Reply #1: I already told him. See my journal. :)

[Syrinx]

I supported him over Earl Hilliard because he is obviously more intelligent, educated and polished than Hilliard, and seemingly more honest.

However, how honest can he really be now that he has voted to allow torture, which doesn't work anyway, as a means for extracting useful intelligence, and probably more importantly, to send up the river eight or nine centuries of Western judicial principle?

The son of a bitch defiled the memory of his own ancestors. For his own ambition.

Apparently he thinks that the only way to satisfy his own ego and to become the first African-American statewide office holder from Alabama is to defile and destroy the very principles that made America great in the first place.

Not only did he vote to allow torture, he voted to dismantle the Writ Of Habeas Corpus. He gave the president the authority to lock up anyone that he doesn't like. Anyone the president has a personal grudge against.

Tomorrow, Bush could have John Kerry, John Edwards, Howard Dean, Michael Moore, Keith Olbermann, and you locked up. And none of those prisoners would even have the right to ask "Hey, why am I locked up?"

This is a time that will live in infamy. This is potentially, and likely, the death of the American experiment in what we call Democracy. And Artur Davis has been an enabler. His seat in Congress has never been in question. Yet he bowed to what he considered to be political expediency anyway.

Earl Hilliard is a clown and a buffoon. Hilliard is a racist and an anti-Semite who enjoyed cozy relationships with mideast dictators, but he would have never voted for, in my opinion, legislation that gives our evil, idiot president dictatorial powers.

That's why I, unless someone convinces me otherwise, will be writing Hilliard's name on my ballot in three weeks.