And please don’t include any reference to far left Obamaphiles who think he is the messiah in any responses. I’m not one, I know they do the same thing,and I don’t like them either.

Chris Berry, I am so glad that you brought this up because it opens the door for me to ask you this: How is launching an enormous (and I might add seemingly desperate) attack campaign against Sen. McCain on the number of houses he owns any different from Sen. McCain launching an equally enormous attack campaign against Sen. Obama with regard to his close association and mentorship of the Reverand Jeremiah Wright (which I might also add that Sen. McCain vociferously condemned the republican adds doing just this during the primaries in the Carolinas)?

I have enjoyed Sen. McCain’s ads portraying Sen. Obama as nothing but a celebrity because it has brought some humor to an election process that is always constrained by seriousness. Now I am not saying that a campaign should be a joke, because the POTUS is not laughing matter. However, there is nothing wrong with, and I quite enjoy, the little bit of humor combined with the substantive policy attacks.

“It’s interesting that while McCain and his followers are calling for a high level of discourse and a clean campaign, he is running one of the most negative campaigns we have seen. Almost every campaign ad and the vast majority of right-wing blogs, newspapers, and pundits focus completely on attacking Obama to the exclusion of any sort of cohesive alternative.”

You know David, I was thinking the exact same thing about Sen. Obama and him saying that he was going to run a clean campaign with a high level of discourse, and yet he has engaged in one of the most negative campaigns we have seen and denied multiple invitations to encourage this high level of discourse through joint town hall meetings (it seems that, from multiple examples throughout this campaign, that Sen. Obama does not do so well without a teleprompter or prepared speech in front of him and especially not when he is asked tough questions). Also, I find i interesting that you are saying that the vast majority of the “media” and the McCain campaign are attacking Obama without doing anything else when the same thing is happening to Sen. McCain in reverse (although you have to admit that the media loves Obama so much more than they love McCain, and it shows through their biased reporting–CNN, MSNBC, NBC, etc.). Obama is not the only one suffering from a wave of accusations and negative talk within our modern day of mass communication, so please do not play the victim game here. Those complaints fall straight to the floor where they belong. Why doesn’t Sen. Obama agree to more debates with Sen. McCain so that they can discuss the issues, and bring the media coverage back to that. Instead, Sen. Obama runs from those opportunities (only agreeing to the 3 presidential debates) and instead elects to give stump speeches that make people swoon, yet give nothing of substance. I know it is hard to present the whole truth when you completely support a candidate (trust me you are not the only one who suffers from that, on both sides of the aisle), but I do ask that you at least present the truth of both sides in order to appear as a respectable source of knowledge and information (the blog as a whole not just you David, I didn’t mean to single you out or demean you in any way by this).