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6.6.08 @ 12:01AM

DREAM TICKET MUSINGS
Re: Quin Hillyer's Thorns of a Dilemma:

Enjoyed the phrase "Second Fiddle to a Second Fiddle," but instead of running away screaming I had to laugh. Can you imagine D.C. crowded with Barry, Michelle, Hillary, Bill, Pelosi, Reid and a veto proof Democrat Congress? A laugh a minute, 24/7. TV pundits and gossip columnists would have four years of joy.

Let us further imagine the First Hundred Days of their administration. Now that's a briar patch.

Yep, old rabbit be laughing.
-- Nelson Ward
Cowles, New Mexico

Mr. Hillyer makes some very cogent points. Not only could, if he chose to, John McCain heavily stress the previous animosity between these two socialist icons, but McCain, or his staff, has challenged Obama to 12 question and answer sessions, rather than the standard useless "debates" organized by the drive by media. Obama has shown himself to be a master of the teleprompter; however, he is a train wreck when it comes to answering questions and thinking on his feet. This is normal for those who seek to be all things to all people. While McCain is not a dynamic speaker, he has the kind of experience at dealing with difficult questions that is born of a life of accomplishment and confrontation.

I read somewhere that Obama congratulated McCain and declared his respect for McCain's accomplishments even though McCain did not recognize Obama's. This statement is a real guffaw producer. Obama has distinguished himself as a "community organizer," that is, someone who helps others wring money from the government and extort more of it from local businesses. He has also managed to give the world a clinic on how to espouse opposing positions on any number of issues, the most important being whether or not Iran is a threat to our way of life. McCain is a poor choice for POTUS, but Obama is a prohibitive one. It's McCain hands down.
-- Joseph Baum
Garrettsville, Ohio

By all accounts, conservatives would hail an Obama decision to include the Billary team on his e-ticket.

Which is why he won't do it -- even Obamassiah isn't stupid enough to commit political suicide. Can you imagine Bill being content playing "second to the second" for four, maybe eight years? Ain't gonna happen -- and the man from Illinois understands this.

Sure, they'll play the "dream ticket" game right up to the convention, with the media snuffling for morsels each day. Nothing makes an MSM journalist's day more than an ability to write a "dream ticket" article each day leading up to the event in Denver.

Smart politics.
-- Owen H. Carneal, Jr.
Yorktown, Virginia

Three separate writers have produced three definitive pieces in today's edition to prove why beating the Democratic Party's nominee should be relatively easy. All wrote about what we in the heartland to know as arrogance, elitism, and full up stupidity regarding our nation's security. Yet, I wonder if McCain will be bright enough to use any of the ammunition handed him. He, while surely being a military hero, he seems loathe to aim and shoot verbal bullets as his opponents. Strangely enough, his temper is used quite freely about other things, but seems to go under the wraps when he plays in the playpen of the privileged ruling class.

I find much to be distressed about this election. As the mother of a Special Forces pilot, who returns to war shortly for his 8th time, I fear for the course of direction I see our nation taking. In fact, I fear it so much that I have sat here on the ranch fairly quiet, while trying to pray this through. Rush Limbaugh, esteemed political commentator, urges his listeners each day to not be afraid, he reminds us that America is still strong. I fail to see his optimism, as I see a wildly drunken former heavyweight reeling from side to side, spending wildly, hoping the next fight's result is better, and toppling finally to the ground.

But what do I know? I sit on a ranch in relative isolation. But as my Dad, who nears 89 says to me, "Well, gal, it is often not those in the arena who see the path of destruction coming, but those observing from far away, who take in small details that will spell out the end." I think he means something akin to folks who can't see the forest for the trees analogy. I know this, we are sowing the seeds of our own destruction and it won't be any Presidential candidate that we can depend on this election cycle. And while Rush Limbaugh believes that in failure we will have time to rebuild conservative values from the bottom up with another Reagan-esque styled person, I don't see that on America's horizon. I see only that we are a sinking ship.

Still, I awaken each morning and while I ask God to bless America and to return us to the roots on which we established this fine nation, I pray more for America to bless God.
-- Bev Gunn
Texas

HILLARY DOESN'T FIT THE BILL
Re: G. Tracy Mehan III's Just Say No to Billary:

Letter to the Editor

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