How things do come together. Barack Obama will be speaking on October 28 in Chester, Pa. My hometown!

In the fall of 1960, near 20th and Edgemont Ave, about a mile from where Barack Obama will speak on Tuesday, my brother and sisters stood eagerly aside the road and cheered and watched as John F. Kennedy neared and waived within a few feet of all of us. We has managed to grab a bundled of flowers from a nearby cemetery and my sister, Mary, handed it to him. I remember him grasping it with a broad smile and then would disappear into his Presidency.

A little bit farther from Widener on the other side of the cemetery (the source of our flowers) there stands a Victorian brick building. Over its entrance arch are the words, Crozier Theological Seminary, and through its entrance walked in the year of my birth, 1948, Martin Luther King, Jr.

Chester, Pa is my birthplace and all around it are the experiences that have defined the state of America of the past 100 years. At the time of Kennedy, there was a Ford plant managed by Lee Iacocca, he met his first wife there. Sun Oil had Sun Ship. Scott Paper’s main plant and world headquarters was there. And the road that headed from where Barack will speak all the way the Philadelphia was filled with industries with names like Baldwin which made the last steam locomotive in the United States and Westinghouse, where my father worked, that made turbines that powered the Nautilus, large Navy and commercial ships and later would generate power for nations around the world. All but one or two of those mentioned are now gone and with them went the high value wages that supported the infrastructure of a city, its quality of life and the hope for its posterity.

On the fields of Widener, then PMC, I played football on the team of St James Catholic High School. We beat the bigger schools from Philly. St James for me was my springboard to the Naval Academy and all that opportunity that came with it. St James has joined those other departed opportunities for hope.

Chester, I believe, is a small microcosm of what has happened to our cities. Barack is speaking to the loss of value employment but I believe that it is one of the terrible symptoms that come from when we are no longer investing in ourselves. I see it every time I travel from Newark to Basking Ridge where I live. In Delaware County, Pa, the ride from Chester to Valley Forge via Route 320 will give the same lesson. That failure to invest in ourselves is what we must stop. That is the change I believe Barack Obama will bring; but, it will start when we begin to understand that among all Americans.

Hope you might be able to share this.

Godspeed, Bill

Basking Ridge, NJ

Maybe it is an ironic example of the Goebbels effect upon the RNC and the Republican Party - a show of hypocrite's two faces - one expensively painted and the other cheaply defaced.

Stats from CB Prime.com as sub of CareerBuilder

Alaska

Unemployment rate: 6.5 percent

Population: 683,478

Mean annual wage: $43,920

Top industry: Government (25.9 percent)

Note that this is among the highest on the Govt payroll.

Wonder how this would compare with some "socialists" states.

And so Colin Powell recovers his.

Wonder how John McCain can recover his? Expose the cabal that hides behind him. Condemn those around him who use "unAmerican" for political opponents. Inform America, that places like New Jersey, Pennsylvania, New York where blood was spilled on behalf of the Revolution are no less American than from where beer is spilled after a Palin rally. Note to all that the original "Maverick" was a rustler that resisted the use of branding of cattle - in a similar environment as the financial vultures that inhabit the investment banking community today resisted oversight.

Aside: Give Pat Buc.... a copy of the Constitution. Ask him, from a perspective outside of the Nixon White House, why he thinks actions that undermine it are trivial.

With the flexibility of the HIV virus, the RNC will morph the campaign's target, McCain-Failin will be come the saviors against the Senate and the House - that cauldron of the Goebbels' worst enemies democratically elected officials.

Failin will reinforce her call to reduce the Senate to an appendage of her office and subject to removal at will. Lieberman assume the position of Chief Toady. The House will be outsourced to Roves' telemarketing and customer service company located in a secretly selected country like Saudi Arabia to assure the women employees are properly trained.

GITMO will continue to operate as a reeducation and motivation camp for those so designated in need by the carryover White House staff and the returned Attorney General Gonzalez who will lead the newly formed Justice Branch within the Pentagon.

Most cabinet offices will be eliminate. Direction for any action involving th use of weapons will be made by the First Dude.

McCain, The President, will be kept on the perpetual Town Hall speech circuit unless otherwise directed.

The Supreme Court will be restricted to a continuous Rove v. Wade appeal process so as to not be involved in other Constitutional matters.

Alaska will be permitted to become a privately held commonwealth and RNC retreat center.