Has Obama ever been a Christian? Or just a Black Liberation Theologian? He condemns Don Imus but forgives Jeremiah Wright? And if John McCain had ever uttered the comment that Obama (when he said that he grandmother was a "typical white person") did, McCain would have been drummed out. I think churchgoing for the Obamas (and for many local politicians) it is all about political face-time.

....especially when members of his family are Muslim.
OK, he is far from inexperienced, but as compared to whom?
Yes, he is highly educated, but, again, as compared to whom?
Hopefully, he is not a shoot first sort of guy, but when you consider the first two of YOUR questions, just how do you know?

And as to your last comment about "America being a far worse place," what is it that you are keeping from the rest of us?

The republicans who have been in power for several congresses now and who have blocked everything in

There are crucial issues of infrastructure, health care, education, getting our troops home and letting Iraq pay for it's own reconstruction. We spend $365 million a day there for what ?

Balancing budgets, and finding a way out of our foreign debt.

If the trojan horses of lipstick, gay marriage are used again, and we have 4 more years of idiocy in the white house, we will have a 2nd great depression.

This election is about the working class getting the shaft for the past 8 years,,, while most have snoozed through thinking party politics is a good thing.