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4.18.08 @ 12:01AM

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Pax tecum,
-- Vincent Chiarello
Reston, Virginia

For anyone who believes (or is open to non-belief but the ultimate truth of logic), please read works by St. Augustine, such as The City of God, Moses Maimonides' Guide of the Perplexed or Baruch Spinoza's Ethics. After reading them, if one can still say that reason and faith are mutually contradictory, that person makes a mockery of what he calls god, reason itself.
-- Ira M. Kessel
Rochester, New York

FOOD FOR VOTES
Re: Philip Klein's Stuttering Democrats:

Both of these candidates are obvious lightweights to those Americans who still believe in capitalism and a strong national security posture. Is that the majority of the American electorate -- or does the "free lunch crowd" finally take control?
-- Arnold Ahlert
Boca Raton, Florida

Mr. Klein has submitted a good column on Hillary and Barack from the standpoint of the general election. Unfortunately, they are in the process of arguing with each other in an effort to influence the Democrat base that votes in primaries. So the question arises, did the general confusion, duplicity, and ignorance exhibited on stage matter? Perhaps, at the margins. Not, I suspect, in significant numerical terms. I suspect that the vote has been decided, within plus or minus 3 - 4 points for a couple of weeks now. In my view, the fact that the polls shift significantly means nothing. People will tell the pollsters what they want to hear, or what the people think that the societal elite want to hear. We have known that for ages now. The Obama supporters are locked in, and he can say and do almost anything without effecting their voting behavior significantly. Hillary's supporters are locked in in spite of what she says and does. She is NOT an unknown quantity to folks that go out and vote in Democrat primaries, or any of the rest of us really.

As for whether they are beatable, sure they are. Almost any good, honorable, articulate conservative, Republican could beat them, I believe. Heck, I even believe that someone from the Democrat Auxiliary party, like John McCain, can probably beat them. The Democrats have demonstrated, in my opinion, that they are absolutely determined to snatch defeat from the certain jaws of victory in this election cycle. I can think of a half a dozen loyal Democrat elected officials that would be dead bang, sure fire winners, but the Democrat activists, leaders, and loyal sheep are determined not to allow any of those type of Democrats anywhere near the convention, much less on the POTUS ballot.
-- Ken Shreve
New Hampshire

"Meanwhile, Obama declared that because Wright served as a Marine, 'I believe that he loves this country.' I'd wager that most Americans who listened to Wright shout, 'God damn America' would come to a different conclusion."

Just one question Phil: Have you served your country?
-- Erik von Gohren

"It may very well be that with an unpopular incumbent president in office, a controversial war, and an uncertain economy, the deck is just too stacked against Republicans this election year for them to retake the White House."

After an excellent analysis of the debate, you choose to end on this pessimistic note. Just what we need, a domestic politics "surrender monkey."
-- Harold Weinstein

TRIPLE C'S
Re: Quin Hillyer's Symptoms of a Larger Democratic Illness:

In the last seven-plus years of distortion, giving aid and comfort to our enemies, and all attempts to undermine our military and the president, Democrats have bristled when anyone dares to question
their patriotism. Well I question it. Patriots don't put our troops in further danger just to score cheap political points.

Only liberal Democrats do. And they aren't "ill," as Mr. Hillyer would like us to believe -- unless you consider cowardice, calculation, and contemptibility to be illnesses.
-- Arnold Ahlert
Boca Raton, Florida

COLD RECEPTION
Re: Peter Suderman's Legacy of a Lame Duck:

A "lame duck" that's looking more like "duck and cover," Mr. Suderman. William F. Buckley isn't even cold in his grave, and already it seems Whittaker Chambers had it right after all. We lose.

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