THE LAST OPTION - WRITE-IN

To protest the expenditure of millions of dollars on the part of the announced candidates to promote themselves and buy the presidency, and the corporate media's seizure of the nation's voting power, the villager suggests that all Americans write in their choice for President at the 2008 polls. An example, Senator Bill Nelson of Florida. Or write in Al Gore, Colin Powell, Oprah, Bill Gates, or whomever you want to run the country. In this way, the majority of write-ins will determine the course of our democracy in the next four years and truly represent the people's choice. True?

WRONG - NOT AN OPTION - The electorate (that's us) are restricted by RULES again and the people cannot choose in an open, free election in which the popular vote prevails.


A Daytona Beach News Journal (FL) reader in a letter to the newspaper reported that she checked in with the Elections Department, and there will be a place on the November ballot for the voter to mark and write in a name. The catch is, though according to the Editor's note, is that in order for votes for them to count in Florida, write-in candidates for president and vice president must qualify between noon June 30 and noon July 8 with the state Division of Elections. That's as much as the villager knows - voters might want to check out state rules themselves. Possibly Obama, Clinton and McCain would be pre-qualified in every state, but if voters are not satisfied with the press pre-selected nominee, they could write in their own choice and it would be counted. Who knows? But just tossing anyone's name in, including one's own, would not count! It's possible, of course, there could be unknowns qualifying as write-ins but none who could represent a preponderance of the vote and therefore a throw-away vote.

Has there ever been in the history of this country an election conducted to overcome and overrule the citizens' first and foremost freedom - the right of each citizen to choose their leader for a representative government. Not until now. People who do not want the far left or the far right but want a centrist, representing all the people, must listen for and make themselves heard above the hoof beats of the persuaders.

WHAT'S AHEAD

The road to the White House for Dems:

At Stake:

WEST VIRGINIA, MAY 13, 28 DELEGATES
KENTUCKY, MAY 20, 51 DELEGATES
OREGON, MAY 20, 52 DELEGATES

JUNE 1, PUERTO RICO, 55 DELEGATES
JUNE 3, MONTANA, 16 DELEGATES
JUNE 3, SOUTH DAKOTA, 15 DELEGATES

The Democratic National Convention will be in Denver, August 25-28.

"Like the Democratic Party itself, the Mile High City embodies the 21st century ideals of economic strength, environmental consciousness, regional collaboration, cutting-edge technological infrastructure and visionary zeal that will help lead America in the year 2008 and beyond." -- John Hickenlooper, Mayor of Denver"

IT'S THE PEOPLE'S CHOICE, STUPID

Today, May 6, 2008, primary elections are being held in Indiana and North Carolina. The media is telling the American people these two single state results will determine the Democratic nominee for the next president and will close the race. The villager knows this is wrong. This is manipulation. There are still other states in which primaries have not been held and the voters of each state have a right to be represented by their delegates to the national convention. Take it from a native of Indiana: every state in the nation has the right to select delegates, to send their committed delegates to a national open convention, and at the national convention select a nominee. At the convention there will be floor fights, deals and negotiations among legitimate participants; a true nominee can emerge who has not been chosen by special interests, millions of dollars of advertising and slanted media reports.

The villager is shouting a Paul Revere warning to all American voters. Do not permit one single vote to go uncounted in the process of choosing a candidate in the present party system. Florida and Michigan delegates must be there; so do the delegates from every state in the union. Those who are screaming closure now before convention time are plotting and interfering with the people and their one freedom left: representation. The press is not to be allowed to select our new presidential candidate and to contaminate the system before it can work within the party process. Egged on by the national press, the two Democratic candidates now bashing each other, state by state, to carry a majority are doing a disservice to their country and a service to the Republican forces laughing on the sidelines at their destruction and their gift of success to McCain in the general election, as Americans have already heard it all from the Democrats and are weary.

The villager issues this warning. Do not let your vote be stolen during the total election process. . It's the last and only power the people have to govern themselves. That's the issue. The primaries are party tactics. The results affect the general election. When the people go to the polls in November, there will be two choices only.

It's time for all good men to come to the aid of their party.