As you know, much is at stake in our democracy these days - and my state of Ohio is now a major battlefield, and likely to continue to be so for the foreseeable future.

My years in the Marine Corps taught me to view life strategically. With that in mind, we must think strategically and act strategically in attacking this political challenge that lies before us with regard to religious extremism in both Ohio and the United States at large. Along with similarly concerned friends, neighbors and colleagues, I am starting a new project called Operation Ohio to sound the alarm to the threat of the theocratic political movement here in Ohio.

This concerns all Americans not only because this movement has roots in all states across America, but because Ohio will determine the direction of our country in 2008.

I need your help to get the project started.

Here is the problem as I see it.

Ohio 2nd Blogger has a post up titled "First Substantive Clash in Senate Primary". Go read it and come back.

I don't have a subscription for the article, but assuming the excerpt is representative of the articles main thrust the differences between Brown and Hackett's Iraq war position hardly seem substantive.

Let's be clear. George Bush and his Republican allies lied us into the Iraq war, and once there have spectacularly lost it. Iraq is broken and cannot be fixed by the United States. What to do now is the big question of the day. Iraq is the single biggest issue this country faces. From the continuing loss of life, to the economic drain.