I feel good about my community
Tuesday, October 21, 2008 12:36 AM PDT
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I feel good about my community
I ran out of gas on California Way recently. Three different strangers helped me push my truck to the Texaco station on 11th Avenue.
Praise God for some good neighbors.
David Church
Longview
Vote For Obama
Mrs. Cope was my high school typing teacher. Every morning, to get our fingers warmed up, she would have us type 10 times, “Now is the time for all good people to come to the aid of their party.” The repetition of typing those words left a lasting impression, and they are so relevant for the present time.
We are facing what is probably the most important election in history. Our country is in desperate need of strong, capable, wise and compassionate leadership. Someone has said that the presidential campaign is not unlike a job interview. Sen. Barack Obama has showed during the campaign and especially the debates that he is qualified for the job. He is well-informed, articulate, has well thought out plans and programs, is poised, calm and collected under pressure and is not easily distracted.
Obama has truly grown and matured as a leader during this campaign and has won the admiration and respect of millions. His leadership will bring back trust to the executive branch as well as from world leaders. So, it is imperative that we heed the words from that typing class exercise — “Now is the time for all good people to come to the aid of their party (and our country,” and vote for Sen. Obama.
John Steppert
Longview
Wake up, America
I have not been able to read the letters lately, so I would just like to put my 2 cents in. Vote “no” to McCain/Palin.
Keep Roe vs. Wade. If Palin had her way, all abortions would be banned.
Vote for assisted suicide. You don’t have to use it, but who are you, to take that right away from others?
Quit wasting money on appeal after appeal. Why do we protect the guilty? If they are a child molester, get them out of society. A bullet does not cost much, and it is more humane and less costly than being electrocuted.
Get a life, tree huggers and extreme environmentalists. You cost taxpayers a lot of money.
I was not an Obama supporter, but I am now. It’s beyond me how anyone could want four more years of the same with McCain. I know it is close to Halloween, but Sarah Palin as president is a very scary thought.
Barbara Rider
Castle Rock
A new day a dawnin’
Whoa, boy, are things gonna’ change in this country. In about three weeks, there’s going to be a stampede of folks jumpin’ on planes, grabbing boats and even hopping fast freights out of here. I’m talking all those folks who see the end-o-times a’comin if Barack Obama makes a victory speech on national TV Nov. 5.
I mean these folks who fear the radical possibility that someone other than a white dude might be the leader of melting pot America will simply prove they meant what they have secretly felt and occasionally said outright. I mean, why would anyone want to stay here and admit that an Obama victory might be OK and just what America is all about? Why would any self-respecting Republican want to live in a country where the majority of folks have said, “This guy Obama has stirred us, given us hope that maybe we can believe in the dream of a better nation, better lives and by joining together actually fulfill our promise and most importantly that to lead us along this path, doesn’t have to be white to do it”?
If I were Alaska, I’d start hiring more border guards. I mean they’re gonna have to check everyone out in the certain to be huge mob of folks who follow Rush, Hannity and Rove to the promised land to make sure only “their kind get in.”
Jim Hill
Kelso
Subprime loans
Subprime loans have not been caused by bank deregulation. Subprime loans got started by the hard-core leftist lobbyists in the Carter administration in 1977 with the creation of the Community Reinvestment Act, which benefits various “neighborhood organizations” like the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now.
The Clinton administration in 1999 put pressure on Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to make subprime loans. Christopher Dodd, Senate Banking Committee chairman, and Congressman Barney Franks, Congress Banking Committee chairman put pressure on Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to make subprime loans. Both of these men are Democrats.
ACORN did bank sit-ins to force banks to give subprime loans. They also went to banker’s homes and threatened their families.
Sen. Barack Obama worked for ACORN as a trainer and sued Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to make subprime loans. He has given $800,000 from his campaign to ACORN.
Dodd is the number one recipient of a $500,000 political contribution from Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and Obama is number two recipient with $300,000 political contributions.
President Bush tried to rein in Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac in 2002. The Democrats blocked it.
Roy Besco
Longview
Obama would be a disaster
For gun owners, hunters, NRA members and folks that value their constitutional right to keep and bear arms, Barack Obama will, if elected, be a complete disaster. Obama is rated the most left-wing senator in the whole Senate, and Joe Biden is rated around sixth. As you well know, liberals hate guns, citizens' gun ownership and hunting.
I guess that you will have to decide which is more important to you, your constitutional rights or whether this temporary downward blip in the economy. Your very freedom is on the line this next election. How do you protect your freedoms as an unarmed populace?
Remember, the U.S. Supreme Court just recently ruled that the Second Amendment to the Constitution was an individual right for honest citizens to own and carry a gun. It took us years to get to this point. With the election of anti-gun Obama and his appointment of left-wing Supreme Court judges, we could well lose our gun rights completely.
Obama is a light weight and has no real answers for any of our current problems. Obama’s main asset is he is a smooth talker, like Jeremy Wright, Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, Barney Frank and Diane Finestein. All of the above never saw a new gun restriction law they didn’t like.
The mainstream media have gone completely bonkers in their support for Obama.
Ken Spring
Longview
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