Summer of 2008 Let Me Try Again in 2010
suggest an alternative approach to solving our immigration mess, sound off about too big government, advocate single payer health insurance, (discuss why the last two are not mutually exclusive.), and throw some other ideas into the pot as next spring and the primaries approach.
My one not so secret, secret mission. As always, to get one New York Times reporter, or equivalent, to sit down with me, and then the two of us travel to Mexico and visit my friend- formerly in the United States for 7 years, illegally- and for that reporter to have an "oh my God moment" like I did when I first visited. Then for that reporter to come home and write a Pulitzer prize winning article about the epiphany. The "immigration fiasco-dilemma, does have a simple fix; the third world status of Mexico could change; tens of thousands of new jobs here in the U.S. could result from that change. (A real shame I wasn't invited to the White House "jobs summit" last week.)
I don't write all that well, I don't run an adequate (if any) campaign, I have no money to spend on part time office seeking- yet I'm out there trying- displaying the entire fiasco for all to see. That's a recipe for being ignored by the elite media? I'd think not. Call me you snobs, sniff this unusual candidate out; the Mexico story is great!
------------------------------------------------------------1/06/2010 more excerpts, scattered over two web sites, from my new favorite (probably out of print) book, Dick Schaap's Flashing Before My Eyes, copyright 2001
"Politics is the most demeaning trade I know. Not even prostitution demands that its practitioners surrender so many pieces of themselves. I've known politicians who launched their careers with intelligence and ideals and, as they rose, as being elected and reelected became obsessively important, gave away so much of themselves that all that remained was a caricature."
.....says Dick Schaap, I say, throw most of them out, and that would include our particular congressman from South Jersey.
