Bowman2000 ... For the People!

Robert M. Bowman

President of the United States

Aug 19, 1999

Hello! I’m Bob Bowman, and I’ve been asked to run for President of the United States. I’ve been told that it doesn’t take a rocket scientist to be president. Nevertheless, I am one. I’m also a career military officer, the father of seven children, and the grandfather of nineteen. I’ve been a corporate slave, a song-and-dance man, a stuffy college professor, a fighter pilot, a radio talk show host, and a husband to the same wonderful woman for 43 years. One thing I have never ever been is a politician.  Heck, I'm not even a lawyer.

So why am I running for president? Quite simply, I’ve tried the Republican and Democratic parties, and found them wanting. The "Republocrat" parties are bought and paid for. They are wholly-owned subsidiaries of the New World Order. One might expect it of the Country-Club Republicans. But we might have expected better from the party of FDR. President Clinton promised to "Put People First," then sold us out with NAFTA, GATT, and the World Trade Organization (WTO). He campaigned against the arms trade, then doubled it in his first term. He spoke against Reagan’s "Star Wars" lunacy, and now is resurrecting it, while soldiers and their families are still on food stamps. He campaigned against militarism, but has used it unmercifully against the people of Iraq and Yugoslavia — all for the financial interests of multinational corporations. It’s time to elect someone for the people.

Both Republocrat parties talk about family values, but their global capitalist policies have forced families to have two wage earners, three jobs, and no health care — all because American workers must compete with Chinese slave labor and workers earning twelve cents an hour. The free investment and unfair trade policies of NAFTA and GATT must be abolished. And if I am elected, they will be, and that’s a promise! We can no longer accept a government which serves the interests of global capitalism at the expense of its own people. It’s time to put people and families first — and mean it!

We can no longer accept a government which allows us to be number one among industrialized nations: number one in child poverty, number one in the gap between rich and poor, number one in unimmunized children, number one in teen pregnancy, number one in deaths by gunfire, number one in poverty among the elderly, number one in citizens without medical coverage, number one in citizen incarceration ... and yet has a trillion dollars worth of new weapons on the books at a time when we just ran out of enemies. It’s time for our priorities to change.

It doesn’t do any good to have high-tech weapons if you don’t have well-educated, highly-trained people to operate them. And these people are not going to stay in the military unless we keep our promises to them and their families and to the veterans who served before them. It’s time for us to keep our word.

We can no longer accept a government which sends our sons and daughters around the world to kill Arabs so the oil companies can sell the oil under their sand, making us the target of terrorists. Do we want our children and grandchildren used as cannon fodder for multinational corporations? Do we want them to be used as hired killers for Folgers, Chiquita Banana, and Exxon? Or do we want them to protect our borders and only go around the world to feed children and rebuild shattered cities. It’s time for us to be the good guys once again.

We must build an America at peace with the world and with its own people. We must build an America that leads the world — not by dominating and manipulating other nations, but by earning their respect and admiration. We must build an America that strives not to be king of the hill, nor to be subservient to the World Trade Organization, but to be a responsible sovereign member of the family of nations. We must build an America that leads the world — not with military might, but with its vision, its compassion, its democracy, its productivity, its standard of living, its treatment of its own people, and its goodness.

We must speak the truth to the American people — about the growing economic injustice of the New World Order and about what has been done to American democracy. We the people have been lied to, manipulated, and ignored. We must wake the people and restore the dream. We must unite those in the Reform Party, the Libertarian Party, the Green Party, the Taxpayers Party — all those of the left and the right, conservatives and liberals, disenchanted Democrats and repulsed Republicans, doves and hawks — because there is one great cause on which we all agree. We must take political power from the multinational corporations and banks, the arms merchants, and the lobbyists and restore it to the people of America. This is what we must do. It’s time! And together, we can do it. Thank you, and God bless you!

Web Site: www.rmbowman.com ** E-mail: Bowman2000@rmbowman.com

Bob Bowman is Presiding Bishop of the United Catholic Church and has been President of the Institute for Space and Security Studies since 1982. Before that he was Vice-President of Space Communications Company; Manager, Advanced Space Programs for General Dynamics; and Director, Advanced Space Programs Development for DoD, directing the "Star Wars" programs and developing systems for super-secret National Reconnaisance Office spy satellites. Colonel Bowman (Lt. Col., USAF, ret.) served in 34 countries and flew 101 combat missions in Vietnam. He taught at four universities and served as Department Head and Assistant Dean. His Ph.D. is in Aeronautics and Nuclear Engineering from Cal Tech. He is the recipient of the Eisenhower Medal, the George F. Kennan Peace Prize, the President’s Medal of Veterans For Peace, six Air Medals, the Republic Aviation Airpower Award, the Society of American Military Engineers Gold Medal (twice), and numerous other awards and honors. He has been on Larry King, Donohue, Firing Line, the 700 Club, and McNeil-Lehrer, and has addressed the Academies of Science of six nations, the UN, Congressional caucuses, and the House of Lords.

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