[Lissa]

First off, I'm not trying to start anything but I'm stubborn, opinionated, and a PoliSci major.

2. I do not think that we need a president that is in ANY way connected to the Muslim religion. There have been so many lives taken by Muslims during this war. I think that having a president who will represent Muslims(even if it is only to them) will be a HUGE slap in the face! I have to wonder how the troops will feel about this.

1. Barrack Obama IS NOT a practicing Muslim, he attended a Muslim school when he was a child, but that wasn't his choice, it was his mother's.

2. Saying he shouldn't be elected simply because there are Muslim connections in his background goes against the single most important founding principle of the United States, the Freedom of Religion.

3. Lives have been taken by Muslims in this war THAT WE STARTED, does anyone know how many Muslim lives have been taken? If they apply the same thought process then they shouldn't adopt the kind of government we're trying to make them adopt simply because we have taken so many of their lives. I think there's a reason we haven't heard any of those stats, I don't think the average American could handle it. Yes we've lost over 3,000 people, I blame Bush, not the Muslims for that, but as I said, how many have they lost? We don't know, but my bets are all in that it's significantly more than we've lost. There are radicals and extremists, and I'm not saying that Saddam should have been left to his own devices, I think we should have gotten him in the Gulf War, but we can't blame the Iraqi people for defending their homes, if a country came here and tried to take over and completely change our system of government would we roll over and take it? Goodness no. We'd fight, and so are they.

4. If you look at Obama, and what he stands for, discrediting him based on religious ties is a slap in the face to all the people who have died fighting for religious freedom, which I guarantee is FAR FAR FAR more than the number of soldiers we have lost in a war that, once again, we started.

My opinion may not be popular among anyone here( and thats ok ! LOL ) but you can bet there are many others out there that probably feel the same.

No offense to you, though you'll probably take it that way, but I certainly hope that there are not many others out there that feel the same. But then again, this is America, since when has America actually stood behind the principles we supposedly stand for?