I generally try to avoid politics in the blog. But when political campaigns decide to fight on falsified issues of "character" and fear rather than matters of real substance, real solutions to the problems that face the American people, we all lose and so I take off my gloves to share the following video from the Obama campaign:



You will note that when someone just doesn't get it, when they don't have a clue, when they have lost all framework for understanding, all direct sense of reality, we say that they are "out of touch!" Our hands are our primary and most essential connection with reality. touché!

This is what happens when a candidate spends too many years in the US Senate, relying on past heroics to cover hollow bluster, lives in so many houses when most people would feel pleased and blessed to actually own one. Unfortunately John McCain has announced that it is time to turn the tables on Obama, campaign dirty and change the subject from the issues that trouble the American people to what he claims are the faults of his opponent's character. And McCain is so far out of touch as to not see how deeply stained and hollow his own character has become.

This reminds me of something else the hands are good for. A good Sunday morning day of rest kind of thing to do. We can place them together face to face and pray that the American people are led by wisdom and pursuit of greater good in their selection of president.