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2.24.09 @ 6:01AM

OUR JACK
Re: Quin Hillyer's We're Not OK, Jack:

Hear, hear!
-- Angelo Codevilla

I don't mind your wishes. I do think that your choice of Pence may prove to be short sighted. This man loves to look at himself. Note his clothing, hair, attention to personal splendor, his grooming. Way too radiant! Signals an internal need going far beyond just being on the conservative bandwagon...for my tastes.
-- RP
Bismarck, North Dakota

Sure, Jack Kemp understood much. One detraction was his failure to comprehend the long-term toll of ever-expanding federal debt, which is something that has concerned fiscal conservatives since the debt began to accumulate in the 1960's, ballooning under the shameless spending of my beloved but stupid Republican Party, including Bush 43. Mr. Kemp thought that the annual federal deficit did not matter as long as it remained a small percentage of the GDP. He should think again. We are just beginning to reap what we have sown.
-- David Shoup
Dublin, Georgia

"What conservatives need right now is another Jack Kemp for a younger generation"?

Please, don't write off those of us who actually remember and lived when there was prayer in so-called public schools and no Roe v. Wade, and when there was such thing as mostly civil discourse in America -- and were very much alive before socialist/Marxist/I'm-your-daddy Barack Hussein Obama or Barry Soetoro or whatever his real name and nationality is, was born.

As for another Jack Kemp? Conservatives of all living generations in the U.S. could use another Jack Kemp or two or 20 or 1,000 or so.
-- C. Kenna Amos
Princeton, West Virginia

A fired-up minority is simply that: a minority.
-- David Govett

RED, AT LEAST IN THE FACE
Re: James Poulos's Black and White and Red All Over:

I suppose it's not enough for some people that a man who happens to be black gets elected president -- or even if a man who happens to be black gets to be attorney general. Well, "we have overcome," and Eric Holder needs to be reminded that "nobody likes a sore winner."
-- Robert Nowall
Cape Coral, Florida

Should anyone be surprised at this coming from the first black attorney general appointed by this particular first black president?

Perhaps, though, self-appointed Moralist-in-Chief and apparent Associate Lecturer-in-Chief Holder will address a real racist issue: abortion within the black community. Abortionists in the U.S. disproportionately kill black babies at a much higher rate than babies of other skin colors.  

Perhaps Holder will address the spiritual, moral and social perversion of that Roe v. Wade-facilitated issue?

Or the equally perverse issue of bi-racial-though-fully-identified-with-blacks Obama supporting abortion and, by default or design, the apparent accelerated destruction of the very community which supported him and idolizes him?

Or examine why the black community and some of its voices such as Jackson, Sharpton, Bond and others sit on their backsides silent as the infanticide against their community continues?

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