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6.19.08 @ 12:01AM

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Mr. Samples rightly describes our country as culturally divided. However, I hadn't heard that people were actually moving to "live near others who are culturally and politically similar." I didn't realize we were so rich we had that luxury. I always thought that, like me, people tended to move where there are jobs. Be that as it may, where are these places that I, culturally, politically and economically conservative, can move to? Everywhere I look, I see dysfunctional big cities, localities banning smoking on private property and state governments running deficits to the moon. The only place I see where I might find Americans like me is when I look up -- to the moon! And I'd go there if ever NASA would get out of low orbit!

Finally, regarding Samples's quote, "Once Obama stops talking about 'a common purpose' and starts governing, he will discover concretely how little Americans have in common." I think Obama already knows this as evidenced by the church he went to for 20 years as well as the radical friends he keeps.
-- Douglas Skinner
Alexandria, Virginia

CENSORED
Re: Christopher Orlet's American Exceptionalism:

I must respectfully disagree with Christopher Orlet's statement, "Today such social criticism (of Protestant Christians) is considered 'stirring up racial hatred,' whether or not race is the element being criticized." In America's Democrat-controlled media belittling traditional Christians is not only acceptable, but a moral obligation so as to defend Muslim terrorists, hate mongers like Jeremiah Wright, racists like Bill Clinton, anti-American activists like Michelle Obama, slanderers of brave Marines like Democrat Representative John Murtha and national security Judases like Democrat Senator Jay Rockefeller -- and the sanctimonious NY Slimes itself. Other than that minor point I am in full agreement with the sentiments of the article especially considering the anti- 1st and 2d Amendment Democrats control Congress and are pressing ahead to elect a charlatan of "change" to the Presidency.
-- Michael Tomlinson
Jacksonville, North Carolina

ALL-ACCESS INTERVIEW
Re: Lisa Fabrizio's Happy Days are Here Again!:

Ms. Fabrizio always astonishes me with her perspicacity. Her description of the nightly news is bang on, as our English cousins say.

But there is one more thing to sing about. She forgot taxes.

The dialogue might go like this:

Chris Matthews: President Obama, with Americans unable to pay mortgages, buy groceries or gas, how exactly does this huge tax increase on everything from groceries to gas help?

Obama: I am so glad you asked that question. It helps in this way. Many people are not focused when they spend money. It is wasted on family vacations, entertainment and such things. The taxes will take that foolishly spent money from these poor people and allow the government to "focus" the spending of that money for them.

Matthews: How will you do that?

Obama: It is very easy. The $3.00 a gallon tax on gas for example will cause those revenues to go down, thus crippling the roads and highways infrastructure programs. So we focus the tripling of the estate and capital gains taxes to those programs. Then we raise the income tax on the richest Americans -- those making $50,000 and up -- and use that to fund the programs formerly funded by capital gains and estate taxes. This leaves a huge shortfall in the entitlement programs we've expanded to cover crystal therapy, aromatherapy and pilates.

Matthews: WOW! I am utterly in awe of the pure genius of this.

Obama: But wait! The best is yet to come. To keep all that well funded we have nationalized farms; food processing plants as well as supermarkets. That eliminates all these costs from the food chain and allows the government to make the profit rather than the robber barons. Thus we believe we can get the price of a head of lettuce down to $13.00 by the end of my first term. But even if we don't people will be buoyed by the knowledge they are paying themselves.

These funds, in part, are going to the purchase by the government of St. John's US Virgin Islands. As you know this is a paradise with unspoiled white sugar sand beaches and verdant mountains. But too many people are going there and so the purchase will make this a National Park for the benefit of the American people.

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