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5.20.08 @ 12:01AM

THE LADY FROM HOPE
Re: Robert Stacy McCain's Hoarse Race:

Oh, ye of little faith!

So long as there is a microphone available or a courthouse open, Hillary will fight on: house by house, brick by brick, with half-truths and big lies, spin and dirty political tricks, with race cards and gender cards, with tears and with sneers, with knives and boiling oil, with rocks and sticks.

And in the process, she will lay bare what the Democratic Party really is. It would be a terrific opportunity for the Republican Party, if such a thing still existed.
-- Martin Owens
Sacramento, California

Senator Obama is quoted as follows: "We can't drive our SUVs and eat as much as we want and keep our homes on 72 degrees at all times...and then just expect that other countries are going to say OK..."

So, I guess he has turned his attention from those who cling to religion or guns to those who cling to their cars, their thermostats, and their food. It's clear he's trying to bring us all together -- so that with one united voice...we can reject him!
-- James M. Thunder
McLean, Virginia

JIMMY THE SECOND
Re: John Samples' What's So Great about the Great Society?:

Thanks for the enlightening "What's So Great About the Great Society?" by John Samples. Obama may intend to be another Johnson, but he's more likely to end up as another Jimmy Carter. The Feds' monetary policies will likely create high inflation for the next four years and possibly stagflation. On foreign policy, Obama follows Carter every step. As a result, Iran is likely to make Obama appear as weak and appeasing as it did Carter. Obama is destined to be a black peanut farmer.
-- Roger D. McKinney
Broken Arrow, Oklahoma

Mr. Samples is certainly correct in his comments on "The Great Society." But I believe Mr. Obama is more accurately compared to the illustrious Mr. Jimmy Carter.

If we review Mr. Obama's comments about the environment and national security he sounds like Mr. Carter reincarnated.

Mr. Carter relied on peaceful dialogue to make the world love "a more reasoned America," as the democrats now say. That reasoned dialogue resulted in communist influence taking root in Central America, where there are today, three governments of that ilk or at the least moving in that direction, all of whom hate the USA.

It resulted in the abject humiliation the U.S. in Iran, where our sovereign territory was invaded and our people captured by a renegade government. Mr. Carter's response? None that anyone can recall. When finally, desperate to resurrect his political life and career, he finally authorized military action he botched that as well. Too little too late and our troops died to no avail. (see also, Harry Truman: Korea; Lyndon Baines Johnson: Vietnam; and Bill Clinton : Mogadishu, Somalia)

The Russians felt emboldened, by all this dithering and reasoned conversation, to advance their agenda of world control in Africa, the Middle East, and in Afghanistan. This time Mr. Carter reacted forcefully! He refused to allow American athletes the opportunity to compete in the Moscow Olympics. By God!

Mr. Carter's other shining legacy is domestic: The Department of Energy. It is a monstrous bureaucracy into the alimentary canal of which hundreds of millions of dollars have been pushed without a single energy bowel movement to show for it.

From close attention to Mr. Obama's words, it seems he will reenact the Carter years, talk to our enemies, provide them with endless "If you do that one more time...." chances; create even more bureaucracy and throw in the socialist hijack of our medical system.

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