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3.31.08 @ 12:01AM

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Secondly, what Madame Hillary does not seem to understand is the difference between a $30B loan guarantee for JP Morgan vs. a $30B outright giveaway to state and local governments to purchase foreclosed properties. In the case of JPM, it is simply a backstop to underwrite liabilities on Bear Stearns' ledger (which the USG shouldn't be involved with from the get-go). In the other case, it is simply an exercise of direct welfare for those who do not know how to make informed decisions and who refuse to take individual responsibility for those decisions when they go bad.

In either case, the taxpayer gets to sit in the middle and suck on it.
-- Owen H. Carneal, Jr.
Yorktown, Virginia

ISN'T IT RICH?
Re: James Bowman's Bill Clinton Was Right:

Mr. Bowman's essay is very insightful and I believe very accurate. Mr. McGovern was an unprincipled man who tapped into what my Dad called the "rich kids' rage." He explained that to mean that we had a generation raised by veterans of WWII, who hand been told there would be no hardship anymore -- we won the war. Then they found out they couldn't stay in college for the rest of their lives. For that epic wrong rich kids hated America.

Mr. McGovern made that hatred the underpinning of his entire Presidential campaign. Unfortunately for Mr. McGovern only a small percentage of Americans felt that hatred.

But I believe what William F. Buckley called "liberal mania" was born from this Democrat candidate. Distorted Democrat thinking viewed the loss as some great evil visited on them by the Republican anti-Christ and they to this day continue to hate America in the fiber of their party.

Their actions speak loudly. John Kerry ostensibly trying to aid the North Vietnamese in Paris; Jane Fonda and Ramsey Clark trying to get our soldiers killed by encouraging the NVA to keep on fighting. Nancy Pelosi going to Syria and thinking she was empowered to represent Israel while running down our country to them.

I think there is nothing new under the sun and that Hate America First will have to be surgically from their body politic.

I only wish more Americans could be exposed to irrefutable logic of Mr. Bowman's prose.
-- Jay Molyneaux
North Carolina

While there are sill conservatives fawning over Barack Obama for his ability to enunciate, James Bowman was correct when he congratulated Bill Clinton for getting right about Obama's lack of patriotism. Obama long before the Jeremiah Wright scandal broke made clear he was a member of the anti-American left and ready to sell out the U.S. to tin pot dictators in Iran, Venezuela and North Korea. What the Wright controversy has left unspoken is that Barack Obama's political soul mates are not George McGovern and Ted Kennedy, but Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Hugo Chavez and Kim Jong-il.
-- Michael Tomlinson
Jacksonville, North Carolina

Never thought I'd ever give Bill Clinton a nod for anything, but as you point out Mr. Bowman, he has adroit political instincts. So, with respect to his comments about Barack Obama, here's a little tribute to the virtually unchallenged Demo Senator from Illinois, who hopefully, will remain thus, leaving the executive branch to the GOP.

Jeremiah Was My Pastor (with thanks to 3 Dog Night)

Jeremiah was my pastor (at Trinity)
And a good friend of mine
I never listened to a single sermon there
But, I always drank the wine
Yeah, they always had some mighty fine wine.
And we sang...

Joy to the world
It's for all the boys and girls
Joy to liberation theology
Joy to you and me

When I am the President
Tell you what I'll do
I'll outlaw cars, and cigars, and all wars
And raise your taxes, too
Singin'...

Letter to the Editor

topics:
Taxes, Barack Obama, Nancy Pelosi, Bill Clinton, Business, Constitution, Law, Iran, Israel, NATO