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Today Senator Barack Obama was parading around like he had just won an Olympic gold medal.  He was in the public and on television beginning a media blitz.  But, what are the other two candidates from the major parties doing?

Senator Hillary Clinton’s camp was busy writing a letter to Senator Obama.  What, was she finally going to bow out gracefully?  Of course not!

It begins with pleasantries such as things about what an historic and exciting campaign it has been and so on (the sound you just heard was the sound of me sticking my finger in my mouth mimicking what it looks like when one gags one’s self).  Then comes the shovel and the shoveling.  Then comes some dribble about the principles of the party being that citizens should be allowed to vote and that those votes should be counted.  This letter goes on and on and sounds so silly and insincere that I can hardly stand to read it.  This letter is addressed to a P.O. Box and is to Senator Obama.

Here is what really happened:  The letter is an attempt to generate some kind of good press with all of the bad press Senator Clinton is getting right now.  The Hillary Clinton camp distributed the letters publicly, long before it ever could possibly reach the P.O. Box or hands of Senator Obama.  The wording of the letter is clearly not intended to persuade Senator Obama to do anything, the intention obviously a publicity stunt.  The worst part is even without all of the details you probably assumed all of this on your own.

This whole stunt seems a little desperate and childish doesn’t it. 

Dear Senator Clinton’

We can all hear, just say whatever you want to say to the senator and to us out loud.  What’s with the stupid letter? 

Wishing you would drop out to remain respected;

Alethinos Paradoxos

P.S.  I think it may be time to bow out gracefully, you are starting to seem desperate and you are beginning to look more like a sore looser than a great and determined political mind.

Wow, maybe her letter is not so bad after all, that feels pretty good.  This letter writing thing is okay.  Which leads me to the next tasty tidbit. 

The next question?   Drum-roll please?

The question is:  “What is the Senator John McCain camp doing?”

Answer:  “Writing letters to Senator Obama, of course.”

Next we get news of a letter from a certain Mark Salter.  Author, coauthor of books with Senator McCain, and long time employee of John McCain. 

Let’s backtrack a little.

In an interview earlier, Senator Obama said that Senator McCain had “lost his bearings.”  This explains why “Mark Salter, Senior Advisor” (exactly as his name appeared on the letter) starting by saying something about this being an attempt to point to Senator McCain’s age.  When I heard this my first thoughts were:  “Is Mr. Salter, “Senior Advisor,” implying that the only people who “loose their way” are people who are old.  I can honestly say that I did not even consider age when I heard the comment. 

The letter attempts to condemn those sorts of attempts to say things that elude to something that you cannot say directly, but if you can get into the minds of voters will affect how they vote.  I agree totally.

Then it happened.  By “then,” I mean in the same letter to Senator Obama.  Mr. Salter goes on to say that Senator Obama is specially protected by the media and the public because he has a “protective barrier” which “declaring serious limits to the questions, discussion and debate in this race.”  Hold that thought…

Then comes a couple of paragraphs about “Hamas” and how the political adviser to the leader of Hamas thinks Senator Obama could bring change and would make a good president.  The “kicker” comes with the statement, “The McCain campaign has never suggested that Senator Obama supports Hamas' agenda, but…”  Did you notice what word I stopped at.  Senator McCain may not, but clearly his “Senior Advisor” is about to.

Then he goes on to evoke the names of every scary person on the planet only leaving out “Freddy Kruger” and “Jason” probably because they do not really exist.  He used the names of “Iran's Mahmoud Ahmadinejad,” “North Korea's Kim Jong II, Venezuela's Hugo Chavez and Cuba's Raul Castro” in discussing who Senator Obama has stated he meet with to try to make deals with our enemies. 

Okay, have you been keeping score? 

1.      Senator Obama has something about him that makes him especially protected from questions, discussion, and debate.  What exactly is that something he is getting at?

2.      Senator McCain or his camp would never try to say that Senator Obama supports Hamas (is this a good place to type the letters “LOL”).  Why then does the word “Hamas” appear five times in six successive sentences.  Hmmmm?

3.      Also, I cannot see any hidden attempts to bring up the past rumor that Senator Obama is secretly Muslim here.

4.      Then came all the scary names:  “Iran,” “North Korea,” “Kim Jong,” and “Hugo Chavez.”  No hidden messages here.

Let’s see, why would Senator Obama get a special “protective barrier” around himself that nobody else gets.  Hmmmm, what’s different about Senator Obama?  Wait a minute?  Could it be?  I think Mr. Salter, senior advisor to Senator McCain may have just pulled out the race card and slammed it on the table.

What about evoking such names as “Hamas” and “Hugo Chavez,”  could that be the fear card.  Oh, how childish the Clinton and McCain camps have become.

It is good to know that we may have found the lesser of the evils; at least Senator Obama would not sink to this level.  Writing a silly letter, disguised as a letter directed at talking some sense into another candidate, hoping the public will hear about it and be swayed by its hidden messages. 

Oh my, how not true that is.  Senator Obama’s camp responded to Senator McCain’s letter with a short response.

Beginning with “Clearly, losing one's bearings has no relation to age…” the response takes a turn to the retaliatory.  There are descriptive words like “bizarre rant,” “distract,” and “attack..”  Talk about a third George Bush term, about continuing George Bush’s failed economic policies, and failed strategy in Iraq. Then there’s “it's not the kind of campaign John McCain has promised the American people that he would run.”

Are these children and their playmates really the best candidates we can drum up from this entire country?  Come on!  All these people and there is not one more, somewhere in all these people that is better than these three?

Is this what any of these three would look like as president?  It would be like putting a four year old in the Whitehouse as president.

I see that in looking for the lesser evil, we are going to have to dig real deep.