What you can expect if Obama is electedIf you enjoy paying taxes and want to pay more, vote for Obama.
If you want our country’s military and security weakened while countries like Iran and North Korea become stronger, vote for Obama.
If you want to pay more for gas and everything else, vote for Obama, who promises to tax oil companies and small businesses. Those costs, of course, will be passed on to you in the form of higher prices for everything you buy.
If you support the killing of human fetuses and terminating late-term pregnancies, vote for Obama. What if your mother had aborted you?
If you want San Francisco extreme left-wing liberal values to spread all over America, vote for Obama.
If you are physically and mentally able to work but don’t want to, vote for Obama. He promises you more entitlements. It’s ironic that the disadvantaged habitually elect Democrats, yet they still remain disadvantaged.
If you want God and prayer removed from everything because it’s so offensive to liberals, vote for Obama.
If these are the kind of changes you want, vote for Obama. I’m certain you’ll get just what you want.
ó Donald Schumacher
Salisbury
Fiddling with politicsRegarding Marion McLaughlin’s Sept. 14 letter (“Dancing to the same old tune”):
Pardon my intrusion, but I just wanted to round out a few points you made.
First, second fiddles are chosen by both political parties to appeal to constituents that the first fiddle thinks he otherwise wouldn’t be able to attract.
Also, all nominating conventions are orchestrated affairs intended to take the focus off the opposing candidate.
Second, you talk about Palin’s thin resume. Excuse me? Have you really looked at the resume of the first fiddle of the Democratic Party? Community organizing, being “present” in the Illinois state senate, a couple of years as a senator; zero executive experience. Palin, for all her “youth” (she’s 21/2 years younger than Obama) has more executive experience than all the other fiddles together. Whether you agree with her policies or not, trying to diminish her experience only makes Obama’s lack of experience more glaring.
Third, since McCain is drab and unimaginative, I can only assume that you are referring to Palin. Constituent enthusiasm is OK, part of the process. If, by deification, you mean the kind of adoring coverage lavished by the mainstream media on Obama, you are wrong. Yes, Palin has received a lot of recent news coverage as the mainstream media has pawed through her dirty laundry. That is hardly deification; it is orchestrated demonization. If the mainstream media put half the energy into investigating Obama that they have in Palin, things might be very different right now.
Finally, as a white male, I agree with you on your racial point. If Obama were white, it would be no contest. If he were white, he would have to stand on his empty record instead of his evanescent charisma. Clinton would have beat him handily and be your candidate right now.
ó Dan Farris
Rockwell
Which direction?
Barack Obama will ensure that Social Security is protected from those who would privatize it and cut benefits to make a profit. And he is committed to making repairs to Social Security that will strengthen it for today’s retirees, their children and their grandchildren. In the last eight years, seniors have seen the erosion of many of the gains it took most of our lifetime to achieve. Reversing those losses begins with this election.
We can either choose a new direction for our country, or we can choose to continue the same old politics and the same failed policies that got us here in the first place.
ó Crystal Goodson-Hudson
Kannapolis
Messing with nature
I would like to make a few comments to the scientists in Switzerland who recently conducted an underground physics experiment (Large Hadron Collider), spending $3.8 billion (partially funded by the United States) in search of answers to where humans life came from and how.
First of all, they should read Genesis 1:27, “So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.” Next, I have some questions. (1) Are you aware of all the hunger and homelessness in the world today? (2) Do you know, “I Did It My Way” won’t be on heaven’s top-40 list? (3) Have you ever heard the warning, “It’s not nice to mess with Mother Nature”?
Finally, and most importantly, I am passing along God’s phone number for them to call in the future ó Jeremiah 33:3, “Call to me and I will answer you, and I will tell you great and mighty things which you do not know.”
ó Margaret T. Shumate
Salisbury