I sent the following e-mail letter to my friends and family this morning:

Dear Friends and Family,

You'd think that, with Obama ahead in all the major polls, I'd be happy right now. I'm not. I have a huge knot in the middle of my stomach because of the violence-inciting language that the McCain Campaign has been using since the Vice Presidential Debate last week.

All the political pundits accurately predicted that the McCain Campaign was going to go negative to try to take the focus away from the faltering economy – that they were going to step up their attacks on Obama's character. That kind of campaigning is anathema to me, even though I know it's a reality of politics.

It's one thing to try to make Obama out to be a liar or to paint him as inexperienced and not ready to be president. It's an entirely different thing to purposely try to link Obama to "domestic terrorists" - to have a local sheriff in Florida introduce Palin with a reference to Barack Hussein Obama – to hear an audience member at a Palin rally, when she asked "Who is Barack Obama?" yell out, "A terrorist!" - to hear a man at a McCain rally yell out, "Kill him!"

With our economy in trouble and millions of people losing their jobs and their homes, it's this kind of language that's going to send some desperate, angry, jobless people right over the edge. You want someone to blame? Blame the terrorist, Obama.

If some harm comes to Barack Obama, I'll lay it squarely at the feet of McCain, Palin and their handlers. And what will have been Obama's crime? That he's a youngish, idealistic, smart, socially conscious man who wants to serve his country? My god.

I respect and defend anyone's right to vote Republican in this or any other election. Thoughtful people can disagree on difficult, complicated issues and on a philosophy of how our taxes should be assessed and spent and our liberties best preserved. But I beg any of you who typically vote Republican not to support the McCain/Palin ticket. What they are saying right now is way beyond negative. It is, in my opinion, criminal and treasonous. And if those seem like strong words, please know that I don't use them lightly.

If you can't, in good conscience, vote for Obama and Biden, then I ask you to withhold your presidential vote, in protest against a Republican ticket that would resort to rhetoric that incites violence. I can't believe this is the direction you want the Republican Party to go.

Sadly and fearfully,

Kris

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081008/ap_on_el_ge/voter_fraud

KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Officials in Missouri, a hard-fought jewel in the presidential race, are sifting through possibly hundreds of questionable or duplicate voter-registration forms submitted by an advocacy group that has been accused of election fraud in other states.

And this time, THEY HAD HELP.

http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/news/election/s_584284.ht...

U.S. Sen. Barack Obama's presidential campaign paid more than $800,000 to an offshoot of the liberal Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now for services the Democrat's campaign says it mistakenly misrepresented in federal reports.

An Obama spokesman said Federal Election Commission reports would be amended to show Citizens Services Inc. -- a subsidiary of ACORN -- worked in "get-out-the-vote" projects, instead of activities such as polling, advance work and staging major events as stated in FEC finance reports filed during the primary.

Well, well well, it looks like Obama is paying ACORN to turn in fraudulent voter registrations in key battleground states.

Now a little more digging, and it just gets scary. It seems that the man that shared enough of Obama's vision for what public schools should be to let him distribute his foundation's 50 million dollars in Chicago public schools, William Ayers, has visited a foreign leader that also has a common vision for what public education should be. Hugo Chavez. It seems that William Ayers, the man that Obama worked with to "reform" Chicago's public schools, doesn't see public education as a means to teach things like reading, math, and science, oh no, no, no. He sees public schools as a way to indoctrinate political beliefs into school children as a way to bring about revolution.

Gee, I wonder why there is no mention of his work with Ayers' in the Annenberg Challenge or the Wood's Fund in either of his two books. The "community organizing" that was done during these years is his claim to leadership abilities, yet no mention of what he was actually doing..... What was Obama actually doing with the funds that Ayers gave him to distribute? What was Obama helping Ayers accomplish?