Banky For President

To echo the past:

I am today announcing my candidacy for the Presidency of the United States.

I do not run for the presidency merely to oppose any man but to propose new policies. I run because I am convinced that this country is on a perilous course and because I have such strong feelings about what must be done, and I feel that I’m obliged to do all that I can.

I run to seek new policies – policies to end the bloodshed in Iraq and in our cities, policies to close the gaps that now exist between black and white, between rich and poor, between young and old, in this country and around the rest of the world.

I run for the presidency because I want the United States of America to stand for hope instead of despair, for reconciliation of men instead of the growing risk of world war.

I run because it is now unmistakably clear that we can change these disastrous, divisive policies only by changing the men who are now making them. For the reality of recent events in Iraq has been glossed over with illusions.

The crisis of the globe, the crisis in our cities, the crisis in our farms and in our ghettos have all been met with too little and too late.

Why me? Why not me? Why not you for that matter? Do you have a voice? Do you want to be heard? Well let me hear your voice. Do you believe like I do that things need to be done and people need to be helped? Well then help me make a difference. After all, a difference is dying to be made.

In the end, I cannot stand aside from the contest that will decide our nation’s future and our children’s future.

But now that the fight is on and over policies which I have long been challenging, I must enter the race. The fight is just beginning and I believe that I can win …

I do not lightly dismiss the dangers and the difficulties of challenging both parties. But these are not ordinary times and this is not an ordinary election.

At stake is not simply the leadership of a party or even our country. And if God exists, may he/she/it help us all.