Mc Grath, I am trying to see this situation as objectively as I can, and I appreciate your honesty, but as I see it, the President cannot rise to the level of, say a Hitler, in the way our government is set up. If, in fact, you were really a bad guy, you would not be reelected in this country. That is how I see it.

Make no mistake about it, I have lots of reservations about this candidate and am not entirely sure where I will be on election day, but in view of the options, I feel he is by far the better of the 2 at this point in our history when it comes to protecting us from the terroristic issues we are confronted with at this time.

Over the last 35 years, I have been at least a moderate, with more leanings to Liberal philosophy than Conservative. I mostly wanted you folks to know that not everyone who is beating the campaign drum for Mr Kerry is a religious, non-thinking Luddite.   I think about this quite a bit, and am still in a quandry. I also think that the USA is and has been a great ally of western Europe for a long time and will continue to be, and it is hard to believe anyone considers us a threat.

We do consume too much oil though.   The whole concept of fuel consumption has by and large not sunk in to the average American. If we had to contend with fuel prices as Euripeans do, we would be a little more judicious with our suv purchases.