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10.7.08 @ 12:01AM

CAN HE DO IT?
Re: G. Tracy Mehan, III's End Game:

Obama wins, Democrats win.

McCain wins, America wins.
-- David Govett
Davis, California

I still agree with Benjamin Franklin, who said that God still rules in the affairs of men and nations.

What we need to do now is to pray that God will deliver us from evil and bring us leaders who will be for the healing of our land. Because if Obama is elected, our great nation is going to end up in a very bad place -- probably starting with our freedom of speech.
-- J.E. Purvis

While the Obama's revolutionary council is hard at work on Abu Hussein's future cabinet and Supreme Court appointments, and while our MSM are directly engaged as his unpaid campaign staff, your G. Tracy Mehan, III, is predicting an election too close to call. I say -- baloney! McCain/Palin will win over 40 states with a mandate. This is not the case like it was in 1992 when that small-town crook won with the help of Perot and with the considerable push of that gentlemanly wimp Bush the Elder. The American people can smell the stench of revolutionary Marxism when it reaches their nostrils -- have no fear!
-- Marc Jeric
Las Vegas, Nevada

Mr. Mehan's article is ridiculous, while Barack Obama may be one of the weaker candidates in the Democratic Party, he is certainly not the weakest. (Chris Dodd, Joe Biden, Dennis Kucinich.) John McCain, on the other hand is most certainly the weakest of the Republican nominees. I am tired of hearing that John McCain "the maverick" is the strongest Republican candidate because he disagreed with the Bush administration on "a number of important issues." While there is certainly much to fault the Bush administration on, the areas where John McCain disagreed with him are not among them. Try taxes, the gang of fourteen, campaign finance reform etc. Conversely, the areas where John McCain agreed with the Bush administration are the ones that are most controversial with the public. Amnesty for all illegal aliens, open borders, "free trade" which is just a pseudonym for outsourcing, and the bailout, which is just the first installment in a long list of payouts to rescue the thieves and crook in congress and on Wall Street. Henry Paulson, Chris Dodd and Barney Frank should all be in prison, not running the US treasury and overseeing a bailout of the financial crisis they caused.
-- Paul Martell

Tracy Mehan is correct the election is too close to call, but he is too easily impressed by Obama's political luck. Obama should be trouncing McCain by double digits, but he isn't. In fact, the election being too close to call is not good news for the Obama camp. The Obama camp's hysteria over the weekend that Americans will be turned off if by their candidate if he becomes the focus is a major revelation of how weak the candidate really is. While the American people are currently unsettled (and this is not good news for McCain) it is evident they rightly do not trust the shyster from Chicago.

Polls tend to favor Democrats. Thus, the shock that Ronald Reagan buried Jimmy Carter (in a race the pollsters said was tied) and Bush 43 beat both his opponents despite Al Gore's attempt to steal the election in 2000 and Kerry's deep pockets and exit polls. Pollsters were amazed Gerald Ford closed a double digit deficit and nearly won against Carter in '76. For that matter, had Bush 41 played hardball against Bill Clinton the so-called "Comeback Kid" would have been toast. Barack Obama is less experienced than Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton, but based on the little we do know about him he's as unethical as both. That's scary.

If Obama wants to talk about issues then McCain should focus on the issue of Obama's ties with corrupt bankers like Franklin Raines, dubious business practices, and illegal contributions. Those are issues and revelations of Obama's flawed character and fair game in politics. What's Obama so afraid of? He seems to meet the minimal Constitutional criteria to run for President (albeit his citizenship is questionable) so what's he afraid of if the McCain focuses its attention on him? Wouldn't it be better to air his dirty linen now and save him the embarrassment of impeachment and removal from office later when the skeletons coming falling out of the closet?

It makes me sad Democrats are so unwilling to tell the American people who the real Barack Obama is. It makes me sad they're so desperate to win elections they'll smear a 26 year veteran of the Senate and genuine war hero. It makes me sad they have the gall to run a candidate who is so inexperienced and corrupt they have to keep the details of his life hidden from the American people to attempt to seize the White House. It makes me sad Democrats refuse to address the issues or even investigate the corrupt dealings of members of Congress with those who hurt America's economy to feather their own nests. It makes me sad that the media is so biased and partisan they refuse to investigate Obama. But I'll be happy when John McCain is the 44th President of the United States.
-- Michael Tomlinson

The more I hear, the more I am convinced that there is deep and far reaching corruption in this election supporting Obama. What can be done? I think that we should all be very afraid if Obama gets elected and I am afraid that it is going to happen. Corruption, money and power make it difficult to see the truth.
-- Dawna Kirn

GREEN IS THE NEW...NONSENSE
Re: William Tucker's The Greening of Thomas Friedman:

Mr. Friedman is late coming to the table with his ideas. A fantastic book, The Green Hills of Earth, was all about "electrons that meets all four criteria: abundant, clean, reliable, and cheap" and it was written over sixty years ago by R.H. Heinlien. Yes, it was science fiction back then too.
-- Ira M. Kessel
Rochester, NY

Your W. Tucker is quite right in criticizing the false precepts of T. Freedman. What he forgot to mention is the fact that these "new future alternative energy sources" are not new. The geothermal power plants have been in existence for at least 70 years -- they are necessarily small, expensive, and deadly polluting. They leave behind enormous amounts of arsenic and radioactive Cesium and Strontium. Solar and wind power plants have also been in existence for some 40 years -- they are also small, ten to twenty times more expensive in spite of all tax breaks and government mandates, and utterly unreliable. How do I know this? Well, I worked over 30 years on all kinds of power plants -- coal-fired, oil-fired, gas-fired, nuclear, solar, geothermal, and wind-powered. This whole hue and cry for "new, reliable, renewable, non-polluting" technologies reminds me of the medieval alchemists searching for perpetuum mobile, trying to convert lead into gold, and inventing eternal youth stone. Destined for failure no matter how many billions we throw at them!
-- Marc Jeric
Las Vegas, Nevada

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