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Palin's New Pals

9.2.08 @ 12:01AM

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TIME HEALS ALL WOUNDS
Re: Shawn Macomber's The Healing Bomb:

If 95% of blacks plan to vote for Obama, as polls assert, how could that possibly heal anything? It simply advocates race-based voting. Martin Luther King would be appalled.
-- David Govett
Davis, California

Thanks, Mr. Macomber, for your column. I get a lump in my throat knowing that a black man has been nominated for president. It's just too bad that he is too far to the left and way too inexperienced for me to even consider voting for him.

I fear if he loses that we will be painted as racists, but we can't worry about that. The country is ready for a black president, just not a socialist regardless if he is a black man, a white man or a woman. As much as I am leery of John McCain, I know that an Obama presidency will take us where a capitalistic, individual freedom-loving nation has no business going. Just the way the Obama campaign has treated any criticism of their candidate should give anyone pause -- trying to intimidate a 527 with a Justice Department investigation just because their ad brought up Obama's association with 1960s era terrorist William Ayers should give a hint as to the Hugo Chavez-like government he might impose on this country.

I'd vote for Thomas Sowell, Walter Williams, Michael Steele (with more experience) or Condi Rice because of their alignment with my views, but not this wolf in sheep's clothing.
-- Deborah Durkee
Marietta, Georgia

I see a certain advantage in this nomination. If the first black man nominated by a major party wins the election, "we shall overcome" can be rephrased as "we have overcome" --and we can bring a half-century of "affirmative action" programs to an end, because what use is it to anyone anymore if "we have overcome?"

On the other hand, if Obama loses...there's already been some talk of "you're against Obama because you're a racist." With the loss, there will likely be cries of "Obama lost because of racism." A lot of people will take this as an insult...there will be a big reaction against the notion...and, in the ensuing arguments, "affirmative action" programs will suffer.

So...Obama gets the nomination..."affirmative action" ends either way.
-- Robert Nowall
Cape Coral, Florida

HIGH COST OF LOW LIVIN'
Re: The Prowler's Speaking of Edwards:

Now some cynics will claim the Democrats are being inconsistent by barring an admitted adulterer, John Edwards, while featuring another more famous lying adulterer, The Boy President. But no, Dems are consistent: they are a forgiven people, given the time. They forgave Clinton for his abuse of power and cigars; they also forgave Teddy Kennedy for his late night swim -- but then again, considering their stand on abortion, Kennedy doesn't need to be forgiven: life is not held at all sacred by the party.
-- Ira M. Kessel
Rochester, New York

Many at The American Spectator and some of its readers will wonder what I am talking about. A few years back, Attorney Geoffrey Figer (assisted suicide advocate Dr. Jack Kevorkian's one time attorney) was all over the local airwaves waxing abstractly and somewhat politically about the individual's right to the best legal representation in courts of law. I thought; "...yeah, what of it?" These were not commercials for Figer's firm, but instead proffered the notion that Figer thought his job to defend the public as an attorney was in jeopardy.

It may not have made the national papers but Figer's offices were raided by the Feds in 2005. It appears the Feds were looking for evidence to support a charge of paybacks to Figer's law firm employees if they contributed to the Edwards 2004 Presidential campaign. After a very public and costly trial, Figer and partner Van Johnson were found to be innocent of all charges.

I wonder what Figer thinks of Edwards today?
-- P. Aaron Jones
Huntington Woods, Michigan

CARD CHECK HEAD CHECK
Re: Ivan Osorio's What Big Labor Wants:

Unions are like the rest of Democrats. They are anti-freedom and want people to be in unions. It's like the old Soviet Union. People who were dissatisfied with the system and let that be known were put in asylums, because they must be crazy to dislike a perfect government.

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