All politicians lie. Obama/McCain are politicians. Therefore, Obama/McCain lie. I'm a democrat, not a socialist so I'll be voting for McCain. Just like a Cub fan at playoff time your heart will be broken when you discover that Obama's more the politican than he's led you to believe. But that's just politics...good luck and may God bless us all.

My point wasn't that only McCain lies and that Obama is entirely truthful about everything. You're right - they are both politicians, and it seems that by definition a politician has to lie to appeal to his various constituents.

My point was that some of McCain's lies (particularly the ones I referenced in the column), are so egregious and so obviously lies, and yet he persists to recite them as if they were truths.

But I do feel for you on the Cubs. That truly was a heartbreaker.

There are many reasons to support Obama. Read his plans. Read his polcies. Read his statements. Look online. Our country needs a passionate leader who is resourceful and graceful under pressure. There clearly is only one choice - Sen. Obama.

Now to respond to the accusation that all Obama is is a community organizer who belongs/belonged to a radical church. And I'll lump in the accusations about Ayers as well, because I know most Republicans have been programmed this week to bring it up in discussion.

The aspect of Obama's career that I feel often gets neglected is that he was Editor of the Harvard Law Review. Harvard Law School, where only the cream of the crop get into, and the Law Review, which chooses only the students with the very best grades. Obama was the best of the best when he was at Harvard, and he turned down jobs with big fancy firms that nowadays make upwards of $150,000 a year to go be a "community organizer" for $13,000. You can argue about the vagaries of that title all you want, and if you're Sarah Palin (oops, I slipped!) try and say it entails no responsibilities, but let's look at the facts. Obama registered 150,000 (which by the way is about half of the entire population of Alaska) new voters in some of the worst neighborhoods of Chicago. That's a phenomenal feat in some of the worst circumstances possible, way worse than the plush office he could've had and for way less money than he could've made. So yes, let's mock someone for a rare case of altruism.

And just a few brief words on Ayers, which ties into the theme of my column. I've yet to see proof that Obama more than knew the man and had one of his early-on campaign events hosted by him. But John McCain (damn) seems to think that one's character is to be judged by whom one lives by then I feel bad for any good people who live in bad neighborhoods where people on the street corner sell crack because by Republican (there I go again) logic you must yourself be a drug dealer. And furthermore, I wonder what this logic must reveal about McCain's character because of his relationships with Mark Foley, Ted Stevens, etcetera etcetera.