Nothing more, nothing less.

Anything the government does to help poor people is socialism.

You could, for instance encourage people to vote McCain "just for the taste of it" or tell us that he "brings good things to life", or maybe lament that you can't decide whether he tastes great, or is less filling?

Obama is primary an analytical type...a professor. He speaks well. He thinks well. But he makes bad decisions. He chooses the wrong people. He forms weak alliances. His timing is not right.

It has nothing to do with any of the things being argued about. It is simply the executive decision making skills that he lacks...

McCain has these skills. Palin has these skills.

I would choose a person who knows how to manage two people at a lemonade stand, and make it work, for President, before I would choose the professorial, well spoken, always right in principle but never in action type of person such as Biden or Obama.

John, Sarah Palin might be able to run a lemonade stand at a neighborhood event, but has it ever struck you that running a country might be something completely different? And that she clearly doesn't have a clue as to what that involves?

Well! Seems like I have good company ... Mr Obama's running mate Joe Biden agrees with me.

"Mark my words. It will not be six months before the world tests Barack Obama like they did John Kennedy. The world is looking," Biden said two days ago--here in Seattle, to boot. "Remember I said it standing here, if you don't remember anything else I said. Watch, we're gonna have an international crisis, a generated crisis, to test the mettle of this guy. And he's gonna have to make some really tough -- I don't know what the decision's gonna be, but I promise you it will occur. As a student of history and having served with seven presidents, I guarantee you it's gonna happen," Biden continued.

He went on to say: "I’ve forgotten more about foreign policy than most of my colleagues know, so I’m not being falsely humble with you. I think I can be value added, but this guy has it. This guy has it. But he’s gonna need your help. Because I promise you, you all are gonna be sitting here a year from now going, ‘Oh my God, why are they there in the polls? Why is the polling so down? Why is this thing so tough?’ We’re gonna have to make some incredibly tough decisions in the first two years. So I’m asking you now, I’m asking you now, be prepared to stick with us. Remember the faith you had at this point because you’re going to have to reinforce us.”

In other words, prepare for another crisis. Maybe even another 9/11, or at least an attempt at something like it. But please don't blame the man who will be in office, as you blamed the man in office when 9/11 happened. I've been saying--not here, I admit--that in the first year, not necessarily six months, of an Obama administration we would see just such a thing happen. Overseas, they already know what Mr McCain would do if we were attacked. They're not so sure about Mr Obama.

Your reasoning is left over from the Cold War, and it was flawed then. The idea that terrorists would refrain from attacking because there is a Republican in the Oval Office is ludicrous. The idea that having a loose cannon in charge makes us safer is dangerously silly.

I've had a lifetime of this boogie-man nonsense and I ain't having it any more. I want competent leadership, not a protection racket.