I am shocked to see your campaign of emails (not 1, not 2, but at least 3 by now) buying into the right wing smear of socialism. Why do you join their red-baiting by characterizing it a "disgusting attack" to call someone a socialist? People all over the world (and a growing number here as the economy fails and people learn more and more about what capitalism does to them) embrace socialist ideals. It is only here that the right tars it as "disgusting" and those who characterize themselves as "progressives" pile on and call the right-wing characterizations "disgusting attacks." Does that make all the many progressives here who embrace socialism (as well as national health care, progressive taxation, substantial estate taxes, generous social safety nets, and an end to the military industrial complex and its war economy) disgusting? Shame on you!