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1.8.08 @ 12:01AM

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It's a better "modest proposal" than Jonathon Swift's.
-- Jay Molyneaux
Denver, North Carolina

I wish the next President enlists Mr. Stein as an advisor in their administration.
-- Jan Wood

SAVE THE DRAMA FOR OBAMA
Re: Philip Klein's Barack to Square One:

Philip Klein needs to do a little more reading. On Monday, Daniel Pipes and Melanie Phillips both published stories regarding Obama's "Muslim problem:" Pipes claims Obama had a "reasonably Muslim upbringing," and Phillips contends that he has a close association with Kenya's Raila Odinga, a man who "promised to implement strict Islamic Sharia law if he received the Muslim vote and was elected president."

One can only imagine what a certain Senator from NY will do with such "ammunition."
-- Arnold Ahlert
Boca Raton, Florida

I did enjoy reading your column on the GOP and Obama.

These are my reasons as to why I would never vote for Obama. As an aside, I was born in Chicago and raised there and in some of the suburbs. I had relatives who lived on the south side of Chicago and I spent a great deal of my time there.

Now my reasons.

I believe that Obama is getting support from Farrakhan. Could be wrong but I do find places on the web sites that shows them together. I should think Obama would represent Pastor Farrakhan very well. I believe Obama has been affected by Muslim relatives he has. That worries me. I believe the minister who runs the south side of Chicago church that Obama and family attend when they are at home in the Windy City is a man who has a tendency to be anti-white.

I believe that Obama did very little while in the State of Illinois legislature as far as representing his voters in any positive manner.

I believe he is not experienced enough to be president.

I believe he will send all kinds of money, if he can get it from Congress, to the continent of Africa. We already over spend on so many other foreign countries, including Africa, sending even more to places like Kenya causes me to throw in the towel. I know Rowan Scarborough has written on this matter today but I don't agree with him and I do respect Rowan.

My husband died this year. He was a retired Marine Corps pilot. We lived in base housing in NC., SC, and CA. I do not have any prejudices against people who are different then I am. So it doesn't matter to me if our next president was black, I just don't want Obama.
-- Mrs. Jo Dermody
Little Meadows, Pennsylvania

The article "Barack to Square One" highlights what I think is probably the biggest flaw in the Republican Party. The author speaks about how candidates will need to change the campaign strategy if Barack Obama wins the nomination for presidential candidate for the Democrat party. The truth is that the strategy does not need to change, the strategy needs to be that the Republican candidate will maintain bedrock conservative values. Lower taxes, reduced spending, less regulation, less intrusion into our privacy, a strong defense, a strict-constructionist judiciary, policies that reward individual effort at home and America first abroad are all winning campaign platforms. I have heard talk radio giants Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity say these things hundreds of times and their "base" is larger than that of any current candidate.

We do not need Republicans who will run "against" Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, or John Edwards. We need candidates who will run "for" and champion a strong conservative platform. Our candidates need to educate the electorate on how these conservative policies have made and will make their lives better. Very few of the electorate will vote for higher taxes. People want to know that the law will be applied consistently and understandably, not in the arbitrary way that some sharp legal mind was able to make an argument. The vast majority of our citizens want to see our country respected in the world for its individual greatness, rather than loved because we abandoned our principles to embrace the values of the world community.

Letter to the Editor

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Taxes, Foreign Policy, Education, Barack Obama, Islam, Hollywood, Law, Military, Iraq, Pakistan, NATO, Africa, Conservatism, Oil