THOUGHTS WITHOUT TOO MUCH THOUGHT

Just writing this off the top of my head, so don't know how it will come out. I admire John McCain, but wish we had someone with more fire and one who hews more closely to conservative values. I wonder whether he will cut loose on Obama, or will he be Mr nice guy and wind up losing the election? I don't agree with him on Global Warming and believe that to follow that path will break the back of the American tax payer with absolutely no discernible change in weather patterns. This is the gospel according to Gore and I hate to see McCain getting into the tent with the Great Al. As far as the illegal question is concerned, I mostly agree with him except for sanctuary cities--which he seems to think are OK. As long as someone secures the border, I know we will have to eventually legalize these people. I think he favors English as the official language, though I'm not sure. Why there's any question in any one's mind concerning this, I haven't a clue, except politics. How on earth the far left can call people desiring a one language nation, racists and bigots, is beyond me. But then a lot of things are beyond me when I try to understand the motivations of many of my Fellow Americans. How will we ever come together in Their country if we can't approach matters honestly without regard to race, gender, sexual orientation, etc? These things are fixed, immutable, and they can't go away, so why are we so reluctant to discuss them openly--why must we, particularly white males, have to walk on eggs whenever we approach topics involving these matters? Why, when Hillary Clinton mentioned that most white working people voted for her, was there an outcry of racism? She only stated a fact, and isn't it also a fact that a vast majority of blacks voted for Obama? People who seriously question Obama's suitability to be president are likely to be labeled racist by some of his supporters. If we give in to this insidious use of words, how can we ever rationally decide

the fitness of a person seeking the most powerful position in the world?. This was supposed to be an election free of racial overtones according to Obama and others. Think!! How was that to be possible when one of the candidates was a black man? We are not and never have been a color blind society, though the courts have so dictated, this does not make it so in the hearts and minds of the electorate. We should not exacerbate the matter of race, but at the same time it cannot be ignored--it is there, and ignore it, placate it, do whatever--it will not go away. Even the eloquent Obama cannot make it disappear.