Here's an interesting Letter to the Editor from the Cumberland Times-News newspaper.To the Editor:
Cumberland Times-News
Since I believe this is an extremely important time in the history of the U.S., I have been reading as much about the presidential candidates as I can. I would like to share with you a number of things I have learned from the Republicans.
1. If you grow up in Hawaii, raised by your grandparents, you’re exotic, different, and not really American. But if you grow up in Alaska eating mooseburgers, you are completely all-American.
2. If your name is Barack you’re a radical, unpatriotic Muslim, but if you name your kids Bristol, Track and Trig, you are cute and clever.
3. Graduate from Harvard Law School, and you are unstable, but attend five different small colleges before getting a degree, you’re well grounded and stable. [M3's note - This refers to Palin's many attempts at college before finally making it.]
4. If you have been married to the same woman for 19 years while raising two beautiful daughters, all within Protestant churches, you’re not a real Christian, but if you cheated on your first wife with a rich heiress, and left your disfigured wife and married the heiress the next month, you’re a Christian. [M3's note - I didn't realize this but McCain was married before and his wife was in a accident that left her disfigured. He left his disfigured wife and one month later married his current wife, the rich heiress to the Heinz fortune and quite the hottie too. McCain's first wife, Carol McCain, was also a hottie when they married, a swimsuit model and all. But a car crash left her with her legs five inches shorter and unable to walk. McCain left her and married the rich lady, Cindy McCain, a month later.]
5. If you teach responsible, age appropriate sex education, including the proper use of birth control, you are eroding the fiber of society, but if you staunchly advocate abstinence only, with no other option in sex education, while your unwed teen daughter ends up pregnant, you’re very responsible.
6. If your wife is a Harvard graduate lawyer who gave up a position in a prestigious law firm to work for the betterment of her inner city community, then gave that up to raise a family, your family’s values don’t represent America, but if your husband is nicknamed “First Dude,” with at least one DWI conviction, and no college education, who didn’t register to vote until age 25 and once was a member of a group that advocated the secession of Alaska from the USA, your family is extremely admirable.
Oh, there is more, but this should be enough to make us realize that the McCain-Palin ticket is a prime example of the dumbing-down of America.
Bertha Stevens
Swanton
If Obama gets to be president and screws everything up, I am going to rub it in for the rest of your meaningless life!
ReplyDeleteI still think making the rich pay all the taxes is wrong and why give tax breaks to people on welfare? They are getting my tax money why give them more. It's not my fault they can't find a job.
So does that mean you're going to vote for Obama so you can rub it in my face when he screws up?
ReplyDeleteDo people on welfare even pay taxes? So they wouldn't get a tax cut. If you don't have a job, you don't pay taxes either. These tax cuts help people who have a job but just don't make that much.
You don't think people making more money should pay more taxes? I agree that it's somewhat unfair and I think a flat tax would be better. But on the other hand, you could argue that rich people have better representation in Congress, maybe they use more of what the government spends that tax money on, or maybe they have more invested into the country, so they should be paying more to support the country.