" " I can't believe it is only October. I am getting tired of people saying "vote for _________". I think that everyone that is able to to vote has the ability to free thinking. It shouldn't be someone else's job to sway a persons vote to one candidate or the other. There is more constructive ways of supporting your candidate. I get tired of the phone calls, the pestering at the grocery store, the nonstop commercials on television. It is so up front and in your face! By the time November rolls around, I will be so sick of both candidates that I wouldn't like to vote for either. The other part of my my dismay is the nonstop name calling. I am sure that when the constitution was drafted, the writers never envisioned politics to be like this. Yes, we have a plunging economy. Yes, we have the war in Iraq. The entire blame can not be on the President. In my mind, the President does as his advisors tell him to do. If you want to judge someone, judge congressmen and senators. This is not a dictatorship people. There has to be approval of all things before action to happen. If you are upset at how Bush is handling the war, tell your senator/congressmen to vote against plans. 2/3 majority vote trumps anything that the President can do even vetoes. We do not live in a dictatorship! After reading many people's comments, those people sound like that is what we are living it. Do you think a new face in the White House means that everything is going to be great? Wrong! People need to look at their state's senators and congressman. Are they voting for your best interests? If not, VOTE THEM OUT!!!! I love it when people get upset at some situation and instead of doing something, they decide to blame someone else. Well, enough with the name calling! Enough with the slander. If you don't like what is going on, change it! A new face in the White House might be a start, but your senators and congressmen are equally to blame for everything that is happening! They had the same opportunity to solve the economic crisis. They had the opportunity to override the President when deciding to go into Iraq. They sat back and let it happen. Bush has some "strange" ideas, but he is getting ridiculed for ideas that he was TOLD to present. Those ideas, however "strange" they may be, could have been left on the floor of the house and senate, but instead the elected officials allowed it to go through. I don't care who McCain's friends are, or who's church Obama attends. I care about what John Tester and Max Baucus are voting for in DC. Are they for your best interest? If the answer is no, you better vote for someone else come November. Don't cast your vote for Baucus and then spend until the next election belly aching about what is happening! Quite calling names and making excuses, make changes. Changes not only in the President, but in your other elected officials if they are not looking out for your interests. The head can not survive without the body. " "

" I agree with thinkplease on this one...we are voting for a party not a candidate...so you have to look at the agenda of the two parties and vote on the one that lines up the most with your conviction "

" FISHING-
get a life. your kids will learn only what you WANT them to learn without FACTS judging by what you wrote. What a joke. "

" --> "My choice is Obama-Biden the folks who care about our Constitution. "

Haha, this is by far the funniest thing I have read on here, and that's saying something.

The funny thing here is that people actually believe that who is elected will make a difference. It won't. Politics will go on as usual, and many of the same programs will continue to run, regardless of who takes office. Need an example? Look at the rescue bill that both Obama and McCain just voted for. Complete garbage.

If you are truly for the constitution, there is no correct answer. It's lose-lose. "

" McCain-Palin are anti-choice, anti privacy rights and anti-birth control pills.

That is what I call scary.

Our Constitution provides for Right to Privacy. My choice is Obama-Biden the folks who care about our Constitution. "

" Yes fishing...I would love to hear your comprehensive sex ed plan you are "teaching" to your children. I agree with skooter if you are taking that responsibility seriously BRAVO TO YOU!!! And I do mean that seriously, but more than often people who opt out of the sex ed offered in public school do it because they think their kids are being taught how to have sex or they are being taught that sex is OK??? If anyone really looked at the text material, I just don't see why they wouldn't want their teen to know this info? It is usually for religious reasons...which as I have stated before...is fine. But don't knock sex ed because if it was used as it should be it could help in preventing thousands of unwanted teen pregnancies, which would cut back on the amount of abortions. Mykids...please send me the link that quotes Obama as stating, "I am absolutely for partial-birth abortions." I will be waiting for your proof!! "

" I think this letter is sick! Not only do you glorify Obama...but you fail to mention that his is ABSOLUTELY FOR PARTIAL-BIRTH ABORTIONS!!! How sick is that! Here's the thing....I don't get involved with your prostate...stay the hell out of my uterus!!!
Just for the record...I don't like either candidate and will be voting for HILLARY in November! "

" Wonderful crusade but in the real world, many parents do not teach their children about sex. "

" just got married" and "just had a baby".. hmmmmm. I wonder which came first? The timetable makes it sound to me like some planning may have been in order for her, too. "

" So I'm supposed to take parenting advice from a woman who believes in abstinence-only programs but has a pregnant high school daughter?

Fishing - the problem with no one but the parents teaching their children about sex is that most won't do it. "

" Fishing: Good for you and your friend and the child adopted. But that was their collective CHOICE - that's the key - each person had a CHOICE in the matter. If Palin and McCain EVER had their way - no one else would have that CHOICE WHATSOEVER.

AND as a parent you always have the opportunity to opt your kids out of sex ed. You are a probably a very good parent - good for you (really) - but there are a ton of not as good parents and kids for whom basic sex ed will help them not repeat mistakes made and avoid abortion in the first place. "

" Ms. Love, you should have ended your opinion piece with, "and if you care about the lives of unborn and innocent humans, please vote for John McCain on November 4." "

" Thank you for this pragmatic, common-sense article! "

" GIVE ME A BREAK! WHY WOULD I VOTE FOR A PERSON THAT SUPPORTS PLANNED PARENTHOOD???? NO ONE IS GOING TO TEACH MY CHILDREN ABOUT SEX ED EXCEPT ME! IT MAKES ME SICK THAT PEOPLE EVEN BELIEVE IN ABORTIONS! OH AND ANOTHER THING. HERE IN HELENA 23 YEARS AGO MY FRIEND STOPPED A TOTAL STRANGER FROM HAVING AN ABORTION AT PLANNED PARENTHOOD AND TOLD HER THAT SHE WILL ADOPT THE BABY..... THE BABY THAT WAS SAVED IS NOW 23 YEARS OLD JUST GOT MARRIED AND JUST HAD A BABY GIRL NOT TO LONG AGO. WOW HOW PRECIOUS IS THAT!!!!!!!!! "