Published: May 07, 2008 05:51 pm            

In Your View — 05/08/08

Obama can help unify the nation

Barack Obama is a good family man, a man of integrity and a person who can transcend age, race, creed, partisan politics. He’s a man of change.

Of course, I’m convinced he is smart, capable and experienced. More important to me, however, is the opportunity for voters to close the racial divide in our nation by choosing a black man to lead us.

We in Kentucky have an unprecedented opportunity to decide the next president of the United States. It has been years since there was this much excitement about a national election.

Do we believe Barack Obama can unite this country across party lines and restore America's moral standing abroad? Our answer is a resounding yes.

I may not see a woman in the White House in my lifetime but I choose the candidate for real change. Let's begin now to unify for Obama across party lines.

Kimberlee Egan, Florence



He will vote ‘uncommitted’

I am a Democrat. I want to win in November. But like a lot of my friends, I am not happy with our choices. I hope the convention will lock up and have to go with a compromise candidate like Al Gore or John or Elizabeth Edwards. This is why I will vote “uncommitted” on May 20. You can do the same.

If the “uncommmitted” vote is 15 percent or more in Kentucky, it will get delegates to the Democratic Convention who just might convince a locked-up convention to pick someone else. I urge all Democrats to consider voting “uncommitted.”

Prince V. Jenkins, Richmond



Letter in response proves his point

Roy White Jr.’s misguided interpretation of my April 18 letter (In Your View, May 6), only serves to prove my point.

I said that Senator Obama should not be held responsible for what his pastor said and neither should Seantor McCain for what John Hagee said. Senator McCain sought the support of the Rev. Hagee knowing full well of his statements. So why this month-long assault on one candidate and not the other?

And patriotism does not mean marching lock-step and believing our leaders can do no wrong. We liberals must truly love our country for we keep trying to change and improve it, not ride the bus off the road and straight over the hill.

C. Wayne Tipton, Ashland



Clinton and Obama: Ego vs. service?

In February, Hillary Clinton, with the help of last-minute crocodile tears, won our New Hampshire primary. Barack Obama came in second. I worked and voted for John Edwards.

Now Hillary Clinton’s character is more articulated. She wants to be president to cap her political career. That’s about ego. Senator Obama, on the other hand, is about service. As Clinton blasts the earth around Obama, he maintains a dignity that our country sorely needs.

Please think about that: A gun-slinger woman, who’ll scorch Iran as she boastfully acts as the “regular tough guy” — or a thoughtful, strong and courageous candidate who sees our country’s needs and sees how he’s a fit for making change and restoration happen, including drawing in the next generation of America’s voters?

I ask you to please cast your vote for our best chance: Barack Obama.

Lynn Rudmin Chong, Sanbornton, N.H.



Obama listened to Wright’s rants

On April 28, Senator Obama finally repudiated Reverend Wright’s anti-American, anti-white and anti-Israel sermons. These are the same sermons Wright has repeatedly used over the past 20 years at the Trinity United Church of Christ, and Obama has been a member of this church for the 20 years.

Surely, Senator Obama had to hear these sermons or discussed them with other members of the church. And he did nothing. He didn’t leave the church; he didn’t question Wright and his sermons; he didn’t counter the sermons in any way.

Is this the type of person we want as president? Do we want a president who will just sit and listen to the anti-U.S. rantings of Amadinejad of Iran, Assad of Syria, Chavez of Venezuela, Castro of Cuba and Kim Jong Il of North Korea — someone who will appease these dictators and jeopardize national security?



Donald A. Moskowitz

Londonderry, N.H.

        

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