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8.2.04 @ 12:01AM

SOUL AND HEART
Re: Lawrence Henry's Me and My Radio:

If anyone doubts the soul of conservatives, I happily urge them to spend a little time digging through the Lawrence Henry archive on this website. The man is a treasure and I never miss his column. Thanks for providing regular real estate for his thoughts at the Spectator.
-- Hunter Baker

HE AIN'T WORTH A LICK
Re: Enemy Central's Heaven Can Wait:

Do you suppose the Democrats registered Licorice and had him vote absentee after Kerry's life-saving heroics?
-- Gregory Baum
Westerville, Ohio

REAL SHADOWS
Re: Shawn Macomber's Action Jackson, Hall of Kerry, Protest City, and Rhythm and Blues:

I have actually enjoyed Shawn's description of that circus called the Democratic Convention this week. I think his columns summed up just how absurd these people really are and how out of touch with reality they have become. The shadow convention he speaks of was in actuality the real convention. That circus with the Kerry clown and others was the shadow convention. That was a show put on to entice the ignorant and uninformed among us. The activities taking place over at the "Take Back America" section was the real Democratic Party. These are the people who want to run our country. This is where Howard Dean, Jesse Jackson, and every other political misfit with an agenda stand out because these are the foot soldiers of the Democrat Party who are funded by the elitist left wingers who have gotten rich off our sweat all the while denouncing us. Kerry is nothing more than an effigy with moving lips who, if elected, will become just a conduit for all their ideas.

However, I don't think Kerry is going to make it. After viewing the events, it seems these people are on a track to disaster. They had their time in the spotlight and they have blown it. It boils down now to whether the ignorant and uninformed among us constitute a majority on election day. Chances are, they'll have something better to do on that day than voting. Let's hope so.
-- Pete Chagnon

According to the San Diego Union Tribune, Dana Wilkie, quotes Emma Lazarus, when she refers to the poem "The New Colossus." For instance, she refers to the line, "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to be free," at the same time she notes Jesse Jackson's statement that Jesus is a liberal. The poem refers to the elimination of all bigotry and the promise that all new citizens would be able to find safe harbor in the refuge of a new country. But the question we can ask ourselves now is, does this statement of Emma Lazarus hold up true today?
-- Jeanne-Marie Morrissey
Montpelier, Vermont

TONE POEM
Re: David Hogberg's Soft on Terrorism:

Referring specifically to David Hogberg's "Soft on Terrorism" article of July 30, and other pieces written lately at the Spectator, WHO CARES that Nancy Pelosi has a "monotone"? I mean, who cares? Isn't this just juvenile name calling? Really, how does this advance your point of view? It has nothing to do with the issues that you care about. Would you say that about a candidate you support? Would you say that about the President, that he is well known for screwing up the English language?

I'm am liberal politically. If I were a political commentator, I wouldn't mention ridiculous side points, like whether Sen. Kerry was sweating during his speech, or whether Vice President Cheney swore at a member of Congress, or whether Sen. Kerry looked goofy in a clean-suit. I would STICK TO THE ISSUES. And frankly, name calling just decreases the space you have to discuss the issues, and, as far as I feel, just dilutes your message to me, and makes me trust your points of view all the less.

Believe it or don't, I actually try to put myself in the writer's point of view when I read one of your articles. I really believe in political discourse, in talking about the issues. Don't YOU any more? Whenever I see name-calling, I just trust the writer so much less. Is this what your supposedly "correct, right-thinking" journalism has come to, NAME CALLING? I mean, who the hell cares?
-- David Scott Pearce
Washington, D.C.

Why are John Kerry and the Democrats afraid of the T-words? It's simple. They're just engaged in their favorite past-time: cognitive dissonance. Maybe it's better put: "See no evil, hear no evil."

So, if they say "terrorist" and "terrorism," that means they may have to actually do something, if pushed hard enough and long enough. And if they have to deal with the two Ts -- which they do not want to do, regardless of Mr. Kerry's Boston bluster -- all they can creatively muster is their failed law-and-enforcement, send-the-T-for-terrorists-a-legal summons approach. They also would resort to the standard America-is-to-blame-for-everything, we'll-rollover-and-surrender approach favored by the European-appeasers wing of the Democrat Party.

All the makeup in the world-and all the putrid partisan puffery that they'll protect America, etc. -- cannot hide the senator's and the Democrats' history of weakness on national security and their associated anti-military posture.

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