gala11: "PUBLICOLA: WOW THAT SURE CHANGES A LOT IN THE WAY OF DISSONANCE... do the rest of the True Believer Shuffle... Obama supporters have done him an incredible disservice..." Etc.

gala11: In my previous letter directed to you I was responding to your declaration:

"I don't think that there is any thing wrong with Obama. I just don't think it is appropriate or logical to elect a two year junior senator to the Oval Office."

And as explained in my previous post, your characterization of Obama there as a "two year junior senator" is disinformation. To be more direct: it's a lie.

You may not believe that Obama's 8 years of service as an Illinois State Senator and his 3.5 years of service as a United States Senator - 12 years total when he enters the Oval Office if elected - is "appropriate" for a presidential candidate. That's fine, we can agree to disagree on that point.

But that's not what you were doing here. You were instead lying about Obama's experience in government, and so I corrected your lie.

No I am not lying about Obama's vast lengthy experience in government.

There just isn't enough of it there to care about.

I am ASSSESSING it, and any way you want to dot those i's, it's kinda thin and pretty much of a stretch to consider him having accomplishments notable enough consider presidential.

Dear, he is a JUNIOR senator.

All it does is make you wonder why the Party didn't back, not just Hillary but the members of Congress who should more appropriately be part of this campaign.

One of the questions I keep hearing is would the democratic party have run any other Junior congressman with this little record if he had been white?

Myself, I don't care if he is plaid.

I'm no voting for anyone with so little experience.

But what you might want to be asking yourself is would you really be supporting him now on this very same record if he were white.

And why would you be?

Don't answer me. Answer yourself.

For me there is simply not enough there.

And why you think I would be alone in that contention, I can't imagine.

Most of the racist yada yada I've heard is from African- Americans who couldn't tell you a single thing Obama stands for. But are very ready to fingerpoint anyone who dissents from their view as being Klan members. Hell of a way to think we're going to agree with you with that going for you.

You can parse it any way you want. but it makes no difference. Not to me, and not to the millions who just aren't going to buy it. No matter how you go into circumscribed overdrive trying to spin it.

And you cannot give him any. You are for some reason impressed with him as adequate. We aren't.

It is what it is.

You shouldn't be worrying about having to compare Obama's paltry level of experience to me. It's McCain that you should be worrying about .

People out here are going to look at them both.

Then realize McCain has been in Congress, and has had a very, very thick resume there literally since before Obama was an adult. Then they'll remember what McCain put on the line in serving his country.

Whatever entitlements McCain has, he also spent his time triumphing over real nightmares. Instead of giving a few standard issue speeches about having dreams. Everybody has dreams. Even Bin Laden.

They'll inevitably say McCain paid his dues, then look at Obama's lifetime of entitlement and that's that.

That's what you get when you create an unbalanced ticket. What do you expect is going to happen?

If it was important for you to have a black president right now, you should have run Charlie Rangel. Brilliant, canny , charismatic. I would have paid to be first in line to vote for him whatever the reason.

I don't even support McCain and can see how this ends..

I am writing in Hillary Clinton. I am already resigned ot President McCain.

What I am appalled at is the deliberately clueless stupidity of the democrats in giving us once again, the wrong candidate at the wrong time.

Knock yourself out over Obama.

For me the only question is going to be how much of a margin he is going to lose by.

You can try fighting the smears. Noone ven needs smears.

You can't give him any experience and show us much in the way of good judgement. Especially in how he chose to get himself the nomination.

And you cannot give me any reason I would look at him and entrust my vote to him.

Even if I thought I would be the only vote in America writing in Clinton - and by the millions I won't be- I'd still know I had done the right thing by picking the most capable out of the three.

It will be a tragedy for us all that people like you have aided the democratic party by colluding in stunting our future to make us end up with McCain.

You cannot convince me that the least of two bad ideas is how I'd squander my vote.

How is that supposed to fix the crisises we can't even admit we are about to face?

-gala1

gala11: "No I am not lying about Obama's vast lengthy experience in government."

Since when does 2 years equal 3.5 years?

[ "Two years" is your characterization, gala11, of how much time Obama has served as a U.S. Senator. 3.5 years is the actual amount of time that Obama has served as a U.S. Senator. ]