From Homeless Child, to Community Leader, Perhaps Even President Someday!
Written by Richard Kane
Monday, 06 August 2012 23:30
America is becoming a nation where people are beginning to believe that those born on the wrong side of the street have to be losers, or else sports stars, or singers and dancers. Some very poor kids who can't sing or shoot hoops etc, sometimes dream of succeeding at something illegal. Sports stars visiting their school won't change their mind, to say nothing of those who end up giving themselves a concussion due to all the sports hype.
Oprah Winfrey proudly (maybe that's not the right word) talks about her desperate beginnings, purposely inspiring many young girls and a few boys. But mostly there have been fake claims in political ads that Romney, or Bush before him, were men of the people. Even a date drug rapists being paraded around as examples for children to follow, or for an honorary degree,
http://articles.latimes.com/2006/nov/09/news/wk-cosby9
http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1162980324863&slreturn=20120706150523
http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20059561,00.html
Something special has happened in the blighted Kensington section of Philadelphia. Cheri Honika a local once homeless child and homeless mother is empowering people, inspiring new people people each day, and she won't back down at times even in the threat of arrest,
http://www.greenpartywatch.org/2012/08/01/stein-and-honkala-arrested-during-occupy-event-in-philadelphia/
http://www.jillstein.org/frontline_defenders
One would think that those employed at the welfare office would consider her a pain in the neck but one social worker begging her to take in a family without running water so the case worker wouldn't feel compelled to put the children in foster care,
She is running for Vice President of United States under the Green Party ticket. If, in a dead lock, the electoral college has a right to pick among the thee highest vote getter, and Obama and Romney supporters end up hating the third party less than each other, a 3rd party candidate could become President. The Greens better take Maine and Nebraska seriously since those states split electoral votes which the Libertarian Party also wants to win.
Most Democratic Party leaders love the Libertarians taking votes from Romney and hate the Green Party for taking votes away from Obama.
However, I don't think Romney getting new people to vote Republican is Obama's problem but all those who decided not to vote and the decreasing numbers who registered to vote. I think there will be more people going to the election booth to vote for the Green Party, and in the last minute changing their mind and vote for Obama, then those who claim they aren't going to vote but on election day get scared of Romney and vote for Obama instead.
I have a confession to being one of those who may change there mind in the election booth on whether to vote Green or for Obama, and will search the ballot looking for one decent Republican office holder in some elected office to vote for. This despite having collecting a lot of signatures getting the Green Party on the ballot. Before that I was Republican to vote for Ron Paul in the closed Pennsylvania primary, and most of my life registered Democrat. I'm not sure on election day if PA appears close whether I will actually vote Green over Obama. If it isn't close and Obama is ahead in the Pennsylvania election polls, every American who loves justice and giving those who are fallen down economical a break I personally believe are duty bound to vote for Honkala for Vice President and Stein for President.
And third party excitement anywhere in the country will help progressive, honest politicians in other races. And put politics back on track.
I have another subject, there are great political leaders who should parade themselves around as examples for children to admire that don't, all the way up to former President Clinton. The x-President's traveling salesman father died before he was born and he went to live with his grandparents and their small store,
http://clintonchildhoodhomemuseum.com/history.html
When his grandfather died and his mother remarried. Bill Clinton sometimes intervened to stopping his step-dad from beating up his mother and little brother,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Clinton#Early_life_and_career
Instead of only Ophah Winfrey going around trying to inspire young kids with limiting backgrounds to accomplish something I would like the see the whole crowd Ophah, Cheri and Bill give lectures together especially at Temple University instead of that date rapist Bill Crosby.
If third party movements didn't from time to time add life to American politics, the US experiment would have been dead long ago. Let's straighten up American politics by giving it some third party energy no mater how we split up our vote next election day.
If links don't paste right and a counter comment exchange, see,
http://phillyimc.org/en/homeless-child-community-leader-perhaps-even-president-someday
By Richard Kane
Oprah Winfrey proudly (maybe that's not the right word) talks about her desperate beginnings, purposely inspiring many young girls and a few boys. But mostly there have been fake claims in political ads that Romney, or Bush before him, were men of the people. Even a date drug rapists being paraded around as examples for children to follow, or for an honorary degree,
http://articles.latimes.com/2006/nov/09/news/wk-cosby9
http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1162980324863&slreturn=20120706150523
http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20059561,00.html
Something special has happened in the blighted Kensington section of Philadelphia. Cheri Honika a local once homeless child and homeless mother is empowering people, inspiring new people people each day, and she won't back down at times even in the threat of arrest,
http://www.greenpartywatch.org/2012/08/01/stein-and-honkala-arrested-during-occupy-event-in-philadelphia/
http://www.jillstein.org/frontline_defenders
One would think that those employed at the welfare office would consider her a pain in the neck but one social worker begging her to take in a family without running water so the case worker wouldn't feel compelled to put the children in foster care,
She is running for Vice President of United States under the Green Party ticket. If, in a dead lock, the electoral college has a right to pick among the thee highest vote getter, and Obama and Romney supporters end up hating the third party less than each other, a 3rd party candidate could become President. The Greens better take Maine and Nebraska seriously since those states split electoral votes which the Libertarian Party also wants to win.
Most Democratic Party leaders love the Libertarians taking votes from Romney and hate the Green Party for taking votes away from Obama.
However, I don't think Romney getting new people to vote Republican is Obama's problem but all those who decided not to vote and the decreasing numbers who registered to vote. I think there will be more people going to the election booth to vote for the Green Party, and in the last minute changing their mind and vote for Obama, then those who claim they aren't going to vote but on election day get scared of Romney and vote for Obama instead.
I have a confession to being one of those who may change there mind in the election booth on whether to vote Green or for Obama, and will search the ballot looking for one decent Republican office holder in some elected office to vote for. This despite having collecting a lot of signatures getting the Green Party on the ballot. Before that I was Republican to vote for Ron Paul in the closed Pennsylvania primary, and most of my life registered Democrat. I'm not sure on election day if PA appears close whether I will actually vote Green over Obama. If it isn't close and Obama is ahead in the Pennsylvania election polls, every American who loves justice and giving those who are fallen down economical a break I personally believe are duty bound to vote for Honkala for Vice President and Stein for President.
And third party excitement anywhere in the country will help progressive, honest politicians in other races. And put politics back on track.
I have another subject, there are great political leaders who should parade themselves around as examples for children to admire that don't, all the way up to former President Clinton. The x-President's traveling salesman father died before he was born and he went to live with his grandparents and their small store,
http://clintonchildhoodhomemuseum.com/history.html
When his grandfather died and his mother remarried. Bill Clinton sometimes intervened to stopping his step-dad from beating up his mother and little brother,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Clinton#Early_life_and_career
Instead of only Ophah Winfrey going around trying to inspire young kids with limiting backgrounds to accomplish something I would like the see the whole crowd Ophah, Cheri and Bill give lectures together especially at Temple University instead of that date rapist Bill Crosby.
If third party movements didn't from time to time add life to American politics, the US experiment would have been dead long ago. Let's straighten up American politics by giving it some third party energy no mater how we split up our vote next election day.
If links don't paste right and a counter comment exchange, see,
http://phillyimc.org/en/homeless-child-community-leader-perhaps-even-president-someday
By Richard Kane
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We need some inspiration to try harder,
http://phillyimc.org/en/homeless-child-community-leader-perhaps-even-president-someday
http://www.facebook.com/events/371935309539955/
I want to add video but have computer literacy issues. Accidentally submitted video in the above blog,
http://dir.groups.yahoo.com/group/ucscswcj/message/2356
Attn: anonymous, Your Cosby correction shows your point about anyone can make it, since I am obviously slightly computer illiterate and a touch of old fashioned illiteracy. Around the world some people make it. Someone with Japanese ancestor became president of Peru. And someone who experienced hunger first hand once was President of South Korea. A woman once President of Pakistan. But schools like to parade six and a half foot basket ball players as an example for short black kids to become.
The similarity and demeanor of Lynne Steward and Ed Frey is so amazing it's as if they were identical twins.
As for your false comment on our former President, Bill Clinton . . .
http://www.phillyimc.org/en/homeless-child-community-leader-perhaps-even-president-someday#comment-72339
http://occupysantacruz.org/2011/11/09/santa-cruz-city-attorney-wants-to-see-us-in-court-and-prevent-preliminary-injunction/
At the moment Ed Frey is not in jail applying for home sentencing. However I fear in the end he will be interpreted of violating conditions by having a public meeting in his living room or front yard. Again I smell an uncanny resemblance of his case to Lynne Stuart's possibility spending his entire life behind bars.
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