Dear concerned citizens of America and mass media of the U.S.A.

As a concerned disabled American Veteran and American citizen, I consider it my duty and responsibility to address the following critical issues facing the voters of our Greatgrand nation, the United States of America [USA].

The citizens of the United States of America [USA] have the ultimate power and responsibility to elect the Right Ticket with the right joint "temperament, judgement, and statesmanship" to lead our nation as well as change our nation's present and future moral, political, economic, educational, health care, energy, military, and foundational soul.

In my firm professional, personal, and political opinion, the media should help the common voter to explore and discuss the following attributes of the present Republican and Democratic presidential slates:

1. Does the joint ticket have a calm, cool, and collected " temper and impulse" [Presidential Temperament]?

2. Does each ticket have sound and sustained "Judgment and Caliber"?

3. Does each ticket have a "presidential depth and degree" in regard to their purpose, policies, and positions?

4. Does each ticket have adequate, "understanding and knowledge" of workings around Washington"?

5. Does each ticket have enough "vigor, wisdom and Vision" for the future of our beloved Great-grand Nation?

6. Does each ticket possess enough joint foreign policy experience and exposure based on "American Values, Virtues, Vastness, and strong soul"?

7. Are their campaign talk, slogans, ads, plans, and programs based on facts and are they free of fear, fiction, frivolous labels, unfair attacks, negativity, and impulsivity? [Danger to country and countries mission[s].

8. Does the ticket keep country or politics first? [McCain stole Obama's change and is running with it.]

As a Independent registered voter I have decided to vote for the Obama-Biden ticket. I am sure they will protect our national security, strengths, stamina and soul as well as rebuild our nation from the bottom up in all areas of need. The OBAMA-BIDEN ticket will restore our global standing with the use of maximum, firm international diplomacy and minimal force if and when indicated.

Yours sincerely,

COL. A.M. Khajawall [Ret] MD., Forensic psychiatrist, Colonel, US-AR / MC Combat Stress Control[Ret], Disabled American Veteran and Iraq Freedom team.

PS: This nation will not buy into the kitchen sink strategy. We are getting deeper into internal and external holes through these attacks and the world is laughing at us as they enjoy our partisan Pitt Bull wounds. I am sure the collective deceptive measures of the GOP, RNC, FOX, RUSH, ROVE, McCain, and his surrogates will fail to deprive American voters of their deserved leadership. Media stop cultural divide, distraction's, and possible war. It is critically against USA internal and external challenges. Media play fair and do not trivialize or personalize this election. Stakes are too high and we need to address issues without getting too emotional about personalizes. Correct the incorrect and provide voters information accurately, fairly, and in balanced. Do not allow sexism, racism, and religion become part of discussion. Stay with the facts and address the issues.

and the claim that she'd put Alaska governor's jet up for sale on eBay. Never mind that these parts of her record have been debunked by news agencies and bloggers, as the Bridge to Nowhere was dead before she killed it, and that luxury jet didn't actually sell on eBay.

Who cares if the jet actually sold on eBay and it was sold. It matters not a bit that the sale was finalized in private auction.

Trying to link the jet to other issues just diminishes the other issues.

Southard said her top issues are pro-life and opposition to same-sex marriage.

Well, there you go. You just can't reason with some of these people.

"... displayed grizzly images of butchered wolves ..."

Bears are grizzly. Photos of the corpses of slaughtered wolves are grisly.

Much like the state of civil rights will be in this country if this terrifying woman is in power.

I wonder if all these fanatical ranters for Palin remember the last time they voted for a candidate that "was just like me?"

.....ENOUGH!

It's funny to me how rabidly the Republican faithful embrace their mythologies in a candidate like Palin. She lies out of the starting gate, on the stump speech, on the campaign trail -- not just nuanced fables, but out-and-out lies and deceptions, and they love her for it.

I think the need to believe in something, anything -- even the same old Big Lie tarted up by the GOP with lipstick -- that drive is so strongly felt by them, that they'll follow this latest reactionary false prophet right off the cliff.

But the rest of us aren't obligated to do the same. We need an honest break from the 20th century, if we're going to face the 21st in some position other than prone. The United States cannot afford the luxury of its own ignorance any longer; not in a globally-competitive marketplace (sped along by neoconservative and neoliberal economics, incidentally). We need to look forward and move forward, not lurch backward.

There's not much hope for the reactionary rank-and-file; they'll clearly turn on their heels in a moment if it suits their ideological needs of the moment. But let's not go crazy -- what we need is progress, not pandemonium.

In part 2 or 3 of her interview with Gibson, when asked about "homosexuality," Palin said she would not pass judgment on people's sexual preferences. It was astonishing to me! How could a Dobson pick (a Dobson Delight, you could say) actually not openly proclaim gay sexual activity to be sinful?

Is it possible that the Obama team could raise the issue of support for gay rights as their own dividing issue now? Since Palin says openly--to the nation--that she will not pass judgment on gays, can the Obama campaign/Democrats not directly ask why so many of her avid supporters do? Of course, there's a lot more to Palin's appeal to her supporters than gay rights, and, of course, Palin is, I think quite obviously, not really a supporter of gay rights... She'll flip when it's politically expedient. But if/when she flips, the Obama team has more evidence of her lies...