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Where's the Love?

8.8.08 @ 12:01AM

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Ho-hum, the Chi-coms want to crack down on prayer. Rather than be upset, athletes should thank God, silently, that they are not Falun Gong, or Tibetan monks.
-- Dan Martin
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Mr. Tyrrell omits mention of perhaps the best reason to avoid watching the Olympics this year: The fact that the viewer will be exposed to political ads.
-- Kent Lyon
College Station, Texas

Where on this planet is the 3000-meter swim contested? I've been a masters swimmer for 35 years and have yet to hear of this event.

Please explain.
-- Curtis M. Miller
Davis, California

WORSE THAN YOU THOUGHT
Re: Joseph Lawler's Change That's Unbelievable :

As all well-informed conservatives know, Barack Obama is not only corrupt and sleazy, he's a fraud. As has been revealed in his letters to homosexual militants Obama's message of "audacious change" is merely a ruse to promote an extreme and morally bankrupt agenda at odds with the values of the majority of Americans. Radical Obama wants to destroy the values and culture of the United States and reshape them in his own twisted and perverted image. Any conservative considering voting for Obama or "liberalterian" clone Bob Barr is insuring the immediate cultural, social and moral collapse of the US. If elected, a far longer shot than many think, Obama will make America's worst President, Jimmy Carter, look good.
-- Michael Tomlinson
Habbaniyah, Iraq

There have been suggestions by some in the media that the group running Obama's campaign had their first success getting Deval Patrick elected Governor of Massachusetts. Governor Patrick made a lot of promises and talked of big changes just as Obama has. It has been noted that Obama has borrowed some of the same lines that Patrick used in his campaign about change etc.

Governor Patrick has not delivered on his promises and is thought by many in the state to be a failure as Governor. Because the campaigns are so similar, one must wonder if Obama is just an empty vessel controlled by a slick marketing group.
-- Howard Lohmuller
Seabrook,Texas

Here is a simpler case against Obama, if we are interested in the bottom line in the cost of running government.

The present pension of a president is $191,300 a year. If Obama is elected and serves two terms and then lives to age 80 -- he will cost us $4,973,800 in pension income. Two terms at 1600 Pennsylvania and the rest of your life on Easy Street! Not bad.

All things considered, McCain is the better bargain.

But what about Obama's (maybe 30 year) tobacco addiction?
-- Diane Smith

STEP BY STEP
Re: Richard Kirk's The Audacity of Wishful Thinking:

I laughed so hard I exhaled extra carbon dioxide. So Kirk's plan should include mandatory laughter limits.

Which may not be necessary in an Obama administration since no one will be laughing.
-- Gary Cape
Delta County, Colorado

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