As our country head toward the primaries and then the elections of '08 I would like to  encourage our elected officials and the mainstream media to consider the words that they will be publishing and uttering in their articles and also in their daily lives.  Our country was founded with a great constitution and also a bunch of amendments that our fore fathers gave us to allow us to  live and communicate with each other but they did not give us the morality and the ethics to go by.  These are things that are taught, displayed and also learned as they are passed on from generation to generation.  I am truly disturbed by the language that we use under the guise of "Freedom of Speech" towards each other.  It is a truly bad example when we have our elected leaders stoop to this level of "free speech" yet they do not have the "marbles" to say what really needs to be said, not just a convenient sound bite.