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6.6.08 @ 12:01AM

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What worries me is that we may have another national shrine, the Naval Observatory, sullied by having Bill Clinton in residence. The quickie du jour (or l' heure?) -- -well, ask the Oval Office valet who tidied up after Monica's visits...

Can we get some kind of grant money to have everything Scotch-Guarded before he gets in there and starts marking his territory?

What kind of voting bloc would enable a congenital liar (Bill Safire's description) and her cuckolding husband to return to the (approximate) scene of their crimes? Four years of our tax money supporting two millionaires, as they ransack yet another official residence. This time, we would do well to have an inventory prior to occupancy with the stipulation that all broken lamps, figurines and crockery will be replaced at the VP's expense.

Meanwhile, Obama would do well to decline any picnic invitations to Ft. Marcy Park.
-- D. Smith

I find myself hoping that the Clintons WILL be the VP choice for Obama.

I believe that will provide considerable fodder for Mr. McCain (if can embolden himself to use it) and ensure his Presidency. I am not sure he understands sufficiently the venom with which he will be lambasted by the radical leftists supporting Mr. Obama. Because of that failure I think Mr. McCain will be defeated easily.

I think therefore think that Mr. Obama will be elected. Having been elected he will immediately embark on turning this country into France. A fully democrat Congress will kneel at his feet in obeisance and quickly enact whatever socialist, collectivist lunacy he proposes. And make no mistake about it, the change he seeks will change the fundamental character of this nation from one of bold and sweeping undertakings, to a timid mommy state where religion is eschewed, freedoms are curtailed and morals will be situational. Taxes will double and guns will be confiscated.

However, if the Clintons are vice Presidents, Mr. Obama will not have to worry about "the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune", but just plain old slings and arrows. His back will be as porous as a colander. Fighting on two fronts always presents the possibility of total defeat.

Let us pray that the Clintons are able to prey on Mr. Obama.
-- Jay Molyneaux
North Carolina

FALSE OPTIMISM
Re: Philip Klein's Obama's Romney Problem:

"Obama has never had to run a general election campaign against a viable Republican in which his liberal views underwent scrutiny." Hasn't? This past perfect tense thus implies that this lack of scrutiny is over. Oh, Mr. Klein, you optimist. Yes, TAS will continue to take the junior senator from the great state of Illinois to task, and Fox may pipe up now and again, but "scrutiny" from the mainstream media?

Further, remember Heisenberg's Principle of Uncertainty, along with its related observer effect: the act of being observed changes the behavior of what is being observed. While Obama is not quite as slick as the Boy President (or as slick as he thinks he is), Obama has been able to charm, beguile, mesmerize, and con the American public for the last five months. He only has to do so for the next five to become the next POTUS. Scary.
-- Ira M. Kessel
Rochester, New York

Mr. Klein poses an interesting thesis in his article. Now that the nominating process is over, both candidates will be forced to move to the center to attract independents and crossovers from the opposing party and hold some of the less ideological members of their respective parties.

In the list of Obama's policy changes outlined by Mr. Klein, I don't see anything that is likely to alienate his supporters. Will these changes ignite opposition to him among independents? Maybe, but I seriously doubt it. I don't think the majority of Americans make their political decisions by parsing candidates' policy positions at the level Mr. Klein described. I think Senator Obama's real problems are convincing people that he has the experience to be president and overcoming the racism that still exists in this country.

On the other hand, Mr. McCain's main problem is convincing independents that he too is independent and the candidate of change in spite of his 95 percent record of voting with the Bush administration. While the other 5 percent enrages some people, how many Americans could name the issues on which Senator McCain displayed his independence from the GOP? Maybe immigration.

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