Kristyne:

>

> That said, I'm still not voting for McCain / Palin. I am persuaded that

> Obama's thoughtful decision-making style is going to work the best to

> resolve the pressing issues facing the country.

>

I could believe this about him, if I didn't also know about his close

political ties to folks like Ayers/Dorhn, or Khalid Al-Monsour, or Raila

Odinga, or ACORN, or Saul Alinsky, or the Democratic Socialists ("New

Party") in Chicago, or his "spiritual mentor's" embrace of Black Liberation

Theology and Louis Farrakhan.

Those minor details I find rather hard to reconcile to his media-created

image of a thoughtful, intelligent, post-partisan, post-racial candidate. I

see a master dissembler and enabler. He even admitted as much in his

memoirs, when talking about how he hid his drug use from his mother.

I don't know how you do it, other than you must be ignoring the evidence or

convincing yourself it's all made up.

I also don't know how you give characters like Raines, Johnson, Barney

Frank, Chris Dodd and other Democrats (like Joe Biden's son) with their

hands all over this credit collapse crisis a free pass. Any outrage you feel

at the people who causes it seems ill-placed, if you think voting for Obama

will punish the folks who caused this mess. It was indeed McCain and the

Republicans, and not the Democrats or Obama, who were sounding the alarm in

2004 and 2005, about the practices that lead to this meltdown.

Finally I don't know how you think an Obama presidency with a Democratically

controlled Congress (possibly one with a filibuster proof majority in the

Senate) will be anything but an unmitigated, fast-track disaster.

- Bob