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8.5.08 @ 12:01AM

CARD UP HIS SLEEVE
Re: Brett Joshpe's Playing the Race Weapon:

Are we supposed to be surprised, or shocked by this tactic by the Dems? Surely, everyone with even a modicum of political knowledge knew that it was coming. I fully expect that Obama will get 95 percent or more of the black vote come November. Somehow, in my white ignorance, I would call that racism. But then what do I know, I have only been following politics for over five decades now.
-- Ken Shreve

Nice analysis, Brett Joshpe.

Why has no-one pointed out the arrogance in Obama's words, "doesn't look like all those other presidents on the dollar bills"?

"Other" to whom, one might ask? Well, "other" to Other President Obama, of course.

It's the audacity of arrogance. Do I have to explain everything?
-- A. C. Santore

It is absolutely essential that the Democratic Party maintain the narrative that conservatives and the Republican Party are inherently racist. If black Americans and other people of color examined the historical truth, the party of Jim Crow would be dead in the water.

If Obama loses the election, the cries of racism will be deafening -- aided and abetted by a flame-throwing media.
-- Arnold Ahlert
Boca Raton, Florida

TOMMY
Re: W. James Antle's A Majority Delayed:

Spare us the cliches from party hacks who made their fortunes in politics and lobbying and then give advice on how to reclaim the Republican party. A Republican president and Republican Congress rewarded this country with endemic political corruption, out-of-control spending, open borders, vast bureaucratic expansion and taxpayer torture. I will listen to Tom Delay when he gets a real job like an ordinary person and give up the fortune he earned at our expense.
-- Caroline Miranda
North Hollywood, California

Gingrich, Armey, and DeLay were undoubtedly the best team of leaders that the GOP has come up with in the United States Congress in many decades. The fact of the matter is, however, that Tom DeLay was the doer of the trio. Gingrich was the idea man. Armey was the tactician plotting how to put the ideas in practice. Tom DeLay was the one that went into the trenches and got it done.

The Dems did their usual hatchet jobs on the three. They had to go because they were too darn effective. They found it easy to take Gingrich down. He didn't seem to have the stomach for, and still doesn't appear to have the stomach for, the bare knuckles brawling that was necessary to keep control, as Dems before and since have done so successfully. I can only guess that Armey simply tired of the fight and gave up his seat. Tom DeLay was another matter. He was quite willing to go mano e mano with the Dems, and he surely had a winning record in those no hold barred fights.

I don't see any Tom DeLays in the GOP segment of the United States House today. The best that can be said about the current leadership is that they are not the worst in memory, but not far from it. It delights me to learn that Mr. DeLay is as active as you suggest in the current scene. We all need to get behind Tom's efforts and see if we can inject some spinal rigidity in a few more of the House members. There is a good, but small, core group, but it needs to be expanded exponentially.
-- Ken Shreve

In his article "A Majority Delayed", Mr. Antle pictures Tom DeLay as someone trying to resurrect the Republican Party. More correctly, the Republican Parties current status as a "non" party.

The GOP doesn't get it, and apparently neither does Tom DeLay. There are reasons the leftists currently controlling the Socialist Party are doing better than the Republicans in fund-raising and channeling those funds to candidates. One is the left has always been better organized than other entities. They achieve success by identifying those candidates who appeal to their philosophy, fund them, and push that agenda as a party platform. They have their set goals and keep to them.

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