Frank Georgalis – Writer

Political Observations Part 1

By Frank Elias Georgalis

A number of interesting and sometimes irresponsible statements made by political figures are not going to be a part of our history. I observed them with the eye of a hawk, smelled them with the nose of a polar bear, magnify them and I will not let them die, I’ll keep them alive and bring them to light for my readers to see.
It is the custom on the stage in all good plays, to present the tragic and the comic scenes in as regular alterations as the layers of an onion come to view one after the other. The same ruling applies in political satire. The author’s skill in his craft is chiefly relying on the politician’s talent of trying to convince the public of his good intentions and dexterity to do things the right way. A good politician never leaves out, that perfect faith in him should be kept and a good understanding should be preserved.
Some time ago, while Dick Chaney, who was still the vice president, was being interviewed on TV. He spoke of the problem we think we have with the illegal aliens, in this country.
“We have about 12 million illegal aliens in the country,” he exclaimed. “We don’t know where they are and what they are doing.”
That was not a comment, it was an out of order announcement, and for the life of me I don’t know how it escaped his lips. By making that statement, he led the world to believe that this country is a haven for unmonitored illegal foreigners. That was not a simple comment it was a declaration of telling the world that America is not only the land of the free and the brave but it’s also the land of illegal aliens roaming around the streets unchecked and uninvited. That statement was a clear invitation to the ones who wished to harm this country, to come here, roam freely the streets of our cities without the fear of even been detected. I know that Dick Chaney is not a stupid man; he is a multimillionaire. If he wanted to make a comment about the illegal aliens, he could have used some sort of a philosophical quotation by saying; for example, “The situation about the illegal aliens here has been greatly overrated by our political opponents, thus I come to believe that ‘Empty barrels make noise that the full ones.’ We know where the aliens are and we know what they are doing, we also know that one day most of them will be solid American citizens and if we suspect anyone of them getting out of line, we pick him up and send him back to where he came from; we are doing it everyday. Just remember this,” he should have said, “Our highways, the streets of our cities and towns are fattened up with police men and women, who are trained to maintain law and order.”
I have observed in previous interviews that Dick Chaney said that he thinks without thinking, but it works for him. He reminds me of Yogi Berra, who says “Nobody goes to Loui’s restaurant anymore the place is too crowded”
Another observation that’s worth bringing forth at this time is: when I was watching the debates between John Kerry and the President of the United States George W. Bush, the President was asked if he could tell us about some decisions he had made, while in office that turned out to be mistakes. Hearing this question, most of us spectators held on with throbbing bosoms to hear, not a confession, but some sort of admittance and taking responsibility for so many things gone wrong during his four years in office. I expected to see him becoming logical by stretching outward his fingers, taking off his shoes and start counting, beginning with the right hand thumb and ending the count with little toe of his left foot, but it’s not what he did, he stopped and thought for a split second and said with a straight face, “I don’t think I have made any mistakes.” At that point the Republicans applauded, the Democrats laughed their heads loudly and heartily. During the noise of the Republican’s applauding and the Democrats’ laughter, the undecided looked as if they were lost into space and asked themselves a question; “Is this guy serious or he is trying to be another TV comedian?”
That reminds me of Homer’s Odyssey, which is about Ulysses’ performance in the Trojan war and subsequently was lost at sea for over ten years. No Mr. Homer, if you can hear me, he wasn’t lost at sea, he never admitted that. “Why?” One may ask. He was never lost at sea. He knew where he was and what he was doing at all times: he was womanizing around the islands with Calypso and other beautiful women. There no mistakes made there. Bush like Ulysses knew where he was and what he did. Ulysses was a hero to the Greeks as Bush was a hero to the Republicans, and you can’t tint the name of a hero. Sorry, heroes don’t lie and they don’t make mistakes. Democrats, stop laughing, you had your heroes; one was Bill Clinton. I personally don’t claim that there is any hero out there for me. My mother was my hero. Each time I would visit my mother at her house, she would emerged at early morning from her bed, and would walk into the kitchen almost limping, because of bad case of arthritis, and there she would go to work to cook for me my favor spinach pie. She was in the full bloom of pride being a mother. At times, I watched her, she would clutch her cane with all the vigorous tenacity of health and power to finish the making of the spinach pie. As I sat down to eat she would take a seat across from me and watched me eating. She glanced at me with such pride as if it were the first time she had seen me grown and I was over forty years old. I remember she looked at me with such pride and joy, in a way no other woman looked at me that way since then. I beg the readers to make a call today and tell their mother that she is their hero.
At this point I must confess, making observations of others, I tend to observe myself and that makes me conscious of who I am and what I am.

Observations Part 2

The other observation I made was; three days before the election, Dick Chaney was sitting down with his wife next to him, flaunting a lot of love respect and affection for each other in the school house debate and he said very emphatically that if Mr. Bush is not re-elected, three days after the elections, there will be an attack by the terrorists on America. At that time instead of people getting up and leaving the room, realizing that Mr. Chaney, was not only trying to pull the wall over our eyes, but he was trying to cut off our lip to get rid of our mustache; they all sat there, believing, Dick Chaney being the vice president, had to know what he was saying.. But most women turned pale, looking like they were in the gates of fainting, a number of men popped open the nitro-glycerin caps, sounding like Champaign bottles in New Years Eve party, and a lot of them became very red in the face as if they were holding on from dirtying the pants from fear. And why not? The Vice President of the strongest nation in the world was speaking; he should know what he was saying. If I would have said something like that, I would have been arrested, taken to the nearest FBI office, placed under the strongest spot light, interrogated for sixteen hours straight, mercilessly, to tell them where I was hiding the terrorist and I would able to let them out so soon after the election.
Dick Chancy, the following day, being pursued by some reporters demanding to hear more about the terrifying statement he made. The reporters assumed Chaney had to know where the terrorist were hiding. He only retracted his statement by making some cockeyed excuse, weaker than watered down gin, but the damage was already done; a lot of pants were dirtied at home and in the studio and a lot of nitro-glycerin was used to set the jumping hearts at ease.
Incidentally after the elections the word terrorists disappeared from everybody’s mouth. I had observed that. Two months later some one from CNN asked his colleagues on camera if they had an idea of what ever happened to the terrorists. “We haven’t heard anything about the terrorists for the last two months,” he concluded. He waited for an answer, but nothing was heard and the show continued. Leaning on Dick Chaney’s terrifying report, could imagine what happened to the terrorists. Dick Chaney made the announcement to the American people as if the terrorists were waiting somewhere in the alleys of New York City prepared to attack if Kerry was elected. Like I said before, Dick Chaney is not a stupid man, in fact he is brilliant. What other method was there for him to use to scare the American people in voting for the one who was potraited to be the Knight on the white horse with the shining armor? Dick Chaney was the one who wanted to deploy the National guards to go into the city of Buffalo, N.Y. to arrest 6 alleged terrorists. Why? 2,000 Buffalo City police weren’t enough power to subdue six men of average height and weight? Police arresting six alleged terrorists wouldn’t have impressed the American people as much as the deployment of the National Guards would have. Obama is as brilliant as Dick Chaney. He almost deployed the national guards to go into town and remove the whole police force, after of course he called them stupid, for arresting his friend the professor. But we have laws in this country, way stronger than the men and women who made them, any good politician keeps away from waking up the beast.
I imagine the terrorists, hearing that Bush was reelected got on their camels and headed south of the border and America was spared Dick Chaney’s aforesaid disaster. Thank you, America, for reelecting Mr. Bush.
The terrorists while crossing the Rio Grande on their camels met the Mexicans coming north.

“Que passa. Why are you leaving?” asked the Mexicans in loud voices

“Bush was reelected and he is one mean warlord, everything is changing,” responded the terrorists, whipping their camels’ front and rear ends to hurry to get across the river before nightfall
“Are the restaurants open?” asked the Mexicans. “We don’t care what changes the Gringos are as long as the restaurants stay open, we got a job.”
While I am on the subject of politicians, who are trying to pull the wool over our eyes, and some of them are trying to blind us, I cannot forget Bill Clinton’s testimony under oath, during the Monica Lewinski days.
Bill Clinton was asked by the prosecutor, who was trying very hard to brand our President as a genuine womanizer, any way, the prosecutor asked if Bill Clinton remembers the name Kathryn Wills. The president said no. He couldn’t recall the name. Something which is very possible with all the women that hung around him.
“Let me refresh your memory,” said the prosecutor, “When you visited Virginia and you were in Richmond with the Virginia Governor Turner, a pretty lady came to you and kissed you and whispered something into your ear and she walked away, then you turned and asked one of the aids to the governor to get you her telephone number.”
“I still cannot recall the situation,” replied the President.
“Let me go a step further. That night you stayed in the hotel in Richmond and you called her from there.”
“I still cannot recall that,” said Bill.
“Let me go one step farther. I have the phone records in front of me and I see that you have called her number twice in the early hours of the morning like 2:23 am. The first time and you spoke for sixteen minutes, and half an hour later you called again and spoke for 22 minutes, do you recall that?”
Ladies and gentlemen, this is the writer speaking to you. A lie, the Greeks say, it’s like a donkey. You can hide the donkey but somehow eventually his ears will show. Everybody, his brother and his sister believe that William Jefferson Clinton is very smart, but no matter how smart one is, when he is trying to hide a donkey he should know that eventually the donkey’s ears will show. If he were that smart he should have insisted on saying that he still doesn’t remember and if the call was made from his room at that hour, he could have said,
“During the night, while I am sleeping alone, some medical aids, due to my easily aggravated throat that I am suffering, could come in and check to see if I am still alive or need medical help, and any one of them could have used the phone, perhaps one could have been Kathryn’s friend,? But the President said,
“Now I remember. Somebody told me that she had a good recipe for chicken soup that could help my throat and I took the liberty of calling her, and she gave it to me over the phone.”
Ladies and gentlemen, I am not a doctor but I know what the problem was with our president’s throat: he suffered from coryza, a throat condition that affects mostly roosters for crowing too much.
If you believe his answer you should also believe that you can make a lot of money by buying the Bridge of Tokory. You should also believe that I can sell it to you. That prosecutor proved to the world that Bill was a womanizer, which is nothing wrong with that, in fact show me a successful man and I will show you a horny one. It’s been written and documented that a man’s main motive for success is his desire for sex. But the prosecutor proved to the world that Bill Clinton is also a liar and the prosecutor proved to me that William Jefferson Clinton is not as mart as he is cracked up to be, thinking that he could make us believe a lie. If Abraham Lincoln could hear that, he would have changed his Gettysburg Address to read: A lie can be believed by some of the people some of the time, but not by all the people all the time. But politicians don’t care and don’t expect to be believed by all the people all the time, if little more than half of the people believe them they have it made; they get elected. That’s democracy.
The other observation that I have made was that every other word that came out from the President’s and the Vice President’s mouth was something about the terrorists are coming, the terrorists are coming. A couple days before the election, they blocked off the streets leading to the city of Newark, N.J. and the reason they gave was that some one had taken pictures of the Prudential Building and those pictures were found in some foreign hands in some distant land. The cost to the city for doing that blocking of the streets and stopping people, searching them, making them late for work, came to millions of dollars and the results were, uncountable mount of drivers, American citizen drivers, were arrested and were taking into custody for various miner vehicle and social violation, from non-paid child support, to driving with suspended drivers license. That’s what I call that they shot at the crow and they killed the pigeon. Incidentally out of three million eligible drivers in the state of N.J, close to a million of them, have their licenses suspended. The peculiar thing is they have their licenses suspended for many more reasons other than moving violations. Those reasons range from unpaid three dollar parking ticket to writing a check to the grocery store and the check bounced for insufficient funds and because the driver’s license number was in the back of the check, the driver’s license was suspended. I may agree with the Bible, a tooth for a tooth and eye for an eye, not an eye for a tooth, then, we will end up of having a society filled with blind people. The reason for blocking the streets of Newark, New Jersey was printed later on, that some Japanese tourists visiting Newark took the pictures a long time ago, and the pictures were not as recent as the first set of examiners thought. It was printed that Japanese tourists visited Newark and took pictures with their cameras? I can understand Japanese tourists visiting Newark, but Japanese tourists carrying cameras? That is unheard. They had to be spies.
I think the first set of examiners who checked the photographs, evidently missed the two blue Edsels, the green Packard and the two red Studebakers parked in the front of the Prudential Building.

No wonder, President Obama is constantly telling the American people that he doesn’t want to be like the former President George W. Bush, l

Mr. Obama has his own style of looking silly. What a smart thing he did though, by bringing an arrogant professor who was arrested by an obnoxious cop, for both of them to have a beer together and apologize to each other at the white house lawn, with the vice president to play the referee in case a fight would break out between the two of them, but nothing like that happened. They both said at the end of that friendly gathering, that they agreed to disagree. What a line that is. Though, according to my opinion the line from Erich Segal’s book, Love Story, “Love means not ever having to say you’re sorry”, would have been more appropriate.
Now that I am about to close this article, I must tell you and you must believe me, I have lived in America the biggest part of my life, but last few years I began to live in different countries of Asia and Europe and I have had a taste of their manners and costumes and cultures, but America, according to my observation, is still the Number One and it is still the land of Good and Plenty. Ay this point I will repeat my mother’s favorite statement: God bless America.
Remember this; serious observations may lead you to some serious thinking, but a familiar song tells it all, “Brother, you can’t go to jail for what’s you’re thinking, give it a world give it a try”