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No one should be surprised at this. Deeply upset and angry, sure. But surprised? Asking the press to exercise any amount of self-restraint or respect for privacy when there's a buck (sheckle?) to be made is bound for failure.

Sad.

Good points noted namtac.

Shalom

I mean no disrespect toward you or the News-Record management, Nancy. It's just that the management of the company that published this original "news item" did so thinking that it would be a positive thing for their business, either through sales or advertising revenues. I hope they find that they were dreadfully wrong.

And I would also hope that your management would exercise proper restrain should some unethical slob wander in the door up on East Market with a similarly "tasty tidbit." That the chances of that test coming their way is small is probably a good thing. :)

The fact that it's such a hard-and-fast rule that these prayer notes be kept confidential, leads one to believe it was PLANNED to go down this way. I mean, the safe and syrupy wording seems rather preachy and campaign-conscious to me: he thinks about his family, and says the kind of things evangelicals would expect - the "perfect note."

I think it was either planned; or that Obama was almost certain that it would be pilfered and proclaimed - another PR op in the DNC's Obama-blitz, 2000 ain't--gonna-happen-again, salivating-at-the-prospect campaign.

Otherwise, it would have read: "Please help me to win so I can bankrupt the great capitalist beast from within though big-government entitlement and give-away programs - O yeah, and utterly destroy the Republican Party
(although you seem to have already inspired them to do it themselves)."

Thanks, All..., I mean Lord.

"I think it was either planned; or that Obama was almost certain that it would be pilfered..."

Nikos, I find that on this I have to agree with at least this part of your post. I would hope that the prayer note was simply written self-consciously, in the expectation that someone would snatch it up. But with elections being what they are, one would never truly know for certain.

As for the rest - man, how tight ARE you wrapping that aluminum foil on your head? :)

I guess, Namtac, that with all that's gone down in this wild-eyed effort to schmooze this guy into office: all the flip-flopping, dissembling, etc. I do NOT trust Obama as far as I could throw Mt. Rushmore.

I suppose I must concede that the note COULD have been genuine and from the heart. I actually would love for it to have been; but I'm afraid that the current political milieu casts a shadow on it. I concede that it might have been, and apologize if my comments were a bit over the top; especially the last phrase. Insinuating that he is Islamic is - to-this-point - unfounded.

However, I do very much own the comments regarding the big government tone to his rhetoric; not to mention his support for categorically sinful policies. But, we shouldn't be uncivilly harsh to him - as a person. As for most of his policies, I stand adamantly opposed. But that's just being American, is it not?