An appeal: Get a fucking grip, Obama.

I've started to follow various fact-checking websites -- among them factcheck.org.  Some with a clear political agenda and some which I hope are as non-partisan and independent as they advertise.  It worries me that Obama seems to engage in much the same tactics of half-truths and distortions in his ads as the McCain campaign.  Admittedly these distortions are not (yet) of the same magnitude as the outright lies that McCain tries to propagate, but nonetheless, they are distorions and inaccuracies.

Obama, what are you doing?  What the hell is wrong with you? 

I understand that winning the election is important.  The US and the world cannot take four more years of the sort of inept leadership we've seen the past 8 years.  That much is clear to everyone.  

Every reasonably intelligent person who bothers to read up on voting records, recent history and can judge for themselves understand that McCain and Palin are The Wrong Stuff.  They understand how McCain is flip-flopping too fast for cameras to catch and that he is too old and too ignorant. They understand that Palin is a religious nut who believes she is on a mission from God and can't wait for the end of the world to come about. 

By stooping to the levels of the McCain/Palin you are risking too much.

Have some respect for the voter.  Keep this campaign about the issues.  Make sure everything your ads say is the truth.  Sort of the truth does not cut it.