault copy birth certificate: not released.
Certificate of Live Birth: released but counterfeited.
Obama/Dunham marriage license: not released.
Soetoro/Dunham marriage license: not released.
Soetoro adoption records: not released.
Fransiskus Assisi School: school application released stating religion: "Islam."
Punahou School records: not released.
Selective Service Registration: released but counterfeited.
Occidental College records: not released.
Passport (Pakistan): not released.
Columbia College records: not released.
Columbia thesis: not released.
Harvard College records: not released.
Harvard Law Review articles: likely none but perhaps one unsigned has been found.
Baptism certificate: none.
Medical records: not released.
Illinois State Senate records: none.
Illinois State Senate schedule: lost.
Law practice client list: not released.
University of Chicago scholarly articles: none.

The Elect: $750M

The Elect received nearly $750 million dollars during the campaign. That is more than twice what McCain raised and it's more than what Bush and Kerry combined managed to snag during 2004. The Elect opted out of taking public funds which made him the first candidate for president to opt out of public financing since the system was created in the 1970s to counter the effect of buying the election.

Gov. Richardson States: The Elect is an Immigrant

As Governor Bill Richardson stated at the Democratic National Convention in Denver Colorado on 1 September 2008: "Barack Obama is an immigrant...he is one of us...." I do not think it can be much clearer. The U.S. favors an immigrant as President.

SCOTUS Today

Nothing more released about the Donofrio case today. More information is expected early next week.

The Elect Agrees McCain A Natural Born Citizen

In April 2008, a resolution was proposed to the U.S. Senate, recognizing John McCain as a "natural born citizen." Now what is odd about this resolution is that it was introduced by the opposition party, Democrats, Senator Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.) and Senator Patrick Leahy, D-Vermont, the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee.

The bill was co-sponsored by whom? It was co-sponsored by political opponents, nominees, The Elect, Barack Obama, and Hillary Clinton.

Their sponsorship, in the midst of a contentious campaign, is to say the least odd. Why were they so interested in the subject of "natural born citizen?"

At the time, McCain was obviously their primary opponent as he turned out to be during the Fall campaign.

In any case, Senate Resolution 511 was passed on 30 April 2008 as a non-binding resolution. S.R. 511. S.R. 511 is not a law, but rather, a unanimous opinion. Obama and Clinton were determined to demonstrate that McCain qualifies as a natural born citizen.

The respective candidates addressed the question that The Elect, Obama, did not want to face directly. Are you, yourself, a natural born citizen? Obama has failed to produce documentation that he is a natural born citizen of the United States. He attempted to defer questions about his origins by deflecting doubts about McCain. McCain agreed with the arrangement so no one would be inclined to doubt the citizenship about a person who clearly loves this country and was willing to fight and suffer as a prisoner of war as he did for five and a half years.

We await definitive proof or the Supreme Court Justices will decide. Or, The Elect could simply produce a $14.00 authentic birth certificate, or his student records, or a passport before he entered the Senate, or health records stating his natural born status at birth, or any simple and easily produced documentation. So, far, no records have been transparent, only expensive legal defenses and claims of how transparent his administration will be. So far, this is not so.

Cf. S.R. 511:

Co-sponsors

o Sen. Hillary Clinton [D, NY]
o Sen. Barack Obama [D, Ill]

Committees

Introduced result Voted on by Senate
April 10, 2008 April 30, 2008

All Bill Actions

* Passed by Unanimous Consent in the Senate on Apr 30, 2008. Resolution agreed to in Senate without amendment and with a preamble by Unanimous Consent.
* Apr 24, 2008: Committee on the Judiciary. Date of scheduled consideration. SD-226. 10:00 a.m.
* Apr 24, 2008: Committee on the Judiciary. Ordered to be reported without amendment favorably.
* Added to calendar on Apr 24, 2008: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 715..
* Added to calendar on Apr 24, 2008: Committee on the Judiciary. Ordered to be reported without amendment favorably..
* Apr 24, 2008: Committee on the Judiciary. Reported by Senator Leahy without amendment and with a preamble. Without written report.
* Apr 10, 2008: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
* Introduced on Apr 10, 2008.

Mainstream Plays Constitutional

Article 1, Section 6 of the Constitution states:

"No Senator or Representative shall, during the time for which he was elected, be appointed to any civil office under the authority of the United States, which shall have been created, or the emoluments whereof shall have been increased during such time."

Although the language is difficult it really simply means that a lawmaker cannot fill a position if the salary for that position has increased during their term in office. It looks like Hillary can not be Secretery of State, or, is there a way that she still could be?

This constitutional issue, Hillary's, has gotten in the mainstream media although questions of whether The Elect is a natural born citizen or not has remained in the blogsphere.

When the question of compensation has happened before in the recent past lawmakers simply made an end around.

Ohio Senator William Saxbe was named President Nixon's attorney general in 1974 and again when Texas Sen. Lloyd Bentsen became President Clinton's Treasury secretary in 1993.

Congress voted a lower salary, or the candidate simply accepted a lower salary, it is not as if she needs the money anyway. The third is the most likely route, no one has the standing, or the right, to sue to stop her from being secretary of state.

The last is the most troubling for an administration touting transparency as their motiff.