My Mama Would Have Preferred Obama

Yes, I believe that my dear beloved-departed Mama would have preferred Obama. She always believed in hope, change, and lifting the hearts and minds of the people. She once wrote Bill Clinton a letter on the subject in which she mentioned "my mijo (me) comes from hope (of the heart) like you Mr. President". President Clinton corresponded kindly in return. Now, hope is re-ignited by Barak Obama. My Mama would have loved Obama.

Independence Day Comes Early [if Edwards stayed in]

[This was an opinion written about five days before Edwards quit. Not an endoresment but an analysis of the scenario edwards would have created had he stayed in the race. It is apparent what impact this plays now. Independents and Edwards supporters are now forced to choose or sit out the race. Who does that help? It does help one candidate more than the other, I believe. Look further into Edwards and Independent voter polling (demographic). I hope he got a sweet deal, at least. Nonetheless, I'm happy for all.]

Opinion Editorial [not a letter to editor]

Independence Day Comes Early in California

Independence Day will come early in California when unprecedented amounts Independent voters (decline-to-state) cast their ballots in the California Democratic Presidential Primary election tipping the political-electoral balance.

Independents in California make up 19.3% of voters, 20% in Los Angeles County, and 26% in Whittier. Since 1998, democrats and republicans in California have declined in registratation while independents have grown over 9%. They have power.

The California Republican Party chooses not to allow the growing and influential California independent voters to participate in their primary process. However, the California Democratic Party opted for an inclusive, semi-open, process.

What does this mean for Democratic candidates? By now, democrat campaigns have nearly exhausted their efforts to persuade this unpredictable, non-organized, and fiercely independent group with little indication on how they may actually vote.

Independents will not sit this race out and pass up the opportunity to significantly influence the electoral outcome of the California Democratic Presidential Primary and exercise their political might in state and national politics.

The democratic field of candidates leaves independents with little choice. Past elections demonstrate that they don’t necessarily follow popular polls and anointed candidates. Which means, they may not vote for the top two candidates (Clinton & Obama) and opt for the perceptual independent-moderate democratic candidate (Edwards) thereby upsetting the democratic elites and rank and file partisan voters.

On Tuesday, February 3 don’t expected bomb bursting fireworks, at least not in the air.

Disappointment in Democratic Candidates: South Carolina

Watching Hillary and Barak tear each other apart on personal attacks and not on issues is appalling. Ok, a good ribbing on a rare spontaneous occasion is one thing, but this was on an open stage debate before the American people. This is what they leave people and me with?

Edwards is looking good staying above or below the fray and is smart. The dynamics have changed on how I view the Democratic candidates.

What now? Who to support?

I dunno?

"You Dont Deserve it", they say. My Response, "Who the Hell are You!"

Some of my detractors told me, in person, recently that "I make them look bad and they plan to meet with the editors of the Whittier Daily News to stop articles written about or mentioning me". My response: Who the hell are you?.

They assumed that I requested the article, which is wholly untrue and even if it were true, so what. "It should have been on someone else who deserves it", they say. OK!

If these people actually stood for something and were truly concerned about their community, they would get off their derrieres and work with real people outside of their elitist debauch soirees'.

I believe that everyone is entitled to their opinion, but people who force their idea of detachment (from people and issues) in politics are really barking up the wrong tree here. I have a social-political responsibility (contract) to my community and I strive to nurture my relationship with it, as a way of life. So my polite advice is either stand for something or sit down and shut up.

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The article... nearest my heart is the division of counties into wards ... should they become corrupt and perverted, the division into wards constituting the people, in their wards, a regularly organized power, enables them by that organization to crush, regularly and peaceably, the usurpations of their unfaithful agents, and rescues them from the dreadful necessity of doing it insurrectionally. In this way we shall be as republican as a large society can be, and secure the continuance of purity in our government by the salutary, peaceable, and regular control of the people." --Thomas Jefferson to Samuel Kercheval, 1816. ME 15:70