EDITORIAL: Attack judgment, not character

Why shouldn't questions be raised about Obama's past? Nothing much has been provided that steps outside of the myth put together by the Obama campaign ( I was born a poor black child in the wilderness of Hawaii). Nothing at all about Obama’s associations with ACORN, his relationships and cozy real estate dealings with Tony Rezko. The financing of his campaign from foreign sources – Palestinian by one account and the questionable financing of his university education. Obama has yet to release his medical records or any of his personal records from his years in the Illinois state senate. He claims that McCain has lobbyists on his staff – who is on Obama’s staff? What about Michelle Obama’s questionable dealings while in her last job at the hospital, trading favors with quasi political operatives? Why hasn’t any newspaper investigated ACORN, which has been criminally indicted for voter fraud in several states? Exactly what is ACORN’s hold over the Democratic Party, as the Democrats attempted to ‘give ‘ ACORN $149 million as part of the $700 billion financial market bailout? Does ACORN ‘deliver’ election wins for Democrats in return for favorable loans and grants? ACORN, under federal criminal indictment, was the recipient of outright grants from Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac under the purview of Jamie Gorelick and Franklin Raines; where is the outrage and investigation of that connection. Since the taxpayers, whom Obama so solicitously ‘cares’ about, now own Freddie & Fannie, we should receive some accountability of this malfeasance. What is George Soros’s role in the Obama campaign and what has been his role in the current manipulations of the stock market? Economic turmoil is a fertile medium to engineer political putsches. I agree that we all would like to see real commentary about the real issues - but there are a lot of questions that should be answered before Obama is anointed king - or is it savior, or possibly iman?

Your editorial is both cynical and dishonest. Your commentary carries relentless, and more often than not, factually incorrect, ad hominem attacks on the Democratic Party candidate. The WT is exactly the same as the purveyors of the more scurrulous rubbish that is the staple diet of the less savoury end of the extreme right-wing media, and of which Mr. McCain and his advisors shrug their shoulders and Pontius Pilate-like say "not my responsibility". So, is the WT going to disown Steyn and the other purveyors of fact-lite slurry whom the Wt have given a free platform for the very behavour your editorial condemns? I'm not holding my breath. "Not the responsibility of the WT", I presume.

You are wrong to advise on campaign tactics. The 'issues' you speak of are complex and easily distorted by Obama's rhetoric. He is a persuasive speaker. Besides, he actually knows little of the issues beyond what his advisors prepare for him to say. Those advisors are among the officials who brought us the economic crisis, e.g., Franklin Raines, et. al. If the media would report on Obama's associations and other evidence of his actual character McCain would not have to do the media's job for them. I desparately hope John McCain does whatever is necessary to keep the White House out of what Thomas Sowell rightly calls, "..a glib and cockuy know-it-all, who has accomplished absolutely nothing beyond the advancement of his own career...".

Character, to some extent, is developed through relationships with other people. Judgment is deciding who those relationships will be with. Obama fails this test miserably.

I remember another Democrat candidate for president of whom we were told character should not be an issue. What we got was the most corrupt, scandal ridden Presidency in history. We sat thru eight years of scandal after scandal starting right off the bat with TravelGate and FBIGate and lasting right up to the very miserable end as he left us with PardonGate as he walked out of office. Oh, and with an impeachment tossed in between for good measure as the President himself obstructed justice and lied to a grand jury. So many people were indicted, fled the country or went to jail that even today it is difficult to enumerate them. Not all of those scandals were directly caused by President Clinton. A number of them were caused by the people he pal'd around with. So now along comes Obama with Ayers and his terrorist-in-arms wife, his indicted and convicted friend, fund raiser and home procurer Tony Rezko and Franklin Raines who was caught cooking the Fannie Mae books Enron-style. And let's not forget Obama's own admission of doing cocaine and living with a cocaine drug dealer. And once again we are being told that bringing up one's character is off-limits. Sorry, been there. Done that. I hope we have learned our lesson.

WIMPS like the clown who wrote this editorial are the MAIN REASON this country now faces a catastrophe, and not just in financial terms. If McCain doesn't bring up ACORN and its MAJOR PART in this meltdown, he's a damned fool. ACORN demanded and got the Congressional democriminals to clearly state that applicants for loans didn't have to prove their income, and further actively worked to loan money to illegal aliens. ALL of the ACORN people should be investigated by a GROUP of special counsels, and the Congressional democriminals along with them. So McCain should DEMAND that the people who were behind this INTENTIONAL destruction of our financial institutions should face indictment, trial and LONG prison terms. A headline in my local paper today (The Las Vegas Review Journal)indicated that BOA had CAVED to POLITICAL pressure to reduce interest rates on loans to over 11,000 deadbeats who face loss of their ILL-GOTTEN HOMES..... The rates they are adjusting down to are 3 and 1/2 %. My question immediately becomes WHY aren't those rates being offered to people who have paid every single month for MANY YEARS without missing a beat??????????? WHY should I continue to pay a higher interest rate than a PROVEN DEADBEAT?????????? Can one or more of the demoCRIMINALS explain that???? The 700 billion the democriminals have just stolen from the taxpayers is being used as welfare, and to BUY VOTES, in addition to the 700 billion they have already spent on welfare, and to buy votes this year right out of the budget, They are ALL THIEVES and SWINDLERS, and should treated as such. Open your mouth McCain and TELL IT LIKE IT REALLY IS, or forever be a WIMP!