fred:
“it really, really bothers me that Obama has been allowed to get away with hiding who he really is. Since I come from the Left (a long time ago) I harbor some very bad feelings towards the Marxists/Socialists, who I believe are a very dishonest lot of people, overall.”
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Barack Obama has written a couple of autobiographical books, and he has spent the last couple of years publicly answering questions from journalists and from ordinary citizens.

Anyone who wants to know who he really is can start by reading Obama’s two autobiographical books. Anyone who has not bothered to read them does not have a lot of credibility when he spouts an opinion that Obama has not discussed his own past frankly.

What about McCain’s past sins? Should the entire public indulge itself in a continuing, critical, unforgiving national discussion about the moral merits of his divorce from his first wife?

During the 1980s, McCain took a lot of money from Charles Keating and then tried to impede subpoenas and indictments of Keating. Eventually McCain’s pal Keating was sentenced to four years in prison for stealing more than a million dollars from investors by means of fraud.

Just like Obama’s pal Ayers is not really repentant, so likewise McCain’s pal Keating is not really repentant. Here’s a paragraph from the Wikipedia article about McCain’s unrepentant pal Keating:

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Keating remains unrepentant, maintaining that it was not his mistakes or criminal deeds but regulators’ actions that were responsible for the losses. He repeated these claims in an interview in 2006. The 2004 book “The Savings and Loan Crisis: Lessons from a Regulatory Failure” makes similar claims and presents Keating in a favorable light.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Keating

In the ten weeks between now and the general election, should we the US public be arguing about Ayers and Keating? Or should we be arguing about our federal budget, our national defense, our judge nominations, and other such issues?