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6.30.08 @ 12:01AM

DELAHUNT IN DISGRACE
Re: The Prowler's Delahunt's Zinger:

It becomes fairly pathetic that the remark by Delahunt is so eagerly accepted by the Democrats. The Democrats are so eager to demolish those with whom they disagree that they would willingly sacrifice the safety of fellow Americans.

You can bet the hollering and name calling if a Republican had been on the reverse side of that remark. Whether or not water boarding or any other method of gaining intelligence works, the Democrats could not care less. God help the United States with the prospect of a Democratic Party president and two Democratic Party Houses of Congress. Maybe we should all consider a one-way tick out. It is obvious the Democrats will and it is not in the direction they think'
-- Harry Russell
Dallas, Texas

Perhaps Delahunt is just voicing what the majority of Americans believe when it comes to terrorism. The terrorists do not have the power to threaten the United States in any meaningful way. Sure there was ONE attack that killed 3,000 people, but that attack took five years of planning when there was zero security. Al Qaeda is not large enough, or organized enough, to justify the Bush administration's raping of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. To keep holding the terrorist threat over our head is ridiculous. We are after all a Superpower. I'll worry about Al Qaeda when they are walking down the streets of Boston. Right now I fear the Bush administration more than that bunch of rag tag warriors holed up in a cave somewhere.
-- Derek Eddy
Boston, Massachusetts

Forget the War on Terror, we have a war in the House and Senate against each other. They may as well use guns and shoot each other. No difference. There is no harmony, they all feel like Hillary does right now, power and rejection! You can see it in their eyes, the Dems are smug and puffed up, the Reps, rejected and no spine. I watch C-Span and their voting on the floor, they are all mingling, talking, kissy face in separate groups, it makes me laugh and sick at the same time, they are such dorks!, and they are running the country. Who in their right mind would vote Schumer and Delahunt to this office? Very sad!
-- R. Nelson
Minnesota

With Kerry, Kennedy and Delahunt we can officially drop the M from Massachusetts. Kennedy is a loser, Kerry is a loser and now Delahunt. The people need to elect some respectable people to represent them because they are also representing the USA and we don't like it. Thank you Democrats for the high oil prices. I will bow down to your savior NOT
-- Jack D. White

Our thanks to The Prowler for bringing out the treasonous behavior of Democrat Congressman Delahunt, who provided aid and comfort to the Al Qaeda subhuman mass murderers of children in schools and mothers in markets. This scum of a Democrat traitor should be brought to a military marshal law court and shot for treason, for bringing Al Qaeda murderers' attention to the VP's chief of staff and his family. Congressman Delahunt (B. Hussein Obama's superdelegate) and his family, however, I'm sure will be spared Al Qaeda's tender attentions in order to thank him for his special services to their cause.
-- Marc Jeric
Las Vegas, Nevada

This is just the latest event that shows the present Republican Presence in the House is gutless and lacks any degree of core values. I am surprised that a Democrat didn't come forward to call out Delahunt -- after all, they are Americans too, aren't they?
-- Charles E. Umhey Jr., MD

BACK TO THE PRESENT
Re: Lawrence Henry's Grammy Does New York:

I would just like to remark that Mr. Henry is a gem. A real gem.
-- Paul McGrath

Mr. Lawrence Henry's recollection of his grandmother ought to remind all of how near we are to our nation's Founders, and how young our nation is.

My own paternal grandmother passed away just two years ago. She was lucid and sharp until nearly the end. I made a simple reckoning (I Did The Math) and understood thereby that had she, as a girl, encountered a man of the same age she was when she passed, why, that man could have had a conversation (as a lad) with...Thomas Jefferson.

Imagine that. I'm only 57, and yet my grandma could have said, "Paulie, this guy told me that Tom Jefferson had said to him..."

Kind of makes you think. Our American community of souls is pretty darn tight.
-- Paul Kotik
Plantation, Florida

Lawrence Henry replies:
In Samuel Eliot Morison's single-volume history of the United States, he tells about hearing a story from his history teacher when he was a boy near the turn of the 19th to the 20th Century. That teacher, an old man, had in turn had a teacher who was a participant in the Constitutional convention. What he told him was a joke that circulated at the convention:

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