Does Joe Conason read about political sources that aren't left wing? His article on Obama is astonishingly ignorant, a typical example of an extremist who thinks only the other extreme is evil. Here are the facts about Obama: for about two decades he has attended an Afrocentrist church, a church that promotes what it calls a "black values" system. His pastor (whom Obama has called a mentor and been very close to for a long time) has used the most nasty rhetoric imaginable against Israel. We know for a fact that he has travelled with Farrakhan. This pastor also, in an interview, says that men should not even talk about the abortion issue because they aren't the ones getting pregnant. Saying such a thing is exactly what Southern plantation owners asserting states rights were saying to the Union back in the time of slavery: you can't tell us what to do because you aren't us. It's insultingly ignorant. Add to this that Obama in a speech compared shootings at Virginia Tech to hurtful words that people use, suggesting that he may have as little grasp on logic as his mentor and suggesting that he may further erode the First Amendment that keeps being eroded by the politically correct on the left and the religiously prudish on the right. I will speak out loud and often to make sure Obama does not get elected, and everything I say will be true.