In America we encourage 18 year olds to vote for the commander in chief of our armed forces who is also the person who can take our country to war. And yet many Americans dishonor and disrespect the moral right and maturity of 18 year olds to choose a bed partner.

Our prurient puritanical views and obsession with sex is unhealthy and unwise. It's time to put things in perspective.

President Obama throws open the windows of transparency while mayor Adams continues to guard the darkened cave of public housing statistical data. Sam Adams avoids any public discussion much less admission that paying public employees more than a thousand dollars a month for health insurance is unsustainable and an insult to taxpayers. For this Sam Adams must and will be held accountable.

Mayor Sam Adams must be held to account for his public policy positions NOT his private peccadilloes.

Richard Ellmyer Oregon Community Health Care Bill author and project champion President, MacSolutions Inc. - A Macintosh computer consulting business providing web hosting for artists and very small businesses. Writer/Publisher - Oregon Health Watchers - Published on the Internet (http://www.goodgrowthnw.org/health.html) and distributed to thousands of readers interested in public health care policy in Oregon.

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