I hope Obama wins for the simple reason that McCain scares me to no end. I don't want war after war in the Middle East and I do believe that within one year of McCain being in office will put our young men and women fighting in Iran. Afghanistan and Iraq is enough for me. Personally, I wanted Hillary and would have happily voted for her. I won't be happily voting for either of these men -- it hasn't even become a choice of the lesser of two evils, just a very sorry choice.

Regardless of who wins, it would be so nice to if we could vote on the issues of TODAY. I am so tired of the inferences that Obama is a Muslim or a racist or a socialist or a communist or a Marxist. He's denied these things categorically. His actions have shown he is not yet the internet constantly sends the same provocative smear campaign garbage around and around.

Obama has repeatedly denied he is a Muslim and has publicly affirmed his belief and love of God. Enough of the bigoted and racist attacks (and I'm not talking about him being black in any sense).

Obama's "white" family has asked to stay out of the limelight. Obama has actually respected those wishes. It's a shame more politicians can't leave their families in the background -- they're not the ones running for office.

Yes, he's a liberal. So am I. Big deal. Being liberal doesn't mean believing in socialism (I don't, many of my friends don't). Being liberal doesn't mean being anti-military and unpatriotic. I still get chills seeing the U.S. flag raised. I was raised to believe in the good of the military and I still do. I will support our troops anywhere in the world in any fashion I can but I most certainly will not support a government that puts those troops in harm's way for no good reason (and Iraq with its false and specious WMD claims certainly was not a good reason). Being a liberal doesn't make you deaf, dumb nor blind. Nor does it mean you want to see this country forced into bankruptcy to help everyone. It does mean you want to see people get the chance to pull themselves out of poverty. It does mean you want government spending to make sense; to stop some of the pork going to feed little pockets of the country rather than spreadng that pork around to all of the country; to give every child in this country a chance to have the tools to become President; to respect individual rights.

There is no question Obama is inexperienced, which, to me, is the biggest problem with electing him. The fact that his employment has only been at taxpayers' expense is completely and totally irrelevant. Most politicians have never had a job outside of the government.

So, any chance you could try smearing Obama with honest facts and not just innuendo and hearsay about his family (not our business), his former pastor (resolved at this time), his beliefs (if you know of a true fact that makes him anti-American or Muslim, do let us know), etc.?