If you can't see the difference between platform planks and the person, there's no hope in understanding. As examples:

1. The Democratic Party and the Obama administration platforms are pro-abortion - I'm not, and I truly hope any attempt to expand that agenda fails.

2. The Democratic Party and the Obama administration platforms are pro-national health insurance funded by increased taxes (and who will end up paying them?) - I'm against the nationalization of any industry, as the service is always cheapened, and costs still go up due to the need for supplemental coverage. So, I hope any attempt to impose national health care upon us fails.

3. The Democratic Party and the Obama administration platforms are terrorist-coddlers in that they believe they can diplomatically cajole bullies - I'm don't agree and believe that attitude places us all at greater risk (That's what Spain, Japan, Indonesia, Colombia, Italy and others have learned the hard way), and I truly hope the policies of F.D. Roosevelt and Neville Chamberlain in dealing with international bullies aren't replayed, because the subsequent damage can be as immense as WWiI. Yes, I hope that any attempt to butt-kiss the bullies stalls and never occurs.

4. The F.D.Roosevelt "New Deal" made a lot of money for select "captains of industry" and attempted to turn average Americans into serfs. I see the Democratic Party and the Obama Administration intentions to set up a 21th Century New Deal to do the same. This idea that "only government" can make things better is dictatorial, and reeks of arrogance not seen except in the most maniacal monarchies. Yes, I hope that plan crumbles before it can do harm.

If one was to review posts on this board going back a year or longer, one would find many instances when people condemned the plans and policies of the Republican Party and the Bush administration, hoping that 1) plans would never be activated and 2) policies would cease. What's the difference here?

I do not want to see America degenerate in a socialistic nation where individuality is replaced by a drone-like mentality where before anyone can think or do, they must first find out if it meets "fearless leader's" concept of life. And if it doesn't the individual learns what assimilation really is. I saw the worst of that socialistic concept in Vietnam with the re-education camps, and we're a stone's throw from that when we give up our freedoms for "only government can fix this." Once you start down that track, it's virtually impossible to stop this train.

Yep, shame on me for not joining the Democratic Party and the Obama administration' version of the Hitler-Jugend and accepting everything as being for my own good. You may see a political messiah who you want to follow as "fearless leader" who knows all and does everything right and is infallible. I see a charismatic socialist whom I hope the Democratic Party leadership - filled with self-serving millionaires who have a lot to lose personally - keeps in check. I am much more concerned about the United States continuing according to its Constitution than I am about the "success" of the Democratic Party and the Obama administration in establishing a socialistic state where"government" is master and the citizenry are the government's servants.

I'm no fan of President Kennedy, but his famous quote of "Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country" is timeless. Today's Democratic Party and the Obama administration have effectively perverted that quote, having the citizenry "Ask what your country can do for you, and your country will be the benevolent provider of your life's needs." Nope - when I ask "give us this day our daily bread," it's to a much higher authority.