A person I think of as loving and kind (we both volunteers at the same humane facility) forwarded me the following Obama right wing attack that is obviously making the rounds in the conservative community... (excerpt and link below the jump).  
 

I am asking for your help in evolving an effective response(s) to this email point by point and/or the "personal responsibility" meme. I want to be able to counter this type of crappola...concisely and effectively.    

For the past few evenings I have been reading a book of fiction that held me horribly transfixed with the pathos and poetry that are the essence of our human selves and our potential.   About halfway through the book I found I could only take small portions of it at a time.  Perhaps I felt it so poignantly given my perception of where our own world has been tilting of late.    I don’t know.   But it was one hell of a read that compelled and repulsed simultaneously as it flowed into me.   It revealed the best and the worst we humans are capable of being...and yet somehow, someway, hope is born out of a hopeless situation.

The Lizard Cage
By Karen Connelly
Publisher: Nan A. Talese/Doubleday
Copyright 2005

The setting is a jail in Burma, the Cage.  An all male cast predominates.

Just a quick teeny diary on an issue that had been disturbing me for some time.  My Congressional Rep. Lynn Woolsey had endorsed Sen. Clinton for President.   This seemed sooooo wrong because Lynn is very progressive and her congressional district went for Obama.

My family has roots in Northeastern rural PA going back three generations.   Many of my Irish relatives (on my Dad's side) settled in Wayne county in the late 1800's.  Some of the relatives lived there year round and others were summer citizens who later retired there.  Scranton is the closest "big" city.  

Wayne County is largely a rural farming communtity...although wealthier city people are slowly moving there now.  I sometimes feel like I'm in a time warp when I visit there as it still retains much of the feeling of the fifties:  Little churches, granges, neighbors helping neighbors, and a sort of taciturn self sufficiency, particularly when the long hard winter sets in.  

Many of the people there used to be Democrats, but were more recently converted to Republicanism by the wedge issues of Rovian fame: sex and morality, fear and hate.

Emblazoned on the front page of today's SF Chronicle in big font:
"Pelosi's Heard Enough"

I present the shortest diary in existence based solely on logic.  

Obama has made the case that judgment supersedes experience and I wholeheartedly agree.   My proof is exquisitely small in everyway imaginable except for the logic of it...which I deem to be huge.    But before presenting my uncontestable proof I would like to say that there are a few other attributes we need in a president besides judgment...little things like integrity, intelligence, compassion and the ability to recognize the evils inherit in the current corporate ridden system.   All of which I find in Obama.

And there are of course many types of experience. Some of which may be more pertinent to presidential impact than others, but I bet the ranch on the foregoing over any others.  

Now, on to the logic...the proof, as it were:

It sounds like we are about to have preordained or faux trials for 6 Guantanamo prisoners.  And it just doesn't sound like American justice to me.