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Too Cool for School

3.26.09 @ 6:01AM

Or for able government. Keep it civil. 20 million new voters won't be wrong. Plus more.

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TROUBLE AROUND THE CORNER
Re: Jeffrey Lord's The 1966 Election's Warning to Obama :

Ah...but you overlook "Comprehensive Immigration Reform." Adding 20 million Mexicans to the voter rolls will aid Obama immensely. Who controls the Mexican vote controls the electoral destiny. Comprehensive Immigration Reform is just around the corner. What then?
-- Paul B. Evans
San Diego, California

TWO THUMBS DOWN
Re: Ben Stein's The Funniest Movie Since Ferris Buel ler:

You've got to be kidding. Tropic Thunder ranks as one of the worst movies ever made. And I mean EVER MADE. I used to read Ben Stein’s Diary years ago, but he has been losing it for years. Hopefully, he has now hit bottom and can now begin his recovery.
-- Robert E. Martini
Glen Rock, New Jersey

HEALTHY SOLUTIONS
Re: Philip Klein's The Myth of the 46 Million:

Great article. I believe more emphasis should be placed on the "access to healthcare" issue. Emergency Rooms are not the only healthcare facilities that accept patients irrespective of their ability to pay. There are well over a thousand public, state and federally funded community health centers throughout the country. These community health clinics are designed and operated to meet the healthcare needs of the poor, working poor and the uninsured. Lack of health insurance does not mean lack of access to healthcare. The true, "real" problem of a lack of health insurance exists in only a minority of the much reported 46 million.

There are many ways to operate our nation's healthcare services more efficiently and more cost-effectively. Nationalizing healthcare is NOT one of them. Why invent a huge, expensive, government-run alternative system to benefit a very small proportion of the total population? For that matter, why is 17% of our GDP for healthcare necessarily "bad"? The healthcare industry employs a lot of people and provides a high value service. I wonder what percent of GDP is "marketing and adversizing"? Then ask yourself, which is more important to you as an individual, your health or that 30 second ad during the last Super Bowl?
-- Dr. David S. Van Dyke

NICE BOY
Re: Jeremy Lott's Kid Conservatism:

Why do you think the parents of Jonathan Krohn should have put there foot down? Is it because it's not what you want to read or believe in, yea maybe it's not written properly but give the kid a break at least he's not frying his brains watching M.T.V. all day or on Face Book. I think that as long as we live in this wonderful free country let him write what he wants. By the way, we still live in a free country, don’t we?
-- Dalia Lastra

NO SLEEVES, NO SERVICE
In the spirit of fairness, justice, and the DTV converter boxes, I think the government should supply every American household with a calculator that can go into billions and trillions. None of mine can. Thanks to the government, we have to start dealing in billions and trillions of dollars to stay up with their spending.

Those who can do, those who can't become Democratic members of Congress.

The current occupants of the White House -- Sleeveless and Clueless.
-- Robert Auskalnis
Portage, Indiana

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Letter to the Editor View all comments (8) | Leave a comment

Nick Manthos| 3.26.09 @ 9:29AM

It is very good to see Bev Gunn back here. I pray for you son and family. Why do we keep sending our children to defend what is being destroyed by our own "leaders"?

Appleby| 3.26.09 @ 10:07AM

The only thing we can take comfort in as we watch King Zero and his Magic Teleprompter blunder, stumble and Pinocchio his way through the next two years is that at last we are going to drive the final stake into the Sixties. The screaming ninnies who have been spouting this trayf for the past 40 years are finally seeing it in practice, and just as we told them in 1968, it ain't pretty.

I am reminded of Mama folding her arms and saying, "Okay, GO RIGHT AHEAD and get your hair cut Like That, if that's the only thing that will teach you." I did, paying $17 (which is about $200 in today's money) for the privilege of a haircut that made me look as if my head was on backwards, and spending the next six months wearing a scarf and praying it would grow faster than hair ever grew before.

Sometimes the only way a pigheaded kid, group of kids or country can learn is by suffering a really bad haircut or a good two-by-four across the head.

Daphne| 3.26.09 @ 2:54PM

I just hope we survive our 'Obama haircut'--seems more like a beheading to me.

Angel| 3.26.09 @ 2:56PM

I don't know if we still live in a free country, Dalia--ask Obummer.

David Govett| 3.26.09 @ 3:02PM

Obama proves that any inexperienced poseur can be elected president. My respect for the office has plummeted to subterranean depths I previously believed impossible.

Starry Night| 3.26.09 @ 7:28PM

And I thought Clinton put POTUS in the toilet--he wasn't even close to this TOTUS clown.

I.Q.-less| 3.26.09 @ 11:18PM

Look at it this way. We took the Imbecile Census in November and this is what we got.

We can whine do nothing but whine and the mid-term election will asure FOUR MORE YEARS. Republicans had better start beating the bushes for for someone not suffering from Stockholm Syndrome as John McCain obviously was.

I got a phone call last week from some organization claiming to be associated with David Bosse. I listened to the pitch for about 40 seconds and broke in with "Tell me if this is a preamble to a request for a donation?" He admitted it was and I asked him if he could tell me, if we re-ran the election today, what Republican could have beaten Obama, fitness for office notwithstanding.
He asked me if I had every heard of Allen Keys (sp?) I said "You mean the guy who lost in an Illinois senate run to Obama? He said "But have you ever heard him speak?" Then he asked me if I had ever heard of J. C. Watts.....I replied that I was seeing a pattern here, do you mean it will take a black to beat a black? And he said yes.

It's come to that in some political thinking. Odd to me he didn't bring up Thomas Sowell . There is a man I could vote for and be proud to salute as Commander-in-Chief.

I.Q.-less| 3.27.09 @ 2:45PM

Thomas Sowell has been brought up more than once in conversations having to do with who would make a good president. His credentials are impeccable, but he may be too top-heavy on erudition for the average voter.

Since we now have pundits who are defending Obama's election as a "good thing", if only to have broken the race barrier. ... (oh, gee, was that what it was all about?) then w e could have broken it with a decendent of some American Indian who was on the winning side at Custer's Last Stand. We persecuted them before we started on blacks, didn't we?

If the David Bosse funds solicitor was right and the Republicans must have a black candidate to unseat Obama - here's the perfect candidate. And this is not said in a joking way.
MAGIC JOHNSON! Personable, intelligent, sweet and gentle - an entrepreneur who is actually doing something for black people. And if it ever came to one-on-one on a basketball court with Obama.....

Johnson's post-basketball career and his philanthropies is a success story that has not been adequately told.

Now I think on it, he is too good for politics.