Presidential election

A senior for Obama

In Steve Kraske’s article “Clinton has no reverse gear” (5/8, A-1), he says “In Clinton’s case it’s a base of millions of women, blue-collar types, older voters whose shift to Obama still needs to be seen.”

I am a senior, and I support Obama. Many of my “older voter” friends and co-workers feel as strongly as I do about Obama.

We are tired of being classified in the Clinton camp. We encourage all seniors to join us and applaud the younger voters who already have.

Wayne Conery
Kansas City

Hillary is the only go-getter

To the voters in Kansas City: Quit listening to the news and vote with your own mind. Get on a computer and look up both candidates to see what they stand for.

The pundits have been saying for eight weeks that Sen. Clinton should drop out of the race. I would like to know why. She is the only go-getter of the two candidates. Some people say she will do anything to win. Well, I would say she will do anything within reason to win, and that’s the kind of person I would like to see in the White House.

She speaks with a whole lot more confidence than Obama, who calls for “Change We Can Believe In.” I notice Obama doesn’t say what kind of change. It could very well be change for the worse.

J.A. Adams
Kansas City

This Republican wants change

I am a registered Republican. Looking back eight years, I believe it would be impossible for America to be in worse shape internationally and economically if Al Gore had been elected president.

Maybe at least we would not be protecting corporate interests worldwide under the umbrella of shoving democracy down the throats of other countries. How much worse can change be?

Jerry Jackson
Liberty

Comments

[Jim]

"...it is the House that writes spending bills."

Yes, Eng. And it's the Republican minority which is voting "present" to block funding for the troops, as they did yesterday.

[Engineer]

jack & Jim
However many over half it takes to make a majority according to your math concepts, it is the House that writes spending bills. The House has had a solid Demo edge since 2006 and has spent even more than before. If Demos have ever cut spending on anything except defense or something related to it, I am unaware of it. And jack, you seem stuck on this "blame" thing. What do you want to bet that if a Demo gets into the White House and things deteriorate, as I am sure they will, the main excuse won't be "Bush...,,,,,".

[Kate]

“We encourage all seniors to join us and applaud the younger voters who already have.”

Good for you, Mr. Conery, but here’s what the Dems really think of senior citizens.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTitf2gjMmk&eurl=http://hotair.com/archives/2008/05/15/new-lefty-ad-is-mccain-too-old-to-get-an-erection/

[jack]

Here's one maybe GCLY can understand:

"The facts are always liberally biased."
-Stephen Colbert

[jack]

Joe Lieberman is now a self-declared "independent" who carries the Republican's water for them most of the time. So, of course, he "counts" as a Democrat.

Once again the righties prove they live by that old poem:

For when the one great scorer comes,
To write beside your name,
He'll write not if you won or lost,
Just where you placed the blame.

It is either the Democrat's fault or "everyone's" fault. Never the Republican's fault.

These are the folks who spend lots of their time talking about personal responsibility.
Of, course, they are also the one's who claim to have the "morals and values". So I guess this is to be expected.

[Jim]

I understand why you're having trouble with reality, GCYL. Numbers are tough things for Republicans to grasp. You've got your narrative and you're sticking to it, reality or conflicting info be damned.

"I’m under no illusion that your very selective reading is extremely important in supporting your views."

Posted by: GCYL | May 14, 2008 2:56:53 PM

[GCYL]

Hey Jimmy, any number greater than 50 out of 100 constitutes a majority. The blood is no longer on one set of hands. There is no question that party hacks such as your self can ignore that reality. You’re just hopping us Independents are ignoring that reality too. Good luck with that.

“He's just showing once again that he has a deep and abiding ignorance for how the Senate really works.” – Jimmy

Apparently party hacks think the Senate works by falling on your knees and crying out “We’re a majority and we’re powerless!” Last time I checked an unbalanced budget could pass with a simple majority vote. Oooops. Last time I checked government funding could stop due to a simple majority vote in the Senate. Oooops. It’s just unfortunate for you how much a simple majority could have accomplished with getting a balance budget and a time table for our troops to come home.

Still, your continued efforts at removing responsibility from a simple majority remains entertaining.

[Jim]

Ignore GCYL, Jack. He's just showing once again that he has a deep and abiding ignorance for how the Senate really works. If only they'd do an SNL sketch explaining it, then he'd take it seriously.

[GCYL]

“The last two the Democrats have had a 50-49 "majority" at first and now a 51-49 "majority" only as long as you still count Lieberman as a Democrat.” – jack

Apparently Liberman still counts himself as a Democrat. He just had to deal with extremist in his own party to get re-elected.

“So we have really gone from a clear Republican majority to an evenly split senate.” – jack

Do the math again jack. When did 51=49? When did 50=49? Last time I checked 50=50 was an even split in which case a Republican Vice President would vote.

“Yet the righties continue to blame the Dems for every problem.” – jack

That “every problem” would be people correctly point out that the Dems are going along with the same-oh-same-oh. You can no longer blame just the Reps for an unbalance budget getting passed, so fourth and so on. Now there’s blood on two sets of hands and that’s reality for the new majority.

The lefties need to get off their knees and stop looking up to the sky wailing “We’re a majority and we’re powerless.”

[jack]

katman: The next whipping boy of the righties will be whatever Democrat they can point at. If all else fails they will still be starting their complaints with "if Bill Clinton hadn't...". That is unless they succeed in handing the Democrats a victory the Dems are trying very hard to avoid.

Come January, G.W. Bush will have been president for eight years. Six of those with a clear Republican majority in both houses of congress. The last two the Democrats have had a 50-49 "majority" at first and now a 51-49 "majority" only as long as you still count Lieberman as a Democrat. So we have really gone from a clear Republican majority to an evenly split senate. Yet the righties continue to blame the Dems for every problem.

The Republicans USED to be the party of "take responsibility". Now they are the party of "blame someone". Their "big tent" has shrunk to the size of a minor party. They have catered to the "base" (isn't a "base" the bottom?) to the point where they have run out a large bunch of people they need.

In their own way, the Republicans have become as organizationally suicidal as the Democrats.

Simple as that.

[Rogue]

I agree with Jim the Republican party sucks as much now as the dummycrats. Their nominee is as big a Lib as Yomama. We are so screwed this year. If the Republicans want to win ever again, they had best look at themselves in the mirror. Spending like Teddy Kennedy will not endear you to your base.

[Jim]

Yep, if you're not a neandercon, then you're not a real Republican. Forget the fact that the GOP used to stand for limited government, spending restraint and against nation building.

Now the true "Republican" is anyone who stands for bloating the federal government (the vast majority of jobs Bush has "created" are in the public sector), spends us into the poorhouse (he's doubled our national debt), and nation building (which Bush explicitly campaigned against).

So much for the "big tent." Thankfully, we can see how this incompetence is being repaid at the ballot box. Three slam-dunk Republican seats turned, despite the GOP involving Obama as the boogeyman.

You guys are right: Jerry is definitely not a Republican. He's woken up to what's really happening to our country.

[mdinaz]

"Shoving democracy down the throats" ...
Somehow that's worse than shoving socialism down our throats or totalitarianism down the throats of the rest of the world's population? Folks - I think we've found another America hater. Republican, my fanny.

[Gary]

I agree with Rogue. Jerry is spoofing.

[Rogue]

If Jerry is a Republican I am 7 foot power forward in the NBA......

[katman]

Mr. Jackson, I was always taught not to ask a question when you didn't want to hear the answer. Like so many, you choose to blame Bush. What about the actions (and inactions) of Congress over the past eight years? And, have things improved since 2006 with a Democratic Congress?

I'm anxious to see who becomes the next "whipping boy" with Bush gone in '09.

KATMAN