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• Wednesday, June 25, 2008 12:35 PM

  Axordil, I am a lot of things but a Freeper I am not.

  Axordil, thanks for proving my point about the intolerance of dissent.

  I am many things but a Freeper is not on the list of those things that I am. I've been a regular on Salon's Table Talk since the late 1990's. I supported Howard Dean in 2003 and 2004. I am hoping beyond hope that Obama implodes before Denver and the Democratic Party drafts a reluctant Al Gore for an eight week sprint to the finish. That the best you can do is call me a Freeper says more about you than it does me.

  If we can't trust a strongly Democratic congress in a divided government to stand up to an opposition party candidate, damned if I can see where we can trust 'em to stand up to the cult of personality surrounding Obama.

  It took a Republican (Nixon) to go to China. Given his rhetoric and his comments about Social Security in "crisis" and his opposition to mandates, I wonder if it will take a (putative) Democrat to utterly destroy Social Security and any chance we might have at universal health care.

  Paul Lukasiak has made the point in his letters on these forums that Obama, like Dubya, is an opportunist whereas McCain, like Clinton, is a pragmatist. Me? I'll take my chances with the pragmatist as opposed to the opportunistic leader of a cult. That doesn't make me a Freeper. That makes me an American. Deal with it.

  —Roman Berry Read Roman Berry's other letters
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