BOB ELY, DEMOCRAT FOR PRESIDENT

When they get in trouble they send for the sons-of-bitches.

— attributed to Admiral Ernest King, Chief of Naval Operations, World War II

And Boy Are We in Trouble!

We Have Too Much Debt
Too Few Jobs
And No One – Especially Washington -- Gives a Damn (Read more ...)

Well, I care.

I care enough to spend a chunk of my own money to get you to visit this website.
I care enough to turn my life upside down to run for president. (Read more ...)

Before you consider my candidacy, read TWO DOZEN GOOD REASONS NOT TO VOTE FOR ME:

1. If You’re Unemployed, I’ll Get You a Job THAT You Might Not Like	8. My Neighbors Won’t Like Me	18. I Have Many Detractors
2. I Want to Make it Easier for You To Get Fired	9. I don’t blame Republicans	19. I’m Inexperienced
3. I Will Raise Taxes on the Wealthy and Maybe the Not So Wealthy	10. I’m a Shabby Democrat	20. Rhodes Scholar, Decorated Veteran, Paragon of Virtue
4. I’ll Dream Up Lots of Other Taxes	11. I Won’t Eat Your Rubber Chicken …	21. My Dashing Good Looks?
5. I will cut the defense budget	12. I Don’t Blame the Big Bad Banks	22. I Won’t Friend You on Facebook
6. I will slash all other spending	13. I Don’t Blame China	23. Boxers or Briefs
7. But I Will Find A Way to Give All Those Under 65 Basic (Read - Not Great) Health Insurance	14. But I Will Raise Tariffs Which Might Piss Off China and Some Other Trading “Partners”	24. I’ve Told a Big Lie
	15. I Support Immigration, Including, [GASP], Amnesty
	16. I Really Will Close Guantanamo
	17. Beyond That, I Won’t Spend Time on Many Issues That Are Important to You

... cowardice ask the question is it safe? Expediency asks the question is it politics? Vanity asks the question is it popular? The conscience asks the question is it right? And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe nor politics nor popular, but he must do it because conscience tells him it is right.

– Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Grosse Pointe High School, March 14, 1968