Letter to the Editor
Still Obama
Published Friday, September 5, 2008
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To the editor:
I had once watched a special on PBS about Robert “Bobby” F. Kennedy.
I was extremely upset that he had been shot while campaigning for president because he was an amazing man. I thought it was a shame that we had not had a presidential candidate since Bobby who was so compassionate and caring about the average American whether they were black, white, female, Hispanic, etc.
It was such a shame that we hadn’t had a presidential candidate that was going to bring much needed change to politics and America. What a shame.
It took 40 years to produce another candidate as great as Bobby, and that man is Barack Obama. When Barack Obama first announced his intent to run for president my ears perked up, could he be the one? Yes he is. Barack is the first candidate in 40 years to bring hope and change to America.
Barack Obama is going continue the civil rights fight. Yes, there is still a problem.
He is going to give a tax cut to 95 percent of hard working Americans. He won’t give tax breaks to companies that send jobs overseas. Obama is going to cut 80 percent of greenhouse emissions by 2050! My children and grandchildren might have an Earth to enjoy! Barack Obama has so many more important issues that I don’t have room to list them all!
Barack Obama has reenergized this election. He has brought hope to millions of Americans and thousands of Alaskans. Sarah Palin is a good governor, but a vote for McCain just to be able to vote for her is not wise. Vote with knowledge. Vote with facts. Most importantly vote for the issues that are important to you! This Alaskan is still voting for Obama!
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And don't forget, a vote for Obama is a vote for Osama. We'll have terrorists at our doorsteps taking away all that compassionate freedom Obama will give away. Obama is first wanting to take away our guns, and then our freedom. Wake up people, lets keep what we have fought to protect. We don't need the bleeding heart liberals legislating more socialism, we need to protect the little freedom we have left.
Obama is the only man to give our freedom back which the Republicans took away with playing out us out with Terrorist! Terrorist! Terrorist! and same time taking more and more of little freedom we have left. At this point we still have time to recover from our huge deficit created from Iraq, Remember your children are here and between the Democrats and Republicans foreign relations are in their hands for common good of all men.
Obama will not reduce the deficit. He'll crush the free market, raise taxes, appease the enemy, and in the end it'll be folks like myself all of you reading this who will suffer. Choose wisely your president.
I, for one, am a minority that supports John McCain and Sarah Palin. Civil rights continuation? Please. Each one of us, as Americans, has the ability to strive and achieve our greatest potential. Barack Obama is proof of that. Why then, in GOD'S name, is this still an issue? We are all on a level playing field, and the team we play for is the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. Don't speak for me, I am not weak and will not use my minority status as an excuse. Don't speak for me, I am not one without representation. I am a Native American and proud of my heritage. I am an American Native and damn proud of it as well! God Bless America. God Bless John McCain and Sarah Palin!
"Protect the little freedom we have left?"
"Frozen1member" you've got to be kidding me, right?
Been under the weather for a couple of days, but damn I'm back with a vengance.
I'm so very damn tired of knuckleheads like yourself comparing Candidate Obama to Osama Bin Laden.
It's foolish, utterly ridiculous, and downright racial as well.
I hear no one making "white devil" references when we speak of EVERY DAMN WHITE MAN that's had his ass in the Office of the President since 1789. Do you?
So why, when the chance arises, when there's someone who's skin is a little bit darker than "the establishment's", who has a chance to lead this nation with a somewhat different focus towards what hasn't worked, he's seen as a "terrorist?"
Seems to me, Obama could have a different avenue towards dealing with these people. What's wrong with that? Especially if it works.
Seems also that the alternative....imposing our will on these countries, has only served to cause dissension, as well as the loss of thousands of lives.
I have nothing against defending the Homeland, and I support our troops (my younger brother...82nd Airborne, Ft. Bragg, my uncle, Korean and Vietnam War veteran) but this country is not better off for this war, and you know it.
Elect Obama President and "Oh My God! There goes the neighborhood," is what you sound like "Frozen1Member."
You need to check yourself. And while you're at it, take the white sheet off your head.
It's your right not to support or even like Candidate Obama.
But to continuously pin the tag of "terrorist" on a man you really know nothing about...one who vehemently professes his love for the United States of America, and visually speaking, who is just a little different than what's been in office for over 200 years, is downright rude.
It's like saying Candidate McCain supports slavery just because he happens to be White.
Sound stupid?
Well join the club "Frozen1member."
Peace!
Well spoken "Non-Lemming!"
I didn't see the PBS documentary that the letter writer mentions about Bobby Kennedy, but I'm willing to bet that they forgot to mention the time he spent working as an assistant to Senator Joe McCarthy finding and condemning suspected communists. Or sharing the affections of Marilyn Monroe, after brother Jack was done with her. There are allegations that Monroe did not really commit suicide, but had a little help.
Then there was that appointment to Attorney General. Does the word "nepotism" ring a bell?
Bobby Kennedy was a two faced politician. No better, and no worse, that a thousand other politicians. He wasn't a saint.
Also, I wonder if the documentary showed the support for civil rights demonstrated by Republicans at the time, when the Democrats were still dominated by Dixiecrats and racists.
Wait, there are civil rights issues that still need to be addressed. You can't just assume that because the particular minority group you belong to has been afforded equal rights on paper that all civil rights abuses have been rectified. You should continue to advocate on behalf of those still marginalized.
For instance: job and housing discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender identity; marriage equity for same-sex and transgendered couples; access to medical marijuana for chronically ill patients; what to do with the millions of immigrants who have entered the US illegally, but would further devastate our economy should the be forceably removed or incarcerated, neither of which is truly and option; access to affordable health care for all.
I don't really like John McCain. I was leaning toward "holding my nose to vote for him" because I like Barack Obama even less but the addition of Sarah Palin only makes it possible to vote with joy and a positive additude.
I can now look forward with hope that McCain/Palin will win because there really is a difference now. It's no longer a choice between the "Lesser of Two Evils" but a choice between a slightly flawed candidate (with a 'diamond in the rough' for a VP) and two Democrat nominees that are thoroughly evil in their thoughts, ambitions, and intentions.
Yes, just my opinion but for the first time in this election cycle, I'm optimistic that the Republicans may actually win...
Thank you, OldSkoolNook, for calling Frozen on the carpet for the Obama/Osama slander. Obama is as much a patriot as any Republican. He may not have been a POW but he will stand up for our freedom just the same.
Speaking of freedom, let's not forget what the Republican party, under the leadership of George and Dick, has done with our constitutional freedom over the last 8 years. The government listening in on our phone conversations, sifting through our emails, and tracking what books we read? All this, while keeping the population in fear and on "orange" alert for the boogie-men lurking around every corner? Sounds a little too much like 1984 to me. So much for a "hands-off" government.
McCain and Palin claim they are going to reform Washington. As Sarah likes to say, "Thanks but no thanks." Obama is the only agent of change in this election.
Just remember, when you vote for Obama, your voting for a complete dearmament of America.. Better do your research on his goals and agenda... Who really is OBAMA, and who is supporting a man from obsurity....
Don't forget that John McCain actually did fight and suffer in our armed forces and does know the personal cost of freedom. Don't forget that we have been savagely attacked by those who do not want people, especially women, to have freedom. John McCain understands this at a much deeper level than any other candidate on the screen. We must remain strong. We must remain focused and not be gulled by passionate prose or empty promises.
Sarah also seems to have a stong prescient perception of reality even if her attempts to clean up and protect the image of our state troopers and their union appears somewhat quixotic.
"...he's seen as a "terrorist?""
A man is known by the company he keeps.
His association with known terrorists, Bill Ayers and Bernadette Dorn as well as Frank Marshall Davis, are well known. That's one fact that you libs can't change and you can't hide. Its got nothing to do with race, so nice try playing the race card but it ain't cut'n it. Deal with it.
Just because one is a soldier doesn't make them more aware of "the cost of freedom." There were multiple abuses of independent journalists covering the RNC last week in St Paul. These people, trying to cut through all the hyperbole (at either convention) are on the modern front lines of protecting ourselves. While our military is hard at work trying to secure geo-political boundaries to ensure the flow of oil for the next 50 years, these journalists here at home are trying to provide you and I, the voting citizenry, with what substance can actually be found in either platform so we can make informed decisions.
Celebrate the hard work these men and women do in the face of the adversity found in confronting over-zealous riot police and "free-speech zones" while attempting to ask the people the matter the hard questions. True patriotism is exercising your Constitutional rights and defending them in the face of tyranny.
I really do wonder where you all have been the last 8 years. Forget about Obama a minute. So you hate him, fear him. Fine, don't vote for him. He obviously doesn't have a chance of getting the 3 (!) electoral Alaskan votes. If he has to depend on Alaska to win, he's toast anyway.
But tell me, how do any of you who go around throwing words like "commie" and "Marxist" and "libbie" wish to explain the past 8 years? Where was your 100% white, Christian, Texas oil man who looks and talks the way you all do when the people of New Orleans needed him? Why is the man responsible for attacking us on 9/11 still running around Pakistan freely laughing at us, anyway? -- (And Musharref is our best buddy, right? What will we do now that he's gone?!) Why has it taken us more than 5 years to subdue a two-bit Third World country into submission -- and it will take us how much longer before we can finally get out of there with our Mission truly Accomplished? And now we want to threaten the Russians in Georgia? Putin is laughing in our faces! Oh, and let's not forget the loss of our individual rights and liberties. Been to the airport lately?
Is Obama the answer to all this? Maybe not. Is McCain? If he's elected, I sure as hell hope so. But you all have a lot of damned nerve sitting there calling those of us who don't agree with you names, telling us to get out of the state, etc. You're damned right I am a neo-Marxist Liberal Eastcoast Pinhead. And no, I don't live in Alaska. I live "down in the States." And right now, we need a president who can unite and restore this country, domestically and internationally, to the glory it once had, and can have again. But given what I read daily in this paper, I just wonder if either man has a hope in hell of getting the job done.
I saw on tv the riot police and the "anarchists", please enlighten regarding the "abuses of independent journalists". Are the anarchists the "modern front lines" of which you speak?
brassmonkey -- you can be assured that a journalist will always get the story wrong. They have no interest in all the facts, only those that make up a story that will sell. BTW, they were being arrested in Denver at the DNC convention, too. Journalists can be just as nasty and belligerent as anybody else. Truer patriotism is knowing what your Constitutional rights are (few bother to know) and when to exercise them appropriately. Someone who pushes the limits of the Constitution just to make a show out of themselves is simply, a jerk.
"ImUsuallyRight"...get a clue...
No one is playing the race card here.
Some of my good friends growing up were known gang members, true "Crips" and "Bloods".
Does talking with them, being "cool" with them make ME a gang member?
Hell no!
Calling Candidate Obama a "terrorist" because he's come in contact with these people is very dumb.
Have you actually HEARD or SEEN his "utmost" support for their agenda's or is it a simple case of "I heard it from a friend of a friend's cousin's sister."
His darker skin, and differing approach towards the issues has this country scared.
He's someone you can't....and in many ways don't identify with.
It's human nature to actually FEAR what you don't understand.
He's not your "average" candidate "Imusuallyright."
Admit it!!
And finally, what YOU and many millions of others can't change, run or hide from is the fact that this country has dealt with the SAME B.S. for the past EIGHT YEARS, as well as the same tired approach for many, many more.
And now you're asking Americans to vote for FOUR MORE years of literally "the same old, same old".
This time with a candidate who wasn't even well liked in his own Republican Party......and who couldn't even invite his fellow Republican (and still sitting) President to HIS party.
The very same Republican President who just four short years ago, threw him (McCain) under the bus trying to get re-elected.
Once you DEAL with that "Imusuallyright," you'll see you're anything but "usually right" on this one.
"Pinhead from the East"
I love you man!!!
Very well put.......I'm here in Alaska, and I ask as well...
Can anyone explain these past 8 years?
And please....no "the past is the past, let's move on bull either."
Crosswind, your problem is that you saw it "on tv." You were receiving the most marketable story produced by the large media conglomerates. Check into the arrests of members of the Democracy Now! team and the I-Witness Video team. Credentialled members of the press were forceably arrested, sustained injuries and charged with bogus claims of "felony riot" and "interferring with a peace officer".
Prospector, I expect my journalists to be belligerent sometimes. They need to or else they will only receive the spoon-fed version intended for them. Three cheers for Helen Thomas! Also, I seriously doubt that Rosa Parks was a "jerk" out for personal fame.
Oldskool
"No one is playing the race card here."
"His darker skin, and differing approach towards the issues has this country scared."
Kind of sounds like it..... Im just sayin'...
The one problem the Democrats still face is despite a tongue in the mouth speeches by the Clintons, the party did not unite behind their candidate. How many honestly believe Hilary Clinton wants Obama to win? She needs her chance in four years not in 8, when she will be the candidate in her 70's. She is already seeing an old woman won't stand a chance no matter how experienced she is. Don't ever underestimate the Clinton political machine among Democrats. This is one time I am sure McCain is hoping for politics as usual. Interesting no one picked up on the fact Obama has stated yesterday on a conservative talk show that the surge in Iraq has worked.
FreeDarfur, that was picked up on NPR this morning (or was it yesterday afternoon?). The rest of the media was too busy chasing around McCain and Palin when they weren't predicting utter destruction of the southeast coast by hurricanes. You can be sure the remark itself was recorded, however, and will be broadcast to you when the time is right.
Oldschool-
I'd like to point out that the above poster has as much in common with me as Obama has with Osama.
Obama never said that the "surge" didn't work. He said that there was more to it then the fact that we just sent in more troops. And he was correct. The fact that more troops were sent to Iraq helped immensely, but, there were other things in play then just our troops. In Anbar the locals finally, on their own, decided to oust al Qaeda and other terrorist groups. Our government was also paying local militias to not attack us. So, when our troops were finally sent in they had less of a resistance to deal with and more help from the locals in dealing with what resistance there was.