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8.21.08 @ 12:01AM

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The messiah has no miracles and his disciples are morons. The only thing that will make Obama President is if conservatives bury their heads in their "principles" and choose the path that gave us the abominable Reid/Pelosi Congress, McCain's health becomes and issue or he makes a major mistake like selecting a pro-abortion Veep. Could it be 1972 all over again -- hope so and hope McCain has coat tails like Bush in 2004.
-- Michael Tomlinson
Camp Habbaniyah, Iraq

Bravo, Stacy McCain! I look forward to a follow-up analysis of Obama's spastic arm-waving today, as he said, "Everyone [I love the anonymous "everyone" quotes of desperation] I meet is saying the Republicans are goin' to attack your character -- they gonna be swift-boatin' you..." Well, Obama had better review the contents of Unfit for Command and consider that we have yet to see John Kerry's military records, as refutation.

B.O. is beginning to sweat. (That would make a nice bumper sticker) As my sainted, if irreverent mama used to say, he is as nervous as a pregnant fox in a forest fire.

Sometime back I wrote in to predict that McCain would wait until August to say "OK, I've had enough -- no more Mr. Nice Guy" and he would begin skewering and serving Barry up "en brochette" at every opportunity. If he had hammered him from the start, he would have validated the curmudgeon label.

This campaign may not be a snoozer, after all. My politically challenged husband commented today after hearing the "Um, ah, uh,Y'ow," montage Rush has been airing. "They say he does well on a teleprompter, wonder why he can't speak extemporaneously?" I said "For the same reason Charlie McCarthy was not a solo act, Hal." Remarks like that land with a thud on my poor husband. He said "How could he, Charlie McCarthy was a dummy...." Exactly.

Funny McCain would use the word meltdown in describing Muskie's fall. Muskie swore it was a snowflake melting on his cheek. But those macho ruffian reporter guys said he had teared up in defending his wife's honor. Lordy, how things change! Bill Clinton must have squirted his eyes with pepper spray before every performance, to ensure his appearing as though on the brink of bawling. I could never witness it without thinking of Nelson Eddy ' "Sweetest little feller, ev'rybody knows, Don't know what to call him but he's mighty lachrymose..."

Meanwhile, I would like to thank all your readers' kind words in putting up with my nonsense. Girls just wanna have fun. Even girls who just turned 81 last week.

Here's an idea. TAS charters a cruise ship to take us all on a vacation right after the election. I'd be keel-hauled before we got out of port. My brother had it right. He said my tombstone will read "She Never Had an Unexpressed Thought"
-- Diane Smith

You couldn't be more off the mark. Barry "Lonesome " Rhodes is the greatest thing since sliced bread!
-- Heather Tarnowski
Minneapolis, Minnesota

SEANCE NEEDED
Re: Quin Hillyer's Reagan in the Sky:

All you need to know about the difference between Ronald Reagan and the pitiful excuses of leadership who tried to walk in his footsteps is the line "Reagan would not surrender essential principle." I can't think of one prominent person today who qualifies for that description. And don't the bad guys know it -- they worked out years ago that they have nothing to fear from the current infestation of poltroons and windbags. Ronald Reagan was on the receiving end of plenty of insults in his life but not even his worst enemy ever called him that. They didn't have the nerve. A lesson forgotten by far too many, far too soon.
-- Christopher Holland
Canberra, Australia

DYSTOPIA IN ASIA
Re: Doug Bandow's The North Korean Prison State:

If George Orwell could write a sequel, 2084, it might be about such a country. It might feature people like Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi, and Barack Obama.

It would discuss the incrementalism of democrat hegemony. The incarceration began with the incitement of class warfare; then the democrats' unrelenting attacks on Christianity and the Judeo-Christian system of ethics; the elevation of government to divine status as the solver of all problems and giver of life.

Next of course will come the institutionalization of dissenters. Not jail, no. But rather, since the government and those who run it are so perfect and selfless, anyone who disbelieves must be mentally deficient and so put under care for their own well being.

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