2008 Presidential Election: the Deciding Vote

Walk with me for a moment. If there is a time to open your eyes to everything surrounding the United States now is that time. I wanted to bring you up here in the mountains just outside of Hancock, New York to a little town called Islamberg situated deep within the forest hidden away from everyone. The only way in is if you are or will be joining the Jihad (meaning holy war) and a name included with some of the biggest sources of terrorism in the world. One that has seemingly thrived in the mountains all over the United States in Maryland, Virginia, Georgia, South Carolina, Tennessee, Colorado, Oklahoma, California, Washington, and Pennsylvania all in addition to the paramilitary ground in New York. Can you hear the shots being fired as they are up there training. What exactly do you think they might be training for at these compounds. Lets walk away slowly, I'm not sure the man draped in yellow cloth at the entrance to the city holding his machine gun really likes us here. I've got so much more to show you anyways.

Does this look familiar to you? No, well its April 16, 2007 on a little campus in Blacksburg, Virginia where Seung-Hui Cho a student at Virginia Tech killed 32 people after being diagnosed as "mentally ill" in the state of Virginia yet he was easily able to purchase guns. It took lost lives for there to be change in the NICBCS better know as the National Incident Criminal Background Check System which determines if a person is prohibited to purchase firearms. An event that thrust issues like gun laws, violence, mental health issues, journalism ethics, and much more into our homes showing America various holes and gaps in many laws and systems. If I watch this video one more time while they are showing thousands of people standing outside the dorm with candles lit everywhere I'm going to puke. Lets go somewhere else.

I wanted to bring you back to my hometown of Cincinnati, Ohio to when I was hospitalized in September of 07'. Look at all these people here, like the man over there in the corner slouched to one side coughing and hacking with drool coming down the side of his mouth. Or the lady in front of us who sat here for over 10 hours in pain and agony because she doesn't have health insurance. Neither did I at that time or 40 million other Americans who have to resort to free clinics in their cities as well if any help at all. We were there from 7:00am until I actually saw someone at 4:30pm after we were told to be there as early as possible. 2 days prior I was in the emergency room because that stuff that looked like dip in my mouth was getting in my blood and the whole side of my face was swollen from my eye to halfway down my neck with a unbearable pain. Enough of that it just makes me shutter (heebie-geebies).

I couldn't wait to walk over here and take in a deep breath smelling the good ol' petroleum. You have to take what you can get right? I mean $3.00 + a gallon a whiff of that stuff has to be worth .25 cents anyways. Let me bring this up and put this picture right next to the gasoline. You know what that is don't you? Yep, the Rocky Mountains where 16,000 miles of Oil Shale has been hidden inside since 1930 (well we've known since around then). Where we could extract millions upon millions of barrels of oil a day where companies would charge $10 a barrel as opposed to the $70-$100 we are paying now. Here is one more picture I want to place right next to the gas station and the rocky mountains. Its a picture of my friend all suited up in his military gear ready to take on terrorism over in Iraq, big grin gun in hand, dark tinted sand goggles on. Next to his picture is a long list of American Soldiers who have died since the war began. Look, his name is right here.

I know, my eyes are starting to get glassy too, but we have to keep going I want you to sit down under this white tree with me. Its not here anymore, but in 2006 a young black student asked if they could sit under this very tree in Louisiana. After getting the okay and being told, "You can sit wherever you like" by school officials the student sat under the tree. Look up, see the ropes up there dangling down? Those are the three nooses white students placed on the here the very next day. Things escalated from there and at the end of November 2006 a fire burned down the main academic building at the high school. The next day a black teenager went to an all white party and was beaten, the day after a white boy pulled a gun on black kids outside a convenient store but wound up taking the gun away from him. They were later arrested and the white boy was not charged with anything. Two days later one of the white students who was backing the boys that beat up the black student at the party was throwing around the word "nigger" and was beaten by six black students. He was treated and released at the hospital even attending a social function the same night. However the six black individuals were all arrested and charged with 2nd-degree murder. When they showed the potential jurors (50 in all) yep they were all white. Just imagine the movie A Time to Kill ten years later without the rape but still the hostility. Boy this was such a nice tree, but just symbolized all the wrong ideas. Okay lets go.

"Why exactly are we sitting outside a vacant house with broken windows in Clifton next to the University of Cincinnati campus Michael?" Sorry they'll be here in two minutes and we'll drive on. I wanted to sh.. oh wait there they are look. This company uses illegal immigrants as little pawns for the cheapest amount of money possible to get more work done at the minimum cost. They can have a whole house done in a week if not less if everything goes smoothly in which legal American citizens are not only losing out on jobs, but the illegal immigrants are all saving their money and taking over areas in small cities like little plazas and various opportunities no one else can get. Here I want to take you to Fairfield real quick which is where I grew up and this company called Koch foods. The police raided the food company and found 181 immigrants working there at the time of the raid. 168 were charged with illegal citizenship.

See that guy digging through the trash cans next to that McDonald's there. Watch this, "Sir, excuse me. Are you hungry? If you come inside we'll get you something to eat." the man gives a half-friendly smile and says, "No thank you. I am fine," then continues digging looking for food and drinking melted ice that are left in those cups people throw away. You come across a proud person like that, too proud to take a handout and is homeless, that is a person that could have one of those 168 jobs that instantly became vacant.

Its just amazing isn't it? How some people will vote for Hillary Clinton because she's a woman? How people will vote for Barack Obama because he's dark-skinned or John McCain because he's pale-skinned. How about for John Edwards because some think he's good-looking or because his wife is enduring cancer. Even Rudy Guliani because more people were touched by what he went through during 9/11 and how he handled it all. Some will even vote for Mike Huckabee just because he "looks" like a "safe" bet. The majority of the rest won't even vote at all. Yet we are at wits end of where America is headed and we want the best person possible in the White House to help change the circumstances. Everything you've seen here is why I took you on this walk. Because the one deciding vote that could change everything, is yours.