Letters to the Editor
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Published Letters: 20 Editor's Choice: 1
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What type of Leader is he?
[Read the article: Moving beyond Obama and race]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]What do we really know about the man, Obama? You can't pick your family, but you do make a decision on the Church you go to. Obama CHOSE the right Rev. Wright! What exactlt did his wife mean when she said for the first time she is proud of her country? Put that together with his statement of his own grandmother, even the fact that he would use her for cheap politics tells me something about the fabric of the man.
The country has suffered for eight years because it bought into the " change" of compassionate conservatism (?) dare we do it again?
I for one will not!!
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You are missing the point
[Read the article: Rev. Jeremiah Wright isn't the problem]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I think that the writer is missing the point of people's concerns over Rev. Wright. In the candidacy of Obama we are being asked to believe that he has some innate judgement that will overcome his total lack experience to run the greatest power on earth.
To me this is not about Rev. Wright, but about the judgement of someone who had to on some level agree with the reverend's comments. If Obama disagreed we would expect that he would use his judgement and decide to pray in another Church.
It is one thing to feel you don't have to wave the flag to prove to anyone you are a " patriot". It is quite another to have a mentor who states the government gave some of it's citizens aids!!
It is really sad to watch the democrats throw away election after election.
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This race is Toxic
[Read the article: Clinton: Wright "would not have been my pastor"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]What Clinton and Obama are doing is making the winner of the primary unelectable. Maybe they think by doing this they only have to wait four years to run again. No matter the reason, each has poisoned the other just enough to tilt the election to McCain.
As much as people hate the idea that this can happen, most folks know it is true. I only takes a shift of 2-4 percent of the voters to tilt a national election.
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Stop the Noise!
[Read the article: Hillary's team crosses the line]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]These daily attacks on one campaign or the other has made political discourse unbearable. Let's start with the writer's complaint. Clinton gets battered for hours each day by the cable talking heads. Going to an outlet that will get out your point of view is something that anyone would do. Next, let's admit that both candidates have " crossed the line" for months.
Early on Obama and Edwards jumped on Clinton and all but used the right wing attack line that she could not be trusted. finally, the quote from that general about New York and Miami, is a thinly disguised slur that somehow jews are some type of fifth column, more concerned about Israel than the U.S. For this, I do consider him a bigot.
Finally, the country faces real issues. We have heard about 20 debates just on the democratic side below. Where do the candidates stand on the inflation we are seeing in food prices, what would they do to make the U.S. more competitive in the world? What do they think about the second amendment case that just went before the supreme court? What would they do to stop the killing in Dafur?
I have heard the saying " people get the government they deserve", it seems we also get the press we deserve.
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Obama will lose in the General Election
[Read the article: Obama and the white working class]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Obama is clearly a great speaker. Put that together with his being very bright, relatively young and you have an impressive package. In a primary race,where your opponent is older, not a great speaker and most importantly can only glance over at your imperfections, and you have the receipe for success.
This all falls apart in a general election campaign. The airwaves would be filled with what Obama said if this was the general election and he would be trounced.
So, my prediction is that the Matthews, Cafferty's and Russert's of the world will get the match they hoped for and the outcome they know will happen. That is the democrats will find a way to lose in a year when it is almost impossible.
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The Great Unwashed
[Read the article: The rubes and the elites]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]It is kind of funny to read the messages from Obamaites.
Who cares that he called some undefined group of people, small minded and bigoted. According to his fans, anyone who does not support this fellow is clearly some type of misfit. Who cares, when called on something like this, first his people deny it, and then when faced with a tape recording explain oh he said it you just are not smart enough to understand his deeper meaning!
I think when Hillery cried in NH, it was because she understood that making Obama the dem candidate would give the Rep. another at least four years to decimate this country.
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McCain The Winner
[Read the article: Will Obama's debate stumble hurt him?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I am afraid there is nothing that Obama can now do that will cost him the Democratic nmination. I find what the press is doing now is sort of like the umpire giving a break to the losing team after, earlier helping the winning team. This way when we look back people will say they were tough on both candidates.
This contest has disgusted me. I have voted in more than 1o presidential contests, never for a Republican. That will change with the nomination of Obama.
The Democrats have to pray for a depression type economy along with bad news in the war. It will be interesting to look at a map in September and see which states are safe democratic states at that time.