Senator Obama:

I call on you to acknowledge all your past associations and history to the people you have asked to elect you. Americans surely have a right to fully understand the political philosophy and character of the person who is asking for their vote.

1) Explain why it is that if a regular citizen has the temerity to ask you an economic question, to which you respond, he is then torn apart by a complicit media, as he noted in the following interview:

"It actually upsets me," Mr. Wurzelbacher said. "I am a plumber, and just a plumber, and here Barack Obama or John McCain, I mean these guys are going to deal with some serious issues coming up shortly. The media's worried about whether I paid my taxes, they're worried about any number of silly things that have nothing to do with America. They really don't. I asked a question. When you can't ask a question to your leaders anymore, that gets scary. That bothers me." (Emphasis added.)

Indeed. This does not bode well for the future of a free and open political debate under an Obama presidency.

Incidentally, Senator Obama, it was your answer to that question that was an issue, and not the questioner or the question. Your answer revealed your socialist economic beliefs - something voters have a right to know.

2) Explain how the National Right to Life Committee "lied" about your voting record with the "born alive" act. If the committee did not lie, you must apologize.

Your record stands for itself; the committee did not lie. Your own actions and words have correctly branded you as the most radically pro-abortion candidate ever to run for president. You promised the Planned Parenthood Action Fund on July 17, 2007, that the first thing you would do as president is to sign the Freedom of Choice Act into law, which overturns nearly all states' restrictions on abortion (such as parental notification laws, the partial birth abortion ban, etc.), and even removes from doctors and hospitals their conscientious right to refuse to perform abortion.

In that same speech, you mocked the "culture wars" as "so 90s" - and even scoffed at Justice Kennedy's decision, noting he had no medical training. So - do you similarly mock Justice Blackmun for his failure to grasp embryology in the orginal Roe V Wade decison?

I encourage all voters to look up the YouTube video of this speech for themselves.

3) Explain your association with Jeremiah Wright. You sat in his pews for 20 years, and want voters to believe you had no idea of his political views. A more realistic reading is that you either shared his beliefs, or you didn't mind/can't see racism in this context. None of these options speak well for your judgment - and they certainly go against your claim to be a post-racial healer, who will unite this country.

There is one other possibility that occurs to me. In the late 1960s, when the Black Panthers and Weathermen were active, I attended a progressive high school where black students were bused in from across town. In one social studies class, our teacher brought the black and white students together to talk. We had a very revealing discussion, but no matter how we white students responded to the list of grievances presented to us by black students, one young man informed us that we "had to pay" for the sins of our forefathers. Some of us noted that we were not responsible for slavery and asked - how can we move forward? The rhetoric was very frustrating, and I, a 16-year-old, burst into tears. The young man was shocked, and asked our teacher if I was for real; he assured him I was - that I cared. This young man then told me that what he was saying was "just a rap" - nothing personal. It had never occurred to him before that someone would really believe what he was saying.

Is this the case for you? While sitting in those pews - did you consider Wright's racial vitriol "just a rap"? Or, is black racism more acceptable than white?

4) Explain your long-term association with William Ayers - why you steered funds toward his pet educational projects, and your ongoing relationship with him. Just what did he see in you that made him, as an unrepentant terrorist, think you were someone he could support for public office?

Again, the issue is not that you were eight when Ayers committed his terrorist acts, but that he still holds those repulsive views, and you have recently worked with him to actively further his ideological agenda.

5) Voter fraud/election money: Interestingly, just now, at the end of the campaign, we have learned that individuals at your campaign website may donate under the name of "Saddam Hussein" with an address of "spider hole" and that the money will actually be debited from their accounts; even after the New York Times assured us that your campaign rigorously inspects all donations and they are caught before they are charged. If so, how did "Good Will" make so many donations? This is not true of the McCain website. Theirs has security checks in place, and yours does not. Why is that?

You have denied a connection to ACORN - but your record proves otherwise. You were more than "their lawyer" and in fact, have channeled funds to them.

You were also first elected to public office by challenging signatures, which is very ACORN. I work with liberal lawyers and am all too familiar with this method, which is used here to keep conservative initiatives off the state ballot.

You have also asked ACORN type organizations to "get into people's faces" to campaign for you. This kind of aggressive "voter registration" is wreaking havoc on our political system.

6) Those who disagree with you, for whatever reason, are called "racist" by the media, and indeed, by you and your campaign. We are presumed to not have any other logical reason for preferring to vote for someone who actually more closely shares our values, regardless of his or her color.

If Thomas Sowell were to run for president, I would be happy to cast my vote for him.

So, as you may conclude, I did not vote for you, Senator Obama - because I am a Catholic conservative.

My vote has everything to do with my values and morals, which you obviously do not share. I am not looking for a savior, having already found one. Voters who think you are the messiah really frighten me, and they should you, as well, because you will never be able to live up to their expectations.