The Tea Party anger puts the GOP on the spot.

When I was a pretty arrogant 15-year-old homeless kid on the streets of New York City in the early ‘70s, a person I met once spoke about my posture. These were his words for as long as I shall live, I will never forget them; “You have poor posture”, my response was “so!” His was; “You will never amount to anything as your posture is a statement of who you are”. My reaction to this man was one of immediate hostility, horror, anger, and pain for this adult to say this to a kid, me. Then I spent years glancing at any flashes of myself walking, moving, slouching in any and every piece of glass I could catch myself in ever since that day. I didn’t do anything about the slouch, or the posture or the way I thought I looked to others after he said that to me. Later, when I was 20 years old standing on the platform at 96^th Street and Broadway waiting for the #1 train uptown my back was hurting me so bad and I put my hand in the small of my back and thought; man, I don’t know if I can taking my back feeling like this another 20 years. Then I thought about what that guy said 5 years prior about my posture. I asked myself that day, so what are you going to do about it? First, I studied Iyengar Yoga; I started running, I found out about physical fitness and exercise, as I didn’t attend high school on the streets, I got my GED and attended College. Later, I joined the United States Army and served for 6 years, I have completed 3 marathons. The point is; words matter so very much no matter which language they are communicated in.

The point is words matter oh so very much. I have watched the intensity of heated debate increase dramatically since Barack Obama started running for the Presidency of this country.  There always has been this widely held but rarely spoken opinion that blacks legally shouldn’t have been given the right to vote as they were never legally declared to be citizens of these United States. It seems to be irrelevant that the President was not born a descendant of slaves as his mother was white from Kansas and his father from Kenya. The basic white male superior mindset will accept nothing less than the fact is he is Black and in this country, Blacks do not have the full rights as citizens and therefore should not permitted to serve as President of these United States. These are the people feeling the need to “Take Our Country Back!” for in their rational world, a Black Man in charge would mean that their freedoms as they know it, had been lost in a major way. I watched these very people complain about the President’s birth certificate, about the legitimacy of his making law and passing any legislation. The belief exist that he is Muslim; the fear is he is re-distributing wealth using the government by socialistic means. Some beliefs are far more outrageous and don’t warrant mentioning, point is, if you are a member of this group and had the politicians stroke up the anger that goes along with this perception of potential loss of freedoms or enforced standard of living change, this is irresponsible. Formerly rational political leaders have either stood by while all kinds of disrespectful behavior, attacks on politician offices, attitudes and language has been used to incite violence or straight up encouraging it by cheering it in public altogether.

We see many signs declaring wrong being committed by him or his administration’s legislative agenda. There is the perception the country is headed in the wrong direction by a person they believe don’t have the authority to take them there, wherever there is. There is really not relevant to the issues at hand as long the we are talking about the Black Man in the White House, period. Images on display among the protesters with President Obama as Hitler, declarations of coming socialism, catastrophic deficits. Militia and Libertarian claims being made of potential of White Slavery, people claiming shame in being American. There has been a more hateful tone used over the last year by many associated with anti-government factions or having racial tolerance issues as their main agenda. More disturbing, the increasing amount of elected officials in the Republican Party who are encouraging this behavior by either duplicating it the legislature or at the very least, encouraging it by cheering in public or silently watching. The name-calling, the spitting, the intimidation, the harassment, the threats are just a few or the hostile tactics used on officials and their families. These are all tactics used by the Nazi Party of Germany when it rose to power in the German Reichstag subsequent to the end of World War I. Just recently has the media come aware of this uncivilized decorum has come to grip the discourse across this great land of ours. The leaders of the Republican Party are actually giving credit to the level of anger as an appropriate response to the actions of the Democratically controlled Congress. They made only tokens references to the inappropriate tone taken or had no problem at all with the amount of White Males walking around the District of Columbia with arms exposed in public. If any group or gathering of White Women alone for a cause or any other ethnic group armed with weapons exposed in public, they would be taken down so fast; it would not even be amusing at all.  Just that alone is a statement of how much words matter if the source is one with any power.

The Republicans have either intentionally or inadvertently painted themselves somewhat into a corner by sitting on the sidelines while the various members of their Party stroked the fires of this particularly sensitive group of angry Americans. Along the way they have declared over and over again that the ultimate goal of this administration is to destroy this country and therefore they as a party can’t do business with them in any way or form. After spending so much time during the Health Care Reform debate casting them in the most negative light possible, how do you now go back and spend the next 2 plus years doing business with this President or Congress? They have not voted for any legislative bills presented since the President took office and have done all they could to bring to an extremely slow crawl the entire legislative process.  Only since deciding to and actually implementing the same parliamentary processes the Republicans did at least 15 times according to Congressional Record when they were in power and determined to get things through Congress, the Reconciliation process and actually started to move some bills through and passed the most historic piece of legislation ever, the reforming of the Health Insurance industry.  The Republican response to such an historic occasion was to say that one they wouldn’t work on anything else in retaliation, two; en masse declaration to repeal the legislation, and use the upcoming mid-term election cycle to target Democratic candidates as reckless and irresponsible. Ignoring the fact that deregulation and fiscal irresponsibility of their Party’s President got us where we are today.

The Republicans have used every opportunity to state how irresponsible they feel the Imams and Mullahs of the various sects of Muslims countries around the world not rising up against all of those of their communities who keep bombing their way to paradise. The question arises time and time again after watching night after night on the evening news about an explosion in some marketplace or right at the end of service at some mosque. There are always large numbers of local citizens caught in whatever crossfire some militant group calling up later to claim credit for the carnage in the name of their god. Then I remember reading in European History about the loss of civility in the Reichstag during the early days of Hitler and the Third Reich. First the disrespect and implication or questioning of the authority of those elected to govern. Then, once convinced or encouraged to believe authority has the right to be questioned, then will it be proper to remove or destroy in order to save those whose perceived freedoms this interloper President is trying to take away. Sara Palin targeting politicians on twitter and suggesting the angry reload, right-wingers encouraging people to throw bricks through windows, or going after elected officials families. The Republicans as the party of ‘No” are now in this position of no compromise when it comes to where they are as a legislative political body. They have no where to go in order just to get back to center on any issue as working with people with such evil intent now could only be considered treason.  Or was that a bad choice of words?

Hell NO YOU CAN\’T!

Top 10 facts to know about health care reform

By Angie Drobnic Holan
Published on Thursday, March 18th, 2010 at 7:09 p.m.

PolitiFact has checked hundreds of claims about health care reform and read the plans under consideration by Congress. As the Democrats move toward a final vote, we’ve selected 10 facts about the actual health care legislation that every voter should know. Agree with the measure or not, here’s what it intends to do and where the big unknowns are. We’ve linked to our previous reporting on each issue throughout the story; click through for even more sources.

1. The plan is not a government takeover of health care like in Canada or Britain. The government will not take over hospitals or other privately run health care businesses. Doctors will not become government employees, like in Britain. And the U.S. government intends to help people buy insurance from private insurance companies, not pay all the bills like the single-payer system in Canada. The key parts of the current U.S. system — employer-provided insurance, Medicare for the elderly, Medicaid for the poor — would stay in place. The government would create health insurance exchanges for people who have to buy insurance on their own, so they could more easily compare plans and prices.

2. Insurance companies will be regulated more heavily. They will be told the minimum services they must cover, including preventive care. They will have to pay out a certain percentage of premiums for patient care. By 2014, when the exchanges open, insurers won’t be able to deny customers for pre-existing conditions.

3. Everyone will have to have health insurance or pay a fine, a requirement known as the individual mandate. The government intends to cap premiums for people who make below a certain income. For people who buy insurance on the exchanges, a family of four making $88,000 would have a cap of 9.5 percent of their income. Lower incomes would have lower caps. The fine for not having insurance would be a minimum of $695 per person per year, with exemptions for financial hardship and other special cases.

4. Employers will not be required to buy insurance for their employees, but large employers may be subject to fines if they don’t provide insurance. But Congress wanted to encourage employers, especially large employers, to offer insurance. So they created a fine for employers with more than 50 workers: If those employees buy insurance on the exchanges and qualify for a low-income credit from the government, then the employer would have to pay a fine. Fines are calculated based on number of employees; for large firms, the fines could be significant.

5. The vast majority of people will not see significant declines in premiums. When President Obama talks about premiums going down, he usually means they won’t go up as much as they would otherwise.  For the 4-out-of-5 who get their insurance through their employer, the savings would land in the 0 to 3 percent range by 2016, according to the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office, or CBO. People who buy insurance on their own, but who don’t qualify for government subsidies, could actually see their premiums rise by as much as 10 to 13 percent, but that’s largely because they’ll be getting beefed-up policies that would pay for more basic services, especially preventive care. Low-income people who qualify for new credits to buy insurance would see the biggest drops.

6. The plan might or might not bend the curve on health spending. Critics say there aren’t enough provisions to reduce waste or fraud, but Democrats say they’re not being given enough credit for new cost-saving pilot programs that could be rapidly expanded. The most recent estimate of the plan, released Thursday by the CBO, said that it would spend $940 billion over 10 years. But new taxes, penalties and cost savings would offset that spending, according to the CBO, so that overall the plan pay for itself, dropping the deficit by slightly $138 billion over 10 years. Obama has said the plan will save more than $1 trillion in the second 10 years, but that estimate, according to the CBO, is highly speculative.

7. The government-run Medicare program will keep paying medical bills for seniors, but it will begin implementing cost controls on health care providers, mostly through penalties and incentives. The legislation would reduce payments for hospital-acquired infections or preventable hospital admissions. For Medicare Advantage, the federal government intends to reduce extra payments, taking away subsidies to private insurance companies. Insurers will likely cut benefits in order to not lose profits. The bill does not address the “doctor’s fix,” an expected proposal that Congress usually passes to prevent doctor’s Medicare payments from severe cuts.

8. Medicaid, a joint federal-state program for the poor, will cover all of the poor, instead of just a few groups the way it currently does. Right now, to qualify for Medicaid, a person has to be poor and also disabled, elderly, pregnant or a child. Under the new plan, all poor adults would qualify.

9. The government won’t pay for elective abortions. But under the Senate plan, people will be able to buy insurance that covers abortion on the new health insurance exchanges, as long as the insurance company pays for the services with patient premiums, not taxpayer subsidies. Medicaid has an exemption for cases of rape, incest, or the life of the mother.

10. No one is proposing new benefits for illegal immigrants. Some House members had hoped that illegal immigrants would be able to buy insurance with their own money through the new exchanges, but that now appears unlikely.

Finally as promised, a Special Comment in the wake of the passage of Health Care Reform and it’s a first step, there’s a lot wrong with it, but the penalty for not paying the fine for not buying the mandatory insurance has been reduced to nothing.

So, blessings nonetheless on those who took this first step, pat yourselves on the back, and, tomorrow morning, get back to work fixing what is still wrong with our American Health Care system. These remarks are about our political climate in the wake of the bill’s passage.

Eight days ago, a 16-year old kid picked up a courtesy phone at a store in Washington Township, New Jersey, and announced over the public address system, quote “Attention, WalMart customers: All black people leave the store now.” The boy has been arrested and charged with harassment and bias intimidation.

Two days ago, a Tea Party protestor shouted the “n” word at Congressman John Lewis of Georgia, one of the heroes of 20th Century America, and Congressman Andre Carson of Indiana and another shouted anti-gay slurs at Congressman Barney Frank of Massachusetts.

Capitol Hill Police confirm no arrests were made and there were no serious efforts to identify the vermin involved. Television, print, and radio news organizations will not be asked to turn over their tapes and images of the event, nor subpoenaed if necessary. This is not to dismiss what the 16-year old did in New Jersey.

But it would seem that what was shouted at the Congressmen merits at least as much investigation and hopefully as much prosecution. After all, it did occur inside the halls of Congress, a place at least as crowded as, and as sanctified as a WalMart.

In a backwards, sick-to-my-stomach way, I would like to thank whoever shouted at Mr. Lewis and Mr. Carson for proving my previous point. If racism is not the whole of the Tea Party, it is in its heart, along with blind hatred, a total disinterest in the welfare of others, and a full-flowered, self-rationalizing refusal to accept the outcomes of elections, or the reality of Democracy, or of the narrowness of their minds and the equal narrowness of their public support.

On Saturday, that support came from evolutionary regressives as Michele Bachmann and Jon Voight.  On a daily basis that support comes from the racists and homophobes of radio and television: the Michael Savages and the Rush Limbaughs. Shockingly, that support even came, on a specific basis, from another Congressman, Republican Devin Nunes of the California 21st.

“When you use totalitarian tactics, people, you know, begin to act crazy,” he said on C-SPAN. “And I think, you know, there’s people that have every right to say what they want. If they want to smear someone, they can do it.”

Congressman Nunes? You should resign. You have no business opening a door for a man like John Lewis, let alone serving alongside him. And if you shouldn’t resign for your endorsement, your encouragement, of the most vile, the most reprehensible, and the most outdated spewings of the lizard-brain of this country, you should resign because of your total disconnect from reality.

There have been no “totalitarian tactics,” Congressman. People, these few, sad, people, have begun to act crazy, because it has been the dedicated purpose, the sole method and sole function, of the Republican party, to entice them to act crazy.

Those shouts against the Congressmen, Mr. Nunes, were inspired not by what people like John Lewis have done in their lives. They have been inspired by what people like you have done in the last year.

And so the far right escalates the rhetoric and the level of threat, just a little more. And worse still, it escalates the level of delusion. The election of a Democratic president is socialism. The election of a black president is an international conspiracy. The enactment of any health care reform is an apocalypse. And the willful denial of reality by the leader of the minority party in Congress is the only truth.

A willful denial, incidentally, that includes the leader of the minority party in Congress ignoring the fact that his is the minority party, and that he represents the minority, and that despite having broken all the rules of decorum in place in this nation since the end of the Civil War
that despite having played every trick — mean and low, despite having the limitless financial backing of one of the biggest cartels in the world, he and his cronies and the manufactured outrage of the Tea Party failed to derail Health Care Reform.

Failed Mr. Boehner. You lost. You blew it. “Shame on each and every one of you who substitutes your will and your desires above those of your fellow countrymen,” you said last night just before the vote. The will and desire of your countrymen, Mr. Boehner?

If you’re one of the leaders of a party that in four years, coughed up the Senate Majority, coughed up the House Majority, coughed up the White House, coughed up Health Care Reform, and along the way ignored every poll, and every election result, I would think the “will and desires of your fellow countrymen” should be pretty damn clear by now:  Your countrymen think your policies are of the past, and your tactics are of the gutter.

But Boehner’s teary “shame on you” over the tyranny of the vast majority taking a scrap back from the elite clueless minority — that’s just an isolated incident. Just as Congressman Neugebauer shouting “Baby-Killer” at, or ” It’s a Baby-Killer” during, Congressman Stupak’s laudable speech last night was just an isolated incident.

Just as the shouting of “n” words at Congressmen Lewis and Carson was just an isolated inciden. Just as the spitting on Congressman Cleaver was just an isolated incident . Just as the abuse of Congressman Frank was just an isolated incident. Just as the ethnic slurs shouted at Congressman Rodriguez of Texas was just an isolated incident. Just as the oinking by Congressman Wilson during the President’s address was just an isolated incident.

Just as whatever’s next will be just an isolated incident. You know what they call it when you have a once-a-week series of isolated incidents? They call it two things. They call it a “pattern” andin the United States of 2010 they call it “The Republican Party.”

American political parties have disappeared before. They are never forced out by their rivals. They die by their own hands, because they did not know that the hatred or the myopia or the monomania they thought was still okay wasn’t okay, any more. And so I offer this olive branch to the defeated Republicans and Tea Partiers.

It is a cold olive branch, and scarred, and there aren’t many olives on it, but it still counts.You are rapidly moving from “The Party of No,” past “The Party Of No Conscience,” towards “The Party of No Relevancy.” You are behind the wheel of a political Toyota. And before the mid-terms, you will have been reduced to only bein this generation’s home for the nuts.

You will be the Flat-Earthers, the Isolationists, the Segregationists, the John Birchers. Stop.
Certainly you must recognize the future is with the humane, the inclusive, the diverse— it is with America. Not the America of 1910, but the America of 2010. Discard this dangerous, separatist, elitist, backward-looking rhetoric, and you will be welcomed back into the political discourse of this nation. Continue with it, and you will destroy yourselves and whatever righteous causes you actually believe in, and on the way you will damage this country in ways and manners untold.

But even that damage will not be permanent. Faubus, and the MacNamara Brothers, and Bull Connor, and Lindbergh, and Joe McCarthy damaged this nation. We survived and they were swept away by history. You cannot destroy this country, no matter how hard you seem to be trying to nor can you destroy this country’s inexorable march towards the light.

The Belgian Nobel Prize winner Maurice Maeterlinck once wrote that, quote, “at every cross-roads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10-thousand men to guard the past.” Last night those 10,000 men fell.

Even Beck’s intellect is no substitute for Congressman Massa’s no substance show.

For the very first time since I’ve heard of the famous Mr. Glen Beck and his infamous shtick for racing baiting and hating, I actually watched Glen Beck and felt his pain, if only for a moment. No, I am deadly serious here, I, a black man felt for the man as he intellectually acknowledged the shortcomings of his guest, the level of priority he had given him with just as high rate of return expected. He gambled on having a ousted member of the opposition party come on your show exclusively to provide the world through your venue the proof of what you have been claiming to be true already, that there actually was something in the works by the present administration that was devious, underhanded and potentially dangerous to the future of America as we know it today. This had the potential to be so big that you, Mr. Beck decided, requested and got approval to dedicate the entire hour of your evening broadcast so that the world would find out what a danger the black man represented to the future of White America and thusly the world. You would have been a hero for being so bold a broadcaster to pull this scoop off. You, confidant, sure, had not one alternate plan in place just in case this loon was actually off the beaten path as he had been rumored to be. I saw you look at the camera after ten minutes with your hand over your mouth and looking directly into the eye of the lens and realizing that you still had 50 minutes to kill and there definitely was nothing there for you to last another 50 seconds.

That was the moment I felt your pain, for any or all of what you had invested in this particular moment was forever lost and you knew it and still had just under an hour to kill. I worked sometime in the broadcast industry and understand better than most what it had to take in order for you to pull off setting up an exclusive show, people have to jump through all kinds of hoops and request endless favors, some never to be paid back now. I would not be surprised if a couple of sponsors had to give their approval for the hard right perspectives of some of the sponsors/viewers of the programs aired on the network carrying the Glen Beck’s view. My empathy and sympathy for Beck didn’t last long as I was warned would happen watching his show for he proceeded to persist. He made every possible effort to determine if the Congressman had the goods on the Obama Administration almost to the point of begging for it. At one point he mentioned; “This is like sticking a needle in my eye trying to get something here”. Glen Beck knew this man just wanted to use him like Larry King gladly gets used all the time and really didn’t have anything new to add that Glen or the audience and as those who had given their approval for an hour, didn’t already know prior to the show. All of this for exclusive media rights of harvesting anything they could out of the breaking news that was to be exposed for political gains.

What was worse about this whole experience was what the former Congressman actually had to say on this most staunchly conservative of media venues existing today was that he was guilty, he did grope, and was inappropriate with his staffers as is coming out about his time in the military. The Congressman had pictures of his friendly gatherings from the “old days” that would be perceived risky today, X-Rays representing potential return of cancer in his body, things about his discharge from the military, all the evidence the prosecution will be using to send him to jail and he verified that all of it was true. Massa actually took the time to correct some mistakes in statements made by Beck and lecture him on some of his Party’s positions.  He had everything but what Beck needed, which was information that would make Glen Beck a hero. Glenn realized this and still had more than 45 minutes left. This is where I lost what little respect I had for the man, as he resorted to begging for the information by regurgitating the request from the most complicated to the most simplest of terms for the Congressman to please tell the good viewers of his programs what nefarious shenanigans those black folks where up to in our White House. He had the sense to apologize to his viewing audience and let them know that there was zero or less than zero value for having dedicated an hour to that man. He did this, as he knew his judgment would forever be in question for it appeared he had not anticipated or prepared for the very possibility. That is unforgivable in this business and potentially damaging in his relationship with the sponsors of his program. Glen Beck made the ultimate sin in media, he showed poor judgment and an inability to adjust when he knew the cause was lost.

The soldier that he is, was in full effect this evening giving last night’s guest less than a minute of time in today’s dissertation on the evils of having a Black Man run this good country what don’t belong to him and he has no right to even be doing. It was onward and upward with the line of how this country is now snatching up all the land for who knows what evil purpose. Things being done today nowhere near as detrimental as what the Bush people did to this country’s reputation and worse still the citizens of the great country of ours with two wars. The Republicans have all but requested that he, the President be tarred and feathered and driven out of the District of Columbia on a rail on the way to a lynching party. Beck has been rightfully designated the leader of the Tea Party Movement or the formerly known title of Imperial Grand Wizard of the Klu Klux Klan as they call their leader.  They have refused to participate in what their constituents and all of us are paying their salaries to do, their job, getting legislation passed that is needed by the country to improve the shortcomings of previous administrations and drag America in line with the rest of the western civilization and take care of the health of their citizens. We have people with no money, no jobs, no hope, no unemployment, and these guys get paid more than 150k a year and can not get anything done and refuse to vote for anything. The current Senate is where Bills passed by the house wind up dying. As has been more true to form since there is a ‘Black Man in the White House’, the Republicans are once again saying they want the President to fail so bad, they are willing to destroy America to do it. For Glen Beck, the show must go on!

Dog you have to feel me on this one!

I know Jason Whitlock has been doing this longer than I have and my shtick is politics, but I have to make strong objections to the conclusion he reached in attempting to advise a King about his future.  His is the advice of one who no longer has any fire in his belly and awaits his bell being tolled. As a 55 year old who has finished three marathons and 10 half marathons, who still runs, and looks forward to my next marathon with fire in my belly, I say all challenges lie before us. He, Jason Whitlock also dismisses the real value history lends to the choice the King will have to make when it comes to his future, let’s be perfectly clear here, this is sports where history is everything and LeBron is facing an opportunity that only can come around as often as does the Hailey’s comet!

First, lets crush his premise, Cleveland is your home and you should stay there and make the media come to you because there you are loved and will be protected. Michael Jordan left his home in North Carolina and just obtained full control of the Charlotte Bobcats, you can bet he is still revered there and they will want that team to succeed as time goes on.  No matter where life’s adventures and travels lead you, you can always return home and there it will always be. There are opportunities in Boston, Chicago, New York; Knicks and Nets, Philadelphia, Washington and Detroit for upgrading or overhauling existing rosters and many teams have been clearing cap room in anticipation of the availability of talent this summer. There is honor in bringing championships to the beautiful City of Cleveland and it has been a long time in coming. It would be received in a grand fashion and be remembered through the state for all time. But you will have no glory, LeBron. King James, life sometimes offers one of unique gifts such as yourself larger responsibilities, historic responsibilities such as those attached to the gloried franchises of the professional basketball industry like the ultimate pilgrimage of baseball players to the Yankees. You then become part of something much bigger than just winning multiple championships; you become legendary like Larry Bird and his relationship to Celtic history and Magic Johnson with the Lakers. There was more to it than just a media driven heated rivalry in the Larry Bird vs. Magic Johnson heydays of the ‘80s,so was the Bulls vs. Pistons, it also helped drive the frenzy of the fans on both coasts of the country in a way that was great for the business of basketball.

While Cleveland may offer safety and as many championships as the town can afford to surround you with King, you will never obtain the ultimate props you could if you could bring glory back to the Knicks for 4, 5 or more championships and great for the city and even more so the NBA and it’s business of basketball. Make no mistake this is about more than the business of basketball, the business of entertainment, but the history of basketball as well. The return to glory for the Nets who had glory days in the ABA before the merger or the Knicks as recently as 1970 in this town would be huge beyond anything that has happened here in a long time. The star that pulls that off would almost be guaranteed first ballot entry to the hall of fame.

He was right about the coach thing, there is a need for a extremely high profile coach in whatever city you wind up in, Popovich would be ideal and he could share in the glory of bringing a franchise back from the dead. The possibility of the Knicks franchise featuring the King ‘LeBron James’ in the full spectacular of Madison Square Garden holding court to the likes of future playoffs series with the Celtics or the Bulls on the way to a showdown in the finals against Kobe and the new look Lakers. Basketball would be beholden to you for all time. I feel you on the number thing, looks even better as a tribute. The number 6 is fine. Just remember one thing; sports is about history and history will be about many things with sports  being  just one of them. Just think of the challenges all of those playoffs will present you with, all of the potential glory of those victories teamed up with the right accompanying players.

It could be you against D-Wade, or teamed up him with against Boston’s new big three that will have to take place in Boston as KG starts to fade, Wallace retreats and Pierce’s fire burns out. Time dictates all of these things will take place, and the Spurs will be renewed as will the Jazz or Rockets. The one hero who takes up the challenge of resurrecting said franchise and beats you just twice or three times in Cleveland on the way to the finals will be considered ten times more larger than life having done so no matter how many you win in Cleveland, it might as well be you, King James.  No manner of championships in your hometown will ever garner you that type of hero worship or praise, but just three would place you among the basketball gods in just the right town and the King will go down as the greatest basketball player in the history of the game. Isn’t that what you want King? Don’t worry LeBron about the help you will need to win a championship to bring a franchise back from the grave, the wise men of basketball history playing today will want to take part in that type of experience and the will gladly come to where you are to help you win. This is bigger than just the crowns and the rings, this is about history!