Guest,Stranger chided Peace with the "This isn't your country" card. Well Stranger, it is MY country and the only way I can see that you are representative of it is in the grating arrogance that has made this country so disliked around the world. Since everything "the worlds only superpower" does effects everyone in the world from perpetrating immoral, misguided preemptive wars to refusing the Kyoto Accords, everyone in the world is more than welcome to their opinion of it. Especially our loyal friends to the north.
   I try to not blame everyone who voted for Bush for the unnecessary deaths of 4000 Americans including the children of friends and neighbors and the deaths of countless thousands of Iraqis. Maybe they truly were misled by the Republican propaganda machine. But, knowing what we know about McCain's "100 years in Iraq", how much of the responsibility will you, Stranger, accept for those thousands who will continue to die should McCain prevail in November.

"I think that the political process forces all its participants to be duplicitious to some extent. They can't escape the perverting effects of the political process and its demands upon them. If any candidate were to be wholly truthful and were to say directly all that he really thinks, he would not have a chance in hell of getting elected, because the great majority people cannot bear to hear the truth in its entirety."
    No truer words on American politics were ever typed Little Hawk.
Of course Guest,Stranger would say this isn't your country but I for one welcome the objective, astute analysis of U.S. politics you have always provided.
    Doesn't it seem like Mr. Obama has received much more flack for statements his preacher made than the Republicans ever have for being so cozy with such intolerant religious institutions as Bob Jones University. And does anyone remember a little flare up back in the 70s concerning Jimmy Carter's hometown church being segregated. I'm a bit vague in my memory of that particular incident.