I'm with you! It's shameful. Another indication that whatever you hear coming out of people's mouths, kids are not their main concern. Have you ever seen the cafeteria food?

p.p.s. Ms. Schwenig,
Here's another for you to look at: http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-...

This story is about how McCain's divorce damaged his friendship with the Reagans. Here's a quote from the story:

"McCain, who is about to become the GOP nominee, has made several statements about how he divorced Carol and married Hensley that conflict with the public record."

In other words, he tells stories about how he treated his ex.

He divorced his wife to marry a younger (probably blonder) heiress - whom he apparently doesn't treat with the greatest respect.

This is who you'd vote for over Mr. Obama?

p.s. Ms. Schwenig, I'm assuming you didn't hear the news about McCain calling his wife a c&(% in front of a few reporters. Google it. And maybe you missed the recent coverage of Gramm calling average Americans who are truly hurting "whiners"? And do you know much about the three religious leaders mentioned by a previous comment writer?

We have an opportunity this year to vote for someone whose quality I have not seen until now in my lifetime in a presidential election: very intelligent, with real public service in mind, with long-range vision, with much personal integrity, from a non-privileged background, enormously hard-working, with grace, and with respect for others - even those on different political wavelengths - that should help him build coalitions to accomplish some of the vast work that this country so desperately needs.

Unfortunately, there are those who will not vote for him because he is part African, and they are afraid of that. Which means that it's imperative that his supporters get out to vote, help with the drive to get people to the polls, etc.

Ms. Schwenig, there are plenty of associations by other politicians with people whom you would no doubt consider unsavory, if you knew more about them. I'm not a Wright fan, but he's not going to be on the November ballot. Obama did not sit through every Wright sermon. It's a wonder he made it to church at all with the amount of work he has to do. When some of Wright's more outrageous statements came to light - the AIDS conspiracy, for example - Obama quit the church. What more do you want? And some of what Wright said was on target: this country's government has left massive numbers of poor Americans to drown. Obviously you're not one, or you wouldn't feel so hostile about that. Now we have the chance to vote for someone who cares about our whole country, not just his rich cronies and CEO's. I'll be in the voting booth with bells on, with champagne chilling in the fridge.

If Obama is elected, the U.S. will recover some of the respect by the rest of the world that has been flooding away for years now. Please try to think beyond one issue.

p.s. - make that jakeslone - sorry