Real Talk!

There are many people who believe it is the super rich "elite" Illuminati and their associates who truly decide who will preside over the United States.

Who are they?

The Queen of England, her husband Prince Philip and the Royal House of Windsor, the hierarchy on the board of directors of the Vatican, including the Pope; the Rothschilds, Rockefellers, Morgans, Duponts, Fords, Carnegies, Melons, Bush's are among the names that are often cited as part of the Illuminati.

So, if you'd like to know who is going to win the U.S. Presidential election, just call up super wealthy David Rockefeller and he can tell you today- because, evidently, it's all a "staged event".

& according to those who believe… the Illuminati win very election no matter which Democratic or Republican candidate wins… and if this is true, that means that both Barack Obama and John McCain are being brought to you, live, by the elite.

Did you know there are other parties? Did you know there are other candidates?

Have you heard of the Independent Green Party: Chuck Baldwin and Darrell L. Castle; Libertarian: Bob Barr and Wayne A. Root; Green Party: Cynthia McKinney and Rosa Clementa; and Independent Party, Ralph Nader and Matt Gonzalez?

Did you know that Independent presidential candidate Ralph Nader, Libertarian Party presidential candidate Bob Barr, and Constitution Party presidential candidate Chuck Baldwin debated, October 30, in Cleveland, Ohio?

Yawning?

It’s pretty obvious that there is manipulation somewhere… and it might be the media that is steering us to recognize two candidates.

A simple google of “United States Presidential” finds these lines (cut and pasted from my search):

Two brave candidates, but the choice for US president seems clear

As election day looms, both candidates have begun to focus on key states

Both campaigns are geared up for the finale.

The Cuban Government has accused both US presidential candidates of engaging in the same old rhetoric about Cuba

Both US presidential candidates have taken their election battle to the crucial state of Florida

Erdogan sent two foreign policy officials to meet the advisors of both US presidential candidates

In fact, both candidates are being given the extraordinary opportunity -- the benefit of the doubt

Both candidates also supported offering options for young people to perform national service to help pay for their college educations

a new cap-and-trade carbon emissions program, which both candidates call for

both candidates to take over in the White House

While both presidential candidates and top Pentagon officials support the call for more troops in Afghanistan

Both candidates have also supported the Development, Relief and Education for Alien Minors Act

both candidates answered 14 questions

He has met with dozens of Congress people and governors, and with both presidential candidates.

Both presidential candidates John McCain and Barack Obama voted for the measure in the US Senate.

Both candidates, Obama and his rival Republican John

It is just one week before the US Presidential elections. We all know all that we want to know about the two candidates

While both presidential nominees say

Both presidential candidates, John McCain and Barack Obama,

Closing Guantanamo will be one of the thorniest tasks facing the next US president, and while both candidates have said it

Both candidates for the presidency have compelling personal narratives

As election day looms, both candidates have begun to focus on key states

Joe Biden himself proposed partitioning Iraq into three parts, and both presidential candidates have

Both candidates have made development assistance

Both US presidential candidates support some form of decoupling.

But each of us has serious concerns about both candidates

Both candidates said guests at the party made critical comments about Israel

election, both presidential candidates are increasing their TV advertising buys in Colorado

Both have expended so many words

Both favor eventual citizenship for illegal immigrants

Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoðan sent two foreign policy officials to meet with advisors of both US presidential candidates
West Wing” president played by Martin Sheen, brings both candidates to the

Both candidates

But while we've been obsessing over markets, both candidates' positions have been overtaken by events in Baghdad

Both candidates gave somewhat vague replies, focusing on the traditionally close relationship between the United States and Israel
president will not get us out by himself.

Both presidential candidates ...

As such, both of the presidential candidates are boxed into a cage of their respective parties' creation

Whoever wins next week's presidential election between Obama, the Democratic candidate, and Republican nominee McCain will

Only slightly better was:
For the first time in America's history, both the main presidential candidates have lived in Asia

which was supported by both mainstream presidential candidates

&

In the presidential election, both major candidates

So, I ask you....who is it that controls the media? Who owns the newspapers, the tv stations? That would fill several blogs… I’ll give you the readers digest version:

"The news and truth are not the same thing."
Walter Lippmann, American journalist, 1889-1974

"We tell the people what they need to know, not what they want to know."
Frank Sesno, CNN News

According to David Icke, author of Children of the Matrix:

an inner-core member of the Bilderberg Group,heads the Hollinger media empire. This includes the London "Daily Telegraph", the "Jerusalem Post", and has owned some 70% of newspapers in Canada. Members of these organizations control three television networks in the United States, NBC, ABC, and CBS. They also control the "Los Angeles Times", "New York Times", "Wall Street Journal", and the empires of Rupert Murdoch, "Time Warner", including "CNN", and the major media operations throughout the world. Even four out of five local newspapers in the UK are now owned by the big media cartels

Really…. So… whoever it is, is telling us that in the current US presidential race, there are really only two candidates.

Tuesday, Peter A. List, editor and chief blogger of EmployerReport.com said, "Depending on the outcome on November 4th, if Democrats win big, the real losers could very easily be American workers. It is very likely that Americans will see more jobs destroyed as a natural economic reaction to the Democrats' payoff to their union backers."

Maybe it is worth looking at the system.

The first two opposing groups in U.S. political history were the Federalists and the Anti-Federalists. In the early years the Federalists (representing merchants and manufacturers), dominated in power and were thought of as the "money" party.

The Anti-Federalists (who would gradually become known as the Democratic Republicans, and eventually as just the Democrats) represented artisans and the farmers.

Eventually, the two parties evolved into representing two distinct sets of interests. The Democrats representing agricultural and frontier interests in the South and West and the Federalists (eventually evolving into the Republican party) supported commercial interests in the East.

Thus establishing power based on the exploitation of geographic and financial divisions, in the two-party system of “class politics”, the Republican Party traditionally represents the more financially affluent and the Democratic Party represents the working class and poor.

I had to take a look at the real history of leadership in the United States… and will include the basic data here, in case someone cares to review it:

Interesting side notes:
The United States of America was actually formed on March 1, 1781 with the adoption of The Articles of Confederation by Maryland whose delegates delayed its ratification over a western border dispute with Virginia and New York. Upon the March 1 ratification the President of the Continental Congress officially became President of the United States in Congress Assembled.

To make matters even more perplexing some historians claim that John Hanson was the first President of the United States as he was the first person to serve the full one-year term (1781-82), under the ratified Articles of Confederation. This again is incorrect.

The ratification occurred during the term of Samuel Huntington who served as President from September 28, 1779 to July 6, 1781. Consequently, Samuel Huntington was the first President of the United States in Congress Assembled.

As a matter of interest, I have also researched ties to Freemasonry. Please note: masonic judges and jurors are pledged to protect brother masons, even if it means they must commit perjury to do so.

1.George Washington, 1789-1797
Political Party: Federalist
Confirmed Mason. Initiated: November 4, 1752, Fredericksburgh (Fredericksburg) Lodge No. 4, Fredericksburg, Virginia.

1st Congress (1789-1791)
Majority Party: Pro-Administration (18 seats)
Minority Party: Anti-Administration (8 seats)
Other Parties: 0
Total Seats: 26

2nd Congress (1791-1793)
Majority Party: Pro-Administration (16 seats)
Minority Party: Anti-Administration (13 seats)
Other Parties: 0
Vacant: 1 Total Seats: 30

3rd Congress (1793-1795)
Majority Party: Pro-Administration (16 seats)
Minority Party: Anti-Administration (14 seats)
Other Parties: 0
Total Seats: 30

4th Congress (1795-1797)
Majority Party: Federalist (21 seats)
Minority Party: Republican (11 seats)
Other Parties: 0
Total Seats: 32

Note: The Republican party that emerged in the 1790s is also referred to as the Jeffersonian-Republican party or the Democratic-Republican party, and should not be confused with the modern (GOP) Republican party established in the 1850s.

2.John Adams, 1797-1801
Political Party: Federalist
Said to have condemned masonry
Suspected Illuminati

5th Congress (1797-1799)
Majority Party: Federalist (22 seats)
Minority Party: Republican (10 seats)
Other Parties: 0
Total Seats: 32

3.Thomas Jefferson, 1801-1809
Political Party: Democratic-Republican
MASON: Jefferson may have been a Member of Charlottesville Lodge No. 90, Charlottesville, Va., since his name appears on the Minutes of this Lodge on September 20, 1817. Jefferson was also a member of the Lodge of the Nine Muses in Paris and the Beenan Order (Order of the Bees)

6th Congress (1799-1801)
Majority Party: Federalist (22 seats)
Minority Party: Republican (10 seats)
Other Parties: 0
Total Seats: 32

4.James Madison, 1809-1817
Political Party: Democratic-Republican
Mason, member of Hiram Lodge No. 59, Westmoreland County, Virginia

7th Congress (1801-1803)
Majority Party: Republican (17 seats)
Minority Party: Federalist (15 seats)
Other Parties: 0
Vacant: 2
Total Seats: 34

8th Congress (1803-1805)
Majority Party: Republican (25 seats)
Minority Party: Federalist (9 seats)
Other Parties: 0
Total Seats: 34

9th Congress (1805-1807)
Majority Party: Republican (27 seats)
Minority Party: Federalist (7 seats)
Other Parties: 0
Total Seats: 34

10th Congress (1807-1809)
Majority Party: Republican (28 seats)
Minority Party: Federalist (6 seats)
Other Parties: 0
Total Seats: 34

11th Congress (1809-1811)
Majority Party: Republican (27 seats)
Minority Party: Federalist (7 seats)
Other Parties: 0
Total Seats: 34

12th Congress (1811-1813)
Majority Party: Republican (30 seats)
Minority Party: Federalist (6 seats)
Other Parties: 0
Total Seats: 36

13th Congress (1813-1815)
Majority Party: Republican (28 seats)
Minority Party: Federalist (8 seats)
Other Parties: 0
Total Seats: 36

14th Congress (1815-1817)
Majority Party: Republican (26 seats)
Minority Party: Federalist (12 seats)
Other Parties: 0
Total Seats: 38

5.James Monroe, 1817-1825
Political Party: Democratic-Republican
Initiated: November 9, 1775, St. John's Regimental Lodge in the Continental Army.
Membership in Williamsburg Lodge No. 6, Williamsburg, Virginia.
Also a member of the Knights Of The Garter.

15th Congress (1817-1819)
Majority Party: Republican (30 seats)
Minority Party: Federalist (12 seats)
Other Parties: 0
Total Seats: 42

16th Congress (1819-1821)
Majority Party: Republican (37 seats)
Minority Party: Federalist (9 seats)
Other Parties: 0
Total Seats: 46]

17th Congress (1821-1823)
Majority Party: Republican (44 seats)
Minority Party: Federalist (4 seats)
Other Parties: 0
Total Seats: 48

18th Congress (1823-1825)
Majority Party: Jackson & Crawford Republicans (31)
Minority Party: Adams-Clay Republicans & Federalists (17)
Other Parties: 0
Total Seats: 48

6.John Quincy Adams, 1825-1829
Political Party: Democratic-Republican
(Rumored famous Anti Mason.)

19th Congress (1825-1827)
Majority Party: Jacksonian (26 seats)
Minority Party: Adams (22 seats)
Other Parties: 0
Total Seats: 48

20th Congress (1827-1829)
Majority Party: Jacksonian (27 seats)
Minority Party: Adams (21 seats)
Other Parties: 0
Total Seats: 48

7.Andrew Jackson, 1829-1837
Political Party: Democratic
Mason Status: Member of St. Tammany Lodge No. 1, Nashville, Tennessee,

21st Congress (1829-1831)
Majority Party: Jacksonian (25 seats)
Minority Party: Anti-Jackson (23 seats)
Other Parties: 0
Total Seats: 48

22nd Congress (1831-1833)
Majority Party: Jacksonian (24 seats)
Minority Party: Anti-Jackson (22 seats)
Other Parties: 2 National Republican
Total Seats: 48

23rd Congress (1833-1835)
Majority Party: Anti-Jackson (26 seats)
Minority Party: Jacksonian (20 seats)
Other Parties: 2 National Republican
Total Seats: 48

24th Congress (1835-1837)
Majority Party: Jacksonian (26 seats)
Minority Party: Anti-Jackson (24 seats)
Other Parties: 2 National Republican
Total Seats: 52

8.Martin Van Buren, 1837-1841
Political Party: Democratic
Alleged Mason-I was unable to find information confirming he was a mason, he was, however, a personal friend with known masons, Thomas Jefferson, Henry Clay, and Andrew Jackson

25th Congress (1837-1839)
Majority Party: Democrat (35 seats)
Minority Party: Whig (17 seats)
Other Parties: 0
Total Seats: 52

26th Congress (1839-1841)
Majority Party: Democrat (30 seats)
Minority Party: Whig (22 seats)
Other Parties: 0
Total Seats: 52

9.William Henry Harrison, 1841
Political Party: Whig
Mason Status: Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Kentucky and Grand Orator for the G.L.

27th Congress (1841-1843)
Majority Party: Whig (29 seats)
Minority Party: Democrat (22 seats)
Other Parties: 0
Vacant: 1
Total Seats: 52

10.John Tyler, 1841-1845
Political Party: Whig
Mason-Confirmed by Jewels of Masonic Eloquence Part 1: V. 1
By Clifford O. Fritz, Charles N. Harmon
Published by Kissinger Publishing, 2003
Page 17:

“There were thirteen other presidents of the United States of America members of our fraternity: Andrew Jackson, James Monroe, James K. Polk, John Tyler, Zachary Taylor, Millard Fillmore, Franklin Pierce, James Buchannan, Andrew Johnson, James A Garfield, William McKinley, Theodore Roosevelt and William H. Taft….”

27th Congress (1841-1843)
Majority Party: Whig (29 seats)
Minority Party: Democrat (22 seats)
Other Parties: 0
Vacant: 1
Total Seats: 52

28th Congress (1843-1845)
Majority Party: Whig (29 seats)
Minority Party: Democrat (23 seats)
Other Parties: 0
Total Seats: 52

11.James Knox Polk, 1845-1849
Political Party: Democratic
Initiated: June 5, 1820, Columbia Lodge No. 31, Columbia, Tennessee.

29th Congress (1845-1847)
Majority Party: Democrat (34 seats)
Minority Party: Whig (22 seats)
Other Parties: 0
Vacant: 2 Total Seats: 58

30th Congress (1847-1849)
Majority Party: Democrat (38 seats)
Minority Party: Whig (21 seats)
Other Parties: 1 Independent Democrat
Total Seats: 60

12.Zachary Taylor, 1849-1850
Political Party: Whig
Mason and member of the Knights Of The Garter
According to:Jewels of Masonic Eloquence Part 1: V. 1
By Clifford O. Fritz, Charles N. Harmon
Published by Kissinger Publishing, 2003

31st Congress (1849-1851)
Majority Party: Democrat (35 seats)
Minority Party: Whig (25 seats)
Other Parties: 2 Free Soiler
Total Seats: 62

13.Millard Fillmore, 1850-1853
Political Party: Whig
An active anti-mason until 1835
after his presidency, attended two masonic cornerstone layings
Jewels of Masonic Eloquence Part 1: V. 1
By Clifford O. Fritz, Charles N. Harmon
Published by Kissinger Publishing, 2003

32nd Congress (1851-1853)
Majority Party: Democrat (36 seats)
Minority Party: Whig (23 seats)
Other Parties: 3 Free Soiler
Total Seats: 62

14.Franklin Pierce, 1853-1857
Political Party: Democrat
Mason and member of the Knights Of The Garter
Jewels of Masonic Eloquence Part 1: V. 1
By Clifford O. Fritz, Charles N. Harmon
Published by Kissinger Publishing, 2003

33rd Congress (1853-1855)
Majority Party: Democrat (38 seats)
Minority Party: Whig (22 seats)
Other Parties: 2 Free Soiler
Total Seats: 62

34th Congress (1855-1857)
Majority Party: Democrat (39 seats)
Minority Party: Opposition (21 seats)
Other Parties: 1 American Party; 1 Republican
Total Seats: 62

15.James Buchanan, 1857-1861
Political Party: Democrat
Initiated: December 1l, 1816, Lodge No. 43, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

35th Congress (1857-1859)
Majority Party: Democrat (41 seats)
Minority Party: Republican (20 seats)
Other Parties: 5 American Party
Total Seats: 66

36th Congress (1859-1861)
Majority Party: Democrat (38 seats)
Minority Party: Republican (26 seats)
Other Parties: 2 American Party
Total Seats: 66

16.Abraham Lincoln, 1861-1865
Political Party: Republican
Rumored Rosicrucian & Wannabe Mason:
In 1860 the Grand Lodge of Illinois recessed their meeting being held during the presidential campaign to call on Mr. Lincoln. During that meeting Lincoln is reported to have told the calling committee "Gentleman, I have always entertained a profound respect for the Masonic fraternity and have long cherished a desire to become a member."

He is oft quoted as saying he felt he was too lazy to be a Mason.
Lincoln's wife Mary Todd was into the occult. Abraham Lincoln was a Rosicrucian and a member of the Order of the Lily's Council of Three along with Paschal Beverly Randolph and General Ethan Allen Hitchcock.

Paschal Beverly Randolph, an early leader of American Rosicrucianism, in 1851, made the acquaintance of Abraham Lincoln. Their friendship was close enough that, when Lincoln was assassinated in 1865, Randolph accompanied Lincoln's funeral procession in a train to Springfield, Illinois.

37th Congress (1861-1863)
Majority Party: Republican (31 seats)
Minority Party: Democrat (15 seats)
Other Parties: 3 Unionist
Vacant: 1 Total Seats: 50

38th Congress (1863-1865)
Majority Party: Republican (33 seats)
Minority Party: Democrat (10 seats)
Other Parties: 5 Unconditional Unionist; 4 Unionist
Total Seats: 52

17.Andrew Johnson, 1865-1869
Political Party: Democratic
Initiated: May 5, 1851, Greenville Lodge No. 119, Greenville, Tennessee

39th Congress (1865-1867)
Majority Party: Republican (39 seats)
Minority Party: Democrat (11 seats)
Other Parties: 3 Unconditional Unionist; 1 Unionist
Total Seats: 54

40th Congress (1867-1869)
Majority Party: Republican (57 seats)
Minority Party: Democrat (9 seats)
Other Parties: 0
Vacant: 2 Total Seats: 68

18.Ulysses Simpson Grant, 1869-1877
Political Party: Republican
Nason Status: Lincoln and Ulysses Grant were alleged “Masons in waiting”

His father, Jesse Grant, was involved in politics as a member of the Jacksonian Democrats, serving as Master of the Masonic Lodge.
Wrote, in Chapter XVI of his memoirs: “There was a lodge near my new home, and I was invited to join it. I accepted the invitation; was initiated; attended a meeting just one week later, and never went to another afterwards.”

41st Congress (1869-1871)
Majority Party: Republican (62 seats)
Minority Party: Democrat (12 seats)
Other Parties: 0
Total Seats: 74

42nd Congress (1871-1873)
Majority Party: Republican (56 seats)
Minority Party: Democrat (17 seats)
Other Parties: 1 Liberal Republican
Total Seats: 74

43rd Congress (1873-1875)
Majority Party: Republican (47 seats)
Minority Party: Democrat (19 seats)
Other Parties: 7 Liberal Republican
Vacant: 1 Total Seats: 74

19.Rutherford Birchard Hayes, 1877-1881
Political Party: Republican
Mason Status: According to Jack P. deVise, Historian,
Hayes was nominated to Syrian Temple (Shriners), which was restricted to members of the Masonic Fraternity-Ancient Arabic Order Nobles of the Mystic Shrine

44th Congress (1875-1877)
Majority Party: Republican (46 seats)
Minority Party: Democrat (28 seats)
Other Parties: 1 Independent Republican
Vacant: 1 Total Seats: 76

45th Congress (1877-1879)
Majority Party: Republican (40 seats)
Minority Party: Democrat (35 seats)
Other Parties: 1 Independent
Total Seats: 76

20.James Abram Garfield, 1881
Political Party: Republican
Initiated: November 19, 1861, Magnolia Lodge, No. 20, Columbus, Ohio.

46th Congress (1879-1881)
Majority Party: Democrat (42 seats)
Minority Party: Republican (33 seats)
Other Parties: 1 Independent
Total Seats: 76

21.Chester Alan Arthur, 1881-1885
Political Party: Republican
Reputed Mason although he had all of his private papers destroyed shortly before his death he was often referred to as a "Mason, brother and worthy member of the craft”

Virginia Freemasonry made another of its great displays before the public on October 18, 1881 when the Grand Lodge laid the cornerstone of the Centennial Monument at Yorktown. President and Brother James A. Garfield had accepted an invitation to attend the ceremony, but an assassin's bullet caused his death on September 19th, and President Chester A. Arthur appeared instead.

Member of Psi Upsilon-the fifth oldest fraternity in the United States

Member of Phi Beta Kappa Society

47th Congress (1881-1883)
Majority Party: Republican (37 seats)
Minority Party: Democrat (37 seats)
Other Parties: 1 Independent; 1 Readjuster
Total Seats: 76

48th Congress (1883-1885)
Majority Party: Republican (38 seats)
Minority Party: Democrat (36 seats)
Other Parties: 2 Readjuster
Total Seats: 76

22.Grover Cleveland, 1885-1889
Political Party: Democrat
There had been talk of making him a Mason
“at sight” in the Grand Lodge of New Jersey, but it
was never accomplished”.
cousin to President Franklin Pierce (Mason), a cousin to President James Garfield (Mason), and was supported by an Illuminati (Williams Collins Whitney)

49th Congress (1885-1887)
Majority Party: Republican (42 seats)
Minority Party: Democrat (34 seats)
Other Parties: 0
Total Seats: 76

50th Congress (1887-1889)
Majority Party: Republican (39 seats)
Minority Party: Democrat (37 seats)
Other Parties: 0
Total Seats: 76

23.Benjamin Harrison, 1889-1893
Political Party: Republican
had Masonic connections

51st Congress (1889-1891)
Majority Party: Republican (51 seats)
Minority Party: Democrat (37 seats)
Other Parties: 0
Total Seats: 88

52nd Congress (1891-1893)
Majority Party: Republican (47 seats)
Minority Party: Democrat (39 seats)
Other Parties: 2 Populist
Total Seats: 88

24.Grover Cleveland, 1893-1897
Political Party: Democrat
Alleged Illuminati Puppet of Williams Collins Whitney (Skull & Bones 1863)

53rd Congress (1893-1895)
Majority Party: Democrat (44 seats)
Minority Party: Republican (40 seats)
Other Parties: 3 Populist; 1 Silver
Total Seats: 88

54th Congress (1895-1897)
Majority Party: Republican (44 seats)
Minority Party: Democrat (40 seats)
Other Parties: 4 Populist; 2 Silver
Total Seats: 90

25.William McKinley, 1897-1901
Political Party: Republican
Initiated: May 1, 1865, Hiram Lodge No. 21, Winchester, Virginia.

55th Congress (1897-1899)
Majority Party: Republican (44 seats)
Minority Party: Democrat (34 seats)
Other Parties: 5 Populist; 5 Silver Republican; 2 Silver
Total Seats: 90

56th Congress (1899-1901)
Majority Party: Republican (53 seats)
Minority Party: Democrat (26 seats)
Other Parties: 5 Populist; 3 Silver Republican; 2 Silver
Vacant: 1
Total Seats: 90

26.Theodore Roosevelt, 1901-1909
Political Party: Republican
Initiated: January 2, 1901, Matinecock Lodge No. 806, Oyster Bay, New York.

57th Congress (1901-1903)
Majority Party: Republican (56 seats)
Minority Party: Democrat (32 seats)
Other Parties: 2 Populist
Total Seats: 90

58th Congress (1903-1905)
Majority Party: Republican (57 seats)
Minority Party: Democrat (33 seats)
Other Parties: 0
Total Seats: 90

59th Congress (1905-1907)
Majority Party: Republican (58 seats)
Minority Party: Democrat (32 seats)
Other Parties: 0
Total Seats: 90

60th Congress (1907-1909)
Majority Party: Republican (61 seats)
Minority Party: Democrat (31 seats)
Other Parties: 0
Total Seats: 92

27.William Howard Taft, 1909-1913
Political Party: Republican
Initiated: February 18, 1909. Brother Taft was made a "Mason at Sight" within the Body of Kilwinning Lodge No. 356, Cincinnati, Ohio.

61st Congress (1909-1911)
Majority Party: Republican (60 seats)
Minority Party: Democrat (32 seats)
Other Parties: 0
Total Seats: 92

62nd Congress (1911-1913)
Majority Party: Republican (52 seats)
Minority Party: Democrat (44 seats)
Other Parties: 0
Total Seats: 96

28.Woodrow Wilson, 1913-1921
Political Party: Democrat

Unknown Mason status however, in 1913 he published "The New Freedom" in which he states: "Since I entered politics, I have chiefly had men's views confided to me privately. Some of the biggest men in the U.S., in the field of commerce and manufacturing, are afraid of somebody, are afraid of something. They know that there is a power somewhere so organized, so subtle, so watchful, so interlocked, so complete, so pervasive, that they had better not speak above their breath when they speak in condemnation of it."

New World Order is a phrase that was first used by Woodrow Wilson when he referred to the League of Nations, the predecessor to the U.N.

Rothschild agent, Colonel House ( Edward Mandell House),a 33rd degree Grand Lodge Mason,was Woodrow Wilson's right-hand man, helping start the Federal Reserve.

Woodrow Wilson signed the Federal Reserve Act in 1913- In 1916 he is quoted as saying: “I am a most unhappy man. I have unwittingly ruined my country.” “A great industrial Nation is now controlled by its system of credit.”” We are no longer a government by conviction and the vote of the majority, but a government by the opinion and duress of a small group of dominant men”

63rd Congress (1913-1915)
Majority Party: Democrat (51 seats)
Minority Party: Republican (44 seats)
Other Parties: 1 Progressive
Total Seats: 96

64th Congress (1915-1917)
Majority Party: Democrat (56 seats)
Minority Party: Republican (40 seats)
Other Parties: 0
Total Seats: 96

65th Congress (1917-1919)
Majority Party: Democrat (54 seats)
Minority Party: Republican (42 seats)
Other Parties: 0
Total Seats: 96

66th Congress (1919-1921)
Majority Party: Republican (49 seats)
Minority Party: Democrat (47 seats)
Other Parties: 0
Total Seats: 96

29.Warren Gamaliel Harding, 1921-1923
Political Party: Republican
Initiated: June 28, 1901, Marion Lodge No. 70, Marion, Ohio.

67th Congress (1921-1923)
Majority Party: Republican (59 seats)
Minority Party: Democrat (37 seats)
Other Parties: 0
Total Seats: 96

30.Calvin Coolidge, 1923-1929
Political Party: Republican
Mason ties:
In 1898, Coolidge opened a law practice in the Masonic Building, on Main Street in Northampton.

November 1, 1923 at a special communication of the Grand Lodge of Virginia. More than 25,000 persons participated in the procession to the Memorial where the cornerstone was laid using the same trowel employed by Washington in laying the cornerstone of the United States Capitol. Assisting in the ceremonies were President Calvin Coolidge, Chief Justice William H. Taft and the Grand Masters of all the Grand Jurisdictions in the nation.

His wife was a member of the Eastern Star and his son John, became a member of the Wyllys Lodge No. 99 in West Hartford, Conn.

Addressing the Grand Lodge of Massachusetts while Governor of Mass, Coolidge said “It has not been my fortune to know very much of Freemasonry, but I have had the great fortune to know many Freemasons…”

Coolidge sent his personal cheque in 1921, making a $3.00 payment to the Treasurer of the University Club. The University Club was founded as a Mason-related club and counted William H. Taft as one of its most prominent members.

"Civilization and profits go hand in hand."
—Calvin Coolidge, 1928

68th Congress (1923-1925)
Majority Party: Republican (53 seats)
Minority Party: Democrat (42 seats)
Other Parties: 1 Farmer-Labor
Total Seats: 96

69th Congress (1925-1927)
Majority Party: Republican (54 seats)
Minority Party: Democrat (41 seats)
Other Parties: 1 Farmer-Labor
Total Seats: 96

70th Congress (1927-1929)
Majority Party: Republican (48 seats)
Minority Party: Democrat (46 seats)
Other Parties: 1 Farmer-Labor
Vacant: 1
Total Seats: 96

31.Herbert Clark Hoover, 1929-1933
Political Party: Republican
Mason status: disputed
Member of the Bohemian Club
President Herbert Hoover once called this club "the greatest men's party on Earth."

Henry Stimson (Skull and Bones class of 1888 and a Rockefeller lawyer and agent) was President Herbert Hoover’s Secretary of State from 1929 to 1933.

The George Washington Masonic National Memorialist just off the Capitol Beltway, adjacent to Old Town Alexandria, VA and six miles from Washington, D.C. The Masons purchased the 36-acre site and laid the cornerstone in 1923. Assisting in the ceremonies were President Calvin Coolidge, Chief Justice William H. Taft and the Grand Masters of all the Grand Jurisdictions in the nation. The edifice, which has a broad rectangular base and soaring steeple, was completed and officially dedicated in 1932. President Herbert Hoover assisted in the dedication ceremonies.

Hoover associated with many known Masons.

71st Congress (1929-1931)
Majority Party: Republican (56 seats)
Minority Party: Democrat (39 seats)
Other Parties: 1 Farmer-Labor
Total Seats: 96

72nd Congress (1931-1933)
Majority Party: Republican (48 seats)
Minority Party: Democrat (47 seats)
Other Parties: 1 Farmer-Labor
Total Seats: 96

32.Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1933-1945
Political Party: Democrat
Initiated: October 11, 1911, Holland Lodge No. 8, New York City.

73rd Congress (1933-1935)
Majority Party: Democrat (59 seats)
Minority Party: Republican (36 seats)
Other Parties: 1 Farmer-Labor
Total Seats: 96

74th Congress (1935-1937)
Majority Party: Democrat (69 seats)
Minority Party: Republican (25 seats)
Other Parties: 1 Farmer-Labor; 1 Progressive
Total Seats: 96

75th Congress (1937-1939)
Majority Party: Democrat (76 seats)
Minority Party: Republican (16 seats)
Other Parties: 2 Farmer-Labor; 1 Progressive; 1 Independent
Total Seats: 96

76th Congress (1939-1941)
Majority Party: Democrat (69 seats)
Minority Party: Republican (23 seats)
Other Parties: 2 Farmer-Labor; 1 Progressive; 1 Independent
Total Seats: 96

77th Congress (1941-1943)
Majority Party: Democrat (66 seats)
Minority Party: Republican (28 seats)
Other Parties: 1 Independent; 1 Progressive
Total Seats: 96

78th Congress (1943-1945)
Majority Party: Democrat (57 seats)
Minority Party: Republican (38 seats)
Other Parties: 1 Progressive
Total Seats: 96

33.Harry S. Truman, 1945-1953
Political Party: Democrat
Initiated February 9, 1909, Belton Lodge No. 450, Belton, Missouri.

79th Congress (1945-1947)
Majority Party: Democrat (57 seats)
Minority Party: Republican (38 seats)
Other Parties: 1 Progressive
Total Seats: 96

80th Congress (1947-1949)
Majority Party: Republican (51 seats)
Minority Party: Democrat (45 seats)
Other Parties: 0
Total Seats: 96

81st Congress (1949-1951)
Majority Party: Democrat (54 seats)
Minority Party: Republican (42 seats)
Other Parties: 0
Total Seats: 96

82nd Congress (1951-1953)
Majority Party: Democrat (49 seats)
Minority Party: Republican (47 seats)
Other Parties: 0
Total Seats: 96

34.Dwight David Eisenhower 1953-1961
Political Party: Republican

Unknown Mason Status but Knight of Malta (Better known as the Sovereign Military Order of Malta (SMOM), is a Roman Catholic religious order. Its sovereign status is recognized by membership in numerous international bodies and observer status at the United Nations and others. The Grand Master of the Order serves as a Papal Viceroy, providing Vatican diplomats with procedural support for making motions, proposing amendments and requiring votes in the sphere of international diplomacy.)

Eisenhower was sworn into office with his personal West Point Bible, open to Psalm 33:12, at both his 1953 and 1957 inaugural ceremonies. Additionally for 1953, he included the Bible that George Washington had used in 1789 (belonging to St. John's Masonic Lodge No. 1), opened to II Chronicles 7:14.

President Dwight Eisenhower participated in a Masonic ritual on July 4, 1959, laying the cornerstone for the extension of the east front of Capitol.

Milton S. Eisenhower, brother of President Dwight Eisenhower was made a “Mason at Sight” in Pennsylvania, 1951.

Eisenhower took part to the banquet for the 40th anniversary of the A.D.L. (Anti-Defamation League of “B’nai B’rith”), the ‘armed wing’ of the “B’nai B’rith”. Today the members of the “B’nai B’rith” try not to talk about their link with the Freemasonry, but at least four of its founders were Freemasons who gathered in Masonic Temples

83rd Congress (1953-1955)
Majority Party: Republican (48 seats)
Minority Party: Democrat (47 seats)
Other Parties: 1 Independent
Total Seats: 96

Note: During the 83rd Congress, nine senators died and one resigned, shifting the party division in the Senate with each new replacement.
1953
January 3:
Senate convenes (party balance: 48R, 47D, 1Ind.)
June 26:
Willis Smith (D-NC) dies (party balance: 48R, 46D, 1Ind., 1 vacancy) -- Replaced by Alton Lennon (D-NC), July 15, 1953
July 15:
Alton Lennon (D-NC) seated (party balance: 48R, 47D, 1Ind.)
July 24:
Charles W. Tobey (R-NH) dies (party balance: 47R, 47D, 1Ind., 1 vacancy) -- Replaced by Robert Upton (R-NH), January 6, 1954
July 31:
Robert A. Taft (R-OH) dies (party balance: 46R, 47D, 1Ind., 2 vacancies) -- Replaced by Thomas A. Burke (D-OH), January 6, 1954
August 3:
Sine die adjournment of first session
1954
January 6:
Second session convenes; Senators Upton (R-NH) and Burke (D-OH) sworn in (party balance: 47R, 48D, 1Ind.)
April 12:
Dwight Griswold (R-NE) dies (party balance: 46R, 48D, 1Ind., 1 vacancy) -- Replaced by Eva Bowring (R-NE), April 26, 1954
April 26:
Eva Bowring (R-NE) seated (party balance: 47R, 48D, 1Ind.)
May 12:
Clyde Hoey (D-NC) dies (party balance: 47R, 47D, 1Ind., 1 vacancy) -- Replaced by Samuel Ervin (D-NC), seated June 11, 1954
June 11:
Samuel Ervin (D-NC) seated (party balance: 47R, 48D, 1Ind.)
June 19:
Lester Hunt (D-WY) commits suicide (party balance: 47R, 47D, 1Ind., 1 vacancy) -- Replaced by Edward Crippa (R-WY), seated June 28
June 28:
Edward Crippa (R-WY) seated (party balance: 48R, 47D, 1Ind.)
July 1:
Hugh Butler (R-NE) dies (party balance: 47R, 47D, 1Ind., 1 vacancy) -- Replaced by Sam Reynolds (R-NE), seated July 7
July 7:
Sam Reynolds (R-NE) seated (party balance: 48R, 47D, 1Ind.)
August 20:
Senate concluded legislative business for the year (party balance: 48R, 47D, 1Ind). House adjourned sine die. Senate returned on November 8 exclusively to consider censure proceedings against Senator Joseph R. McCarthy and met from November 8 to 18 and from November 29-December 2)
September 1:
Burnet Maybank (D-SC) dies (party balance: 48R, 46D, 1Ind., 1 vacancy) -- Replaced by Charles Daniel (D-SC), seated on November 8
September 28:
Pat McCarran (D-NV) dies (party balance: 48R, 45D, 1Ind., 2 vacancies) -- Replaced by Ernest Brown (R-NV), seated November 8
November 2:
Hazel Abel (R-NE) elected to replace appointed Senator Eva Bowring (R-NE); Roman Hruska (R-NE) elected to replace appointed Senator Sam Reynolds (R-NE); Alan Bible (D-NV) elected to replace appointed Senator Ernest Brown (R- NV); Norris Cotton (R-NH) elected to replace appointed Senator Robert Upton (R-NH); W. Kerr Scott (D-NC) elected to replace appointed Senator Alton Lennon (D-NC); Joseph O'Mahoney (D-WY) elected to replace appointed Senator Edward Crippa (R-WY); George Bender (R-OH) elected to replace appointed Senator Thomas Burke (D-OH) [Bender not seated until next Congress]
November 8:
Hazel Abel (R-NE), Ernest Brown (R-NV), Norris Cotton (R-NH), Charles Daniel (D-SC), and Roman Hruska (R-NE) seated (party balance: 49R, 45D, 1Ind., 1 vacancy)
November 9:
W. Kerr Scott (D-NC) seated (party balance: 49R, 46D, 1Ind.)
November 29:
Joseph O'Mahoney (D-WY) seated (party balance: 48R, 47D, 1Ind.)
December 2:
Alan Bible (D-NV) seated (party balance: 47R, 48D, 1Ind.) -- Thomas Burke (D-OH) term expires
December 23:
Charles Daniel (D-SC), appointed to replace Burnet Maybank, resigned (party balance: 47R, 47D, 1Ind., 1 vacancy)
December 24:
J. Strom Thurmond (D-SC) appointed to fill vacancy caused by resignation of Charles Daniel (D-SC) [but Thurmond was not seated until the next Congress] (party balance: 47R, 47D, 1Ind., 1 not yet seated)
December 31:
Hazel Abel (R-NE) resigned (party balance: 46R, 47D, 1Ind., 1 vacancy)
Source: Senate Historical Office

84th Congress (1955-1957)
Majority Party: Democrat (48 seats)
Minority Party: Republican (47 seats)
Other Parties: 1 Independent
Total Seats: 96

Note: Strom Thurmond (SC) was an Independent Democrat during this Congress until his resignation on April 4, 1956. In November of that year he was elected as a Democrat to fill the vacancy created by his resignation. The Independent member listed above was Wayne Morse (OR), who changed from an Independent to a Democrat on February 17, 1955.

85th Congress (1957-1959)
Majority Party: Democrat (49 seats)
Minority Party: Republican (47 seats)
Other Parties: 0
Total Seats: 96

86th Congress (1959-1961)
Majority Party: Democrat (65 seats)
Minority Party: Republican (35 seats)
Other Parties: 0
Total Seats: 100

35.John Fitzgerald Kennedy, 1961-1963
Political Party: Democrat
First Catholic President
Considered to be a non-Mason
Brooks Hays was a Congressman from Arkansas, a Mason and an assistant to the late President Kennedy was also a Council on Foreign Relations member.

President John F. Kennedy stated before his assassination that there were 17 million members of various quasi-Freemasonic secret societies in the U.S. alone.

Some conspiracy theorists say that Freemasons had JFK killed.

JFK was a member of the Phi Kappa Theta Fraternity,Fraternal Order of Eagles,Alfalfa Club,Benevolent & Protective Order of the Elks
Rotary International,National Rifle Association

87th Congress (1961-1963)
Majority Party: Democrat (64 seats)
Minority Party: Republican (36 seats)
Other Parties: 0
Total Seats: 100

36.Lyndon Baines Johnson, 1963-1969
Political Party: Democrat
Confirmed Mason. (New World Order: The Ancient Plan of Secret Societies, William T. Still, pg. 21)

On October 30, 1937, he was initiated an Entered Apprentice in Johnson City, Texas. He never advanced. Masonic law in Texas declares that “Entered Apprentices and Fellow crafts are Masons,” although denied certain rights and privileges, Lyndon B. Johnson was accepted and initiated in a Masonic Lodge, and at that time was addressed as “Brother.”

88th Congress (1963-1965)
Majority Party: Democrat (66 seats)
Minority Party: Republican (34 seats)
Other Parties: 0
Total Seats: 100

89th Congress (1965-1967)
Majority Party: Democrat (68 seats)
Minority Party: Republican (32 seats)
Other Parties: 0
Total Seats: 100

90th Congress (1967-1969)
Majority Party: Democrat (64 seats)
Minority Party: Republican (36 seats)
Other Parties: 0
Total Seats: 100

37.Richard Milhous Nixon, 1969-1974
Political Party: Republican

Mason status:. allegedly a 33rd Mason, member of the Anti-American organization known as the Council of Foreign Relations (CFR). Was also a member of the all-male ultra-exclusive Bohemian Club, had very close ties to Nelson Rockefeller and David Rockefeller. Close friend of Varnum Paul- Varnum joined Mission Masonic Lodge in 1937 and was a member for 71 years. He was on the board of the Mission Masonic Lodge in SF and former general council for Masonic Lodges and Masonic Homes of Northern California. In the 1960 election to choose his successor, Eisenhower endorsed his own Vice President, Republican Richard Nixon against Democrat John F. Kennedy. Richard Nixon’s daughter married Eisenhower's grandson David. Member of the Order of Red Men.

91st Congress (1969-1971)
Majority Party: Democrat (57 seats)
Minority Party: Republican (43 seats)
Other Parties: 0
Total Seats: 100

92nd Congress (1971-1973)
Majority Party: Democrat (54 seats)
Minority Party: Republican (44 seats)
Other Parties: 1 Conservative; 1 Independent
Total Seats: 100

93rd Congress (1973-1975)
Majority Party: Democrat (56 seats)
Minority Party: Republican (42 seats)
Other Parties: 1 Conservative; 1 Independent
Total Seats: 100

38.Gerald Rudolph Ford, 1974-1977
Political Party: Republican
Initiated: September 30, 1949, Malta Lodge No. 465, Grand Rapids, Michigan

93rd Congress (1973-1975)
Majority Party: Democrat (56 seats)
Minority Party: Republican (42 seats)
Other Parties: 1 Conservative; 1 Independent
Total Seats: 100

94th Congress (1975-1977)
Majority Party: Democrat (60 seats)
Minority Party: Republican (38 seats)
Other Parties: 1 Conservative; 1 Independent
Total Seats: 100

39.James Earl Carter, Jr., 1977-1981
Political Party: Democrat

Mason status: CFR-member, former member of David Rockefeller’s Trilateral Commission, Masonic Nobel Peace Prize 2002 (given only to socialists); insisted on using the Masonic Bible from St. John's Lodge in New York City for the oath of office; renounced Southern Baptist membership because they said Jesus defined Biblical interpretation! Fraternal Order of Eagles

95th Congress (1977-1979)
Majority Party: Democrat (61 seats)
Minority Party: Republican (38 seats)
Other Parties: 1 Independent
Total Seats: 100

96th Congress (1979-1981)
Majority Party: Democrat (58 seats)
Minority Party: Republican (41 seats)
Other Parties: 1 Independent
Total Seats: 100

40.Ronald Wilson Reagan, 1981-1989
Political Party: Republican
Confirmed Mason, in 1988 he was presented a Certificate of Honor by the Grand Lodge of Washington, D.C., and was made an honorary member of the Scottish Rite

97th Congress (1981-1983)
Majority Party: Republican (53 seats)
Minority Party: Democrat (46 seats)
Other Parties: 1 Independent
Total Seats: 100

98th Congress (1983-1985)
Majority Party: Republican (54 seats)
Minority Party: Democrat (46 seats)
Other Parties: 0
Total Seats: 100

99th Congress (1985-1987)
Majority Party: Republican (53 seats)
Minority Party: Democrat (47 seats)
Other Parties: 0
Total Seats: 100

100th Congress (1987-1989)
Majority Party: Democrat (55 seats)
Minority Party: Republican (45 seats)
Other Parties: 0
Total Seats: 100

41.George Herbert Walker Bush, 1989-1993
Political Party: Republican
Mason and member of The Order Of The Garter

101st Congress (1989-1991)
Majority Party: Democrat (55 seats)
Minority Party: Republican (45 seats)
Other Parties: 0
Total Seats: 100

102nd Congress (1991-1993)
Majority Party: Democrat (56 seats)
Minority Party: Republican (44 seats)
Other Parties: 0
Total Seats: 100

42.William Jefferson Clinton, 1993-2001
Political Party: Democrat
Bilderberger and Senior DeMolay (Freemason Youth),

103rd Congress (1993-1995)
Majority Party: Democrat (57 seats)
Minority Party: Republican (43 seats)
Other Parties: 0
Total Seats: 100

Note: Party division changed to 56 Democrats and 44 Republicans after the June 5, 1993 election of Kay B. Hutchison (R-TX).

104th Congress (1995-1997)
Majority Party: Republican (52 seats)
Minority Party: Democrat (48 seats)
Other Parties: 0
Total Seats: 100

Note: Party ratio changed to 53 Republicans and 47 Democrats after Richard Shelby of Alabama switched from the Democratic to Republican party on November 9, 1994. It changed again, to 54 Republicans and 46 Democrats, when Ben Nighthorse Campbell of Colorado switched from the Democratic to Republican party on March 3, 1995. When Robert Packwood (R-OR) resigned on October 1, 1995, the Senate divided between 53 Republicans and 46 Democrats with one vacancy. Ron Wyden (D) returned the ratio to 53 Republicans and 47 Democrats when he was elected to fill the vacant Oregon seat.

105th Congress (1997-1999)
Majority Party: Republican (55 seats)
Minority Party: Democrat (45 seats)
Other Parties: 0
Total Seats: 100

106th Congress (1999-2001)
Majority Party: Republican (55 seats)
Minority Party: Democrat (45 seats)
Other Parties: 0
Total Seats: 100

Note: As the 106th Congress began, the division was 55 Republican seats and 45 Democratic seats, but this changed to 54-45 on July 13, 1999 when Senator Bob Smith of New Hampshire switched from the Republican party to Independent status. On November 1, 1999, Smith announced his return to the Republican party, making the division once more 55 Republicans and 45 Democrats. Following the death of Senator Paul Coverdell (R-GA) on July 18, 2000, the balance shifted again, to 54 Republicans and 46 Democrats, when the governor appointed Zell Miller, a Democrat, to fill the vacancy.

43.George Walker Bush, 2001-
Political Party: Republican
Confirmed Mason

107th Congress (2001-2003)
Majority Party (Jan 3-20, 2001): Democrat (50 seats)
Minority Party: Republican (50 seats)
Other Parties: 0
Total Seats: 100
________
Majority Party (Jan 20-June 6, 2001): Republican (50 seats)
Minority Party: Democrat (50 seats)
Other Parties: 0
Total Seats: 100
______
Majority Party (June 6, 2001-November 12, 2002 --): Democrat (50 seats)
Minority Party: Republican (49 seats)
Other Parties: 1
Total Seats: 100
_____
Majority Party (November 12, 2002 - January 3, 2003): Republican (50 seats)
Minority Party: Democrat (48 seats)
Other Parties: 2
Total Seats: 100

Note: From January 3 to January 20, 2001, with the Senate divided evenly between the two parties, the Democrats held the majority due to the deciding vote of outgoing Democratic Vice President Al Gore. Senator Thomas A. Daschle served as majority leader at that time. Beginning on January 20, 2001, Republican Vice President Richard Cheney held the deciding vote, giving the majority to the Republicans. Senator Trent Lott resumed his position as majority leader on that date. On May 24, 2001, Senator James Jeffords of Vermont announced his switch from Republican to Independent status, effective June 6, 2001. Jeffords announced that he would caucus with the Democrats, giving the Democrats a one-seat advantage, changing control of the Senate from the Republicans back to the Democrats. Senator Thomas A. Daschle again became majority leader on June 6, 2001. Senator Paul D. Wellstone (D-MN) died on October 25, 2002, and Independent Dean Barkley was appointed to fill the vacancy. The November 5, 2002 election brought to office elected Senator James Talent (R-MO), replacing appointed Senator Jean Carnahan (D-MO), shifting balance once again to the Republicans -- but no reorganization was completed at that time since the Senate was out of session.

108th Congress (2003-2005)
Majority Party: Republican (51 seats)
Minority Party: Democrat (48 seats)
Other Parties: Independent (1 seat)
Total Seats: 100

109th Congress (2005-2007)
Majority Party: Republican (55 seats)
Minority Party: Democrat (44 seats)
Other Parties: Independent (1 seat)
Total Seats: 100

110th Congress (2007-2009)
Majority Party: Democrat (49 seats)
Minority Party: Republican (49 seats)
Other Parties: 1Independent; 1 Independent Democrat
Total Seats: 100

Note: Senator Joseph Lieberman of Connecticut was reelected in 2006 as an Independent, and became an Independent Democrat. Senator Bernard Sanders of Vermont was elected as an Independent.
Rumors circulate about both John McCain and Barack Obama. Obama is allegedly a 32nd degree Prince Hall Freemason loyal to the Craft and devoted to his principle and both are said to be members of the Council on Foreign Relations.

Certainly, there is evidence that Admiral John Sidney McCain, father of candidate John McCain (the Admiral was Commander in Chief of the Pacific Fleet during the Vietnam War) was a mason initiated at Carrollton Lodge No. 36.

The media would have us believe that vote for a president is a kind of private contract between each voter and his or her preferred choice, however, in a year in which the Democrats are certain to increase their majority in both houses of Congress, an Obama victory would offer the Democrats control of both the legislative and executive branches for the first time since the 90s.

I see trees of green, red roses too
I see them bloom for me and you
And I think to myself, what a wonderful world

I see skies of blue and clouds of white
The bright blessed day, the dark sacred night
And I think to myself, what a wonderful world

The colours of the rainbow, so pretty in the sky
Are also on the faces of people going by
I see friends shakin' hands, sayin', "How do you do?"
They're really saying, "I love you"

I hear babies cryin', I watch them grow
They'll learn much more than I'll ever know
And I think to myself, what a wonderful world
Yes, I think to myself, what a wonderful world

Oh yeah

These beautiful words are the lyrics to WHAT A WONDERFUL WORLD
Written by: George Weiss & Bob Thiele

It was famously performed by: Louis "Satchmo" Armstrong and it is that version that resonates within me... well... most of the time... because, ya, I'm a hopeless optimistic.

Okay, so it's Halloween, almost.... but it's not the spooky ghosts and goblins, witches and vampires that have me worried... it's the U.S. election.

I can't even understand why there is campaigning... and then, I look around inside my own circle and I see the distrust... AND the rising climate of mistrust...

(Distrust and Mistrust.... these words are worth looking up, if you aren't familiar...there is a real difference between the two)

& speaking of real differences between the two... I shudder to think that anyone would consider voting in the United States without taking at least a quick look at the candidates... I mean, outside of television commercials, sound bites, media conjecture etc....

Today, I thought I'd make it easy for anyone who is too lazy to look for themselves... I did a really quick look at the background of Barack Obama and John McCain... and I took at look at what issues they (or their handlers)have felt important enough to note on their campaign websites.

For what it is worth, I'd like to share that information with you. Please note, I will give you the campaign website addresses. Obama's site has a neat little pdf booklet that outlines issues, you can download it for free, without signing up to anything... you just need to look for the skip signup button.

McCain's Issues:
http://www.johnmccain.com/Informing/issues/

The Economy
Energy
National Security
Health Care
Iraq
Homeownership
Veterans
Immigration
Education
2nd Amendment
Judicial Philosophy
Homeland Security
Fighting Crime
Natural Heritage
Agricultural Policies
The Sanctity of Life
Climate Change
Ethics Reform
Space Program
National Service
Technology

Obama's Issues
http://www.barackobama.com/issues/

Strengthen the Economy
Provide Middle Class Americans Tax Relief
Create Good-Paying Jobs
Create a Regulatory System for the 21st Century
Support American Labor
Change Washington
Make Affordable Accessible Health Care For All
Preserve Social Security and Strengthen the Economic Security of Our Seniors
Give Every Child A World Class Education To Compete In The Global Economy
Plan For A Clean Energy Future
Restore Fiscal Discipline
Support Rural Communities
Reclaim the American Dream for Women and Their Families
Fix The Broken Immigration System
Plan to End the War in Iraq & Other Foreign Issues
Dealing With Terrorism and Extremism
Combat Poverty
Plan For Universal Voluntary Public Service
Plan to Strengthen Civil Rights
Secure America and Restore Our Standing in the World
Keep Our Sacred Trust With Veterans

& I do believe that their backgrounds, tell us much about the men, too:

Barack Obama:

Barack Obama was born to a white American mother, Ann Dunham, and a black Kenyan father, Barack Obama, Sr., who were both young college students at the University of Hawaii.

When his father left for Harvard, she and Barack stayed behind, and his father ultimately returned alone to Kenya, where he worked as a government economist. Barack's mother remarried an Indonesian oil manager and moved to Jakarta when Barack was six.

Barack later recounted Indonesia as simultaneously lush and a harrowing exposure to tropical poverty. He returned to Hawaii, where he was brought-up; largely by his grandparents. The family lived in a small apartment - his grandfather was a furniture salesman and an unsuccessful insurance agent and his grandmother worked in a bank - but Barack managed to get into Punahou School, Hawaii's top prep academy. His father wrote to him regularly but, though he traveled around the world on official business for Kenya, he visited only once, when Barack was ten.

Obama attended Columbia University, but found New York's racial tension inescapable. He became a community organizer for a small Chicago church-based group for three years, helping poor South Side residents cope with a wave of plant closings. He then attended Harvard Law School, and in 1990 became the first African-American editor of the Harvard Law Review.

He turned down a prestigious judicial clerkship, choosing instead to practice civil-rights law back in Chicago, representing victims of housing and employment discrimination and working on voting-rights legislation. He also began teaching at the University of Chicago Law School. Eventually he ran as a Democrat for the state senate seat from his district, which included both Hyde Park and some of the poorest ghettos on the South Side, and won.

John McCain:

John McCain was born in 1936 at Coco Solo Naval Air Station in the Panama Canal Zone, Panama, to naval officer John S. McCain, Jr. (1911–1981) and Roberta (Wright) McCain (b. 1912).[ His father and his paternal grandfather both became four-star United States Navy admirals. A remarkable military family, his older sister Sandy and younger brother Joe, followed his father to various naval postings in the United States and the Pacific.

McCain entered the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis. There, he was a friend and informal leader for many of his classmates, and sometimes stood up for targets of bullying. He also became a lightweight boxer. McCain came into conflict with higher-ranking personnel, he did not always obey the rules, and that contributed to a low class rank (894 of 899), despite a high IQ. He did well in academic subjects that interested him, such as literature and history, but studied only enough to pass subjects he struggled with, such as mathematics. McCain graduated in 1958.

McCain was taken, a prisoner of war in North Vietnam for five and a half years and subjected to severe torture. He was released on March 14, 1973. After being treated for his war injuries, McCain studied at the National War College.

McCain retired from the Navy on April 1, 1981 as a captain. He was designated as disabled and awarded a disability pension. Upon leaving the military, he moved to Arizona. His 17 military awards and decorations include the Silver Star, Legion of Merit, Distinguished Flying Cross, Bronze Star and Navy Commendation Medal, for actions before, during, and after his time as a POW.

In 1982, McCain ran as a Republican for an open seat in Arizona's 1st congressional district. McCain's Senate career began in January 1987.

I'm not going to say much about the VP Candidates...

I'm tired of brewing tensions between Palin and key aides to McCain. Now, frustrated McCain advisers are describing Palin as a "diva" who is "going rogue."

CNN contributor and Republican strategist Ed Rollins said Palin was "mishandled" during the earlier part of the campaign, and as a result, "she's become a target of a lot of ridicule."

But, he said, "She definitely is going to be the most popular Republican in this country when this thing is over."

The media has given us a great deal of insight into Sarah Palin, the family woman. Her family has really become an important part of her political persona. Her speeches include friendly "shout outs" to the students of her school teacher brother and she is a devout supporter of special needs children because her son, Trig Paxson Van Palin was born last April with Down Syndrome.

Palin's husband Todd, also a politico AND champion snowmobile racer; is handsome and her children, Bristol, Piper, Track, Willow and Trig were bestowed with unusual names that Palin says are full of personal meaning.

They are an active, energetic, Christian family... shall we leave it at that?

Ya, I think I might enjoy having Sarah and the gang over for dinner... but honestly, her lack of fundamental understanding of key issues and of real experience is really quite frightening…

and I’m not ready for Caribou Barbie in power. I don’t want a cheerleader to have one foot in the White House. I can’t handle a hockey mom with her finger on the nuke button… even though she really knows how to engage her crowd.

& the thing is, that really, Joe Biden seems to be an all-around nice guy. If you take the time to check it out.

Biden was born in Scranton, Pennsylvania to an Irish Catholic family-he is the son of Joseph Robinette Biden Sr. (1915–2002) and Catherine Eugenia "Jean" Finnegan (born 1918).

Biden's father had been fairly well-off earlier in his life, but had business problems and was having difficulty by the time Biden was born. For several years the family had to live with Biden's maternal grandparents, the Finnegans when the Scranton area went into the 50's economic decline,Biden's father could not find enough work.

Negative impressions of drinking alcohol in the Biden and Finnegan families and in the neighborhood led to Joe Biden's becoming a teetotaler.

In 1953 the Biden family moved to an apartment in Claymont, Delaware, where they lived for a few years before moving to a house in Wilmington, Delaware. Joe Biden Sr. got work as a used car salesman, and the family's circumstances improved.

One of Biden's grandfathers was a member of the Pennsylvania State Senate.

Biden attended the Archmere Academy in Claymont, there he was a standout wide receiver on the high school football team and played on the baseball team as well.

On August 27, 1966, Biden, then a law student, married Neilia Hunter. Neila was was from an affluent background in Skaneateles, New York and had attended Syracuse University. They had met in 1964 while on spring break in the Bahamas, and he had overcome her parents' initial reluctance for her to be dating a Roman Catholic.

Joe and Neila had three children, Joseph R. "Beau" Biden III (born 1969), Robert Hunter (born 1970), and Naomi Christina (born 1971).

Biden began practicing law and then entered into the 1972 Senate Election. Biden's campaign had virtually no money and was given no chance of winning- however, won the November 7, 1972 election in an upset.

A few weeks after the election, Biden's wife and one-year-old daughter were killed in an automobile accident while Christmas shopping in Hockessin, Delaware. Biden's two sons, Beau and Hunter, were critically injured in the accident, but both eventually made full recoveries. Beau, became Delaware Attorney General and an Army Judge Advocate scheduled for service in Iraq and Biden's younger son, Hunter is a Washington attorney.

Biden has since been elected to five additional terms, in most cases with about 60 percent of the vote. He is now the longest-serving senator in Delaware history.

A single father for five years, Biden left standing orders that he be interrupted in the Senate at any time if his sons called. In remembrance of the accident, Biden does not work on December 18th…

What's not to like?

Four days ago, Barbie maker (Mattel) announced their third quarter results and said that they could be "hurt" by the severity of the economic turndown.

I think they're missing a boat... a big boat. A vote boat. Barbie, the world's best selling fashion doll was born in 1959 and has become a world-famous icon. The Barbie label sells everything, including but not limited to dolls, toy cars, eyewear, fashions and cosmetics.

& I have to tell you, I can't look at Sarah Palin without thinking "Barbie". I don't know a single woman of my age that didn't have some kind of Barbie time in her life. & I have to think we are a large percentage of the voting demographic.

In 2000, Mattel launched a "Barbie for President" campaign and introduced a "Barbie for President" doll.

I know, I've done the Barbie shtick before, referring to Governor Palin, but the recent horang about her expensive campaign wardrobe (contributed by the Republican Party and to be donated to charity, after the election), I was reminded of the collection of clothing and accessories that have been available for Barbie dolls; over the last five decades.

Having our Barbie dolls looking good was a very important part of a young girl's life!

and our Barbie's had nice wheels, too....

and lipstick that we would never have put on a pitbull:

Barbie had a little sister doll, Skipper... hmmmm... kinda reminds me of little Piper:

And Barbie did everything, from being in the space program, skating, baton twirling, acrobatics... and had everything.... jeeps, pets, records, friends....

Just like Sarah Palin!

Even a stamp:

Ooooh deja vu!

It's hard not to like Sarah Palin's folksy, barbie ways. I don't know many kids who got a $150,000 allowance for Barbie clothes.

It's just that I don't think any of us ever played "Barbie has her hand on the nuke button".

Like many of us, I've been keeping one eye on the news... things are certainly in an uproar and I'll be glad when the United States is finished their election... mind you... I'm horrified at the thought of what will come next...

I watched the "last debate" the other night and I'm at a loss for words...

instead, I'm going to try to express myself here, with images...

I'm having that deja vu feeling:

And thinking, who will lead the United States out of this?

is it me? or....

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Back in February, I wrote a couple/few blogs about watching Hillary Clinton & Barak Obama in debate... and more recently, I have watched "the debates"... Canadian and U.S.

& I haven't really changed heart.

These elections feel critically important and yet, there is no substance to what is being said. Okay, I realize that this is a cautious time for candidates... not the best time to ruffle feathers... better to be likeable and engaging...

yup... it's getting scary.

Last evening, I listened as Glenn Beck interviewed Brian Sack and felt an instant kinship. I searched, this morning, for a transcript and will include it here, because it was really something that I could grab hold of....

the only other and perhaps more honest political account I have heard recently; was when a caller on some politico-show said something like: "I've never been a fan of the Republican party, in fact, I've never listened to a thing they had to say... but I watch Sarah Palin when she's speaking, because I'm a 40 something guy and she's attractive."

Here's the Beck transcript:

(Disclaimer: Glenn Beck is American radio and television host, conservative political commentator, and entrepreneur. His nationally syndicated radio show, The Glenn Beck Program, airs throughout the United States on Premiere Radio Networks. Beck also hosts a self-titled television show, which began in May 2006, on CNN's Headline News. Now...
I may not always agree with Glenn, but as he would say "I am a thinker" and he is interesting.)

BECK: Well, last night`s presidential debate was centered around undecided voters. And I was pretty sure I knew who I was going to vote for until last night. And then I decided I hate both these guys.
Joining me once again with his take on the matter is our own public viewer and angry independent, Brian Sack.

BRIAN SACK, AUTHOR: We can agree on things.

BECK: I`m bringing people together. I hate them both.

SACK: Now Glenn, like many Americans, I sat on the sofa and I watched the two debates or the debates -- the second debate, and I`ve got two words for you. One is boring. The other is also boring.

BECK: Yes, yes.

SACK: After a debate now, the question everyone always asks is, who won? All right? But I`d like to ask a different question. Did we win? OK? Let`s take a look at this.

First of all, did we learn anything new? No. We heard the same inaccurate and/or misleading words and numbers as in the last debate. Now, recently most of us watched our stock portfolio disappears like whisky at a Kennedy family picnic. Did the candidates go into debt from that?

No, they didn`t. No. They blame the other party. Aside from McCain saying we`re going to buy up some lousy mortgages, they moved on from that topic.

Now, did the debate change our perception of the candidates? No. Obamans loved Obama. McCainicles loved McCain. I made that up, McCainicles. And as an independent, Glenn, I just wanted to cry into my sushi. But there were a few things I noticed in the debate, not the least of which was the audience.

BECK: What do you mean?

SACK: Well, the audience was hand picked, apparently, after they said yes to any one of these questions. Are you bald? Do you have a mustache? Can you make a weird face?

BECK: That`s a good looking face there.

SACK: Now, as I said, this was a very boring debate. You`ll agree with me, right?

BECK: Insulting more than boring.

SACK: Yes. Insulting and boring.

BECK: Yes.

SACK: So I spent a lot of time watching the audience. But I did watch the candidates every now and then, and I could not help but notice, Obama knows how to sit.

BECK: He`s like Frank Sinatra, don`t you think? He`s suave. He`s like...

SACK: Suave. He absolutely is.

BECK: Yes.

SACK: Now, McCain, on the other hand, I do not like the way John McCain sits on a stool.

BECK: Oh, boy.

SACK: Maybe it`s the maverick thing. But it just didn`t seem presidential. It looks like a gang signal there.

BECK: That`s the way he rolls, you know?

SACK: Yes. I have to say, Obama did deliver two of my favorite lines in the debate. First, real nice right hook.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

SEN. BARACK OBAMA (D-IL), PRESIDENTIAL NOMINEE: Senator McCain, this is a guy who sang "Bomb, bomb, bomb Iran," who called for the annihilation of North Korea. That, I don`t think, in an example of speaking softly.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

SACK: That was a pretty good comeback from Obama.
Now, the other Obama line was a very Bidenesque foot in the mouth kick.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

OBAMA: You know, a lot of you remember the tragedy of 9/11.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

SACK: A lot of us remember that. No, it doesn`t ring a bell with me.

BECK: I don`t remember that.

SACK: Now, another observation, Glenn, at one point I could have sworn that John McCain was actually leaving the debate out of boredom. Look at this. Wait, he`s giving up.

BECK: There he goes. Maybe I`ll go find some ice cream someplace.

SACK: No, no. It`s not over yet. John, the light`s still green. Come back.

Now, the other thing we noticed is that McCain was taking notes with a sharpie every time he was sitting uncomfortably on his stool.

BECK: Yes.

SACK: Now, I have connections, Glenn. And I managed to get a hold of his legal pad. I have proof that the candidates found the debate as dull as most of us did.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

GRAPHIC: Milk, eggs, coffee, Tums.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

SACK: Yes.

BECK: Yes, Tums.

Brian Sack, thank you very much, sir. Appreciate it. We`ll see you, what is it, next week we`ve got another debate coming up?

And coming up next, if you watched last night`s debate and you didn`t find it boring, I mean, you did find it insulting, right?…..

…if you saw the debates last night, but it was beneath America and way beneath the times that we`re in. If you`re anything like me, you switched it off. I watched the Comedy Channel. I`m not kidding you. I couldn`t take it anymore.

I think I did that right about the time I realized it wouldn`t be so much of a debate as 90 minutes of politicians reciting lines from their stump speeches while in the general vicinity of each other and pointing fingers at each other. That`s America.

Not surprisingly, you didn`t miss much. In fact, we were able to take 90 minutes of blathering nonsense and boil it down to two minutes that has everything you need to know. Take a look.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

TOM BROKAW, NBC NEWS ANCHOR: Gentlemen, we want to get under way immediately, if we can.

SEN. BARACK OBAMA, (D) PRESIDENTIAL NOMINEE: Tom thank you.

SEN. JOHN MCCAIN, (R) PRESIDENTIAL NOMINEE: Well, thank you, Tom.

OBAMA: You need somebody working for you.

MCCAIN: I know how to get America working again. Warren Buffett.

OBAMA: Warren Buffett.

MCCAIN: Not you, Tom. I like Meg Whitman.

OBAMA: Look, you`re not interested in hearing politicians pointing fingers. I`ve got to correct a little bit of senator McCain`s history, not surprisingly.

MCCAIN: With the encouragement of Senator Obama and his cronies and his friends in Washington --

OBAMA: Senator McCain -- and Senator McCain -- in fact, Senator McCain`s campaign --

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: How can we trust either of you with our money when both parties got us into this global economic crisis?

MCCAIN: Senator Obama has never --

OBAMA: When George Bush came into office --

MCCAIN: You know that Senator Obama --

OBAMA: When George Bush came into office --

MCCAIN: He voted for nearly $1 billion in pork barrel earmark projects.

OBAMA: George Bush budgets.

BROKAW: We`re operating under rules that you signed off on.

I`m trying to play by the rules that you all established.

I want to just remind you one more time about time.

OBAMA: Just a quick follow-up on this, I think --

MCCAIN: If we`re going to have follow-ups, I will want follow-ups --

BROKAW: I know. I know. I think we`ll get out of it if I can.

MCCAIN: Fine with me.

OBAMA: You can have one.

BROKAW: All right. Let`s have a follow-up.

OBAMA: Just a quick follow-up because I think this is important.

BROKAW: I`m just the hired help here.

MCCAIN: I would like to have the equal time to go.

BROKAW: Gentlemen, you may not have noticed, but we have lights around here.

MCCAIN: Wave like that and I`ll look at you and I`ll stop, Tommy, and you didn`t even wave.

BROKAW: Look, guys, the rules were established by the two campaigns --

OBAMA: Now, we are in the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression.
We have a half a trillion dollar deficit annually.

MCCAIN: To immediately buy up the bad home loan mortgages in America.

OBAMA: $300 billion --

MCCAIN: Is it expensive? Yes.

OBAMA: An additional $200 billion.

MCCAIN: $3 million for an overhead projector. We are in tough economic times.

OBAMA: I`ve called for an investment of $15 billion a year over ten years.

MCCAIN: $860 billion in new spending.

OBAMA: $4 billion worth.

MCCAIN: $6.8 billion.

OBAMA: $18 billion. $10 billion a month.

MCCAIN: I think what I don`t know is what all of us don`t know.

OBAMA: Senator McCain and I do agree, this is the greatest nation on earth. That`s going to change when I`m president.

BROKAW: You`re in my way of my script there. If you will move -- good night, everyone, from Nashville.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

June 5, 2005-October 6, 2008

I wanted to write something perfect today and I can’t. I realize that language is insufficient to express my emotions. I can’t begin and I know that I won’t be able to bear the ending.

She was a sparkling, spritely, pup. About four pounds of fluff, she seemed oblivious of her diminutive size... except when she needed help getting up on something. She was smart and certain, eager and lively and she listened about as well as she communicated with us.

She was more special than the word special might even suggest.

We called her Billie… or muffy… short for muffin.

She did everything with us. Perching on my shoulder in the car… carrying her little green baby (a furry squeaky toy) around, protecting it… or squeezing it in her lips, teasingly squeaking at us, c’mon play… c'mon throw the ball, please.

Billie was our furry baby.

Billie had to leave us, suddenly yesterday. The Vet said it was a birth defect and there was nothing that could be done. We were fortunate to have her as long as we did.

The loss feels devastating... that little girl was much loved.