Archbishop Desmond Tutu has given his support to Amnesty International’s campaign to free the 2,200 political prisoners in Burma.

He has joined the growing campaign by raising his palm with the detained opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi’s name on it – a symbolic act of fearlessness and defiance in Burma - and is calling on everybody who values human rights and justice to do the same.

I have been very fortunate to have been given opportunities to contribute in a small way to the development of our new democratic, exhilarating, exasperating nation, and to have travelled the world as a representative, first of our collective apartheid anxiety, and later, of our promise and our hope.

I retired as Archbishop of Cape Town in 1996. Then I retired again, after completion of the work of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. But my mission determined that I continue to work, and my schedule has grown increasingly punishing over the years.

I've extrapolated what will happen if Republicans win the House and/or Senate in a nightmare scenario. Be afraid - be very afraid.

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54 percent: Number of voters in a new CNN poll who say their vote in November is not intended as message to Pres. Obama. The poll found that 20 percent said their vote would be a signal of support for the president, while 24 percent said they would be voting to show their displeasure.

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