I’ve lived through a lot of interesting elections but never one more interesting than the one we just had that will put Barack Obama in the White House.

I am sometimes irritated by our loud-mouthed insistence that we’re the greatest nation in the world because there are a lot of great nations. However, the fact that the citizens of this country, the majority of whom are white, freely chose to elect a black man as their leader simply because they thought he was the best choice, makes me think Americans have great reason to be proud of themselves. They didn’t elect Barack Obama to be their next President because he’s black, or in spite of the fact that he’s black. They elected Obama because they liked him and thought he’d do the best job as President. Pretty good thinking.

One of the most interesting things about this election is the winner’s name: Barack Obama. Herbert Hoover, Calvin Coolidge, Ronald Reagan it isn’t.  If his name had been something usual like Tom Wilson or Bill Smith, this contest might not have been anywhere near as interesting.

It will be another 25 or 50 years before we know, but I wonder if his name and likeness will ever appear on any of our coins or paper money. Will we ever have a “Barack Obama Nickel” or a “Barack Obama Five-Dollar Bill”? That’s unlikely because Abraham Lincoln is already on our five, and Obama has a long way to go before he reaches the stature of Abe Lincoln in the public’s estimation. (I was going to write down the names of all 43 American Presidents and see if I could decide where I think Obama would stand 50 years from now on the list for his well-knownness. He might be ahead of Coolidge and Hoover but behind both Roosevelts.)

The Presidents who have been accorded the honor of having their images appear on our paper money have been Washington on the $1 bill, Thomas Jefferson on the $2 bill, Abraham Lincoln on the $5 bill, Andrew Jackson on the $20 bill and U.S. Grant on the $50 bill. In the past, William McKinley was on the $500 bill, Grover Cleveland on the $1,000 bill, James Madison on the $5,000 bill and Woodrow Wilson on the $100,000 bill. How would you like to find a $100,000 bill in your pocket that someone gave you by mistake?

The Bureau of Engraving and Printing produced 4,147,200,000 $1 bills last year. They only printed 230,000,000 $2 bills in 2006, and for some reason we don’t have any other bills until we get to $5. I like 50-cent pieces but you almost never come across one of those anymore. A 50-cent piece in your pocket makes you feel rich. Pennies are a waste of time and I think it’s time to get rid of them. The idea of all the things that cost $1.99 or $5.99 is ridiculous.

The only non-Presidents who ever got their pictures on our currency were Benjamin Franklin on the $100 bill, Alexander Hamilton on the $10 bill and Simon P. Chase on the $10,000 bill. I forget why Ben Franklin never got to be President. Maybe he was smart enough not to want such a hard job. He’s probably the most outstanding American public figure who didn’t make it.

It’s a great honor I suppose, but having my picture on a coin or a piece of paper money is an honor I think I could do without. I wonder if a President could ask the U.S. Mint or the Bureau of Engraving and Printing not to do that to him. Imagine having your picture rattling around in millions of pockets and pocketbooks. The thought is stomach turning.

I think we may have used up all our picture opportunities on our bills too soon and now we’re short of bills to put our heroes on. What will we do for our great figures in the next 100 years? Maybe we’ll have to start making $3 or $15 bills.

Blog Response

How about "Joe the Plumber" on a three dollar bill?  

After all the hype of the last presidential election--where the common American was immortalized and invoked by the unworthy suitors, who vied for the Crown of Ithaca; perhaps it is time to abandon the idea of apotheosis of the office of chief executive.

President Washington wanted no special glory, as he epitomized the concept of noble service to the nation, as gentleman-farmer/soldier/statesman.

Let us honor his memory, by restoring Lady Liberty to the lowly cent, to show that even the least in value, is worth a fortune on our shores.   We might also consider a new Indian Head Cent, in conjunction with the Liberty Cent, featuring a completely new design from the original.

Lady Liberty should wear an ostrich feather headdress with pearls, and the Native American Liberty should wear traditional eagle feathers.

What better way than the restoration of the large copper cent, as a one-year type?  After that, aluminum, steel, or some other low cost metal could kick into service, or there could be a general moratorium on further cent production for awhile.  There would of course be a return to the small cent.

Once that return transpired, perhaps a new Flying Eagle Cent design could then be incorporated for commerce as well.

 If we get rid of the penny, where does it end?  Shall dimes, quarters, fifty cent pieces and dollars also become obsolete?  They are not worth much anymore either.

Our massive celebration in recapturing our stolen identity from the Fed and the corporate shock troops known as "guest workers"-- who have hijacked our very lives-- deserves a special copper cent, to commemorate the end of 1984.

It should be a large cent, much like the Chain Cent of 1793, with a 27mm diameter, 13.48 grams in weight, and the size of a half dollar.  The obverse of the coin should feature the Goddess of Liberty, Columbia and the reverse should have the old circular chain of 1793, now portrayed as broken, in a symbolic gesture to the liberation of the American people from the globalist agenda of the players behind the scenes, the secret shadow government.

What we do not want as a people, is electronic money alone, or a micro chip inserted beneath our collective skin.

The Age of Big Brother should die, with the collapse of the global banking system.  It is time for all nations to seize control of their own assets and financial destinies, by abolishing the influence of the parasitic international bankers, who create cycles of boom and bust, and instigate many of  the wars which plague humanity.

It is time for Big Brother to return to the nightmare world of storybook pages which were the harbinger of his ascendancy.

 All of our money is held by the private corporation --and fictitious business entity--known as "Federal Reserve."  In short, the American people do NOT hold the purse strings to their own country, and the Danegeld bailout money-- which was extorted from the American people against their will,  should now have a special commemorative stamp on it, which pays obeisance to the real power which manipulates our lives.

I know!  Let's put David Rockefeller,  the Rothschild Family, and Zbigniew Brzezinski on our slave money, to show fealty to our  overlords of the New World Order!

Jorge W. Boosh should also be featured on the new money, to supplant George Washington, as The Father of Our New Country.   Where it used to say " United States of America ,"  the title will read: "North American Union."   We "henceforth" pledge allegiance to the United Nations, and convert our country into an open sewer, where cheeky Mexican interlopers--including their stupid president-- can claim the hegemony of squatters rights over American territory!

Mr. Rooney wrote: "It’s a great honor I suppose, but having my picture on a coin or a piece of paper money is an honor I think I could do without. I wonder if a President could ask the U.S. Mint or the Bureau of Engraving and Printing not to do that to him. Imagine having your picture rattling around in millions of pockets and pocketbooks. The thought is stomach turning."

Indeed it is, to a certain degree,  as it smacks of Chairman Mao or "Dear Leader," Kim Jong Il. 

 While it is true that in the final analysis, such a depiction defines  the cult of personality, that cult ascends to a higher plateau  when the people have the true freedom to  express their love for a just and noble reign, as manifested by the presidential likeness on their currency.

This consent of the governed to elevate an American president to Mount Rushmore status, is never “implied consent.”

Our own age has a very special American, who is very much like Benjamin Franklin, and that Greatest American, is Patrick J. Buchanan.

Mr. Buchanan would never desire to see his own visage on coin of the realm, but would far prefer  to see the American people freed from the usury coming from the Federal Reserve--as would Rep. Ron Paul.

In addition, Buchanan would find it more appropriate to concentrate on evicting the Mexican occupation army of 38 million mestizo peasants  from our shores, as they came to annex our country for Mexico.  They are destroying America with La Reconquista.

Therefore all discussion of who should be on what is a moot point.  We are down to brass tacks.

No mission is accomplished as of yet, so why  reward presidential mediocrity with the apotheosis of appearing on U.S. currency?

 What is really "stomach turning,"  Mr. Rooney, is to hear an American president scream: "Stop throwing the Constitution in my face...it's just a goddamned piece of paper." 

Many of the American people realize that their land is occupied by an illegitimate shadow government, under the auspices of the Council on Foreign Relations and the Trilateral Commission.

Therefore any talk of currency change wish fulfillment, must reflect the desire of the American people to regain the country which has been stolen from them, right under their noses. Why glorify the fiat money of the Fed?  It is backed by nothing but thin air!

We will not be pacified with a “golden” brass and manganese counterfeit dollar, which turns brown, when left near the kitchen sink.

The reign of David Rockefeller and the Council on Foreign Relations must end.  The tyranny of the Rothschild bank over peoples of the planet, must be neutralized and extinguished by those countries which find themselves in financial bondage.  They must declare a new nationalism, whereby the citizens of a particular country, finally decide to control their own financial destiny, and pledge allegiance NOT to "corporate citizenship" and The United Nations, but to their own nation and posterity.

This is the true meaning of a nation's currency--not design change to reflect glorification of the new emperor, nor his debasement of the coinage and culture.

If we have learned anything from the dark nightmare of the Bush tenure in the White House, it is that George Washington was right all along, when he advised Americans to keep and bear arms, to protect themselves from the enemy within...and their own government.

Obama may one day qualify for his own commemorative presidential medal, but I hardly think he will appear on our coinage anytime soon--especially if he elects to grant amnesty to illegal aliens, for by then, the United States of America will be gone with the wind.

There is the "smalll matter" of  the president-elect producing a valid certificate of live birth in American territory.  Thus far, Obama has failed to "cough up" the required document which will allow him to assume the mantle of president.

We know his aunt is an illegal alien, and this may be an omen for his political future, until he proves beyond a shadow of doubt, that he is qualified to lawfully bear political office under the Constitution of the United States.  Otherwise, he ain't worth a plug nickel.

Judging from his plan to grant amnesty to a hostile foreign power, bent on annexing American territory for Mexico; it would appear Obama will not fulfill his oath of office to protect and defend either our Constitution or our country.

Like Jorge W. Boosh and all other CFR puppets; he is above the law.