Political journalist Dana Milbank wrote a commentary in the Sept. 18, 2007, edition of The Washington Post titled, "There's the Red Vote, the Blue Vote, and the Little Green Vote." More than anybody, wrote Milbank, Stephen Bassett of the Paradigm Research Group has been working to elevate alien affairs as an issue in 2008. His commentary stated that the Paradigm Research Group held a news conference at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., to demand that the presidential candidates support a "truth amnesty" to end the "government-imposed truth embargo on the facts confirming an extraterrestrial presence."

Milbank further said that "the truth amnesty disclosure project is reportedly recommended by the participating extraterrestrials themselves" as announced to the humans-only gathering by Alfred Lambremont Webre: JD in international law from Yale, co-founder of the Institute for Cooperation in Space and author of Exopolitics: Politics, Government and Law in the Universe. It was Webre himself who laid open the revelation that about 60 years ago a specific extraterrestrial civilization entered into a top-secret CIA human-extraterrestrial liaison program. Phil Singer, a Hillary Clinton spokesman, announced "Let me check in with the mothership" when asked about the truth embargo. A spokesman for Barrack Obama, Bill Burton, said "We're more focused on lifting the government-imposed truth embargo on issues like the war in Iraq ."

It looks obvious to me that the whole UFO/ET enigma and its implications for life on Earth is a subject that virtually all politicos would much prefer to sidestep than give serious thought and answer to. Certainly the concern is understandable over the potential can of PR worms that would be let loose if any elected politician were to really come out with information on the subject with candor. The fact of the matter is that the real, inside knowledge about ETs is the domain of the military and intelligence agencies and that the vast majority of congressmen and senators in Washington are as in the dark on the matter as the rest of us.

As important and monumental as real disclosure would be to our world, we need our elected politicians to get boldly forthright about the issue. I know that not everyone agrees with this, as I caught an Internet posting that said that Rep. Dennis Kucinich was an odd little spider monkey who reduced his status to fruit fly for talking about his UFO experience during the televised presidential debates. Still it seems that our presidential candidates could do better than dancing around or foo-fooing the issue.

A quick run-down of candidate responses include Barack Obama saying, in effect, that he is more concerned about life on Earth. Obama's former rival Hillary Clinton somehow eluded ever being asked about ETs or UFOs on the campaign trail or in the debates. Republican presidential contender John McCain said that he'd never seen one but that he keeps looking all the time. Mitt Romney said "I'm afraid I do not believe in extraterrestrials visiting Earth." Then-Republican front-runner Rudy Giuliani told an 8-year old that if invaded by evil aliens "We'll be prepared for anything that happens." And fundamentalist Christian Mike Huckabee said that he believes in G-O-D rather than U-F-O.

So if there really is a behind-the-scenes, ultra-classified coverup about intelligent life in space and our interaction with it, it's obvious that our elected representatives in the world of government aren't on the receiving end of the real story. The black world of intelligence agencies and covert operations, it's said, is very secretive and very compartmentalized. Lockheed Skunk Works official Ben Rich with a degree in mechanical engineering said in a lecture shortly before he died that "We already have the means to travel among the stars, but these technologies are locked up in black projects and it would take an act of God to ever get them out to benefit humanity ... anything you can imagine we already know how to do."

If the truth is out there it's going to be worth the effort and added push to find out what has been going on. Just how the next president reacts and deals with this ongoing enigma will be interesting to see.

Richard Dean Jacob is a Santa Fe-based entrepreneur, freelance writer and exopolitical researcher.