Letters to the Editor
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doloresflower
I appreciate you taking so much time to answer my questions. Even more, I appreciate fully honest answers, you are fairly unique amongst the Obama supporters, as you have been willing to express concern about certain things he says, and it shows maturity to realize that one can't get everything one wants in a candidate (at least not in this cycle!). I don't feel quite so trusting of Obama as you seem to, but if he wins the nomination, I sincerely hope you are the one who is completely right about him.
I still agree with other posters that the republicans need to be brought to justice, and I'd like to see enough of a democratic majority that they can be investigated, brought to trial, and brought to true justice. They've certainly committed serious crimes, and that's why I do not think they have a place at the table. As I've mentioned elsewhere, it comes down to this, putting rotten food in your meal will not make it more nutritious, and treating insane neocons as having legitimate views (really when do they ever have a legitimate view, i can't think of one thing they've brought into law that wasn't a crime in itself), just pollutes the process. THAT is the way to heal our country of its partisan rifts, by being honest about what's been proposed and dealt with for so many years now. Then maybe some sane republicans can take over their party again, or there can be another party to take their place. I don't want to replace a long period of republican hubris with democratic hubris--though I don't propose that they are equal in that, as democrats squabble to much amongst themselves to ever do to the country what the republicans have done.
--Ron