The point was community organizing does not necessarily speak to a man’s character.

Frankly, I don’t know. I don’t assume it was because He is such a good person. Maybe he couldn’t handle corporate law, maybe he knew that working with his friend Mr. Ayers, in the long run had a better chance of getting him elected to a place in the State of Federal Senate? I don’t presume to know the answer to it. I just don understand why corporate law firms are seen as evil or at least less of a service than community organization. Not to mention, we don’t know really what he did while working in South Chicago, Where are the records?

Again,My point is that what Obama hasn’t done,i.e join a big corporate law firm, doesn’t seem to me like presidential qualifications.

Osama Bin Laden Is a rich man too, yet he does a lot of “community organizing”, does that speak to his character?

Now that’s tongue in cheek of course. I am not comparing Obama and Osama, but being a “community organizer” doesn’t directly relate to the character of a man.

This is the only candidate I have ever known, in my short voting life, that has used jobs he didn’t do as part of his experience. We project upon the candidate that it was about his character that he took a community organizing job, but there could be several reasons he did it.

And if we use that argument for his character then, why not now? Would it not speak more to his character now to go back to being a community organizer than President of the United States.

If he did it once maybe will get lucky and he will do it again.

Katie, I’m curious, did you do a poll of Obama supporters to come to your conclusions. What was your methodology? How did you compare the knowledge base of Obama supporters vs McCain supporters? Do you remember that two weeks ago John McCain’s entire campaign was based on the fact that Barack Obama is too inexperienced to be president and now it is based on the idea that McCain/Palin is the ticket for change? We have never been at war with Eurasia, we have always been at war with Eastasia

As you your other points about our economy -I don’t know anyone who has said we are in a depression. Several people have said that we are in the beginnings of a possible recession and that’s a different thing. As far as your point about cell phones and eating out – well I’m flummoxed by that comment. Lots of people do eat out and buy cell phones, but 37.5 million people in this country live below the poverty line and 18% of all children are below that level as well. And let’s be frank. The poverty line is a JOKE. A family of 5 in this country that makes more than 25000 dollars a year is not in poverty by the US census bureau standards. That is simply insane. Rachel and I have one child, and we live in a modest apartment in LA and we pay over 16,000 dollars in year in RENT. How can that line possibly be accurate?. There is great economic disparity (and despair) in this country and it must be addressed.

To your other point about the yelling – well ask yourself which convention contained more nastiness and ugliness? R or D? Which campaign has been based almost solely on lies told about their opponents? That’s a clear answer. There was a media firestorm about Sarah Palin’s daughter’s pregnancy until someone asked Barack Obama about it and he responded that he was born to an eighteen year old mother and he understood that things simply turn out that way sometimes. He then said that families should be off limits and that reporters should back off and stop writing about Palin’s family. (he has said similar things about her religion in recent days). How did Palin respond? By giving one of the most mean spirited and ungracious speeches I have ever heard – including mocking Obama, by name in personal terms. The noise is coming from one side.

As for having never met a Barack Obama supporter who doesn’t know what his views are – hi my name’s Matt