Dangling Conversations

I have never seen a set of questions more explicitly designed to advance the point of view of a single candidate. Let's add a few. How about "Does the theoretical desire to reshape the politics of a region justify launching a preventive war that costs hundreds of thousands of lives?" Or "Do you consider it moral that the world's richest nation cannot provide adequate health care to all its citizens, and if not, how are you going to solve the problem?" I have had enough and more than enough of the coverage of "values voters" that ignores the deeply held values that inform my liberal positions.

This column is more appropriate for a McCain campaign telephone "push poll" than a column in a newsweekly. It is deliberately deceptive.

Barack Hussein Obama ....SUCKS !! ....HE IS A LIAR !! .....HE'S MISSING IN ACTION ......HE'S A FREDDIE MAE AND FANNY MAC FRONT MAN !! ......HE TAKES MONEY FROM THE PLO !!

WAKE UP AMERICA...I'VE SAID THIS FOR 18 MONTHS...NOW IT'S ALL COMING OUT....REV WRIGHT....YOU ARE RIGHT...." THE CHICKENS ARE COMING HOME TO ROOST " ...AND OBAMA IS FRIED !!

"Are you at all concerned that the trajectory of Supreme Court jurisprudence over the past six decades risks driving religiously informed moral argument out of our public life?"

Religiously informed moral argument? Which moral argument from which religion are we talking about here?

It is arrogant in the extreme to assume there is ONE religiously informed moral argument, because there are many. And NONE of them belong in our public life - we have separation of church and state in America for a reason.

Any discussion of "morals" should not start by assuming that conservative Christian values are the only values that count.

For eight years, Bush and the republicans have conditioned America to be afraid and live in fear. They are now playing Americans for all they can get out of that fear card.

Fear and smear is how the republicans gain POWER and CONTROL OVER THE PEOPLE. LIES, DISTORTIONS AND EXAGGERATIONS are the tools they use to accomplish their purpose. This is what we are seeing right now.

If they make it, once again when the election is over, all the peon voters will be cast to the wayside and power, money and indifference to the middle and lower class will reign once again. We will be stuck for four or eight more years of the past.

I reject these false qualifications for President. I reject the abundance of lies, distortions and complete anti Obama fabrications which are condoned be the McCain campaign and appears on this and other web sites.

No talk on the economy, health care or any of the other issues with respect to what it takes for ordinary people to live and prosper in the reality of day to day.

Only attacks with concocted false relationships on Obamas character, even though the major news organizations have concluded that no real relationships existed or does exist.

HOW MANY OF YOU WILL AGAIN ALLOW YOURSELVES TO BE USED AND MANIPULATED IN THIS WAY?

I for one will NOT bow to their fear. I will NOT vote for the dishonorable one who attempts to GAIN THE PRESIDENCY BY PLAYING US FOR FOOLS THROUGH LIES AND DECEIT.

I will vote for the one who seeks the Presidency VIA THE HIGH ROAD WITH VISION, A COMMAND OF THE ISSUES AND A GENUINE CONCERN FOR ALL PEOPLE IN THE COUNTRY.

My family will vote for Barack Obama.