One would expect I was going to write about what a wonderful person Cheri Honkala is. She is unique in a lot of people she struggle with like and, even at times, relay on her. She at times gave welfare officials grief but that didn't stop one case worker from urging her to take a family without running water for a time in her living room rather than the case worker put the children in foster care because they lacked running water.

But the Cherry Tree is part of the title when there was an effort to stop feeding kids mythologized stories of Washington and Lincoln, real inspirational coverage of Jefferson fell by the wayside. Athletes and entertainers were paraded in front of kids as an example to follow, Though Oprah Winfrey is one celebratory worth admiring as an example for even the poorest of the poor and of those having to deal with poor parenting. Cheri Honkala as a frequent run away from foster care can add to inspiration for children to ween they away from dreaming of success in the illegal trade markets. To change the subject slightly. The US is also better off because some kids admired Martin Luther King ,Cesar Chavez, and recently Oprah Winfrey, and if Bill Clinton would speak up about how he worked himself out of poverty through public service jobs he could be an inspiration as well. His once fanatically destitute mother went to nursing school and his grandparents took care of him for a while and when his mother remarried he stopped his step-father from beating on her and his little brother.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Clinton#Early_life_and_career

Now that Cheri Honkala is running for Vice President on Green Party banner. President Obama will stop only appealing the middle class. Not only do politicians talk over the poor but the poor internalize that they don't belong as well. It;s getting different in the Kennington section of Philadelphia where Green Party voter registration is up as shrugging people can learn to hold their heads high as they try to better themselves with collective lobbying and protest, instead of fighting with each other for the crumbs.

Getting arrested in a homeless protest while a 13 year old runaway was the most empowering thing to happen to Cheri Honkala in her life so far. I hope the beginning of her political career will change that. An interesting possibility is Nebraska and Maine splits electoral votes instead of winner take all. In an electoral college tie the Constitution says the electors shall choose among the top three candidates. But what if the Libertarians and Greens both get one electoral vote?

If voting was compulsively in America Obama would win by a landslide but he is running against “I am so disgusted that I won't vote” some who say “I guess I have to vote the lesser evil” will notice the polls closed before they managed to vote. I am one of those who may or may not change their minds in the polling booth, if both Pennsylvania and the county are neck and neck. The important thing is to vote. And contribute to the better candidates.

The Green Party had less over signatures than when the Pennsylvania Democrats challenged in a bitter court fight. They didn't challenge them, either because they knew third party election excitement would help the President, or at least help every non-Blue Dog Democrat running for another office
http://www.greenpartywatch.org/2012/08/01/stein-and-honkala-arrested-during-occupy-event-in-philadelphia/
http://www.jillstein.org/frontline_defenders

Obama by praising Ronald Reagan and lately by praising John McCain when it comes to immigration is unknowingly campaigning for people to stay home this time. Obama has real skill as a one on one persuader note his conversion of Bill Gates. But a persuader and an enforcer are two different jobs. Those who swarm all over him doing his every word are making his job harder not easier. What ever else they accomplish Jill Stein and Cheri Honkala is making Obama a better President and Romney is making his policies worse.

I am old enough to have been excited when John F. Kennedy was running, Cheri Honkala is bringing excitement back to politics again. And I hope has already changed the county to where sentencing Ed Frey to six months in jail for helping the poor, and the fines for feeding the poor in Philadelphia will be a thing of the past

Or at least the march toward Nazi Germany where helping the poor, and being ethically part of a group with a reputation for siding with the poor ie the Jews would get you killed, will be turned around, thanks to Cheri Honkala.

To cool the rhetoric down, people fined in Philadelphia for feeding the homeless, and in California Ed Frey getting six month for joining the homeless in solidarity by sleeping on the street may have a little to do with pre-World War II German History, and famous ex homeless people in the news may help a little.

Everyone get back into politics before it's too late.