I could care less who wins the White House especially when the Electoral Process is rigged in favour of the Republicans and Democrats who care more about their interests than the interests of the people. In the year 2008, the Republicans or Democrats will win and they will continue their oppression of the people by mind numbing television and making promises that will never be kept. The way for an election to be meaningful is to have the Electoral College and Primaries abolished. The Primaries proved that certain people vote for a certain candidate followed by the soundbites. The only good thing that the Primaries achieve is making money which in that case I took advantage and took photos of the Florida Primaries. The Electoral College is an outdated method as well which favours the bigger parties called the Republicans and Democrats. While it would be better if the White House was won by the Libertarian Party or the Green Party, it is impossible given the rules written by the elite.

I myself would care less who won the Presidency because whoever wins will serve as a point of reference for some of my satirical works. Of course I have a solution which is an overhaul of the electoral process in favour of direct party conventions in which the political parties elect their nominee in a one person one vote scenario with the people who belong to the political party actually going to the convention and paying money to represent their state [in the same way that the American Medical Association meets].

After the Presidential and Vice Presidential Candidates of the Political Parties are chosen, then there are the debates if the Republicans and Democrats have the courage to face the Libertarians and Green in a debate. The debates would be three debates and three weeks after the debates, the Presidential and Vice Presidential Elections with the persons receiving the most vote winning.

Until this scenario changes, or unless the people of America wake up; the elections will produce dull and mediocre presidents from dull and mediocre political parties and almost meaningless discussion on how to get the United States of America back on its feet.

In addition to a biography of Barack Obama, it was interesting to add his family tree. These were revelations that were taken from sources in MSNBC and the BBC. I wanted to share them with Helium.
I would like to add some spice to the 2008 Presidential campaign being run by the Republicans and Democrats, the press reported a revelation by Mrs. Cheney that Barrack Obama [A senator from Illinois and a candidate for the Democratic Party nomination for President of the USA] is a distant cousin of US Vice-President Dick Cheney [Republican]. According to a declaration made by Mrs. Cheney to MSNBC, the common ancestor of Obama and Cheney was a 17th century immigrant from France, whose name was Mareen Devall.

Kenyan Opposition Presidential candidate Raila Odinga declared (in an interview with the BBC) that he is a cousin of Barack Obama and the two have talked on the telephone between the time they got amidst their respective work. Obama is working in the US Presidential campaign. Odinga is trying to help resolve the election dilemma in Kenya.

It should be stated that Obama also talked with the President of Kenya, Kibaki expressing his preoccupation with the situation in Kenya but refrained from discussing the political situation with Odinga and Kibaki. According to Odinga, Obama’s father was from the Luo community in Kenya and was his maternal uncle. Obama’s father met his wife (an Anglo-Saxon American from Kansas) while both were studying in the University of Hawaii.

After the marriage of Obama’s parents, both of them divorced when Barack Obama was two years old. Obama’s father returned to Kenya and later died in an accident. Obama’s mother eventually married an Indonesian national and she lived in Indonesia with her son before returning to the USA.

The Obama family tree is proof that the human race is interconnected. This serves as proof of globalisation. But it does not determine who could be the best President of the USA and I could care less. Deng Xiaoping (a leader in China) once said: «Who cares where the cat comes from as long as it catches mice».

I have a suggestion for those who make false accusations against Ron Paul. Jesus Christ once said that «He Who is Without Sin Should Cast The First Stone» If anything, Ron Paul and his supporters have been victims of Acts of Repudiation on the part of the US Mainstream Media and the Republican and Democratic Establishment for being the lone voice of reason in a country that is slowly losing its freedom, dignity, and integrity. The Republicans and Democrats with their mainstream media have a way of spamming people’s brains with their non stop chatter at MSNBC, FOX, CBS, NBC, and CNN and the people the majority of them believe everything that is said and heard on these stations.
There was one incident in which a Minnesota Police person ticketed a Ron Paul Supporter Five Hundred and Fifty Dollars for supposedly disturbing traffic when in reality he had his Ron Paul Sticker. There have been incidences in Florida in the days leading to the Florida Primaries that Mc Cain, Huckabee, Romney, Clinton, Obama, and Giuliani supporters have torn down the signs and placcards which were put in place with tender loving care with Ron Paul Supporters. These are the peoplemwho kill and maim innocent people, leave them homeless and destitute with their bankrupt policies and then saying «You have to Live With It».
While I am voting for George Phillies and The Libertarian Party and I was in disagreement with Ron Paul running as a Republican, Ron Paul has been the whipping boy of the Republican and Democratic Establishment. While I was opposed to the Libertarian Party offering Ron Paul the nomination for President, maybe it was a tactic to see what the reaction has been. Liberty is a torch that cannot be quenched. If there is anything that comes out of what has happened to Ron Paul, I congratulate Press TV and Al Jazeera for its unbaised coverage of the US Presidential Elections and the candidates that deserve to be reported such as the Alternative Parties and Ron Paul.
Before the Republicans and Democrats with their US Mainstream Media start their smear tactics, they should look themselves in the mirror. The words of Tyranny and Hypocrisy is written all over the faces of the US Leadership in Washington.

It must be remembered that the third parties should be known as alternative parties. The Alternative Parties have more discussion and make sense compared to the dull governing elite that come out of their caves in Washington DC to mingle with the people they claim to represent. The Alterative Parties such as the Libertarians under George Phillies have a lot to offer especially when George Phillies is articulate, sure of himself, and defended the country during Vietnam when the Clintons burned the US Flag in Great Britain and when the Bush people were busy serving as members of the National Guard in Texas in order to avoide being drafted.

George Phillies of the Libertarian Party has the wonderful idea that is so American called «Freedom, Dignity, Responsibility, and Integrity» and the people who could vote are suffering from a numbing of the mind to the point that they prefer the circus of the Republicans and Democrats. At least the youth of our day are beginning to ask for change in the same way the people in Cuba are asking for change. George Phillies wants us to return to our American Roots of the Constitution and avoid entangling alliances. George Phillies wants the American People to assume responsibilities for their actions in the good or bad. George Phillies wants the American People to cast out hatred and sadness in favour of regaining our Freedom, Dignity, Responsibility, and Integrity».

While I cannot force people to vote one way, I will say that those who vote for a candidate Republican or Democrat and wants to sacrifice their freedom for security are in the words of the great patriot Benjamin Franklin neither deserve freedom or security. I also remember the words of Patrick Henry which states «Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death». The Libertarian Party and George Phillies stands for the separation of Church and State, Separation of School and State, and end to a disastrous war in Iraq, and end to these foolish commitments abroad, a free trade agreement in which the world benefits, and the right to dignity.
I close with the words of the President of Guinea Ahmed Sekou Toure [from 1958 to 1984] taking into account that he left the nation of Guinea mired in poverty and totalitarianism: «I prefer the poverty of liberty to the richness of slavery». It appears that the United States of America except for the younger generation prefer the richness of slavery, the security of slavery to the poverty and risk of freedom.