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6.20.08 @ 12:01AM

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Everything else is a "personal attack," or "undignified campaigning."
-- Arnold Ahlert
Boca Raton, Florida

WHO NEEDS RETIREMENT?
Re: Peter Ferrara's Obama von Bismarck:

I am always amazed at you geniuses when you talk about Social Security reform. I do not want reform, nor does anyone I talk to.

If people want to invest they can, there are all kinds of ways for them to invest in their future right now. Why are all of you geniuses talking like this is new? What do you think 401K and IRA's are?

I have paid into social security my whole life and look forward to collecting my share back. That is, if you geniuses don't bankrupt it first. That is why you are so "for" this "new deal"??.

You all know you have stolen the money or know who has.

What a crock!
-- Sue Baker

TOO SOON
Re: Philip Klein's The Post-Post 9/11 Candidate:

Good luck with that post-post BS.

The reason Barack Obama isn't hammering on terrorism is because he has a message for the American people to rally around, not cower behind. Repubs have been running on a noun, a verb and 9/11 for so long, even your 9/11 candidate, Ruby Giuliana, lost. Badly.

Why don't you guys try coming up with something besides tax cuts once in a while?
-- Wingnut McGuffin

Perhaps Obama doesn't mention terrorism as every other word in his speeches like the Republicans do because he is not a fear monger. The Bible says, "You will hear of wars and reports of wars. Do not be terrified." Matthew Chapter 24.

Pro Zionists are more than happy to have American men and women die to fight Arabs on their behalf.
-- Adrian S. Roberts

Mr. Klein makes some very good points about the dangers of Obama's possible presidency and the treatment of terrorism as a simple law-enforcement problem, rather than as a national security issue. However, he does make one incorrect point. The threat of "terrorism" is way overblown. The mass-murder of 9/11 was tragic, horrible, and demonstrated both the inherent weaknesses and strengths of our ideological enemy. The victims of that day, and their families, deserve our sympathies and I do not want anything I'm about to say to be taken as a slight to them.

First, the murder of 3,000 people is insignificant to our society as a whole. If you want a good comparison, realize that in Los Angeles there are 4,000 gang-related murders every six months. The death-toll of American troops in Iraq has only, after 6 years, managed to reach that high. Perhaps it is due to the suddenness of the 9/11 attacks that they matter so much more. But this rings hollow. We were surprised then, there is no reason to be surprised again.

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