Radio Interview

Q: Tell us a little about yourself.

Let's see ~ I'm a single white male, never married, 47 years old, 5'11, 175 lbs, athletic, brown hair, blue eyes. I'm an engineer by trade. I've been licensed in half a dozen different disciplines, published textbooks, had my own software firm.

Right now I'm experiencing the new American Dream. I'm unemployed, have no health insurance, no job prospects, and I read every day how the government is bucking to import tens of thousands of tech workers ~ or to send more and more technical work over seas.

I got expelled from graduate school two years ago, a semester short of a Ph.D. in aerospace engineering. My research was on the Earth to Mars trajectory, and I used a computer program to find a "safer, faster, cheaper" flight path to Mars. Given that four of the last six Mars missions have failed, it seemed like a good project - and I've been fighting the University of Texas non stop to find out why they expelled me.

It's not that politics isn't in my blood. I'm a direct descendent of U.S. President Rutherford B Hays, and another ancestor was a Regimental Commander of a Confederate army during the Civil War. I went to the U.S. Naval Academy and later did a hitch in the Army. I've served on many technical committees and was even appointed by Texas Governor George Bush to a psychologists licensing board.

I'm so outraged at what is going on in Washington these days that I though I might as well run for President and have a little fun for a change.

Q: I'll start with an easy question, about your thoughts on the 1st Ammendment.

I'm worried about people's rights. Very worried. I've been an internet junkie since 1995 when I created my first website, and I have noticed a very dramatic change in people's attitudes since Bush was elected, then 9/11, and then Homeland Security. I used to hang out with a lot of witches and Wiccans - they're all WAY back in the broom closet now. I had some interesting friends into X-Files type stuff - conspiracy, UFO's, Roswell. They're all totally subdued too.

I may not agree with those kind of folks, but I like them, and I admire their speaking out and it makes me sad how they do so MUCH less forcefully now. The only group with any fortitude to speak out any more is the gay community ~ and it won't be too long before they're out of the picture too. Well, present company excluded.

Q: What about gays ~ what are your feelings about homosexuality?

I'm not gay and I don't understand why any man can be sexually attracted to another man, but I respect their rights. They deserve some kind of legal protection in their long term relationships and if society won't let them sign a marriage contract then we should create a "relationship contract" that doesn't have all the religious connotations.

Technically speaking, I have a fifteen year old psychology book that says it is possible for people to re-orient their sexuality. Now psychiatrists say doing that is not possible. I think homosexuals should have a chance to choose, and I think having that chance to choose is what takes this whole damn issue out of the realm of religion.

Q: Would you have a gay cabinet member?

The question would probably be more, would a gay person have the courage to be on my Cabinet? It wouldn't be a problem for me, and I think it's something whose time has come. I've worked closely with gay people before and they have as much a right to serve their country as anybody else. My only criteria for any high level offices is honesty, dedication, and the guts to speak your mind.

I don't much cater to the "turn the other cheek" idea that has so infused our society with respect for Authority. It's attitudes like that that got us into the war in Iraq and that caused the shuttle to crash while ten thousand NASA employees watched, knowing full well they could have avoided it ~ easily.

Q: What about women on your Cabinet?

My VA therapist was a lady and she told me once that I work better with women than with men. It's true. I'd rather have a cabinet full of women than men any day of the week, if that were possible. As it is, the only thing I can guarantee for sure is that I will have a lady Vice President ~ and that she'll have some actual responsibility for a change.

Q: Do you have any qualms about pornography on the web, or speaking here to an audience of Adult webmasters?

I am happy to be here with ya'll, and I appreciate the chance you have given me to be here. It would suit me just fine if I was elected President, and I could look back and see that the official announcement came on an Adult radio station. I think it would be a good statement, about how Clinton dragged the whole nation through his slimy affair with an intern, not even having the dignity to resign. I rank Richard Nixon far above Clinton in that respect; in fact, Richard Nixon's honorable comportment makes everybody in Washington right now look like a bunch or dirty rotten scum bags.

As far as pornography goes, I am far more offended by the barrage of viagra ads that have destroyed the prime time television shows. God told Job in the Bible to "Gird up your loins like a man," not take drugs. I think anybody taking viagra should first undergo psychiatric therapy and see if he can't accomplish it with pornography, sexuality, or even with the help of a professional belly dancer. I'm sorry, the whole idea of viagra just offends me greatly. Medical prescriptions should be the last resort, and they should be administered in the privacy of a doctor-patient relationship and powerful prime time advertising shouldn't be allowed to pressure the patient, or the doctor.

Q: What about pornography in general?

I'm not like Bill Clinton ~ who said he smoked pot, but didn't inhale. I get Playboy every month and I never read the articles ~ except sometimes the ones about sexuality, so that I can learn some new things. I'm not ashamed of my libido, and I certainly won't destroy it by any actual or perceived dependence on drugs. My only qualm about Playboy, as far as that goes, is that women too readily rush out and get implants when they should be investigating natural methods of breast enlargement, like meditation and the like. I suspect they would become far more sensually powerful, than that possible with just a top heavy profile. Again - and this theme is central to my psyche - I believe in the power of psychology, over the power of pharmaceuticals.

Q: Do you spend any time at Adult websites?

Let me say that I missed Janet Jackson's 1/2 time show because I felt the whole dance routine was too acid rock for my liking, but the next day when I read about it on CNN I did search the web until I found a video clip. I have mixed feelings about it, but I am convinced that what she did is a matter of freedom of speech. I see more sexuality in any given prime time TV show these days. This did not occur to me until after I thought about Janet Jackson's show, and I am grateful to her for that insight ~ whether or not she intended it so. In my mind, that fact is what makes what she did a freedom of speech and not the offensive display all the prudish Christians say it was.

Hell, it was only a split second thing ~ gone in a blur of motion. I would classify the actual exposure itself as almost subliminal. If the FCC didn't investigate the infamous "Rats" ad that Bush ran during the Florida primaries four years ago, why get so rabid over this little incident? Come to think of it, that "Rats" ad might very well have won the state for Florida - and hence, the whole damn election for Bush.

I think the Christian-Government coalition is using this whole episode to assert undue influence upon the media's freedom of speech. It's certainly had that affect so far.

Q: Any closing remarks?

It worries me about how gullible the American people are. Take President Bush, for example. His family has their palace in Kennebunkport, Maine. Boy George grew up there and in China, where old man Bush was ambassador. W goes to Yale, graduates, then his old man buys him an oil company in Texas, then the Texas Rangers baseball team. The folks here in Texas were dumb enough to believe that made him a Texan; elected him governor, then everybody in the U.S. respected him for being a Texan and governor of Texas, elected him - and look what we got. I know a Texas state Senator who's a sixth generation Texan but can't get anywhere because he has no dirty laundered Yankee money backing him. It just bothers me, is all.

It bothers me most because there are many other truly all-American families around, with much deeper roots and much more all-American values. Look at my family - we've been hard working professionals, soldiers, and leaders in America since long before the Revolution. We've fought the wars, not dodged them. We've survived Depression, not manipulated it to make a fortune like the Bush family with their Wall Street investment firm; or the Kennedy family in their bootlegging.

Does America want to enfranchise the blue blood Johnny come lately's from the Northeast like Bush who dodged the military; or Kerry who offended every military virtue there is by joining the protest movement; after skating out of Viet Nam after four months with a couple of razor nicks? Since when is wimpiness a virtue? Does America want to consider a change of pace, with a red blooded family from the heart of America that spilled blood on both sides of the Civil War?

If you think I'm ashamed of my Confederate ancestors, you're quite wrong ~ I may not believe in what they did back there in the Old South, but at least they had the courage to stand up for what they believed, which is more than I can say for most everybody else in this god awful modern world.

Present company excluded, naturally.