Beam Cleveland up Dennis!

Dennis Kucinich is in the news again, in a soon to be released book penned by Shirley MaClaine, entitled "Sage-ing while Age-ing" MaClaine accounts that while visiting her in her Washington state residence in the late 1980's."

He saw a giant triangular craft, silent, and observing him.

It hovered for about ten minutes or so, and sped away with a speed he couldn't comprehend. He felt a connection in his heart and heard directions in his mind." Perhaps this reference will become the silver lining in regards to his 2008 presidential campaign.

After all , many assorted political beasts of American stripe have spotted a ufo, including recent presidents Ronald Reagan , and Jimmy Carter , both while serving as Governors of their respective states , California and Georgia.

I recall in 1973 when John Gilligan was governor of Ohio; he experienced a UFO sighting that was well documented. Ditto Arizona Governor Fife Symington. I am positive that other political types serving in our House of Representatives and Senate have had similar UFO moments.

I sure as hell hope that whoever is manning the spacecraft keeps a sharp eye on any of the politicians, seems due to varied consistent varied forms of media reports dating back to the beginning of humankind that using the words politician and trust in the same sentence can beget volatile and potentially hazardous results.

The one vote that I cast in my life that helped make a difference was my vote registered against the recall of Dennis Kucinich as Mayor of Cleveland in 1978.

My vote was one of 236 that saved Mayor Kucinich's term as mayor of a total of 60,014 total votes cast. Dennis was outspoken as Cleveland's mayor, taking on the very power structure of George Forbes and Cleveland City Council, labor unions, both the Democratic and Republican parties, two daily newspapers, corporate interests, and banking concerns that hoped to defeat him via the recall that hot Sunday August 13, 1978 election day.

After emerging victorious from doing battle with such a legion of political and business thugs, what's to fear from a mere UFO sighting? Dennis is still running for President, and he has my vote whether nominated or not.

The local fish wrapper disguised as a daily paper of record a.k.a. The Plain Dealer chose to lampoon Dennis in their op-ed page of October 29, 2007 via a rather uncomplimentary picture of Dennis and eighth odd lines of sophomoric attempts at humorous text.

What would one expect from Ohio's largest newspaper these days? The current pd seems to be run more akin to a quilting bee than a newspaper of note.

The problem with dedicating part of your op-ed page to such a hack piece of below the belt whimsy is that your readership might begin to take whatever you place before them as opinion to be as biased and self serving as this pd anti Kucinich missive.

A.J. Liebling, a fine example of a journalist as ever has lived and worked said years ago the "The power of the press is limited to those who own one."

Never could this be as true as the state of one horse, one newspaper towns such as Cleveland, Ohio today.

Book selling Time!

In keeping in the spirit of politics and ufos we offer two titles for your choice. The first is a tasty Epicurean compilation by The Cleveland Ufology Project entitled C.U.P.'S OUT OF THIS WORLD COOK BOOK, with a great picture of a spinning ufo on it's cover , and containing some other interesting flying saucer and alien themed tasty recipes.

Done in the spiral bound style of a Church cook book, the usual territory is covered by local ufologists. Nothing that strange about UFO sightings in Cleveland, Ohio, in fact the building at 1801 Superior Avenue is a well known alien spaceport.

Relive the not-so-glorious political days of Cleveland, Ohio and the cast of players involved, including a young Dennis Kucinich, in Estelle Zannes, CHECKMATE IN CLEVELAND, The Rhetoric Of Confrontation During The Stokes Years.

Read about Carl and Louis Stokes, Ralph Perk, George Forbes, and all the political players working over the citizens of Cleveland during the late 1960's and early 1970's.

Whew!

Much can be said of Carl Stokes administration while serving as the first Afro-American

Mayor of a major city and Estelle Zannes account of these times are accurate and done in a fair unbiased spirit. I have had the pleasure to have met both Carl Stokes, and Dennis Kucinich and both seemed to be fine men of character and dissimilar to most other politicians I have encountered.

Hats off to all the Cleveland citizens who voted to keep Dennis in office in 1978, and those who might still consider him a worthy presidential candidate in 2008.

Best wishes to my Mother, and family. Thanks again John and Kim. Time to go fishing down near the spaceport on Lake Erie where all of those three eyed winged glowing catfish are caught!

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