Sandra Ferencic you are correct in saying that Don Hunter does not know the word integrity. I hate to tell you but with Rambosk it will remain the same & actually probably get worse.

Sherrif Scott has every right to his political opinion... just not while wearing a public uniform making a public speech. Why is that so hard for some to understand? I guess if you look at the ones failing to understand this concept the answer is quite simple. Common sense or decency cannot be judged by status quo. Thats abundantly clear when reading some of the absurd comments on this very subject.

Art Herman -
What a good idea. Have the inauguration on Nov. 7. The sooner we get Bush out of the White House the better.

Lawrence Roderick -
Google "iTunes" and you can find sources of classical music from all over the world. I've heard music from Washington D.C., Minnesota, Wyoming, Boston, San Francisco, etc. It's not as handy as having a good radio, but I listen to classical music while I'm on the computer, reading, etc. I wish there was a place we could find classical music on FM in this area, but I guess we are backward in SW Florida.

eddie- it's the pledge to the flag. get over it. it's a tradition of OUR country. say it or go somewhere else. my GOD, no wonder out country is in shambles

Apparently Palin sees no contradiction between her inflammatory tactics and her self-promoted piousness.

10 more intelligent letters dedicated to the brouhaha created by Sheriff Scott. Exactly what will it take to make these people understand...If it were OK to stump for candidates while in uniform, on the clock, should be doing your job, my views are not necessarily shared by my employer (the taxpayers)etc. etc. you would have every cop, firefighter, and government employee standing behind Scott waiting their turn to express their opinion. But most people in these professions know the boundary lines...you simply cannot campaign in uniform.
The problem is not using Barack Hussein Obama's middle name. The problem is how the name was used. Two republicans pulled the same trick on the same day and were admonished by the McCain Camp.
McCain and Palin are inciting hatred in their remarks and dragging their whold party down...not everyone is buying it.

To those worried that the bailout has initiated 'socialism' in this country: I submit we have been there right along -- you just haven't noticed.

Decades of increasingly fuzzed lines of authority and responsibility between regulators and the regulated, government scratching the back of business, business scratching that of government, cozy deals between lenders and the government ("don't worry about bad loans, we'll just buy them from you,") Members of Congress financially enriched by Fannie and Freddie -- entities it created and oversees, and an ethanol industry based on a false premise but wildly supported by both the bureaucracy and those who benefit from it all clearly make my point.

The bailout doesn't signify the beginning of socialism -- it's simply the coming out party. Wake up!

RE: "Goats" Trying to tie in the GOP/Bush "excuse" for the current financial dilemma on the Democrats is as futile as the Cubs' debacle. The futility of such endeavors will unfortunately continue for the forseeable future. They say you can make energy from garbage. The Republicans seem to have been doing their "patriotic duty" in that respect. Hail to the "Achievers"!

bs, you are correct. It's the extremes of capitalism and socialism in the last eight years that has our country in such bad shape. This may be the first time that both has been employed by the same political party. We must get back to a balance, Clinton did it, maybe Obama can also. It's clear to me McCain/Palin can or would not.

James, We don't need to 'save capitalism' we need to temper it.
It is/was the ideolgy of the 'Austrian school of economic's' that brought us this trouble. Unbridled capitalism and free market, trickle down voodoo economic's didn't work 250 years ago with 'Bastist' nor has it worked with Reagan/Bush/Bush jr, and it never will.
Although I also like many of Ron Pauls idea's, he to is far to extreme.

Art, The Demo's had a chance to impeach Bush jr and took it off the table two years ago. Our country may not be in this 'big' a mess if they at least tried. Now we will have to wait and hope it's not too late.

Eddie, Thanks for writing what a lot of people believe and are afraid of saying. You are the true form of a patriot and very brave.
I do disagree with you about the cause of 9/11/08. When this administration ignored the Middle East conflict in January of 2001 and also started to prepare for the invasion of Iraq at the same time the 9/11 attack or something like it was 'written in stone'.
You are correct that Bush jr and his incompetent appointee's and staff also ignored all warnings and went on a month long vacation with him.
There is a good reason we are not waving our nartional flags and reciting the 'pledge of alegience' as much as we did in the past. We are not as proud of our country as before and should not be.

Bush and the neocons push for Marxist control of the worlds financial system is gaining steam. Such an irony that those voted in with promises of less government, no nation building, and protection of privacy have gone in the exact opposite direction. Who would have ever thought the republican party would advocate and legislate Marxist philosophy?

Time for change.

Time for American ideals to prevail.

IT'S OBAMA TIME!!!!!!!!!!

Eddie...I too thank you for what is a heart-felt and true letter.
After 9/11 everyone wanted a flag, to show their support of our country. I admit that I needed one also.
When I tried to buy one, I found that every American flag for sale, was " Made in China".
Buying a China-made flag was not going to help my country.

The republicans have not only captured the title of "the party of failure" but are reaching for a new plateau, "the party of hate." Palin and mini me's attempt to stoke the racial fires will backfire big time. The party of the past needs to accept the fact that segregation and the abortion issue have been settled by those in society more advanced.

The fifties are over. Time for the neocons to grow up. They'll have plenty of idle time to mull it over in the near future since there will be no jobs. They didn't quite trickle down..

LOL.

Renate Kelly, we'll just be calling him Hussein for the rest of his life.

boss, showing the true colors of idiocy all over again.

Eddie Filer, once again, in true liberal form, more questions than answers.

further to my post yesterday...Associated Press on October 11/08 reports that Sarah Palin has charged the Alaskan taxpayer over $13,000 since late 2006 (when she assumed office) to attend at least 10 meetings with religious leaders and other religious events......

even in her home town of Wasilla she charged the taxpayer $639.50 for plane tickets AND PER DIEM FEES to attend a meeting of the Assembly of God church (her own church) where she spoke from the pulpit to young missionaries vowing to do her part to implement God's will from the governors's office

and the right says this is "presidential material"

Canuck, wow, a whole $13,000! You must be embarrassed reaching for such straws when Hussein is guilty of a bone headed house deal from a fraud.

Hussein, good for Canadians, not good for America.

Now Hussein is going to unveil a "middle class economic rescue plan". This should be funny. Buy your vote for $1000.

"I think when you spread the wealth around, it's good for everybody."

Hussein: Punitive Wealth Redistribution

Now Hussein is going to unveil a "middle class economic rescue plan". This should be funny. Buy your vote for $1000.

Hussein: "I think when you spread the wealth around, it's good for everybody."

Hussein: Punitive Wealth Redistribution

boulderbill (what a stupid handle) and others of his ilk never cease to amaze me with their stupidity and ignorance. I hope "Yomama" does get elected, hell after four years of socialism maybe the pendelum will swing the other way, if not after 50 years we'll go the way of Russia, China, Eastern Europe and others who tried the great experienment of socialism and failed.

Gonesenile,

You are becoming a tad redundant.

boulder, are you still LOL or howling about Hussein?

Talk about redundant. At least I'm pointing out truths whereas you just howl like a moonbat.

Besides, I like today's thought:

Hussein, good for Canada, not good for America.

Charles Krauthammer:

"[Obama's] character remains highly suspect. There is a difference between temperament and character. Equanimity is a virtue. Tolerance of the obscene is not."

Maybe if you read this, you'll be better able to understand why it matters that Hussein would associate with Rezko, Ayers, Wright, etc.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/...

so Gonefishin thinks fraud is ok as long as you do not get too much money!!!!!!

so lets see....we can abuse the power of office to settle a family dispute and we can defraud the taxpayer....and Gonefishin agrees with Bricklin75 that she is good presidential material

After many, many, many, months of arguing, have you got closer to agreeing on politics?
Didn't think so.

Canuck, it's more like I don't care what you have to say when you think Hussein is OK for his position on late-term abortion, making a bone-headed deal with Rezko, working with a communist bomb thrower, giving money to ACORN, getting money from undisclosed sources, etc.

Palin was the right choice because she's got all of you moonbats talking about her. Everyone is comparing her to Obama, not Biden (that's because she's just as competent as Obama.)

Hussein: "I think when you spread the wealth around, it's good for everybody."

Hussein: Punitive Wealth Redistribution

I think most people in this country are afraid to say anything about pledging allegiance to the flag. No one wants to be called unpatriotic.

There are historical facts that a lot of people don't understand. The pledge of allegiance to the flag was instituted in the 1890's. For over a hundred years people in this country never heard of such a thing. Between the 1890's and the 1940's school children could be expelled for having religious reasons for not saluting the flag. In 1943, the Supreme Court ruled that no one should be forced to salute the flag. Some people have felt that pledging allegiance to the flag is against their worship of God. They believe that only God and Jesus Christ should be pledged to. Some Christians believe that pledging allegiance is idol worship.

Some non-believers also have reservations about subscribing our lives to the state. Some of us want to keep religion and the state seperate. When we mix religion and the state, we are really doing something unconstitutional. We are not much different from pagan Rome. People were required to give their all to the state.

I don't feel necessarily brave, but I think people are like sheep that do everything they are told to do, and if they don't they are considered unpatriotic. We should have the freedom to live the way our conscience dictates, unless we are hurting other people. If we have freedom of religion and freedom from religion, we can't say that the state is our god and that life comes from the state.

Most school children don't even know what they are doing when they pledge allegiance to the flag. They say it by rote and it is a ritual.

Flying a flag in front of your house isn't going to make you any more patriotic than anyone else. There is a saying that "scoundrals wrap themselves in the flag". We should respect the flag. We can pledge allegiance to it and salute it, but we could stab the country in the back at the same time. Look at all the heads of our monetary institutions and heads of CEOs who have been indicted for fraud. They probably have pledged allegiance. Rituals don't make people good people.

Canuck,

I see why you are injecting your beliefs into our country where you don't live. Your political system is a mess and I guess it's easier to criticize ours than change yours.

Why don't you use the energy you use here to do something about Canada's mess?

Always with the last word I'm sure. You must be on permanent PMS.

http://www.slate.com/id/2199929/

Eagle,There is a great U.S Flagmaker in Penna. Their employees are all American, they hire no illegals. They were working 24/7 after 9/11 but lately they have laid people off.
BTW, I'm not talking about Betsy Ross.

I haven't heard Obama complain about his middle name at all, and why would he change it. Does the name your parents give you discribe who you are? No, I don't believe it does.
How about a name you give yourself? How about a nick name given to you by people who really know you including your friends? [we all know McCain has millions of friends as we watch him address his choir].
In school John McCain's nick name was 'punk'. So shouldn't he be introduced or referred to as John 'Punk' McCain?

Julie DiBartolo, Naples

Your post makes no sense because you don't know what the term "Mortgage Holder" is.

Try mortgagor & mortgagee. Will that make it easier for you?

Ed_Foster...last you poked your nose into this forum you wanted nothing to do with me...what happened????...my posts are exposing the underbelly of the right wing and that got to you???

and if you knew anything about my country you definately would not produce that biased web site........ especially throwing stones at someone else with the problems in your country!!!

but as you know nothing it would be fruitless to even try to explain to you that our current Prime Minister is a right wing evangelical Christian.....and a very close friend of Bush

says enough about what little trouble we may have!!...

and minority goverments are not bad because they have to govern to the people's will and not to politics because they can be easily defeated by the opposition majority

and who had the strongest economy and banking industry of the group of 7 meetings in Washington this past weekend!!!!

three guesses.....???

we are doing quite well thank you!!!

so go back to your golf course with your buddies and keep on taking those mulligans!!!!!

Bossman, thanks. I think Punk used for McCain is pretty descriptive, and I can see why he got the name.

So, Gonefishin, you can idolize your Punk. I will stick with Obama.

As for Sheriff Scott. He knew when he used the name Hussein, it was inflammatory. It made Obama seem connected with Muslims, Saddam, and terrorism. And, Scott riled up the people in the crowd, so much so, they cried traitor, kill him etc. Not good for a supposed keeper of the peace in uniform.

But it seems that's the kind of leadership that the Right Wingers want. That's the kind that was used in Fascism.

The Neo Cons are about power of big corporations and government being in cahoots. Thus, big corporations collude with govenment for their benefit. Also, it seems they condone these incendiary statements that arouse people to violence. Reminds us of what the Nazis did.

Is that what we want here? Do we want those hateful people running our government? If we do, no citizen is really safe. All power will be drained from the people.

Eddie Filer, rationalman, your letter made some good points. And, as always you put forth your opinion with kind and good intentions.

Gonefishin, you need a lesson in civility. You have none, so you turn people off before you make your point. That's not the way you sway people to your point of view. However if you don't care, then you're on the right track.

The market has rallied today. Let's hope it's for real. Let's hope all those savings and 401 K's are going to come back.

Now, if the government would just learn a lesson from this. We need a deep study of what occurred and implement those things necessary to prevent its happening again.

What we really need is jobs. We need money in the hands of the people so they have buying power again.

We need industry here, and as Obama said, the first priority is our own energy. We have so much we can do in that area in so many avenues. Everything from wind, solar, biodegradable, clean coal, nuclear and oil. And as Obama said, that would create millions of jobs.

I think we should faze out oil as much as possible because it is finite. We can make it stretch by using more of the other means.

Putting our best minds to how to dispose of nuclear waste would reduce one of its problems.

This could be a huge new industry and create many, many jobs while reducing the cost of power to our citizens and keep the money we spend on energy here.

The Middle East would have to put their minds to others sources of income also.

And, we must end our wars. They should be close to obsolete by now. This is the 21st century. War avails no one, and we have to promote that. Individual terrorists have to be shown as pariahs whereever they go. And we must remember, individual spots of terrorists do not necessitate our invading countries.

Just watching the affect of mini me and PRESIDENT OBAMA says it all.

One is under control, decisive, and a unifier.

The other is bitter, divisive, and extremely erratic.

Both the US citizens and the world deserve a break from the neocons failed experiment. They should rest well along the Whig Party as another bogus political movement. Say bye bye in November.

Also, we must see the Neo Cons for who they are. They are not Republicans; they are hybrids of something else. They are both Socialistic and Capitalistic, whichever one suits their goals.

We have the largest government in our history. We have the most intrusive government, and much of that came under the Neo Cons of the Bush administration.

They are imperialists and One Worlders. The reason the 9/11 attack worked is because the administration was curiously not vigilant. It's easy to look the other way when something works to one's benefit. In the case of 9/11, it opened the door to the Bush administration seizing more power and commensing its pre-planned incursion into the Middle East.

This group has to be thrown out of office. Many Republicans like I have risen in opposition. Jim Leach is the latest.

Doesn't take much to get you riled. I would love to play golf, it's just hard to do with one arm and half a leg missing from the war. Maybe I can get blessed by Obama and be healed.

Are Republicans panicking? My, my, isn't it "cheaters' proof" that is causing all the consternation? It will be a bitter pill and justice personified when the senile McCain and "moonbat" Palin fade into the abyss of GOP fiefdom.

Wow, I read Patsprincess's blog #152 on yesterday's blogs, and she's talking about Revelations and the Anti Christ.

Seems, people have been doing that for thousands of years now, predicting the end of the world and the Anti Crist, and they've been consistently wrong, but they keep trying.

Anyway, Patsprincess, if your talking about the sign of the AntiChrist being someone who advocates the New World Order, the world bank etc. That's all Bush. None of that is Obama.

Also, Patsp, writes that everything seems to be going okay and then bam. Well, that's what Bush has given us. We're getting the bam. Now let's see if today foretells the end of the fall.

Anyway, once I read some of this by Patsprincess I know what fantasy she's coming from, and heaven help us from her kind. And there are others out there who are just as nutty and voting for McCain because of their special interpretation of Revelation or the Bible. I guess being wrong a thousand times makes no impact on them. They just keep thinking, "yeah, but this time I'm right." So much for intelligent voting.

Also, FYI, the Annenbergs of the Annenberg challenge that sponsored that board on education that both Obama and Ayers were on, they're voting for McCain. But, wait, they had Ayers on their board. Doesn't that make them supporters of terrorism? Also, what about those other Republicans on the board? Do they believe in terrorism? I mean serving on a board with Ayers, the terrorist?

I'd have to say, Ayers was not a terrorist, but someone who was fighting our leadership, Lyndon Johnson, who put us into a war, Viet Nam, based on his big lie. Someone who put a muzzle on the crew of the U.S.S. Liberty which was shot on for no reason by the Israelis. Many of our crew were killed, even though they signalled over and over they were a U.S. ship. But LBJ put a gag order on them and threatened them if they told.

Ayers and others were fighting against a horrendous unnecessary war and Lyndon Johnson who was a terrible leader who instigated it.

And so, what about the terrorism that our leaders did to our soldiers and Viet Nam, bombing and killing people for no reason except Johnson didn't like Communism, even though it posed no threat to us or anyone? Viet Nam had been one country. North Korea wanted to unify it. That was the goal, no domino affect, no threat to anyone outside of Viet Nam.

It's somewhat courageous to fight against your own government when it is involved in terrorism and killing your own people, and when your Congress will put no restraints on the Executive. No leader should be able to get by with that. That's why Ayers today finds a lot of sympathizers who don't see him as any kind of terrorist.

However, Obama didn't know him then, he was but a child, and Obama had no reason to suspect this of a university professor, and he didn't find out about Ayers' past until later.

Now make a big deal out of that. Right Wingers, your grasping is very obvious and getting you nowhere.

It seems that truthdoesntmattertoher agrees with Ayers. She also seems to call for the not so peaceful overthrow of our government. Another example of Obama supporter patriotism.

so what is it Ed_Foster????

do you play golf as you said last Thursday and if so what is the objective of your comment today??

"That said, Canuck, I couldn't care what you think. I have a lot of canadian friends. I play golf with two of them at least a couple times a month."

Ed_Foster Oct 9/08 6:22 pm

"Doesn't take much to get you riled. I would love to play golf, it's just hard to do with one arm and half a leg missing from the war"

Ed_Foster #41 Oct 13/08

DinNaples, obviously you missed my blog that said I don't condone law breaking or violence. My point is that many in our past have used rebellion for very good reasons; our founding fathers to name one.

My lament is that we shouldn't have to use violence to stop our government from its own terrorism against our people.

DinNaples, it also seems you think when people rose up against Saddam with bombings and violence, that was all right. So, my point was, that one man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter.

Also, Obama does not condone terrorism and has denounced what Ayers did. However, it seems that Ayers was not jailed and has been accepted back into society as a university professor. He was hardly a terrorist when Obama worked on that education board with him, that I pointed out had Republicans on the board too.

So, look to yourself, for if you supported the Viet Nam war, you supported terrorism. I could say, since we invaded Iraq on lies that "Shock and Awe" was a horrible example of terrorism.

I think you should have and take issue with the Bush Adminstration for their unnecessary terrorism in invading a country that did nothing to us, had no WMD's, no al Qaeda and was no threat to us.

So, it's not that you're against terrorism. You just want to be the terrorist.

Protesting a war, or any other thing for that matter, by peaceful means is one thing, but when the protester resorts to violence then the protesting becomes a criminal activity. In the military we call it terrorism, and have called it by such long before 9/11 happened.

I also call it cowardice.

In the news yesterday was an article about Afghanistan and its downward spiral into violence and chaos. Bush Administration officials say privately that Afghanistan is the single most pressing security threat in the fight against terrorism.

So, now what are we going to do? Afghanistan before our invasion was not a threat, but we thought they harbored bin Laden. Instead of working with them, we invaded them, toppled their government, which, by the way, I didn't like, but it threw us into a mess. We didn't take any heed of history.

But Afghanistan wouldn't have been so bad, and maybe we would have been successful, but Bush had to instead invade Iraq too. Dumb, really dumb. And it's been bad for us ever since. If one doesn't look at the deaths, destruction, Iraqis displaced and all the suffering, then one can look at the monetary cost to us. With all the present costs and the out costs the war will cost us up as of now close to 3 trillion dollars. That's trillion. What a fiasco.

And McCain was all for it. That alone shows me, the man is too ignorant to run the country. Bush and his crew and Mccain are birds of a feather, and they've just about pecked us to death. We need change, and Obama is it. What a great breath of fresh air to take a new and intelligent course.

#48 If your accusations were true it would be duly justified after the GOP vote fraud "accomplishments" in 2000 & 2004. It's about time that the other side employed the same tactics of the "ACHIEVERS"!

truthmatters

why was Ayers not jailed???

Illiar, #52, did you read my post #51. If you did, then why would you think I condone unlawful violence? Read it again, and this time try to understand what I said.

TM, what a twisted mind you have. You equate radicals, terrorists, the US Army and Government as the same but you still approve of Ayers. Your statement "I'd have to say, Ayers was not a terrorist, but someone who was fighting our leadership". I just do not know what to say. I had better just keep my thoughts to myself.

The desperate LIAR McCain is reaching for the moon in an attempt to stir the radical element of his party to "action". The "puppet queen" Palin is still spewing RNC prepared rhetoric in an attempt to give the impression she knows what she is talking about. What a LARK! The two constitute the most abyssmal duo the GOP has "lavished" upon the electorate in their history! That is going to some lengths with NIXON in their legacy.

I stand by the term cowardice. A freedom fighter to me means someone who is fighting an oppressive government or some other political entity, and normally their targets are tactical in nature. And also the freedom fighter's opponent is one that is capable and prepared to fight back.

A terrorist can have a political agenda, but the key word here is "terror", and they often target the weak and helpless in order to inspire terror.

Barry's plan to redistribute wealth is all part of the bigger plan. Do some of the names in the attached link look familiar? This is his agenda.

http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/gr...

You can insult me all you want. I have taken a lot more. I will explain to you one time. A couple time a month a group of us play what is called captain's choice. It;s a form of golf where you play the best ball. I go along and can chip and putt with artifical assistance. Not the best playing but gets me out of house for some sort of social life.

You wouldn't understand because you are caught up in your own perfect world and feel you need to live your pittiful life in this forum insulting eveyone that doesn't prescibe to you beliefs. Don't know why I have to explain this to you anyway.

Put your brain in gear before you post. Don't jump to conclusions without thought.

Semper Fi!

These days,I get that dreadful sinking feeling whenever I even think of Palin. Such a cheap way to sensationalize a Convention, such a sad aftermath. Patriot McCain deserves better!

I like combat golf!

I've never read anything that truthmatters has written that she condones unlawful violence or terrorism. I can't understand why some people feel it necessary to twist what someone else says. Some of you bloggers are just too much. Some of you make mountains out of molehills.

Here we go again. I do not condone unlawful violent acts, and that also includes those by our government.

It is hardly the fault of our good soldiers that they are sent to war by leaders who abuse their power. Our soldiers always do their valiant best.

However, it is the abuse of leadership's power to cause so many American soldier's death in a war like Viet Nam that we must not allow.

There was a nation of people who ultimately protested against that war, so much so Nixon won the presidency on getting our troops out of there.

Now I'm asking for an objective way of looking at what Ayers did, and reminding everyone that he must have known full well if he were caught he could be prosecuted and sent to jail for life or possibly even executed. He believed so much that our soldiers were dying that shouldn't be dying, and soldiers were coming home maimed so badly that he threw aside his own well being. So, he was ready to sacrifice his life to stop the killing of others. Now you can call that terrorism if you like. To me unlawful war is terrorism, only it kills a lot more people and does a lot more damage.

So, let's not get all righteous about your loving and believing in your form of terrorism, but decrying another's.

I think all terrorism is bad. And that's why we have a Constitution that is supposed to have checks and balances so we don't have a run away executive who does what it pleases.

What I see is a break down of our system of checks and balances and a CIA too much under the control of the Executive. It happened with Viet Nam and it happened again with Iraq.

I was asked why Ayers was jailed. It was on some kind of technicality that his case was dismissed.

However, after the war was over, I don't think people looked at the protesters with much recrimination and disdain. The whole thing left too bad a taste in our country's mouth.

Now remember, Obama was 8 years old at the time. He was not connected to that era. He only met Ayers as he is today. Ayers' past was and seems to be now no longer an issue to many, many people.

At any rate, who Ayers was and is has no bearing on Obama. They are not close friends, and only had brief and casual relationships.

Now, can we get back to the pertinent issues? Or don't you have anything to say about those?

Those who vote for Obama are in lala land. He is the biggest example of socialism that we have seen in many, many years. McCain is not Bush. McCain and Palin are not creating hate. If you can't handle the TRUTH about who Obama is, that's your problem but don't blame them for it. Most of what you're hearing stated about him is true. He spent years working with Ayres and he knew exactly who he was. He spent 20 years in Rev Wright's church who is on video stating his hate for white Americans. You can't deny a video tape and again, Obama knew exactly who he was. If you claim he is that stupid that he doesn't know who he associates with then that proves very poor judgement and shouldn't be making national decisions. You can't grow an economy from the bottom up - that's not possible. Only jobs will get this economy going and putting heavy burdens on small businesses and corporations will kill jobs. He has given $800,000 to ACORN, through his campaign, who is under FBI investigation for voter fraud (FACT). He received money from terrorist Ayres, who hides behind education to poison the minds of our youth. The money Obama received for "so called education" programs didn't go into the school system at all. It was used to fund the socialist, radical organizations. Why don't some of you stop reading tabloids and start paying attention to the NEWS. Start reading articles that are non-partisan and open your eyes. We can't afford more ignorance in this country.

I dont know if this info is already in here, and I'm not going to read it all to find out, but Mike Scott was well within his rights to attend the function in uniform according to the Hatch Act as he is not a federal employee:

Covered state and local employees MAY-

1.run for public office in nonpartisan elections
2.campaign for and hold office in political clubs and organizations
3.actively campaign for candidates for public office in partisan and nonpartisan elections
4.contribute money to political organizations and attend political fundraising functions

http://www.osc.gov/ha_state.htm