Ron Paul
Conspiracy Afoot? Did Ron Paul Really Win the Maine Caucus?
My boyfriend Justin’s parents are obsessed with conspiracy theories — so much so that after he returns from an extended visit with them, or even after he gets off a long phone call with his mother (in particular), I need to talk Justin down off all sorts of ledges they egg him onto with wild theories they have of various entities plotting against our country (or them personally).
Living in Arkansas, a lot of their obsessions involve Hillary Clinton, whom they despise (because they swear she’s the equivalent of a magical robot from the future engaged in a long-range, patient plan for global domination); you can just imagine their shared thrill realizing that not only is their only son gay, but he’s living with a guy who worked for Hillary’s presidential campaign (and runs a political site that started its life as a Hillary for President volunteer effort).
Another weird focus of Justin’s father’s is John F. Kennedy’s coffin — THE ORIGINAL ONE (in all-caps because Justin’s father, Doc, shouts this at the top of his lungs) that Robert Kennedy had sunk 9,000 feet underwater before the President was buried at Arlington in a second casket; the original coffin that carried him from Dallas to Washington was destroyed at the Kennedy family’s request because it was saturated with blood, brain matter, and other fluids and the Kennedys didn’t want it ever displayed in public for morbid curiosity seekers. Justin’s father believes state secrets are hidden in it and has devoted an entire room in his house to maps, drawings, and stacks of papers pertaining to “Kennedy’s Missing Original Coffin”.
I’ve never been obsessed with anything (yet), so I don’t know what it’s like to burn from the inside out with the knowledge that I’ve secured one or two pieces of a grand puzzle…which sets me on some epic mission to prove nefarious people in dark rooms will get away with a massive cover-up unless I fill a room of my house with sketches I make of coffins at the bottom of the ocean or crude re-enactments of the murders Hillary Clinton has committed in her free time working as the world’s most deadly assassin.
I do, however, honestly and truly believe that the Fifth Dimensional imp Luap Nor quite possibly won the Iowa Caucus, the Nevada Caucus, and the Maine Caucus — and that the Cocktail Party GOP establishment in those states deliberately “lost” votes that should have gone to Luap Nor to prevent him from winning their caucuses. The operating theory being that if Luap Nor won, then a hue and cry would be raised to eliminate the chaotic and absurd caucuses and force normal, sensible primaries in all states in the next presidential nominating process.
The Cocktail Party establishment LOVES caucuses because they are so cheap to run and so easy to manipulate; the caucuses also require large amounts of time commitment on the part of voters, so the permanent political class in both parties erroneously believes it can recruit dedicated volunteers from those who show enough interest in politics to spend hours of their lives “caucusing” in these absurd little gatherings.
It just doesn’t make sense to me that Luap Nor consistently keeps performing worse in the 2012 caucuses than he did back in 2008, when his supporters are supposedly so much more dedicated and organized this time around. The caucuses are all about getting people out of their houses and determined to spend hours dealing with the nonsense of a caucus — and the most motivated activists in the Republican race this year are Luap Nor voters.
There’s absolutely no passion for Willard “Mittens” Romney…so it’s bizarre to me that Romney won the Maine Caucus this weekend, when that should have gone to Luap Nor because of the enthusiasm gap between the supporters of these two men.
In Iowa, the Cocktail Party GOP establishment was ultimately forced to admit that Romney didn’t actually win there — and the Caucus was given to Rick Santorum weeks after the fact; Santorum, it seems, was a preferable winner to Luap Nor, whom the Iowan permanent political class refused to register a win. Amid loud shouts of “Nothing to see here! Move along!” the establishment also acknowledged that vote records had been mysteriously “lost or destroyed” so the true winner of Iowa’s Caucus in 2012 will never be really known. It’s as if these people just came out and said, “Alright. You got us. Romney didn’t really win. Let’s just say Santorum won, okay? As long as it wasn’t that Fifth Dimensional imp known as Luap Nor”.
I really hope committed Luap Nor supporters raise absolute Hell over Maine’s Caucus though — because officials in the Cocktail Party there are now being forced to admit shenanigans went on that threw the race to Romney.
Maine’s Cocktail Party decided not to count some caucus sites’ results because they appear to have favored Luap Nor, and changed other rules midstream so that conditions better favored a Romney win. I would not be the least surprised if ultimately the Maine GOP had to admit “vote records were either lost or destroyed” just like what happened in Iowa.
Because I have seen the inner workings of the Cocktail Party GOP establishment here in Illinois (and before Justin, I dated a few operatives involved in this sort of stuff here in Chicagoland), I can attest that a conspiracy really does exist to keep someone like Luap Nor from winning any states.
I’m paying close attention to what happens in Virginia, since only Romney and Luap Nor will be on that ballot and I am hoping more than anything for a Romney loss there — to underscore just how weak and unwanted a candidate Mittens really is. Expect the Cocktail Party to use every trick in the book to drag Romney over the finish line in Virginia to spare themselves the embarrassment of a loss to Luap Nor there.
Ultimately, I think the Cocktail Party GOP establishment is doomed — and I think many in the permanent political class know that, too. The big advantage these people have always had is that voter fraud is such a dry topic that’s hard for a lot of people to focus on. It’s boring, hard work to slog through the minutia of what enables the two parties to rig elections. BOTH parties do this, and agreements are often made between the establishment figures on both sides of the aisle as to who’s going to win what, when, and where. It’s all about keeping certain would-be aristocrats in positions of wealth and prestige so that the political world runs smoothly and all the various consulting firms and campaign operatives stay employed…and keep channeling funds back to the right people so the establishment remains secure no matter who the voters really want to send to Washington.
I really wish people like Justin’s dad would stop obsessing over Kennedy’s ORIGINAL COFFIN and would instead get excited about voter fraud and the machinations of the Cocktail Party in the caucuses — because, while dry and difficult to read at times, there honest to goodness is a mystery to solve here with great ramifications for the country.
The trick is making this stuff appealing and interesting to the average person…so that uncovering fraud and election tampering in Caucuses is as interesting as theorizing what’s really inside Kennedy’s ORIGINAL COFFIN at the bottom of the ocean (or what Hillary Clinton really is up to late at night when everyone thinks she’s asleep, but she’s really in her black ninja pantsuit operating as some sort of vigilante).
Any ideas?
Ron Paul Won Nevada Caucus – And Nevada Voters Lost
Ron Paul speaks in Minnesota, H/T The Daily Beast
While you were busy enjoying your bread and circuses yesterday, operatives from the Nevada GOP–aided and abetted by all four cable “news” networks–were busily manipulating the results of the Nevada Caucuses, handing another undeserved victory to Mittens “It’s My Turn, Peasants” Romneycare.
You probably aren’t aware of this, because the TeeVee told you that Mitt Romney won, nothing to see here, move along now, after a mere 5% of the vote had been counted.
But what the TeeVee didn’t tell you–for about an entire day–is that the Nevada GOP refused to release the results from Clark County, Nevada’s most populous county and the home of 60% of Nevada’s registered voters. In fact, as of this writing, more than 30 hours after the last caucus closed, the Nevada Caucuses are still not decided. (Well, not in the “lawfully and transparently counting the votes to see who got the most” sense. They’ve already been decided in the “we count the votes, and we already decided in advance that Mittens was going to win” sense.)
Here’s some coverage of the “special caucus” that Newt’s billionaire casino magnate backer bought for him. It was the last caucus that took place, and is in Clark County, where 60% of all Nevada voters are located. Later that night, CNN also aired the live counting of the votes at that caucus. In the video below, CNN joins the event at the point where the candidates’ supporters were giving stump speeches. Over two dozen caucus voters spoke on Ron Paul’s behalf, in an audience that was expected to be largely Seventh-Day Adventists and Orthodox Jews. Romney, Gingrich and Santorum only inspired two or three supporters to speak on their behalf, according to one witness who voted at the caucus.
Here are the results, counted and announced live on CNN:
Ron Paul: 183
Mittens Romney: 61
Newt Gingrich: 57
Rick Santorum: 16
It’s remarkable that the total is so high, given the fact that the caucus organizers forced those who wanted to vote to sign a “religious declaration” affidavit before giving them a ballot, likely in violation of the Voting Rights Act.
Even with religious discrimination the results favored Ron Paul, as the Paul campaign expected, based on their internal polling. (At some point in the past two weeks, I read that the Paul campaign had identified over 20,000 definite Ron Paul voters in advance of the caucuses. I’ll post a source if I can find it.)
Ron Paul’s vote totals have more than doubled in every primary or caucus so far over his 2008 totals, and since he has had a massive organization in Nevada for four years, and Nevada is a libertarian state, he was expected to either win or tie for first place. And in the ONE large Clark County caucus where the votes were counted in public, on live television, Ron Paul won by a landslide, as was expected.
Apparently, that was bad news for those in the Cocktail Party GOP in Nevada.
Miraculously, “irregularities” were quickly found that required the party operatives to sequester themselves in a smoke-filled room and “recount” the votes from Clark County (until they get the totals they had decided upon in advance?)
At 3:10 a.m. Monday, nearly 10% of the votes have still not been reported. At this point, Ron Paul is listed in third place with only 5,901 votes–fewer votes than he received in 2008, when he placed second to Mitt Romney in the Nevada caucuses.
And just as miraculously, the chairwoman of the GOP in Nevada resigned effective 12:01 Sunday morning, in a move she claimed was pre-planned and had nothing whatsoever to do with the voter fraud the Nevada GOP was apparently undertaking.
Here’s a shorter version of events of the caucus voting and counting.
Move along, peasants. Nothing to see here. Turn up the surround sound and pass the hot wings.
Oh My! Newt’s South Carolina Miracle?
I’ve been sitting back quietly watching the campaign trail. After the crumble of Herman Cain’s campaign…I’ve been a little shy about thumping my chest for the man that I think can save this country…Newt Gingrich. I haven’t put up ”Go Newt Go!” posts every day. I wanted to take a wait and see approach. I’m starting to feel a little different as of this morning. It’s beginning to look like Mitt Romney’s carefully built house of cards is starting to sway in the warm South Carolina coastal breeze and Newt has his sail tilted in just the right direction to catch the lift. It’s amazing really… considering seven months ago his entire campaign staff walked out on him (I bet they’re regretting that move). He’s survived several media attacks and polling slumps. Now that he’s back on track with his positive message about what he can do to save this country…the sky’s the limit.
I’m beginning to be cautiously optimistic.
And….it appears that the little interview with his whining ex-wife Marianne seems to have helped him instead of hurt him….that tickles me pink!
Newt is a survivor….he’s one tough son of a gun.
I guess that’s why Chuck Norris is endorsing Newt.
I wouldn’t argue with Chuck.
Former Obama Field Organizer: Ron Paul Can Bring Blacks To Republican Party
This former field organizer for Barack Hussein Obama who has been “working his butt off” for Ron Paul, warns the GOP to stop marginalizing Ron Paul supporters, because only Ron Paul has the potential to fundamentally transform the demographics of the GOP by pulling more black voters away from the Democrat Party.
The video is discussed here, in the Washington DC Examiner:
Could Ron Paul be the best thing to happen to the Republican Party?
“In this video, Mr. Harlan has just met Ron Paul at a campaign event and admits that he was quite star-struck upon meeting Dr. Paul. Chris wanted him to know that he has a lot more support within the Black community than he may think. What is really profound is that he expresses that Ron Paul has the potential to change the demographics of the Republican Party for years to come.
For anyone that has studied the facts and history behind the beginning of the Republican Party, one would find it hard to believe, given today’s demographics of the Democratic Party, that it was actually the “Radical Republicans” as they were once called that led the charge against racism.”
GOP Debate…Where was the Blood?
I didn’t watch the debate last night. I couldn’t stomach it. I think we’ve seen enough debates to know what everyone is going to say to the same old tired questions that idiots like Diane Sawyer and George Stephanopoulus ask. I did follow what was happening on Twitter. I prefer to read what other’s think. The primary reason for last night’s debate was to see if Newt, Rick Santorum, Rick Perry, Jon Huntsman and Ron Paul were going to go after Mittens. The LSM wanted a bloodbath….they wanted a GOP remake of “A Nightmare on Elm Street” (with Newt, of course, playing Freddie Kreuger). They didn’t get it though. Sure there were some zings thrown here and there but they were just little cat scratches compared to the damage that could have been done by Freddie’s knives.
Why?
I truly believe that Newt wanted to do the unexpected. He didn’t want to give the left a “see we told you so” debate. He took all the hot…toxic…foul air out of their balloons. They are absolutely depressed over last night’s debate. Here’s a quote from MSNBC news this morning…
“A Saturday night debate in Manchester yielded few defining moments, and did little to add new scrutiny that had been expected of Mitt Romney, the frontrunner in the Granite State’s primary on Tuesday.”
They are hoping and praying that round 2 (this morning’s debate) will yield at least a pint or two of Romney’s blood. They desperately want the GOP to slaughter each other between now and November so that Obama…the most un-American President in the history of our country…can win re-election and continue his path of destruction.
I love Newt Gingrich. He’s the right man for the job. I do not like Mitt Romney. He is no real friend of conservatives. I do not like the GOP establishment and their blind stupidity….but I hate Barack Obama and all that he and his goons are doing to this magnificent nation. I will fight to keep Mittens off the GOP ballot but if he is the nominee…I will fight for him.
We can not let EVIL win in November.
Is Cocktail Party GOP Establishment Rigging Iowa Caucus Against Ron Paul? Hint: Keeping Iowa First in the Nation Depends on It
I normally don’t give much credence to conspiracy theories, but this time the people who believe the Cocktail Party GOP establishment is plotting against them are right.
Here are a few things you need to know:
1. The Iowa Caucus is incredibly easy to steal through voter fraud and other nefarious means. It is, by design, a chaotic and horribly organized affair with no ID checks for people attempting to vote. Very elderly people run most of the Caucus sites and most of the counting is done by hand, without a system in place to assure any sort of accuracy. Results are then called in verbally via telephone from the Caucus site to the “headquarters” that tallies the results. I have known of elections in junior high schools that were more secure and safe from both fraud and human error.
2. When I attended the Iowa Caucus in 2008, I observed the very elderly people who were running the Caucus and watched as they attempted to phone in our Caucus location’s results to “headquarters”. It was like watching Lily Tomlin performing as her telephone operator character from the 70s…or seeing Andy Griffith struggle with the Mayberry switchboard when trying to place an important call on this TV show. The Caucus location was incredibly loud, with Iowans gossiping and comparing notes on how many times they got to meet each of the candidates in the leadup to the Caucus. The very elderly woman who was trying to call in the results at the Caucus I attended had a very hard time hearing whoever answered the phone. I distinctly heard her shouting into the phone with one of her hands covering her ear, trying her best to hear what the person on the line was saying. And then it came time for her to shout numbers into the phone. “Forty-seven”. “What?”. “Not FORTY-seven, not FOURTEEN”. “FORTY SEVEN, oh, mercy they can’t hear me. I SAID FORTY SEVEN! No, not SEVENTEEN. FORTY SEVEN!”. This went on for some time. I am not exaggerating how foolishly the Caucuses are setup or how much they resemble a junior high student council election where the votes are tabulated in the principal’s office after being collected from each of the home rooms. There are many in the agenda-driven media who think this is all very cute, but let me assure you of this: as someone who witnessed this travesty unfold in person four years ago, there is nothing cute about it. At all. The people phoning these results in could very easily make mistakes (some even doing so on purpose) that will disenfranchise many voters…and the Caucus winner will be declared before anyone can ever raise a complaint about it.
3. The Cocktail Party GOP establishment has a vested interest in guaranteeing that Ron Paul does not win the Iowa Caucus, because the Republican Party does not want to do away with the Caucus. There are too many GOP consultants who have a cottage industry that’s called “the Iowa Caucus”, and too many Iowan lobbyists exist in Washington who threaten to punish any political figure who makes a move towards eliminating Iowa’s “first in the nation” status. Since Mike Huckabee won the Caucus in 2008, Iowa’s GOP elite cannot afford for Ron Paul to win in 2012. That would solidify the Iowa Caucus as a colossal joke and give credence to efforts underway to restructure the nomination process for 2016 and beyond. Too many very wealthy Cocktail Party establishment types make too much money off the Iowa Caucus as it exists for them to allow this to be changed: so you can definitely count on tricks being pulled tonight to ensure the Fifth-Dimensional imp known as “Ron Paul” does not win the Caucus.
4. As much as I love Rush Limbaugh, he’s wrong that Democrats are going to Caucus for Ron Paul in Iowa tonight. There has been absolutely no effort made on the part of Democrats to register as Republicans and enter the Iowa Caucuses to propel Ron Paul to a win. Going to the Caucus is a nightmare: it is as disorganized, loud, and chaotic as I have described. Have you been to the DMV, the emergency room, or any sort of free public event at a library or some other city or county building in recent years? Do you remember how frustrating it is to sit there, amongst members of the public at large, and listen to attention-starved, usually older people seize the opportunity to hold court as you wait and wait and wait for whatever you’re there for to be over? Multiply this by several hundred degrees of frustration and you have a basic idea of what the Iowa Caucuses are really like. Now, considering that, just how many dyed-in-the-wool committed Democrats in Iowa are going to willingly subject themselves to the ordeal of Caucusing JUST SO THEY CAN VOTE FOR RON PAUL? It would be one thing if this was a primary, where people could vote all day long (or even weeks in advance via early voting). In that situation, I’d think that, yes, maybe there would be some Democrats who’d want to engage in mischief and vote for Ron Paul just for kicks and giggles…but even then there is a psychological barrier that would prevent many of these people from registering as Republican, even momentarily, to be able to cast that vote. Here in Chicago, if you ever vote Republican in any election — even in a primary — your name gets put onto a list that is given to your local Alderman (the City Council member representing you). Republican voters are punished in Chicago with slow response times for any sort of complaint made to the city (if you want your trash picked up regularly, you need to always vote Democrat and forever vote for your specific Alderman…because they know if you don’t and will hold it against you). Chicago is not the only city where this happens. Unions, also, somehow get reports on people who vote Republican and also punish union members who are not casting Democrat primary ballots. So the idea of people who’ve been so intimidated into voting straight Democrat for years suddenly deciding to throw caution to the wind (in this economy) and register Republican for the Iowa Caucus just to vote for Ron Paul is ridiculous to me.
5. There is no Republican candidate with supporters on the ground as fiercely committed to him or her as Ron Paul’s voters are to him. Not by a mile. Unless the Caucus results are indeed tampered with, Ron Paul should win. Romneycare’s voters just aren’t nearly as committed as Dr. Paul’s are.
I’ll go a step further and say that Ron Paul will win all of the Caucuses in 2012, in much the same way that Barack Obama won almost all of the Democrat Caucuses in 2008.
A Caucus, by nature, is won not by the candidate who has the highest number of people willing to vote for him or her…but it’s won by the candidate whose supporters are the most aggressive, are the loudest, and are most inclined to commit voter fraud, intimidation, and disruptive practices aimed at gaming the Caucus.
Ron Paul’s supporters may not stuff the ballots and use the thuggery that Obama’s campaign directed back in 2008, but I can easily see the more rabid Ron Paul fans screaming and yelling and using intimidation tactics to bully Caucus wins for Dr. Paul in the majority of Iowa’s precincts. Since a Caucus is won with enthusiasm, there is just no way that anyone supporting Willard Romneycare or the other GOP candidates will be able to drown out or match the verve of the Ron Paul supporters. The Caucuses are their turf and barring Cocktail Party voter fraud, Ron Paul will win as a result.
It’s going to be interesting to see how everything plays out considering all of this.
I’m not a fan of Ron Paul’s — and in fact I find his foreign policy horrifying and his lame attempts to distance himself from his newsletters disturbing — but I will be intensely suspicious if Dr. Paul does not in fact win Caucus after Caucus from Iowa to Colorado to Washington and Maine and beyond. Because of his deep investment in ground game for the Caucuses, Ron Paul should win 13 states in the Republican primary season and will end up being a kingmaker at the Convention. If not, then something funny is definitely going on with the vote counting.
I’ll be even more suspicious if Romneycare wins in Iowa, if Rick Santorum comes in second, and if Dr. Paul is not even third. In this scenario, I could almost guarantee that the “secret and undisclosed location” where the Cocktail Party GOP is counting the votes is the place where the votes are in fact being rigged to the Cocktail Party’s desired outcome.
If the voting is fair and accurately reflects the candidates’ enthusiasm on the ground, here is how I’d expect the Iowa Caucus to shake out tonight:
Winner: Ron Paul
Second Place: Rick Perry or Newt Gingrich
Third Place: Newt Gingrich or Rick Perry
Fourth Place: Rick Santorum
Fifth Place: Willard Mittens Romneycare
Sixth Place: Michele Bachmann
Seventh Place: Jon Huntsman
I’m not even going to include Herman Cain, Gary Johnson, or the other people out there that still have supporters in this race even though these aren’t viable candidates for the nomination any longer.
Going forward to New Hampshire and the other voting states, I’d very much like to see Michele Bachmann, Rick Santorum, and Jon Huntsman leave the race so that the “Not-Romney” vote has an opportunity to coalesce around other candidates.
Huntsman is going to run third party anyway, so why not just start that now? Bachmann is only in the race at this point to aid Romneycare in her quest to become a Cabinet member. Santorum is looking for redemption and a return to the national scene after his disastrous loss in the 2006 Pennsylvania Senate race.
Ron Paul has invested immense effort and treasure in what looks to be a very effective Caucus State Ground Game, so don’t expect him to POOF! back to the Fifth Dimension no matter how loudly you shout Luap Nor! at him or how ingeniously you strive to get him to say his own name backwards like that. This is Dr. Paul’s last time at the cosmic rodeo and he knows it. He is having the time of his life soaking up all this attention and saying outrageous things before large crowds, while building his email list so he can sell more of those newsletters of his in the future (and also hand those lists over to his son so in a few years Rand Paul can become a Mr. Mxyzptlk character in his own right and run for president himself on a perpetual basis). I would not be the least surprised if Ron Paul won every single Caucus state in the Republican race…and also won Virginia’s primary, since it’s just Dr. Paul versus Willard Romneycare on that ballot in March.
Immediately following New Hampshire, I’d like to see either Newt Gingrich or Rick Perry leave the race and 100% endorse whichever of the two is riding the highest against Romneycare. My gut tells me it’s going to be Perry who stays in the race and it will be Gingrich who leaves it (but expect to see Gingrich in a Perry administration in some way shape or form, if Perry wins the nomination and the White House). I don’t think Perry has sense enough to get out and endorse Gingrich if things shake out the other way, which will be to Perry’s great detriment as he’ll never have another chance on the national stage again.
The Cocktail Party GOP establishment has done an impressive job of rigging as much of the nominating process for Romneycare as possible. I have to give them that credit, because so far they have effectively kept the “Not-Romney” vote from unifying behind one candidate who can prevent Romneycare from being the nominee.
The big variable to me in all of this is the Tea Party: I just can’t imagine the Tea Party allowing Romneycare to be the nominee. For some time now, the agenda-driven media has been howling that the Tea Party is over. People I respect very much, such as Andrea Shea King from Patriot Radio, have long argued that the Tea Party is stronger than ever and has just been keeping its powder dry.
If Romneycare’s the nominee, then the Tea Party is over; if Romneycare’s defeated, the Tea Party remains a force to be reckoned with and America really does have a chance of undoing everything that Obama and the Left did to this country.
It really does come down to that.
I don’t think the Cocktail Party will get away with their shenanigans in Iowa, especially not if they go so far as to rig the results enough to produce a Romneycare win. Barack Obama was allowed to get away with that sort of voter fraud, but if anyone but Ron Paul wins the Iowa Caucus, I truly believe Dr. Paul’s committed fans will somehow expose the truth about how the Iowa Caucus was rigged.
Which is ironic, because the reason the Cocktail Party in Iowa is so intent on tampering with results to steal the win from Ron Paul is to keep Iowa “first in the nation” in presidential primary voting…but counting these ballots “in a secure and secret location” will only give the Ron Paul supporters the fire in their bellies needed to keep this controversy burning for years…which will fuel larger efforts to take away Iowa’s quadrennial entitlement.
Martial Law in America: NDAA Signed Into Law
Tomorrow, I leave to volunteer at the Iowa Caucuses for Ron Paul, the only GOP candidate who has spoken out against the indefinite detention provisions of the National Defense Authorization Act.
As I type this, I’m hearing my neighbors fire their automatic handguns into the air to celebrate the New Year. In the past, this has bothered me a lot. It happens every 4th of July and New Year’s Eve.
Now I’m kind of glad that so many of my neighbors are armed, even though they’re criminals.
Because I’m pretty sure that Barack Hussein Obama made me a criminal tonight as well, along with his accomplices, the traitors in the House and Senate who drafted and voted for this un-American monstrosity.
My two-week supply of food, my hand-crank radio, my gun and the Ron Paul sticker on my car are probably the only things required to label me as a “dangerous radical.”
This is what it has come to in America.
I never thought I’d live to see the day.
