While negative press coverage abounds for the John McCain ticket, there exists a mysterious lack of real investigative coverage concerning his rival, Barack Obama.

Obama is an unknown quantity on almost every important issue, yet his activist background is invisible. All we hear is how his election is a foregone conclusion. Is the press afraid to question the qualifications and motives of a black candidate?

I agree with Sarah Palin who said Obama's comments on the war "disqualify him to be commander-in-chief."

And not one in 20 people can explain what a "community organizer" is. All that is publicly known, (so far), is that Obama represented ACORN in Chicago in a 1994 class-action lawsuit against Citibank to force high-risk mortgages for minorities. We have all seen where this mindset is exactly what caused the recent bail-out nightmare. Obama was the problem, not the solution.

Mainers write daily that they are fed up with taxation that gets funneled to the welfare class, yet they seem unaware that is exactly what Obama intends to do as president.

We expect the press to venture beyond the biased "puff piece" and do all they can to reveal who is this stranger that may soon have his finger on the nuclear button and inside our wallets. Anything less is journalistic malpractice.

Jeffrey K. Jacob

Corinna