Talk about big brother. Or how about all the times they did things behind our back without even asking us, the ones who hired them. And please tell me why anyone would think it would be any different if we hired them for another term. What else could they do to us? Now that’s a scary thought.
The Republicans are such good con artists, the best I’ve seen since I worked in treatment centers. This old con artist can spot them a mile away. Watch the body language. McCain has anger issues and Palin sure wants to impress, like she’s in a beauty pageant. You betcha, they are in it for big stakes and will say or do anything for Bush and their party.
What I find hard to believe is all the folks still under their spell, it seems they have forgot all of the horror we’ve put up with for the last two terms. Maybe these are all the rich folks who the adversities didn’t touch. I’d sure hate to see folks making a race thing out of this. I value my country more than that and want to see things change for my children and grandchildren and I believe Obama and Joe Biden will try to make that happen.
I am sick and tired of the drama we’ve been force fed for the last two terms. The fear tactics the Republicans have used against us have come back to shoot them in the foot. The blatant lies are catching up with them and I for one hope to see heads roll.
As for drilling for oil in this country, I’m sure it will be allowed until the very last of it is gone and then what.
Hopefully because we have a leader who cares by the time we run out we’ll have other sources of energy, sources that will not hurt the planet. Other countries have proved we don’t have to rely on oil. America is so behind the times now when we used to be leaders, all to make the rich richer.
Sincerely,
Susan Kingsolver
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I sure hope you Obama supporters are happy when he's president of the Arab States of America. Best get your headgear and start growing your beards now, before they start breaking down your doors and dragging you into the streets for not supporting the terror effort.
Of course by the time you finally realize just how gullible you've been, it will be too late. My only consolation will be knowing that as I suffer for your stupidity, YOU will be suffering just as badly and you will KNOW that its YOUR OWN FAULT, even if you are too arrogant to admit it.
Under a spell? Are you INSANE? Or are you merely the blind leading the blind? Too close to see that YOU are the one under the "piper's spell".
Save your blathering for an Obama campaign rally, I don't care to hear more of your dribble.
"obama and joe" don't even like each other, they can barely stand to sit on the same TV stage and pretend. And you think THOSE two have answers to our problems?
Amazing. Simply amazing. No wonder the rest of the world thinks of us as "fat, stupid, lazy Americans", hard to argue with that when the proof is in your "letter to the editor".
Go ahead, make us all proud. NOT.
I remember seeing pictures of the Bush family with their arms wrapped around the Bin Laden family looking all cozy and you know I thought about that when Palin was running her mouth about Obama. Also her own associates sound a little shady. You know everything has been so garbled the last eight years and no matter how we feel about the conflict in the east our minds and hearts have been over there watching in awe as our beloved country women and men are being killed and maimed. The ones who are lucky enough to make it home come home to a ruined America. No jobs, no homes and living with a new dread and one that must scare the crap out of them. The wounded have their own horror stories about the hospitals they stayed in.
As for the economy I’m a lucky one because the mortgage on my home is very low and folks whom I know with high mortgages are just not making enough money to pay everything and many of them have lost their jobs. Now they are homeless and if they don’t have a family who can help them they are in a big mess.
I noticed folks getting money from mortgages and at the time asked them how the heck they would pay but I got caught with many credit cards and at the time my mom was dying from cancer. I used those cards to help make her last year pleasant with good food, a warm house and a few niceties. The little money she had went for medical bills.
After she died I was faced with high bills and joined one of those companies you see advertised on T.V. and for two years paid an exorbitant amount to them and they were supposed to pay off my credit cards. Hardly any of that money went to pay my bills and I filed bankruptcy for the first time.
Another thing, back in 2006 top house staffers, including Karl Rove enjoyed a $4,200 dollar raise boosting their total salary to $165,200 while they blocked a two-dollar minimum wage increase.
The raise failed because at the time there were more Republicans.
In 2007 wage increase passed and the wages went from five fifteen an hour to five eighty.
July twenty fourth, 2007 the wages rose to six fifty-five. I was making that in the eighties.
My thinking is this Nafta and all the illegals working for lower than minimum wages has had a lot to do with that. Mexico got rich off us, as did China and other countries. Big business loved it and was raking in fortunes thanks to Republicans and their special interests. We’ve had no one to fight for us and the Republicans have run roughshod over their own country to pad their bank accounts. We’ve had dysfunctional leaders and just like children from homes where dysfunction is all they know from alcoholic or drug addicted parents, sick parents, child abuse or other maladies we need structure and we need to break the pattern.
Maybe some of you think I don’t sound like a liberal, well I am but now I feel for us Americans, it’s time the illegals went and left us to mend our own country. We have enough out of job Americans and one thought I had was a program where the government could pay us to build a border fence. We are Americans and have come through this before and I have faith we can do it again with the right leadership. Another term with Republicans and God only knows where we will end up.
It's Kool-Aid spewers like Anonymous #1 and some other commenters here,that hold the positions of the brain-dead, the one's who want four more years of having our rights stripped away, by voting for the MCCain-Palin ticket.
And to Anonymous who made this particular comment, you're the one full of dribble and I wouldn't have left my name either.
You truly need to seek help and get the real facts ,instead of spreading the absolute LIES that permeate
your comments.
Thanks Susan for a great opinion and follow-up fictional story
We will see who the liars are, in time. And who the fools are, too. It won't be a surprise to me, I already know.
I hope you remember what you've said when we are all paying the price for your arrogance and stupidity, later.
And yes President Clinton is in their ranks and is why I’m so sorry I voted for him and I refused to support Hillary.
The conservatives including Clinton are trying very hard to hang on to their interest and they’re putting many lies out there knowing not many of us know the true facts. It’s time consuming to do the research. But this is what has this country on our knees. It is not just Republicans but Democrats as well. The only candidate I’ve heard mention this is Obama. Look up the Heritage Foundation and type in Reagan and Nafta or Clinton and Nafta.
Top priority for supporters of Nafta is to knock Obama down because he gets it.
Oh yea I missed the letter about the Bible. Will answer it later.
Hey I don't know anymore than anyone else but I do research.
I worked had to EARN the money I have. Why is it my responsibility to care for you because you are no longer working?
It ain't Obama with the stupid programs...it's MCCAIN!
As for McCain's plan to buy the bad mortgages of people who bought over their heads and are now facing foreclosurep; If they are allowed to devalue their home and then refi at that devalued price -- I want to be able to devalue my home and refi it!
As for con-artists - a few names in the political world do come to mind - at the top of the list, of course, would be the Obamessiah and his faithful sidekick "Plagiarizing Joe", Billary Clinton, Al Gore, Nancy Pelosi, Barney Frank etc etc etc. And let's not forget the biggest con-artists of all, the liberal media. I swear, if it wasn't for the Law & Order reruns on TNT (gotta love that Fred Thompson), there would be absolutely nothing on I could watch without having to double up on my heartburn medicine.
If your conscious leads you to vote Obama/Biden, I say have at it. As for me, I'll take the Old Guy and the Hot Chick anyday.
I also wonder why, since ACORN was caught once again, doing what they always do... each election, "Voter Fraud" for the Democratic side.... is this too a "con" of the trust of all of the American people?
As for being "conned" I wonder if you are OK with the fact that until the Democratic person running for the highest office in the land was actually confronted by the Left Wing Liberal Media regarding the pastor of which he was associated with for many years, which he stated over and over before then, it too was a smear tactic from his opponents? Yet once it all came out he "distanced" (LOL) himself from that radical hate America sermons.
I am sure, that the Left Wing Liberal Media of which you seem so fond of agreeing with, realized... "we need to better control what we actually release, we are hurting our chances of getting the Democratic person elected" (my opinion, not a quote) So maybe thats why they wont really investigate the association to a man that murdered police, promoted children to rise up and kill thier parents, as well as bragging about not being convicted on it... and stating he wish he had done more...maybe thats why they wont connect the dots... the people of this great country would then see.. who the real con artist is. I could go on with more... but I wont.
I assume, since you can use a computer, seeing as you posted here... you can search for yourself, outside of the "Left Wing Liberal" media, and compare it to them. You can go even further and check the voting record for both parties, no need then to listen to biased reporting. Perhaps then, you will see that the real con arists of this great nation is not whom you percieve it to be.
No doubt that if Obama gets in there and the same goes on, you'll blame it on the previous administration.
I have worked with the public for over thirty years and when I see Obama's seemingly sincere smile and hand shakes I see a fake!
If you're a TRUE CONSERVATIVE, you only have ONE CHOICE in this election...no, it ain't Obama, it's
BOB BARR!
VOTE CONSERVATIVE VALUES, VOTE BOB BARR 2008!!!
No, we aren't voting for Bob Barr to "win" the election...we're voting for Bob Barr to send a STRONG message to McCain and the rest of the "socialist wing" of the Republican party that we belong on the conservative, free market right and WE WILL steer the ship back in that direction!
Face it. 2008 was a lost cause when McCain somehow stole the nomination. Huckabee won Georgia in a landslide and if he was the candidate, we wouldn't be having this discussion. Huckabee would be up by 10-15 points. Nope. We let the socialist softies in OUR OWN PARTY dictate the course. If you're a real conservative Republican 2008 is meaningless...you only have one horse in the race and that is BOB BARR!
SEND THE MESSAGE. SEND IT LOUD AND CLEAR...REPUBLICANS go RIGHT...BOB BARR 2008!
Join me and probably at least half of the Republican party in Madison County and Cast your vote for Bob Barr and cast it proudly. If enough of us get behind Barr in 2008, we WILL NOT LOSE in 2012!!!
I doubt it. Folks say I looked like her when I was her age.
I’m in my sixties now and way beyond foolishness like being jealous of someone’s looks. If an old man and a hot chic is what folks think we need to help our country, God help us.
I had the same feeling I have now the two times I voted against Bush. Those feelings were right and I get the same feeling about McCain and Palin. With Palin I can’t get AIP or trooper-gate out of my mind. I know about McCain and his lies. He needs to keep an audio file of everything he says because he’s starting to trip over his tales.
What I’ve been hearing is scary in regards to genocide and I’m hoping white supremacy is not behind some of these posts. There are not that many pure whites now a day. I have always passed as white but I have Indian blood and my children are part Filipino and part Indian. How many people with mixed blood live in Madison County? Many.
Obama was never an ACORN organizer, never an ACORN trainer and did not work for ACORN. ACORN had nothing to do with PROJECT VOTE.
He did represent ACORN in a successful lawsuit and for his work with MOTORVOTER he received the IVI-IPO Legal Eagle award.
Discredited Republican voter suppression guru, Ken Blackwell, is attacking Obama with lies about his supposed links to ACORN.
Perhaps you missed the amended FEC report filed by the Obama campaign while you were typing your latest letter to the editor. It seems he has been funding ACORN.
Perhaps you should do a little fact checking on the AIP and Palin. She was never a member of the AIP. Stop reading blogs and start looking for the truth. The truth is that you are a liberal and willing to believe any garbage spewed by the Obama campaign. Much like many people are willing to beleive that Obama is really a Muslim.
Stop drinking the kool-aid, I think it might be spiked. It seems to me that you haven't been sober since joining move on in 2001.
I visited your homepage and the only way people would say you looked like Palin 20 years ago would be if they had been at the bar drinking with you for a few hours. Beer googles do wonders for people's looks.
Have you nothing better to do than write opinion letters to the Madison Journal and Banner Herald? Please, let go of your hatred and stop this mess.
For those of you who don't know, Susan wrote a letter to the editor about 2 weeks ago about how the system had failed her and that Obama, the messiah, was the next FDR and he was going to take us to the promised land of Uncle Sam taking care of everyone.
Susan obviously is a very gifted writer, since she constantly writes an essay or two on the 'evil republicans' and Bush each week. Perhaps if she dropped the partisan writing more people would have purchased her book and her royalties would have covered the co-pay she was unable to pay a while back.
Some of the stuff I've read here is the same stuff that comes from a McCain/Palin rally and I’ll do here what I've done for many years now and that is to consider the source.
I can’t afford to hold resentments. I’ve seen my share of drama addicts and hell raisers. Those folks are in hog heaven right now with McCain/Palin. They love to be whipped up into a frenzy and McCain/Palin know how to incite a crowd. I hate this for the Grand Old Party. Most Republicans now know how I felt when Clinton was President. I made a bad choice and that choice is affecting us right now.
I hate it for the Grand Old Party.
I’ve always called myself a Democrat but after the Clinton years I’ve sworn I’ll only vote for the candidates I feel comfortable with and not the party. I even said the words if Hilary was nominated I would vote for McCain and if that had happened, knowing what I know now I just wouldn’t vote. If Obama was on the Republican ticket and McCain/Palin were democrats I’d still vote for Obama.
America is in a mess today because of bad candidates on both sides with cronyism, lies and greed. It took us years to get in this mess and it will take us years to get out and I will work to undo some of the harm I’ve done by my blind voting. I will do this for my children and grand children. So far it has made an impact on my grand children’s lives. My eldest grand daughter is a RN in California and she wants to head the union out there for nurses.
With the foreign nurses our country wants to import it will hurt the American nurse’s jobs because the nurses from other countries will work for lower wages and on and on it goes until we put a stop to it. I believe Obama gets it and wants to see his countrymen and women with protection from what has been going on. Our factories shipped to other countries along with many more of our jobs and illegals here working for lower wages. How many times have you called about a utility or a credit card and got someone in a foreign country who barely speaks English. We can thank both parties for that. Their special interest and the corrupt lobbyists have ruined this country. I want a candidate that is for America not for Mexico, China and other countries. Our money has been squandered by a bunch of spendaholics and many of the programs that help Americans has been deleted so our leaders can continue on with their shopping spree
Obama is so popular because of his demeanor and because watching him and hearing him doesn’t make people ill at ease. I’m sure he doesn’t have all the answers but I believe as a President he will work for the American people. I’ve seen what McCain and Palin are capable of and it scares me to think my grandchildren might have to be under their rule.
Looking past his name, the color thing and his country of birth I see an American man who has probably been hurt more by blacks and whites that most of us. From his life story and the love he got from his mother and grandparents he gained a great character. His pain made him stronger. Sure he’s made mistakes but from what I’ve seen and heard he’s learned from his mistakes and did not let his life adversities ruin him.
Way back the Native Americans, or if you prefer, Indians were called far worse than terrorist. Racial extermination took most of them. People who were too blind and fearful to think for them selves were provoked into thinking the red man was to be feared and they helped with the Genocide. Some of those folks were just plain mean and evil. The only reason any survived at all were the good white and black folks who had heart and hid them.
You've got two bags, one that is for wants and one that is for crap. With the volume of crap you've put out, it's no wonder which one is getting filled first.
It’s well past time for everyone to stop making excuses and stop trying to protect your own political interest at the expense of the nation.
All of the constant insults and lies are just down right embarrassing.
People, stop being lead around like SHEEP and think for yourselves! See the TRUTH and take a STAND.
DO something, make a difference! Stop waiting for everyone else to put a stop to this nonsense and do it YOURSELF.
If you're honest and smart and care about our country, RUN FOR OFFICE! Stand up to the crooks and self-interested politicians!
And for God and Country's sake, don't wait for McCain or Obama to "save" us.
THEY WON'T!!!
Anyone who thinks either of them CAN or WILL is being worse than foolish.
Only YOU can make a difference. But only if YOU will step up and do what's needed.
Do you REALLY care? Enough to DO something other than sling insults and lies?
I doubt it.
Maybe a more productive reply with some suggestions on how to make things better would have been more helpful than a sarcastic one?
Or maybe you can move to Canada or Mexico because America doesn't need radical bigots like you....you my friend, make America weak...
Get a life.....or grow up.
Are you a terorist..or just a typical Republican who just can't imagine America run by a black man...??? Should I be afraid of you???? Not!!!!!
Jenny is my name---by the way...I'm no wuss either....
So since name calling offends you, I guess you think it is not OK for supporters of your party to call Obama a muslim and a terrorist or is that just how your party works???
Obama '08
Have you ever held a job that required a simple background investigation or a security clearance? For much of my time in the Army, my duties required that I have a top secret security clearance. The special background investigation conducted to get and then maintain a top secret security clearance is quite extensive. One must provide 15 years of personal history consisting of references, credit records, relatives, neighbors, affiliations with organizations, workplaces, schools and you name it - and they are all checked. Each 5 years thereafter, all of the information must be updated and checked again. Your life is an open book and if you try to hide any of that your security clearance is lost and you could face serious criminal charges for hiding it. Some of my military jobs required that I be trusted with critically sensitive national security information. The security clearances, which gave me access to information that certainly would damage our national security if it ended up in the wrong hands, was not as high as a Whitehouse level security clearance.
So, whenever I hear about a politician, especially one who wants to be our president, refusing to release documents about his personal life it makes me distrust that person with the security of my family and country. Anyone who is not bothered by that either does not realize what is at stake or is just plain ignorant of the world in which we live and the potential for the rapid destruction of our country by our enemies. With the stroke of a pen, the President of the United States can declassify sensitive national security information. When your political alliances include self-admitted communists and people who think it is cute to have their pictures taken standing on the American flag that for me is a problem. Don’t you find it disconcerting that Privates in the Army who work with sensitive information and equipment are more investigated and must meet more stringent security requirements than a potential Commander in Chief? I do.
Remember 2004? Dan Rather produced fraudulent and forged documents about George Bush’s military service. Everything about President Bush was scrutinized and largely mischaracterized by the media. John Kerry on the other hand was defended. John Kerry who refused then and still refuses to release his complete military records. Before it was sent into cyber hell, I reviewed the DD Form 214 that John Kerry posted on his website. Within 30 seconds, I saw problems that the average person without knowledge of such records would not have noticed. One of his awards was listed as a Silver Star Medal with a V device. It was clearly an amateurish attempt to present a hero to Americans. In case you might not know it, a Silver Star is awarded for Combat Valor. There is no V device (for Valor) affixed to a Sliver Star. The V device is affixed to awards that are given for Combat Valor when the same award might also be earned for meritorious achievement. Examples are the Bronze Star Medal or the Army Commendation Medal. The second red flag on Mr. Kerry’s DD 214 was the annotation on his discharge concerning a review by a Board of Officers in the authority for discharge. The only reason this annotation would appear on a DD 214 is that if a Board of Officers were required to review for upgrade an Other than Honorable Discharge. If you need your memory refreshed, Thomas Lipscomb wrote interesting articles about Mr. Kerry's records. The authors of Fake Warriors talked about it. Mr. Kerry could have cleared up any mystery or allegation simply by releasing all of his military records for public scrutiny. He did not and the mainstream American media while campaigning for him did not insist that he do it either. Mr. Kerry had plenty of questionable political alliances and even documented meetings with the North Vietnamese in Paris while he was still a Naval Reserve officer that was also not addressed in the media. If all of this was widely reported, this charlatan would not have had even a tiny chance of being elected to the Presidency. Fortunately, enough of his history was known to prevent his election.
I only rehashed Mr. Kerry’s questionable record and history to demonstrate for you a pattern of deception by liberal candidates and their supportive Pravda like media sycophants attempting to conceal information that voters should know. This is the most dangerous combination in the history of our country. The world's worst and most dangerous leaders gained power under similar circumstances. Now, we have a candidate that refuses to release what should be harmless documents - his birth and school records. I am not trying to infer anything one way or the other concerning these records. Only that someone who wants to be my President and hold the security of my family and country in his hands should be happy to release documents that tell me who he is. You and I have a right to know. He has an obligation to tell us. The media has an obligation to insist that he does. When there is a refusal to release records, like John Kerry, I can only conclude that there is something to hide.
Would you allow someone to sit with your children or to protect your other most precious possessions “ like freedom - if you didn’t know everything possible to know about them?