Ma'am;... Isn't that strange, that a president of all the people has to fear the people? These guys hide behind layers of security, and really use it to isolate themselves from the opinions they do not wish to hear. They long ago began to work for the rich, to divide and conquer, and to use power to feed power to their respective parties. The parties are not the people. The parties are the parties, a part of the constitution in fact, and another layer of government the people must move to get government to move. Dicator for a term of four or eight years; the decider against a party system at logger heads, the target of abuse, and the target of nut heads is a place of fear and awe. It is too much power.... It is too much power at the expense of the people. If some crazy like Mr. Bush, uneducated, and ill advised can lead the country rashly into war without any kind of serious discussion, then the office has too much power. It is not because of the democracy, but because the parties attack and ruin democracy. And they spew poison to the people, and all the while they play for personal advantage. I mean, the attack now against Mr. Obama is not likely to turn republican defeat to victory, but is to inspire the base with baseless poison. If you cannot win you fire non cooperation. Things must not be so bad if the republicans are cutting the tendons and nerves of government. I like it really, because their personal attacks, while they might inspire some crazy to infamy, they ultimatly weaken the whole idea of democratic government so that those elected find they cannot govern, and at best, must rule. I don't like tyranny, but it is civil strife, and social poison that makes many tyrants. Do you republicans really want to turn up the temperature? Do you want to spoil communication completely hoping to make gain out of frustration and anger? Republican are trading their ship of state for a life boat. ...Thanks...Sweeney

Did it ever occur to you that maybe people were unordinarily nice to you when you wore a scarf on your head, because they thought you might have cancer? The fact that you believe folks were extra nice to you because they must have thought you were a Muslim woman is laughable. Prejudice against Arab Americans is the most socially acceptable form of racism today!

It's irresponsible journalism to pretend like the American people weren't fed a message of fear in order to back Bush's call to invade Iraq. We were all told there was no time to waste, we had to send troops to Iraq. They have a WMD! They are housing Osama Bin Laden! Hurry, don't think it over, just go! We are now a trillion dollars in debt, with no recovered weapon, and no Bin Laden's head on a platter. Thousands of US troops have died in Iraq, and we're supposed to think about how "well" the surge has worked so we can continue to stay there? I don't think so. Barack Obama is going to be president, and we should thank God we actually found someone to do the job.

I FIND THAT STRANGE THAT YOU FELT PEOPLE WERE ONLY NICE BECAUSE THEY MAY HAVE THOUGHT YOU WERE A MUSLIM. I wear a scarf on my head every Saturday. The reason being I am doing work in my yard or running errands, and don't want to take my hair down. I am not treated any diffrent. I go to the store, drive in traffice, yard sell. No one treated me diffrent,they were not afraid or kindered. They act just like normal people. Michelle Obama is a CLASSY LADY. I WOULD BE PROUD TO HEAR HER SPEAK.

I'd say you have your head buried in the sand, but you'd think it had something to do with Muslims or Arabs or some such nonsense.