.....Obama hasn't change his position on guns. The supremes ruled that you can't make hand guns illegal. Obama is in agreement. That does not mean that he has changed his position on gun control. He is in favor of reasonable rules related to background checks and restrictions on the types of weapons (ie...machine guns, bazookas, tanks, artillery). If you look into his record you will see nothing at all in favor of banning handguns.

Campaign finance....McCain is funneling money from the GOP governors fund into his presidential fund. That is not illegal, but it is certainly in violation of the spirit of accountability. Obama never said he would definately accept public financing. He said if he were the candidate he would aggressively work to achieve an agreement with McCain. Looks to me like that didn't work out, for whatever reason.

Iraq...when did he change his position? He said, in the early days of his campaign, he would withdraw as carefully as we were careless in going in. He reinforced that thought the other day, saying that we would leave as his military advisors thought it safe to do so. He did not say that we weren't leaving and the idea of leaving enough troops to protect the embassy and any other vital assets is key to a successful end to getting American troops killed. Biden's plan was to move our troops to the desert and away from population centers. That would have forced the terrorists to come after us, if they wanted to kill our guys. That would work for me also. The Iraqis can patrol their own streets.

I agree with you that not all of our problems will be resolved in the next 4 years, nor even in the 4 after that. We are looking for a start in the right direction.

Where we disagree is that you think McCain, after voting 90% of the time in favor of Bush's legislation, would somehow change direction.

Why would you think that?

Talk to ya in the morning.....g'night, friend, rest well and dream of large women.