Herman Said:

At what point in the GOP convention will they quit attacking Obama and start talking about the issues?

We Answered:

I suspect we won't hear any issues talk from the GOP. Because if they do, we'll find out that it will be 4 more years of the same.

And if you didn't hear Obama talk about issues, you weren't listening. My father, a life time card carrying Republican, is voting Democrat this election and thinks the RNC and the smearing is a joke. Not to mention the soap opera that Palin has brought to the election. McCain chose her as a distraction from the real issues.

Tony Said:

After all the GOP Talk about Obama being A Muslim, how do you feel about this?

We Answered:

This was an interesting read. You have one answer who claims he isn't a Muslim, one who thinks he is but pretends to be a Christian to win votes, & none of the Republicans even answered your question. Well, they are correct insofar as his faith is concerned. Jindal is not a Muslim, nor was he ever.
"Piyush Bobby Jindalâ, conceived in India & born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, was raised a Hindu. Bobby Jindal has certainly come a long way from his father’s native Mater Kotla, in Punjab, to his own political headquarters in the heart of Cajun country.
Only after years of open feuding did my parents realize my new faith had not caused me to reject them or my heritage,” Jindal confessed in an article he wrote more than a decade ago for ‘America’ a respected weekly Jesuit magazine.
What brought about Jindal's transformation to Christianity? According to Jindal,
“…when a childhood friend, intent on converting the world, first introduced him to Christianity by warning him you and your parents are going to hell, he recalls that he was hardly convinced. Jindal was also angered by the arrogance of my Southern Baptist friend who claimed his faith was the one true path to God. That's because he realized that his friend sought to deny the experience of billions of people who have never seen a copy of the Bible.” (It is my humble opinion that the friends parents were most likely also Republican since they are Southerners, and Baptists at that. After all, it is the ideology of some Republicans that ALL Southerners are Republicans since many Southern states are historically red ones. Many of them love generalizations.)

“Nevertheless the event did succeed in motivating him to examine Hinduism on its own merits and doctrines even as he was searching for an objectively true faith. Jindal, as an 18 year-old converted to Catholicism.”
http://www.sepiamutiny.com/sepia/archive…

As to the issue of whether or not Jindal is being considered for the 2012 election, according to The Sioux City Journal, he most certainly is.
http://www.siouxcityjournal.com/articles…

Your point is well made and quite valid. If this Rhodes scholar who
received a master's degree in political science from New College, Oxford, were being run as the Republican candidate, he might well be subjected to all manner of distasteful jokes, insults, and smear tactics. Crude jokes might be made such as:
“He worships at the dawn after bathing.”
“He meditates, chants mantras”
"He's a terrorist!"
and on and on, ad nauseum. Some would make rude comments about his physical appearance. Others might, as they did Palin, rally behind him. In Jindal's case, it would be justified. At least he's a well educated & brilliant man, even if his political views are not consistent with my own. If he were a Democrat, the slams, insults, and smear tactics would definitely be used by many, but not all, Republicans.

Elaine Said:

Why would the GOP trust obama this week regarding bipartisan talks, when the dems are talking about?

We Answered:

Obama is under the mistaken impression he can outmaneuver the Republicans. Public opinion is against him. I don't know what it's going to take to get the message to him. Voting him out in 2012 is the sure way to stop him. Kick the Democrats out in November. I wouldn't trust the lot of them.

Darrell Said:

Why does Obama want to talk just to the GOP about health care? Seems to me?

We Answered:

Obama has by NO means given up on his nightmare Healthcare, even as he said.
This is ALL just another "trick" out of his Chicago politics hand book. He MUST get the attention OFF him and Congress and to the Repubs somehow.
It's a small gamble but Obama HATES to lose.

Rita Said:

Does it bother you that all the GOP talks about is the surge and not how Obama got most of troops out of Iraq?

We Answered:

Obama and his supporters opposed the surge. Obama voted to cut off funding for the Iraq war. The surge was needed to win. His recent speech was made possible by the surge he opposed. he was wrong and will not admit it. Bad character, bad judgment.

Adam Said:

Should we believe the president when he says he will work with the GOP?

We Answered:

He lied the first time he made this claim...why not again?

Dave Said:

Why is Obama talking bipartisanship now that Teddy's seat went GOP?

We Answered:

He is extending the false hand of friendship because they lost "the people's seat" and by trying to appear cordial and conciliatory Obama is hoping people don't remember the closed door sessions, the blunt refusal to consider any Republican ideas or suggestions on health care. It is now important to Obama that he create a bridge so that ultimately when more of his ill-thought out plans end up on the scrap heap of political subterfuge, he can point the big finger at the other side. It's about divide and conquer and pretending to extend the hand of cooperation.

Now that he has ticked off Reid of Nevada and Rahm-bo has had another foul mouthed outburst yet again, it is more important that Obama try and appear to mend fences but in the final analysis, we have woken up to his modus operandi and we have seen the emperor's new clothes - which are transparent (unlike his administration).