You put a lot of effort and thought into your post and I agree with a good part of it. There are only two areas that you and I might part (three if you count that I see the Chargers playing into Feb and you probably see that gang of hooligans on the three rivers playing during that time period) company.

I think you give way to much credit to Obama. I think that to many folks are giving him a free ride based on his use of race whenever there is critical comments made to him or about him. I see him as a Daley Chicago politican who not once during his adult life as he ever held an honest real job but as you say has earned his wages and millions and spot in this world beholden to the powers that be. When he speaks of his vision of the future he sounds like a straight out mouth piece for his biggest financial supporter George Soros.

I feel that it needs to be pointed out that his policies are socialistic to the point of being ridiculous for a country founded on capitalism and liberty and justice for all. Lamb you were eloquent in your statements directed toward those points but you always seemed to come back to make excuses for the inexperienced young man.

This man who wants a nicer way of doing things who wants to be friends to all spoke in nicer and higher terms to his audience in Germany (see WW1 and WW2) while kicking and apologizing for his homeland. This is the man who if you listen to him now appears to be attacking at will as he now sees that some of what he has said is actually being examined and analyzed no matter how hard his allies in the media are trying to hide his comments. This is a man of double speak like no other I have seen in many a year (I include Bill and Gore in this group). I have listened to him recently say he supports offshore drilling but if you really listen to him he has so many cavets and hmms and haws that you could drive a truck though it. This is a man who wants to take away the tax breaks for the rich but fails to tell the American public middle class that he thinks that includes them as he wants a higher corporate income tax although we have the second highest in the world right now, he wants to reinsert the marriage peanlty, he wants a masssive inheritance tax on relatively small estates that have already payed taxes on assets earned and he wants to do awaly with the child credit among other..... all in all he also wants to spend as of now more then a trillion dollars then we are already spending lavishly and foolishly.

I could go on and on but Obama is a very bad choice if you believe on what this country stand for and always has....

The second disagreement I have with your statement is that of the two folks who would be a heart beat away from the White House I have to add that Sarah Palin, a real person, a real citizen of the USA a person who has really worked for a living is by far the best choice on either ticket.

However Lamb rested assured that you are one fair, eloquent dude.

God Bless and there is no doubt in my mind that you are....

Marc