WCMessenger.com: Vote for progress

In the coming election, America desperately needs to return to its late, great days of progressive government. America must escape the far-right conservative "Family Values" holier-than-thou politicos who claim divine inspiration and direction from above while diverting the nation's attention from their nefarious activities and insider deals all done to satisfy their narcissism and political and especially economic gain.

Much attention has been paid by the media to Obama's Pastor Mr. Wright (Wow! What an oxymoron) and his idiotic racial ravings and damning of America. Yet the right-wing-racist media passes unmentioned McCain's hugging of, and endorsement by, an even more fundamentalist raving idiot, John Hagee, as well as McCain's direct links to yet another outrageous fundamentalist Christianity group, The Family, also known as the Fellowship. A simple Google search of either will reveal they harbor ideas, wishes and plans that are far more outrageous, anti-American, anti-liberty, and anti about everything in the U.S. Constitution.

America doesn't need new, or for that matter, old faces on a new ideology. As screamingly desperate as America needs change, we need far more than a different political party occupying the White House. America needs fresh and moreover honest faces whose deep-seated passion is to return to the old ideology, the tried, tested and found true things that have worked so well for so long, you know, those Bill of Rights things; personal freedoms, free speech, free press, freedom from warrantless search and seizure, Habeas Corpus, and especially freedom to practice the religion of one's choice, or as I, none at all if one is so disinclined. They were codified in our Constitution that has been badly eviscerated by Dubyah for eight years, and whose policies are endorsed by and will continue under McDubyah.

Above all America must return to its historic, codified separation of church and state. America's "founders" established the "firewall" between church and state for a clearly defined, time-honored reason. America's current deplorable, warring relations with many of the Islamic theocracies of the world are a direct result of that firewall's slow destruction.

When any religion is allowed to set national policy for any nation, creeping theocracy is the result. Some folks seem preoccupied with creeping Marxism; however, theocracy has always proved to be the fundamental worst enemy of mankind's liberties and freedoms throughout civilization's history.

Ken Hughes
Decatur