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Posted
Monday, October 29, 2007 3:11 PM
| By
Chadwick Matlin
Bill
Richardson's a believer. So is Dennis Kucinich. Even Rudy Giuliani is
willing to admit that extraterrestrials might be out there.
The 2008 presidential race is starting to look like an Alf convention. Last week, Kucinich's alien beliefs were outed
by his good friend Shirley MacLaine. Her new book details Kucinich's
run-in with a UFO on her porch: "It hovered, soundless, for 10 minutes
or so, and sped away with a speed he couldn't comprehend. He said he
felt a connection in his heart and heard directions in his mind." One
can only guess what those directions may have said.
Earlier this month, an 8-year-old kid asked Giuliani,
"If you find that there is something living on another planet and it is
bad and it comes over here what would you do?" Rudy, ever vigilant on
national security matters, assured the boy that there won't be a repeat
of Independence Day
if he's in the Oval Office. "Well if we're properly prepared for all of
the different things that can happen to us, we'll be prepared for that,
as well," he said with a grin.
But it was Bill Richardson
who spoke most explicitly on the UFO issue last weekend. Speaking to
Dell employees in Texas, Richardson said
that if he became president, he would continue his long fight to
release top-secret files on Roswell, New Mexico's infamous "flying
disc" recovery. In a foreword to Roswell Dig Diaries, a 2004 Sci Fi Channel book, the New Mexico governor wrote
that he has never been satisfied with the government's explanation and
that the "American people can handle the truth." Considering Richardson
makes up part of the "ET Ticket," I guess it should come as no surprise.
Giuliani
and Richardson have even managed to use aliens for political gain. The
terrorist threat pales in comparison with an alien invasion, so if
Giuliani can protect us from little green men, then Osama should be a
walk in the Pakistani park. Richardson's assertion that he would
release top-secret Roswell files if he became president implies that he
is willing to run a transparent White House with all nonalien issues,
as well.
One more thing—it shouldn't come as a shock, but Mike Gravel is a believer, too.