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Would you like to work in Chicago’s poor black area for between 23 and 25 years and receive as part of your retirement package a 10,000 sq. ft. four bedroom house in addition to your retirement pay?

Well, if your name is Jeremiah Wright and you pastored the Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago you would get this perk upon retirement.

Not bad for working a couple hours a week and tearing down your own country in every crisis it has faced.

Now Barack Obama is claiming he would have left the church if Wright hadn’t retired.

He would have left the church pastored by the man he felt was like an uncle? The man whom he compared favorably to his own grandmother when stating her fears?

“Had the reverend not retired, and had he not acknowledged that what he had said had deeply offended people and were inappropriate and mischaracterized what I believe is the greatness of this country, for all its flaws, then I wouldn’t have felt comfortable staying at the church,” Obama said Thursday during a taping of the ABC talk show, “The View.” The interview will be broadcast Friday.

Sure, Barack, we believe you. After twenty years of following this man you thought of as an uncle; the man who married you and your wife and baptized each of your children, you would have finally said you had heard enough and left.

Not when he said God should damn America, not when he said the American government created the AIDS virus so they could infect black men, not when he said the chickens were coming home to roost when planes flew into American buildings on Sept. 11, 2001, and not when he gave an award from your church to one of the most bigoted, anti-semites in this country, Louis Farrakhan.

It took twenty years for you to see the light, but now that you are probably the Democratic candidate for President of the United States you will abandon your uncle. The man for whom you threw your own grandmother under the bus to defend.

But we also know and believe if you weren’t running for president with a real shot at the nomination you would have begged him to stay and you never would have said a bad word about this man who is your father figure.

You can fool some of the people all of the time…you know how the rest goes because it was said by another famous man from Illinois.

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When the founding fathers wrote our constitution they made sure to protect each state, regardless of size.

We have a House of Representatives that has a delegation from each state with the amount of members determined by the population in the congressional district. This is direct representation.

We have the Senate which is equal in that every state from the largest to the smallest has two senators. The original intent was for the senators to be appointed by their states but the constitution was amended to allow direct election and we have seen the folly in that decision with the lifetime senators barely able to walk and constantly campaigning instead of tending to the business of the country.

The electoral college is made up of the 435 House members and 100 Senators plus the delegations from D.C. and several territories.

Now comes Florida Senator Nelson, who wants to abolish the electoral college system in favor of a direct popular vote for president.

Guess who that helps and guess who that hurts?

It helps the big states in the Northeast and of course Florida, Texas and California and hurts just about every other state. In other words, if you live in what they call fly-over country your vote won’t amount to a hill of beans because the big city Democratic machine will make sure to get out all their voters; alive, dead, barely alive; legal and illegal. Vote early and vote often is a joke to us but not to a lot who will pay the money to people to do just that.

We do not have a parliamentary system of government and the founding fathers were a lot wiser than our present-day politicians. I wish Mr. Nelson a lot of luck if this amendment goes to the states for ratification. The majority of states would have their electoral voices silenced by a poor amendment like that.

But since Mr. Nelson is an intelligent senator let us figure out the legal way for us to call for a constitutional convention and see how much havoc we can raise as the delegates to the convention play party politics instead of looking out for the interests of their country. That’s the problem with amendments.

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