I agree with Rocky. This one. But, I am concerned that both sides are so entrenched that they can’t see the shortcomings in their candidate’s campaigns - and issues are sidelined in favor of discussing nonsense. It has been ever thus.

I have to agree with Frank. Abraham Lincoln was a pretty great president. He was said to change a lot in office. His eloquent writings have gone down in history as some of the best to ever have been penned by an American. He believed in God’s divine power although he didn’t attend church. He had no military knowledge at the start of the civil war, but he studied it and became what people called something of a military genius and with his ideas of reoganization the war ended. His Emanicipation Proclamation was eventually used to end slavery. He worked hard. He studied hard. He took nothing for granted. We indeed would be blessed with a man like him in today’s world. I believe the most important president to date.

I think every generation is consumed with their own self-importance, so it is with a dash of humility that I suggest that the election before us is a critical one because of the issues at stake. Will this election be part of that list of most important a hundred years from now?

Hmmm the question is what was the most important election which suggests that we know the issues of the campaign leading up to the election - at first it was too easy for me to think to use the history of their presidency as the yardstick - I agreed with earlier posters who suggested that because Lincoln kept this nation as one he was the greatest. However, when I researched the issues during the 1860 election, the questions of the day were the rights of slave holders and slave states along with measures to encourage industry, a homestead act, and a transcontinental railroad. Upon reading it appears to me that the election itself moved along the ideas of a North and a South seceding from that union. From this site - http://www.tulane.edu/~latner/Background/BackgroundElection.html “The campaign of 1860 demonstrated that a national political system was no longer operating. The contest was actually two elections, one in the North and one in the South. In the North, the Lincoln and Douglas forces vied for victory; in the South the contest was between Breckinridge and Bell. The sections were insulated from each other. Lincoln did not even appear on the ballot in most southern states, and only in a few northern states did Breckinridge muster any discernible support. In the end, Lincoln won the election by carrying seventeen free states, while Breckinridge triumphed in eleven slave states. Neither candidate captured a single state in the opposite section. Bell and Douglas trailed far behind.”

This ONE!!! SARAH PALIN WARNS WAR MAY BE NECESSARY IF RUSSIA INVADES ANOTHER COUNTRY.Source: ABC News THIS IS YOUR WAKE UP CALL!!! DO YOU WANT MORE WARS…PLEASE THINK ABOUT WHO YOU VOTE FOR VERY CAREFULLY…

This one. We need Obama to be Bold, as FDR was bold. This country has been ruined. We are no longer a democracy. We have lost our civil liberties, the Constitution, the Bill of Rights. Even if Obama gets elected, there has been so much damage. We need “Democrats With Balls” - no one else need apply.

Susan Gabriel asked: “Will this election be part of that list of most important a hundred years from now?” Yes, either because we did or didn’t vote Barak Obama into office. As he said in his DNC Acceptance Speech, “We are standing at a defining moment in history.” We’ll either let the country continue to slide into an abyss or we’ll elect new leadership to guide us into a new century with limitless possibilities. The choice is ours. Obama/Biden ‘08

I think back on other elections over my lifetime, and this one definitely stands out as a non-snooze. In my youth, I recall a general ambivalence from the mainstream folks in many elections. Of course, there are always people who get worked up in general elections, but this one seems precipitous at best. I hate to use this pop term, but the “culture war” often seems more heated than the one we’re fighting overseas. I think the world is moving too fast for some people in this country. The resistance to critical progress on so many fronts is appalling.