As someone who considers himself to be a political atheist, the Democrats are really doing their part to alienate me from any agenda they pursue. While some of my friends take their participation and belief in the Democratic party with the same zeal as a religion, I am looking upon them more and more these days as a bunch of lying, cheating, hypocrites.

Pres. Barack Obama LIED to the gay community about his commitment to actively working towards ending Bill Clinton's nothing-short-of-disastrous "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy towards the military. Yet, he gladly took the community's money during the campaign.

Pres. Barack Obama LIED to the American people about conducting a healthy open debate about a reform of the broken health care system resorting to subterfuge and clandestine meetings.

Pres. Obama has talked big about "transparency like has never been seen before in an American administration."

And now the latest: Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., head of the intelligence committee, suggested that the George W. Bush administration broke the law by concealing a CIA counterterrorism program from Congress. "Congress should investigate the secrecy because "it could be illegal," Democratic Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., said." (Associated Press)

Why oh why if we are so concerned about secrecy are the Democrats PROTECTING and doing what they can to HIDE the dirty politics of the exalted Kennedy family and the resulting coverup of the murder of a campaign worker by Sen. Ted Kennedy? And why are the Republicans coddling this waddling two-legged bastion of alcohol and drug abuse and womanzing? What about "transparency" in that?

Yes, the prospect of having former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin a heartbeat away from the U.S. presidency scares the bejesus out of me. But at least we would have a professional leader sitting in the Oval Office at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, not a President who is right now very quickly working towards copying the mistakes of another failed Democratic President, Jimmmy Carter (who guy really nobody these days seems to like) for his antisemitic stance towards Israel and an obsession with the Palestinians who seem not to have anything to do these days than throw rocks and lob missiles towards sovereign countries.

I'm not a big fan of either President Bush, but at least they kept our country safe after three thousand of our fellow citizens were murdered by Middle Eastern terrorists, people envious of what we have accomplished in our country....no thanks to them.