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2.22.08 @ 12:01AM

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Any questions?
-- Arnold Ahlert
Boca Raton, Florida

With respect to Sen. McCain's alleged affair, I agreed with everything Mr. Freire said up to the point where he claimed that "Conservatives will likely rally for McCain."

We conservatives will hold our nose and vote for McCain but to say we would "rally" for him is optimistic. What is it about "holding one's nose" that Freire doesn't understand? It means we're voting against the Democrat candidate, not for the Republican candidate.

Frankly, I was momentarily happy to hear about the alleged affair. It allowed me to indulge briefly in a fantasy about back-room deals and brokered conventions, resulting in a strong conservative emerging as the new candidate of the Republican Party.

Speaking of the Democrat candidate, I believe I've found Obama's greatest weakness -- the man is boring. The explanation as to why seems simple enough. As George Neumayr points out, "The only variation in his speeches comes from the slight rearrangement of cliches."

More than five minutes of an Obama speech and I'm tempted to rally for McCain.
-- C. V. Crisler
Gilbert, Arizona

SAY IT, DON'T SPRAY IT
Re: George Neumayr's If It Feels Good, Say It:

Mr. Neumayr has caught the essence of the Obama campaign. Indeed, the entire liberal movement is here in a nutshell. The platitudes uttered by Obama and also by Hillary Clinton are verbal placebos for the multitudes who believe that good intentions are the most important things politicians can provide. The Democratic Party, a party to which I belonged for more than half my life, has descended into morass of unclear intentions and vague solutions. This is the ultimate triumph of style over substance and Obama is the high priest of the Democratic Party church. The credo is the buzz word "change," the catechism is public policy, the tithe is the over taxation, and the sacrament is the redistribution of wealth via the government.

Obama is a textbook socialist who no longer even tries to hide it. He is so confident that the American voter is both too stupid to see the dangers of his vague proposals, and/or too busy to care. If History has shown us anything, it has shown us that demagogues make very poor leaders after they have been empowered. The lesson for the multitudes will come too late if Obama is allowed to make a Jonestown out of the USA.
-- Joseph Baum
Garrettsville, Ohio

It's good to see George Neumayr back in The American Spectator.

As for Obamamania, it is but one of the prices that we are now paying for allowing the Left to have a near monopoly in the running of the public schools. Today's public schooling involves more than just dumbing down traditional subjects like reading & writing, American history, math & science, etc. It also includes substituting emotion and feelings for the ability to think and reason as well as indoctrinating the kiddies in the comfort of the collective.

Given the state of public education, a phenomenon like Obama was due to happen sooner or later. Let's hope that the attraction for Obama's sugary emptiness is confined to the Democratic Party.
-- Peter Skurkiss
Stow, Ohio

My own generation of Baby Boomers was taught that thinking and feeling are interchangeable. They passed that pernicious nonsense on to their kids. Liberalism exploits this terminal adolescence, but Obama has apparently mastered the nuances better than Clinton.

Here's hoping the majority of American elect an adult -- warts and all -- in November.
-- Arnold Ahlert
Boca Raton, Florida

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