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5.13.08 @ 12:01AM

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What a wonderful article! It should be required reading for all 535 jackasses in you-know-where, with a test at the end. Anyone failing the test should have to go out and actually earn a living doing whatever it was they did before they were elected.

Americans today are sheeple. If we'd get rid of the Imperial class in Washington, and stop wringing our hands about how bad things are, we could get on with this country's future, as was envisioned by the Founders.
-- R. Goodson
Vero Beach, Florida

The only thing more embarrassing than Barack Obama's sympathetic leanings towards terrorist organizations is the likelihood that he'll win a majority of the Jewish vote in the 2008 election.
-- Arnold Ahlert
Boca Raton, Florida

You've probably received about as many emails on the subject, but "milliard" in French means a billion, not a million.
-- Ted Angell

TELL ME A LIE
Re: Andrew Cline's Who's the Real Elitist?:

Elitist or not, the voters gave us eight years of Bill. Kind of proves her point, does it not? It works so she's going to work it. Hillary HAS been around the block on this one.

It's like Phil Mickelson at tournament time. Somebody ought to ask old Phil, "hey Phil, do you want to win or would you rather keep slapping golf balls all over the course; into the woods, the sand, the water, et al. If you want to win shorten that swing a bit, if not, by all means knock yourself out.
-- Jim Jackson

Mr. Cline you ask; "So in the end, who is the real elitist?" You argue that it is, indeed, Hillary Rodham, not Obama. Sir, you are wrong. The answer, clearly, is both of them. I would argue that Mr. and Mrs. Obama are the worst. They do not even pretend to identify with the rubes. They are above that.

Oh, Michele Obama attempts to get us to identify with how picked on and disadvantaged, how victimized, she and her husband are. I know that I always worry about how victimized those in the upper 5% of the wealthy of this country are. At least Hillary pretends to be one of the boys. I mean, we know that she isn't, and would be horrified to actually be one of us, but she does go to the trouble to pretend, as if we do matter for something.

That said, I would vote for a yellow dog before I would vote for either one of them. That would be as bad as voting for McCain. I started following politics closely with Harry Truman (I was living and being raised in the Washington DC suburbs). This is the first Presidential election that I can remember that the GOP put up a moderate Democrat to run against the liberal Democrat of the Democrat party.
-- Ken Shreve
New Hampshire

Mr. Cline justifiably takes Mrs. Clinton to task for pretending to know the difference between Glock and a Lugar. However, if he means she pretends to know the difference between a Glock pistol and Senator Lugar, well, she probably does. But if his point is that she really doesn't know the difference between two pistols, a Glock and a Luger, then he needs a better editor or a more informed spell-checker.
-- Michael C. Durney

THE WEBB SLINGER
Re: W. James Antle III's The Audacity of Webb:

Webb suffers from Split Personality Disorder coupled with Boorish Overlay Syndrome. And he always looks as if he's just polished off a keg, too. Or two.
-- Wolf Terner
Fair Lawn, New Jersey

AGREE TO AGREE
Re: Mike Dooley's letter (under "Let's Get Serious") in Reader Mail's Miss Teen USA:

Common ground! I agree with practically everything written in Mr. Dooley's last letter. One possible exception concerns Supply Side economics. I refer all to Ben Stein's March 9th column in the New York Times. In this article, Mr. Stein wrote:" The next thing is that the Republican Party (my party and yours) has for the last 30 years or so been operating under a demonstrably false and misleading premise: that tax cuts pay for themselves by generating so much economic growth that they replace the sums lost by tax cutting." Because of this, Mr. Reagan was forced to start the unfortunate trend of putting American on the equivalent of a national credit card with no limit. With both parties being complicit, our federal government has been a most irresponsible user of that "credit card" for the past seven and a half years. One other point. I believed President Clinton and the Republican controlled Congress did agree to "pay as you go" rules which had a salutary effect on budget deficits and the national debt during the Clinton administration.
-- Mike Roush
North Carolina

Letter to the Editor

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