A Humble Plea to McCain and Obama Supporters 
 
  Dear friends,
 
  I am truly astonished by the ignorance Obama supporters
 have displayed
 in their quest to get someone - ANYONE - into the White
 House. Now, wait
 a minute. I can well understand your dislike or even hatred
 of our clown,
 GWB, but he is not the root cause of all of our problems.
 Our Congress
 is. And a change there would be welcomed by all. You
 ain't gonna get
 it done with Obama. You gotta fire the whole damnable
 crooked Congress.
 (Read my book, 'BERNIE'S WAR!').
 
Perhaps I'm looking at all of this from a different
 perspective than you
 because my life experiences have been so different from
 yours. I'm
 80-years old and have traveled the world where I've
 seen a great deal.
 I spent five years on active duty as a fighter pilot in the
 USAF and
 another seven years flying with the Air National Guard in
 **California** and
  **Texas** as well as a few years flying in the USAF
 Reserve. I spent three
 years on active duty in **Germany** flying Czech border
 patrol with 'cold
 guns' in
 aircraft inferior to the MIG during the Korean 'Police
 Action' when it
 was thought that **Korea** was a diversion for a Soviet
 invasion of **
 Western
 Europe**.
 
I lived abroad for a total of 28 years. Three years in
 Germany, twenty
 years in Switzerland and five years in Great Britain where
 I was based
 doing 'spook' work for the U.S. behind the Iron
 Curtain before it fell.
 During that era of the Cold War I ventured to Moscow,
 Prague, Warsaw,
 Bucharest, Peshawar, Pakistan and Bulgaria posing as a
 Swiss
 French-speaking arms dealer purchasing weapons we
 surreptitiously
 supplied to the Afghani Mujahedeen in their successful
 fight against the
 Soviets all of which came back to haunt us.  I've been
 there and done that
 and have had close associations with top government people
 in **Germany**,
 the **Netherlands** and **Great Britain**. I've had
 more foreign affair
 experience than Obama could ever dream of and, yet, 
wouldn't have the
 temerity to deign myself 'Presidential' material;
 although I feel eminently
 more qualified to judge who would NOT be best for our
 country. My long-time
 world experience should count for something in my plea to
 you to abandon
 this miscreant flake. You will only be doing yourself and
 our country an
 enormous disservice if you persist in your support of this
 flash-in-the-pan
 opportunist. On this, you MUST trust me.
 
I've associated closely with European royalty and
 African politicians.
 I've traveled to the **Far East** to observe their
 cultures. My point is
 that Obama, although formally well educated and a brilliant
 orator, is a
 neophyte when it comes to understanding the world and is
 uniquely
 unqualified for the job as President of these great
 **United States**. His
 knowledge of economics is nil and his tax proposals absurd
 and
 life-threatening to the **U.S.** not only in economic terms
 but in
 preserving our national security as well. I don't want
 a 'citizen of the
 world' to be President, I want a citizen of the good
 old **USA** to be
 President.
 Screw the rest of the world as they have well and truly
 screwed us. The time
 has come for us to awaken and start looking after
 ourselves. Now THAT would
 be CHANGE if that's what you're looking for.
 
While McCain has abstained from playing 'the
 race-card', Obama  is
 playing it to the hilt even though he's technically not
 an African-American.
 
To qualify for this distinction you must be at least
 one-sixth black.
 Obama is only one-eighth. His father would be, as he was
 one-sixth. No,
 Obama is more Muslim than black yet he trades on his
 blackness.
 
The larger question I have about him is that we really
 don't know much
  about him other than what HE  tells us, what we read on
 blogs and from
 some serious non-partisan investigators whose factual
 reports are,
 unfortunately, generally ignored and which receive precious
 little
 media exposure.
 
  I, as a registered Independent, a military veteran and a
 patriot,
 beseech you to put aside party considerations and vote for
 the lesser of the
 two evils. Yes, I am NOT a McCain supporter, but he is, at
 least, not a
 flake, doesn't carry Muslim baggage and is a PROVEN
 hero and patriot
 WITH experience. It's not a party issue. It's all
 about electing the best
 we can trust with what we've got to work with. Mr.
 Obama is NOT that guy.
 
Please, please rethink your voting position.*
 *
 Thanks for reading my innermost thoughts. I care about all
 of you, but
 I care more about our country. Please help me to do both.
 
William P. (Bill) Lear, Jr.