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October 31, 2007

Kucinich's Mental Health

I’m sure a lot of people are chuckling about Dennis Kucinich’s admission that yes, he did see a UFO at Shirley MacLaine’s house. But neither Democrats nor Republicans have any reason to poke fun or to dismiss Kucinich as un-presidential for having admitted to the sighting. Both parties have elected Presidents in the recent past who also claim to have seen UFOs. As Kucinich pointed out, Jimmy Carter filed a sighting report back in 1973 (you can read his hand-written report here). The Ronald Reagan UFO sightings (not to mention his deep interest in astrology, Armageddon and the occult) are even more interesting. He had to keep quiet about it in public because of the same sort of reaction we are seeing right now to Kucinich’s admission (smugly linking it to his having questioned President Bush’s mental health).

Lucille Ball saw the Reagans half an hour after they saw a UFO. She wrote in her book “Lucy in the Afternoon” that she wondered after he was elected President “if he still would have won if he told everyone that he saw a flying saucer.” Later, Reagan saw another UFO while in an airplane, and he excitedly told reporter Norman C. Miller all about it. The pilot backed up his story, but said they never filed a report “because for a long time they considered you a nut if you saw a UFO.” Apparently, many people still do.

I don't. I know a very reliable person who has seen a UFO. Of course, he doesn't tell anyone about the experience because it sounds crazy.

Posted by Becky at October 31, 2007 09:00 AM