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John the Lockpick

10.24.08 @ 6:01AM

McCain's play for PA. Tyrrell slams the media monkeys. This is getting creepy. Plus more.

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I teach my students that a responsible editorialist or essayist always acknowledges the counterargument and casts it in the best light. Likely your college professors chided you, as they did me, for omitting important research withstanding or for straw man arguments. You might dig up some of those essays and refresh yourself on the comments.
-- Dr. David Callon
St. Louis, Missour

SITE CHECK
Re: Quin Hillyer's Episcopalian Showdown:

Quin Hillyer strikes a cord that resonates true when he writes, "the conservatives abjure politics within worship whereas the national Episcopal Church seems to believe that politics itself -- specifically liberal politics -- is a form of worship."

Too bad this thought appears at the end of the fourth paragraph in Episcopalian Showdown (4/10/2008). Wrong placement for such an important thought. He should have placed it at the beginning of his article.

In contrast, Mr. Hillyer does not ring true when he argues, "nothing in the national church seems focused on internal spiritual beliefs ..." To support this conclusion, Mr. Hillyer stated that he could not find anything in the site map regarding "creed" or "Nicene creed." This seems poor support for such an important idea.

Curious, I went to look at the site. I am a long time Episcopalian and confess that this was a first time visit to the site. I went to http://ecusa.anglican.org/ and typed in Nicene Creed.

My goodness! Up popped 123 interesting discussions related to the Nicene Creed. For example, did you know that the Episcopal church teaches that the Holy Spirit emanates from both God the Father and Jesus Christ the Son? I assure you that you can find a lengthy and interesting discussion concerning the Nicene Creed on the national website.

My thoughts: I'd like to see better support for the conclusions that Mr. Hillyer draws.

And that is one of the things that the American Episcopal church does well -- it offers people a rational discussion of robust ideas that relate to God, Jesus Christ, the Holy Spirit and how to live our lives.
-- Cameron S. Jackson
Aptos, California

FOLLOWING UP

Re: Ryan L. Cole's The Fire This Time:

First, I sent Congressman John Lewis an e-mail asking him to give me the names of the persons who committed those crimes, including the Birmingham church bombing, who said they were inspired by Governor Wallace. The only thing I got back was, "Thank you for your e-mail!" Second, Goldwater was a RINO, just like McCain. When are we going to start realizing that?
-- Michael Skaggs
Murray, Kentucky

Oh please. There is nothing there for the media to hate in McCain/McBackstabber and I do not think that they actively hate him. After all, he is no threat to them or their “messiah.”

If you want to see who they are really frightened of and hate, look at Sarah. She is the only bright spot to this campaign season. If they hate and fear her that much we will need to save her for 2012. Palin/Jindal for 2012!!!!!
-- Jeff Seyfert

NOTHING BUT THE BEST

Re: Diane Smith's letter (under "Studying for Election Day Finals") in Reader Mail's The Three-Headed Beast:

Thank you for posting Diane Smith's letters. Of the top five letters you have ever run, I believe she has written five of them.
-- Dan Martin
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

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Letter to the Editor View all comments (4) | Leave a comment

Robert| 10.24.08 @ 9:54AM

Heather and all concerned others, read all about it here:
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=78931

burt| 10.24.08 @ 9:56AM

Most Pennsylvanians are fairly conservative, but the state has been rules by voter fraud in Philadelphia and Pittsburgh for a long, long time.
Obama should carry the state fairly thanks to crooks such as "fast eddy".

Dave Smith| 10.24.08 @ 3:27PM

First, a big thank you to AS for the comment engines you use. They are easy and responsive.

BO gets traction because Americans, a forward-looking bunch, have short memories. All too often the country dabbles with a President-D and then sobers up on serious issues and elects President-R. Combine the general amnesia with already well-described BO cheerleaders disguised as journalists and reporters and you obtain the current situation. When John McCain, with SP, overcomes this he'll go down as the penultimate Comeback Kid.

Diane Smith| 10.25.08 @ 11:52AM

Thanks, Dan Martin for the nomination. I went back to see what profundity I might have stumbled upon. Sounded like the typical wing-flapping of a gadfly to me. Gadfly, for those born after dictionaries went into disuse, is either 1. an insect that bites livestock or 2. one who annoys others, esp. by rousing them from complacency. It is a point of extreme rancor with me that "volunteers' will invade nursing homes to "assist" the elderly in exercising their right to vote, when that old person has long since lost the ability to think rationally. The ones who can still marshall enough brain cells to have an independent political thought don't need some ACORN rep of chicken thief mentality to assist them. I have friends in their eighties; one or two in their nineties. Some still possess the mental acuity, if not the desire to stay informed. But time and over-medication have altered their thought processes to a point beyond what is required to judge the political intention of a candidate, the direction this country will take, should he be elected. It is a sad fact of life, that a segment of the population, once more serious, have narrowed their concerns to Social Security and Medicare. I consider it voter fraud every bit as criminal as Freddie Johnson registering 73 times. A kind of mugging of the helpless elderly.

Diane Smith