"The call begins: “Hello. I’m calling for John McCain and the RNC,” before telling recipients that they “need to know that Barack Obama has worked closely with domestic terrorist, Bill Ayers, whose organization bombed the U.S. Capitol, the Pentagon, a judge’s home, and killed Americans.”"

Is there something there that is incorrect? Barack has been to the guy's house, and served on two boards with him and has worked together with him to provide ACORN with a grant. It's a bit hard to classify that as "not working closely". And that's just from information that was discovered by investigative reporting, and NOT originally from Obama himself. If there is something incorrect with the text of the call that your citing, please be clear about it.

It's interesting, we don't ever hear Obama come out and proactively address any of these questionable issues. He seems to only do it reactively, and then when he does reactively address them, he always still leaves a bunch of information out. While you'd never catch me associating with Bill Ayers the way he has, I don't have a big problem with him having done it, but I do have a big problem with him being very coy about it and piece mealing information and possibly lying about it. That's the crux of the issue for most people, and that is what McCain has made a point of emphasizing. If Obama doesn't like it, then he's had 2 years to come forward and specifically state in chronilogical order the milestones of the relationship and the extent of it and emphatically set the record straight. Rather, he's down played it and only fessed up when a new piece of information comes to light, and instead complained that he's being slandered.

This seems to be a pattern with him as he did it with Rev. Wright as well, trying to state that he was unaware of the tenor of Wright's sermons. I missed going to Church much of this Summer because of our family activities, but you can bet, when I was there, I heard plenty of what our Priest had talked about in his sermons during those Sundays we missed, and about peoples reaction to it. And I belong to a Church with a much less demonstrative tradition, about 10% on the lively scale compared to the 100% we see in the Trinity Church footage. So for him to ask us to believe that he hadn't seen or heard of this side of Rev. Wright is pretty insulting. If these are the affiliations and philosophical perspectives he comes from, why doesn't he be true to them and be proud of them and proclaim it. Instead, he seems to run from them when it gets to politically hot, and then try to be as unforthcoming about them as he can be after the fact.

Unfortunately, I think we're about to find out more on the partial birth abortion issue from his time in the Illinois State Senate. From what I've heard, it again sounds like what he explained on Wednesday night during the debate is not exactly the truth. Sounds like there is much more to the story that is on record in the Illinois Senate records, so unfortunately, we'll all be dragged into watching the mudslinging because Obama doesn't seem to have the character to simply be forthright from the beginning. You can say what you want about McCain, but it seems at the least, he's willing to tell the truth and own up to mistakes or misjudgments, even if it's not in his political best interests.

At the end of the day, that trait may cost Obama the election. If it doesn't, it will likely cost our Country a lot of pain as the political parties carry that battle into his Presidency just as they did with Bush and Clinton.

At the end of the day, the lesson we learn, is the same lesson that we ALWAYS learn. "Why lie when the truth will do?" Apparently, he, like most of our politicians, refuses to learn it.