One of the key questions for a president is where do you draw your team from? Who are your friends? What and who influenced you?... When will the MSM get around to a sustained examination of Obama's ideological history? Thus far the farthest left major party candidate in American political history has received the least scrutiny of any modern near nominee of a major party.

Ultimately, people have to wonder what it is about Obama that attracts the support of Hamas, Communists, and domestic terrorists to him.

The big irony here is that while Obama has done extremely well for himself in our very unique free-market economy, he has the 'audacity' to demonize others who have done well for themselves, and to propose economic policies that, if implemented, would radically change our nation into something more akin to a Western European socialist state.

I think a healthy society needs both God and guns: it benefits from a belief in some kind of higher purpose to life on earth, and it requires a self-reliant citizenry. MY guess is if tax time meant that everybody had to reach into his or her own bank accounts for the full tax amount owed, there would be a new mindset about taxes. Why don't we try it? I report,U decide.

Country song titled IT AIN'T SAFE TO BE NO WOMB DWELLER

Today I saw you on the ultra sound
You sure ain't very big around,
Warning! warning! little feller,
It ain't safe to be no womb dweller.

Since your momma took the notion,
She can kill you without commotion,
And I ain't got no say about your life,
Cause your momma, she ain't my wife.

But how can they call it "pro choice",
When me and the little feller got no voice?
The supreme court sez it's a woman's choice,
SO DEAR SON, GOOD NIGHT, GOD BLESS YOU.

Music written to this would be appreciated.

I report and U decide
alanrph2

Oprah seems to be doing somewhat better with the directives she issues to her followers-maybe because, while the church offers only eternal life, Oprah frequently hands out rewards right here on earth. Selected audience members have received college scholarships, houses and brand-new cars. The religion of Oprahism tells people what to eat (healthy food) what to wear (special 'O bracelets'), how much to sleep (getting enough rest purportedly leads to 'Intelligence. A better figure. Sex,' according to O magazine) and even which candidate to vote for (Sen. Barack Obama, naturally). We're living in a new era. When a man ceases to believe in God, he doesn't believe in nothing. He believes in anything, G. K. Chesterton said. These days, it's certainly true that many Americans don't believe in God. Many seem to, however, believe in anything... anything that Oprah tells them to believe in. I report, U decide.

To the editor,

Headline in St. Paul Union Advocate: "Machinist's State Council Endorses Franken." It is natural for Democrats to give labor their total support in order to repay unions who give more than 90% of their money donations to the Democratic Party. You don't bite the hand that feeds you. This can be seen at www.opensecrets.org/pac/topacs.asp.

Lisa Stager , president of the state council, sez that Franken will proudly co-sponsor The Employees Free Choice Act recently passed by the house with support by virtually all Democrats and no Republicans.

The Employees Free Choice Act would take away a workers fundamental right to a secret ballot while voting to approve a union. This would lead to intimidation of employees by union leaders and management to encourage them to vote their way. Having been on both sides, union member and management, I see that this change would be giving labor an unfair advantage over management. I report,U decide. I can be contacted at alanrph2@msn.com.

Alan Anderson
4316 Thornhill Drive
Vadnais Heights, MN 55127
651-407-7206

I sent this to the St Paul Union Advocate newspaper. Bet they won't publish this.

America elected Jimmy Carter 32 years ago and is still paying the price. Suppose history repeats: Obama wins and has a failed one-term presidency. Will he be jetting around the world meeting with terrorists and despots and denouncing America in 2040? Maybe not, but the thought gives us a shudder." -James Taranto "It seems there is scarcely a serious bad actor on the planet with whom Jimmy Carter has not met. He is a serial tyrant-enabler, the very personification of Rodney King's risible appeal, 'Can't we all get along?' Mr. Carter has come to epitomize the notion that 'dialogue' is always in order, no matter how odious or dangerous the interlocutor-or the extent to which they or their agendas will benefit from such interactions.

Liberalism is so impressed with its own brilliance that results apparently don't matter.

Liberals are always at their best chuckling at the ways of those they regard as hicks. That's because liberals place far more importance on sophistication than on character, decency and values.