There's more than McCain, Clinton, Obama

Are you pleased with the Presidential candidates that you are being allowed to vote for, or vote against, as the case may be?

If you feel your vote is being controlled and manipulated, you are correct.

There is a great debate going on in the media about whether Obama or Clinton has the most experience. There are actually other candidates for President that have much more experience and integrity than either Obama, Clinton or McCain.

For instance, if you think we need a black President, how about Dr. Alan Keyes. He is still running for President.

What? Who? You say that you have never heard of him? Is he some moron from the lunatic fringe?

Actually Dr. Keyes is more qualified to be the President of the United State than any of the so called “first tier: candidates that we are being allowed to vote for. So, why haven't you heard of Alan Keyes? It is all over the evening news when Hillary sheds a tear or someone says Obama's middle name is Hussein. But, you have never heard of an educated experienced candidate like Alan Keyes.

The answer is that our vote is being managed? If you want to know about Alan Keyes, you will have to look him up on the Internet. The mainstream media is not allowed to mention his name.

How about Dr. Ronald Paul, the congressman from Texas? Ever heard of him? He is still running for President. But, like Alan Keyes, the powers that control such things forbid his name to be mentioned in the media. Even when Paul was beating Guliani, in Republican primaries you never heard Ron Paul's name. Jay Leno thought Congressman Paul was getting such a raw deal that Leno had him on the Tonight Show twice to talk about his candidacy.

Ron Paul and Alan Keyes are Republicans. If you are a Democrat, consider Dennis Kucinich, the liberal Democratic U.S. Representative for Ohio. Kucinich has dropped out of the race for President, but he was a legitimate contender for the Democratic nomination and he was shut out, shunned and black listed by the media.

You may have heard of Congressman Dennis Kucinich but Kucinich never got the free press that Clinton or Obama get. If you did see the name Kucinich in the media, it was probably a paid political ad.

If we don't know who is running for President, how is it that we think we have the freedom to vote? An uninformed vote is no vote at all. We may as well have someone standing at the polling place with a shotgun telling us who to vote for.

If you vote for Clinton, Obama or McCain, and you don't know anything about the other qualified candidates, your vote has been managed and you are voting away your freedom to choose.

Get informed. Don't give up your freedom of choice. And don't vote for a candidate just because he or she sold his or her soul for the $50 million fee that is required for admission into the First Tier Presidential Club.

“The price for freedom is eternal vigilance.” - Thomas Jefferson.

Chris Ketner

Naples