And forget ever finding Osama. he's the bogey man…and if he exists, the CIA would not let us find him. Or We'll only see him dead.

And I shouldn't note the similarities between the worldviews of conservative Christians and radical Islamists WHY?

To get back on topic, while I recognize that our foreign policy could use some work, I'd still like to see the man responsible for the biggest attack on US soil brought to justice. I think it's absurd that we can't find the guy.

I think the Saddleback forum set the stage for this campaign. But whatever happened to Obama's “anytime, anyplace” bravado about meeting McCain face to face to discuss the issues in a townhall meeting or a real debate (not the glorified press conferences they call debates nowadays)? We see just how um… uh… uh… above his pay grade that is for poor Obama, who is at sea without his scriptwriter. Prepared to lead this great nation? Yeah, in the bizarro world. Actually, Obama gave some decent textbook answers in that forum, but they were very nebulous, and as he himself put it, the Devil is in the details. Truer words were never spoken.

Obama's ace in the hole, however, may be that his campaign is already, very quietly, building an enormous get-out-the-vote effort that McCain will never be able to match because he can't afford to. His folks learned from the Bush '04 campaign that if you can get every supporter possible to the polls, you can overcome a lot of adversity. There's still a huge enthusiasm gap between Obama supporters and McCain supporters; the key is to translate that into voters getting to the polls rather than staying home.

I mean, does anybody believe the falling gas prices and chatter that an Iraq withdrawal are specifically his doing? To hear it from some of those previously mentioned people, some do very much. That's what they say. I think they mean something else entirely and this is an out, but the next few months are really going to show what's underneath the surface of the American psyche.