Don't be fooled... Editorial submission by Cliff Wallace This past summer I was visiting my daughter in Milwaukee at the same time the NAACP was holding its national convention. One of the featured speakers was Julian Bond, a noted civil rights leader and former mayor of Atlanta. As one might imagine, he was not complimentary of President Bush and republicans in general. One of his statements quoted in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel on July 10, 2005 "hit the nail right on the head" for me. He said, "They (the republicans) profess to be true believers, but they're really true deceivers." These few short words did the best job of describing the fraud they, the republicans, have perpetrated on the people of our nation and on the state of Kentucky. Because of their seemingly endless supply of money, they have been able to saturate the media with their phony catch phrases like "family values" or "rock solid values." Generally when you hear these terms describing a candidate you assume their values are "good" and similar to your own. I was a teacher and school administrator for over thirty years and had the opportunity to deal with hundreds of families. They all had values. Some good – some not so good. Some modeled honesty and a strong work ethic, while others valued short term material gain and their own needs over the educational and emotional needs of their children. In 2003 Kentucky elected a governor and several other republicans who claimed to have "rock solid" values. I agree that they do in fact have "rock solid" values; values which they have clearly demonstrated over the past two years. They have shown us the true meaning of dishonesty, corruption, and a general disregard for the law. They have raised our taxes and then lied, calling those taxes "revenue neutral." They have shown they value personal power and wealth over providing adequate funding for our schools. In 2000, we elected a president who claims to be a "person of faith" who would restore honesty and dignity to the White House; a person who promised to take the moral "high ground." Now we find evidence that points to the fact that we went to war with Iraq under false pretense (where were those weapons of mass destruction?). If this proves to be the case, what kind of morality is this? How are these values "good" and in the best interest of our country? I have always been taught that "talk is cheap," "actions speak louder than words," and "people are what they do, not what they say." I believe the people of our great nation are starting to recall these "values" and will no longer allow themselves to be fooled by the "great deceivers" in Washington and in Frankfort.