it's like going to a whorehouse..
she looks goods,so does that one..
so you go..
well your going pay..
take your pick...gono,,aids,herpes, cratch rot
in the end I see the same sh8t, just a different labels.

Rika

I have the background of being a steel worker once upon a time, but I'm a architect now. If you were to say my background is that of a blue collar worker would that not be an insult intended to do damage and wash away the meaning of my education and over 20 years of experience (and architectural awards)?

Agreed.

I worked assembly line jobs for GM while attending night school. Now I have three degrees. What does my experiences on the assembly line have on my abilities today (except to give me a little insight into the blue collar world which is importent to me)?

I believe you were talking about the politics of hate.

if there's one thing that Iowa has shown us with both Huckabee and Obama winning, is that people are tired of hate and those who seek to spread an agenda through hate.

Two things: Work ethic and understanding when sacrifice is needed. I.e., you could have spent your evenings swilling beer with your GM co-workers or "settling." Instead you made sacrifices to improve your lot in life. As a country we need to get back to those values. For our nation to improve we, as a country, will have to make sacrifices to get out of this quagmire we're currently in. For a long while I'm afraid.

Life is just "too easy" for some people, I am afraid. I place the blame on two groups: National polticians and the press.

Not that I disagree with you, but who are these "some people"....welfare moms or the skull and bones/silver spoon set?

Say what you want but the caucus does provide some interesting energy and insight. I think it is poretty cool that a bunch of folks can get together and cuss/discuss this stuff while the country waits for the outcome. It may not have any legs in the end but I think it should be done in every town in the US.

Seems to be some confusion here.

"Some of the most definitive information about Obama's faith comes from an interview he did with journalist Cathleen Falsini. She writes that Obama was born in 1961 in Hawaii to a white mother who came from Protestant Midwestern stock but whom Obama describes in his own book as a Christian but "a lonely witness for secular humanism." Obama's father was a black African from the Luo tribe of Kenya. Obama called him agnostic. Obama's grandfather on his father's side was Muslim. When he was six years old, Obama's mother and father divorced and she married an Indonesian man who was a non-practicing Moslem. They moved to Indonesia where Obama said he attended a Roman Catholic school until he was 10. An article Scott Turow on Salon.com in 2004, however, said that while in Indonesia, Obama spent 2 years in a Moslem school then 2 more in the Catholic school."

Per Huck???

HA HA HA! Yeah it is! To the juvenile and mean spirited.

So Obama has a Catholic background?

Now I get all the Robert Kennedy references.;)