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Sept. 12
Historians will witness that it was the policy of the Clinton administration to call for the downfall of Saddam Hussein. Historians will witness that Democrats in Washington voted in favor of the invasion of Iraq. Historians will witness Democrats in Washington hailed the initial victory in Iraq and the downfall of Saddam Hussein. Historians will witness numerous post-invasion blunders by the Bush administration. Historians will witness that Democrats in Washington said the surge in Iraq would fail because the war was lost. Historians will witness that the surge was a stunning success and Democrats in Washington refused to acknowledge its success. Historians will witness that Democrats in Washington gave every appearance of wanting the war in Iraq to fail to regain the White House. Historians will witness that Democrats in Washington refused to acknowledge that the Bush administration has kept the U.S. homeland safe from another al-Qaida attack for the past seven years.
Facts, we want facts, is the cry of many readers of OYM. Republicans are slandering Barack Obama with lies and innuendoes. Barack Obama, Joe Biden, and a plethora of other Democrats continually say that John McCain voted with George Bush over 90 percent of the time. Fact: President Bush has never voted on any legislation in his eight years in office. Please get your facts straight.
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When the traffic light ahead has just turned red, you’re only wasting money if your right foot’s full of lead. We get nowhere if we speed up to a red light and then screech to a stop. And the brakes and tires and the whole car will last longer with gradual stops and start ups. Ask any good mechanic or service person at your dealership.
The McCain campaign is apparently very upset by Barack Obama’s use of the phrase “lipstick on a pig” in reference to McCain’s economic policy. They claim it was a reference to Sarah Palin, which it was not; her name was never mentioned. They don’t seem at all upset by McCain’s use of the same phrase in regard to Hillary Clinton’s proposed policy on health care.
There is a local Republican bumper sticker which says “Gabby Sucks,” an obvious reference to Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords. This sticker is not only insulting, it shows a mean-spirited way of thinking. I believe it also shows a double standard which should be unacceptable in American politics. Let’s pressure all candidates to talk about relevant issues and stop the character attacks. I believe Republicans want to avoid any real discussion of issues because they know the issues do not favor them.
Driving by the Sierra Vista campus of Cochise College it’s amazing to see all the development going on. I thought that Cochise College lost the bond election. Where’s all this money coming from? Then I see in the newspaper they’re doing brown bag lunches and Cochise College sent one of their people to Africa for a tour? Where’s all that money coming from? Cochise College can afford to send someone on an African vacation? Where’s all this money coming from?
After reading today’s Herald, it’s apparent someone left the front door to the liberal loony bin unlocked. The calls to OYM just pour in, attacks against the president and vice presidential pick and of course those of us who support keeping America strong just continues. Liberals in this town just remind me of a rabid dog. They just snap at anyone or anything for no real reason. Maybe I’m wrong and it’s just the same person calling in time after time. I sure hope so because it scares me to think there are so many hateful people in this community.
McCain, Steve Schmidt and Rick Davis put out a lie on Obama every day. They call that tactic weapons of mass distraction. So let’s set the record straight. Obama is not a Muslim. He is a devote Christian. He was 8 when William Ayers was a Weatherman. Seems to me there are many sides to rumors and we all need to seek the truth on all sides and stop passing on gossip. What we really need to ask ourselves is do we really want four more years of George Bush policies and the Iraq war? Or do we want the Democratic plan to put American back to what it was when Clinton finished, that is, in the black, no war, the lowest jobless rates, and little inflation, etc.? If you are happy with the Iraq war and the economy then vote for McCain/Palin.
To this person that wrote he couldn’t understand Republicans lying about the vice presidential pick: What other person would sell a jet airplane because the government didn’t need it? Ask Nancy Pelosi that? She wanted one, remember, for us taxpayers to pay for. Why don’t you put out a few references so we can look to see what you are talking about?
This is for the person who wrote in about letting kids walk to school, that it’s physically good for them and good for community savings. That is totally absurd and ridiculous. I’d like to ask the person who wrote that if he walks to work or to the grocery store? I can’t believe someone would write that small children should walk to school. That guy probably drives his car wherever he goes.
John McCain says Obama will raise your taxes. That is not true. In fact taxpayers with under $150,000 per year income, and that’s most of us, will get tax decreases and tax credits. Small businesses, too. Obama cares a great deal for us middle and lower class citizens. John McCain also says that Obama helped to pass a bill in the Illinois Legislature to teach sex education to kindergartners. That is ridiculous. The bill was to protect kindergarten through third-grade children from being subject to predators. What a terrible thing to so mislead people.
It sure didn’t take long for the liberal left democrat socialists to start attacking Alaska governor. They say she has no experience but if I recall the last Democratic president who the Democrats said was the greatest president ever was also just a governor. I believe Jimmy Carter was also just a governor. So get off it.
Sept. 13
McCain and Palin don’t want accessible health care for uninsured citizens or stem cell research to help cure cancer, brain, and spinal diseases. They want people to buy their own health insurance from the big fat cat companies so they can make more money. They want stem cell research to be done by private companies. Republicans have always been for the rich and to heck with the poor or middle class. If you work hard to make ends meet, work for a daily or weekly wage, you owe it to yourself and family to vote for Obama/Biden. Democrats have always been about average citizens.
Remember when the Bush administration produced Saddam Hussein just before he was re-elected? I’ll bet a dollar, five dollars, that he produces bin Laden or a reasonable facsimile before November.
Sarah Palin’s narrow, dogmatic religious views are fine for her, but we have separation of church and state in our land of freedom of religion. She, like Bush in Iraq, would march our soldiers into Russia or Iran she said. She sees our service men and women as medieval crusaders who under her Joan of Arc type banner would bring democracy to these infidel countries. God forbid she ever gets into office.
Hurricane Ike has just shown us what a pathetic weak loser Michael Chertoff is. He’s just a puppet mouthpiece for a failed administration.
A reply to the letter “Make sure to learn what candidates really (s)aid” in Sept. 13 Herald. Consider the ramifications of Obama’s taxing only people earning over $250,000. Mostly affected by this tax are small business people who hire the most workers in America. Higher taxes mean higher overhead. The quickest way to reduce high overhead is to cut workers. Higher unemployment is the result. Also, people earning more than $250,000 provide the lion’s share of investment in our economy. Investment creates jobs. Higher taxes mean far less investment. Ergo, fewer new jobs created! Who will be hurt the most by Obama’s redistribution of wealth, otherwise known in Marxist literature as class warfare? That’s right, those people who need jobs the most will be hurt the most — the middle class! The writer needs to learn more about Obama.
At the Home and Business Expo on Sept. 13, barrels of trash were hauled out containing recyclable aluminum cans along with trash and garbage, all mixed together. Would people deposit their aluminum cans in a container marked for those cans only? Why not? It seems that the city would rather trash everything than to provide separate containers for recyclable items. And the main post office is the worst when it comes to separating paper from magazines and catalogs from aluminum, glass and cardboard. It is obviously assumed by local government entities the general public is a bunch of imbeciles who drop what they finish using anywhere. The full landfills overflow and the subwatershed becomes contaminated and aluminum cans that could be re-used forever are trapped for 400 years. Wasted. A&T Metals is the only business that is really serious about recycling, as they gift our talkative wasteful city.
Sept. 14
On a day when the congressional budget office warned of looming deficits and a grim economic outlook, when the stock market faltered even in the wake of the government’s rescue of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, when President Bush discussed the road ahead in Iraq and Afghanistan, on what did the campaign of Sen. John McCain spend its energy? A conference call to denounce Sen. Barack Obama for using the phrase “lipstick on a pig.” The issues that really count are: improving education and health care, dealing with the deficit and forging a real energy policy based on building a whole new energy infrastructure. But McCain has abandoned those issues for the culture-war strategy. Does he think we are all that stupid?
It is laughable to watch Barack Obama try to belittle Sarah Palin and try desperately to denigrate this fine female governor who has the astounding approval rating of 80 percent in Alaska. Ironically, each time Obama strikes at her, he highlights his own long list of glaring deficiencies to be president of the United States. We are witnessing a Barack Obama who is far from the Mr. Good Guy in politics he tried so cleverly to portray himself during the primaries. We are seeing a Barack Obama who is no stranger to dirty politics. His Chicago political past comes to mind, when an unknown Barack Obama systematically rode roughshod over the reputations of several Democratic opponents in his run for the Illinois Senate Democratic primary. Yes, Barack Obama is no stranger to dirty politics, past and present.
Refineries in Texas and Louisiana cannot produce energy products right now because the power grid is down due to Ike. Oh, my, knowing power systems occasionally fail my family had an emergency generator. It would not cover all of our needs but, could help us during brief outages. I guess the refineries did not realize that simple temporary solution was available to all. One would think that refineries would increase output in anticipation of widely forecast, major storms. Afterward, while refineries do have back-up power systems to enable them to handle unplanned interruptions, this economic environment gives them little incentive to begin operating again quickly. Delaying production provides them “a valid reason” for selling us the product at a higher price. While that policy might be good for their business, it’s clearly bad for our communities. Until they’re held accountable for being a contributor, we’ll see the same self-centered behavior over and over again.
The Sunday Herald had Point-Counterpoint on the Opinion page with the topic: “Why should your candidate be president?” The Cochise County Democratic chairman wrote about the Obama-Biden ticket’s positions only, while the Cochise County Republican chairwoman wrote about the McCain-Palin ticket’s position and included some misstatements/opinions about Obama positions. John McCain wants to be known as an honorable person and candidate, so it’s too bad his proxies do not behave that way.
I read the guest editorial “Reasons to vote for Obama-Biden” (Sept. 14 Herald) and found it to be the usual endless list of government handouts we hear from Democrats every presidential election year. Typical, too, the staggering cost of these endless handouts and who will pay the final bill is never mentioned. Please, not the filthy rich and all that redistribution of wealth and class warfare babble! Democrats preclude we’re too stupid and preoccupied to figure out each one of us will be burdened with higher taxes in one form or another to pay the gigantic bill. Oh, yes, Obama plans to cut military spending to pay the bill. As a possible future commander-in-chief he appears to have forgotten that we’re involved in two conflicts, have serious confrontations with Iran and Russia and potential confrontations with China and North Korea.
I’m a Republican and I’m embarrassed by the political ads John McCain is putting outright now. All he does is a negative attack against others. Come on, John. Tell us what your ideas are and where you want to take this country. Stop the negativity.
I have a question. Here in Sierra Vista, how sick do you have to be to be attended to by the regional health center emergency room or to be seen by a nurse at Buena High School? I just don’t get that anymore. When you have a headache you go to the nurse and she gives you some aspirin. Here at Sierra Vista Regional Health Center emergency room if you get sick you have the right to be seen. Who determines who needs to be seen or who doesn’t? This is ridiculous, that you have to be close to death to have anyone in health services here pay attention to you.
I just finished reading today’s Lifestyle section. I want to tell you how much I enjoyed the articles that come “From Shadow Ridge” using small wildlife animals speaking as people. They are fantastic. I love them. They are written by James Tucker. He is such a good author. I love his little stories. Please keep them coming. Also, I like to read about hiking in Southeastern Arizona by Gary Monroe. He is good at this. Although I’m handicapped and can’t go hiking anymore I thoroughly enjoy his columns. He gives you a picture that almost makes you feel you are on the walk with him. They are both fantastic columns. Please keep them in the newspaper. I love reading them.
In this presidential election campaign I believe I sniff racial prejudice. I hate to admit it in America in 2008 but some citizens still hate anyone who isn’t White. As a southern White senior citizen, I’m ashamed to see this insidious unchristian sickness still in our great land.
Re: The letter to the editor from Helen Hayes printed Sept. 8: FYI, SSVEC hopes to make enough money to keep the co-op in business for the benefit of us, the customers. SSVEC is not the lawmaker, nor is it the provider of the power we use. SSVEC is only the distributor of the power via AEPCO, Arizona Electric Power Inc.) the generator. The transmitter is also ahead of the distributor, and those two, not SSVEC, are responsible for the cost increases. So don’t blame the distributor, SSVEC, which hasn’t raised its price for several years. It is at the bottom of the list of three companies supplying our electricity, and has the least to say about what our bill is. The SSVEC Newsletter that most customers toss in the post office trash barrels, repeatedly explains all this in plain English. And it’s all on the Internet.
Sept. 15
Well folks the only change we are going to see is the government telling us where we are going to live, what our jobs will be, and how much we will make before they take their 60-90 percent out of our paychecks to pay for all the programs people want them to pay for. Obama’s speeches are straight along the Marxist lines. We don’t need the government taking care of us from cradle to grave, if you want that, then move to a country that has it in place already. Cuba comes to mind and is really close, and there is no law preventing you from leaving and renouncing your citizenship to this country if it’s so bad. For me, I believe we have the best form of government there is anywhere in this world, and I think I will stay.
The Obama TV ad that says John McCain is out of touch because he cannot use a computer is way over the top. McCain has permanent war injuries to both his arms that won’t allow him to use a computer and depends entirely on his wife to help him with the computer. The rock star hits low and seems frantic.
Employers: Do you realize that smoking employees are a tremendous drain on your bank account? Some corporations find it profitable to pay smokers to quit. They need that tobacco fix every hour because Altria and Reynolds Tobacco have increased nicotine strength in their products. Big Tobacco’s brand of “quitting” gradually only prolongs the vicious habit as the producer makes more millions by appealing to children and to growing populations in India and China while keeping current users enslaved longer. When smokers go out on smoke breaks, you are paying them for that time away from doing what you hired them to do, while your non-smoking workers take up the slack and resent it but don’t dare say so. When smokers come back inside, their breath, hair, clothes and skin reek of the stench like an old ashtray. Your workplace then stinks. And so does their future love life. And their looks.
I am as much outraged for the elderly couple’s helicopter charges as I am for my own. I guess I got off cheap, as they “only” charged me $15,600 for my trip to Tucson. I called the financial office at Sierra Vista hospital to ask if he knew what this company was charging people, and he said he didn’t. All he offered was to seek assistance. My husband’s work did not offer major medical, so we are stuck with the bill. I’ve been wrangling with the company for a year. I am a senior, as well. My savings sock does not have that kind of money hidden away. Payment plans were also too high to commit to. A few months ago, I read in the Herald that Search and Rescue spends $1,000 a day running their helicopter. Another article stated the charges for being airlifted to Tucson was $3,000 to $5,000 What’s going on here?
McCain proves he works in a bipartisan manner far more than Barack Obama. McCain’s record shows him working with Democrats 55 percent of the time, while Obama only worked with Republicans 13 percent of the time during his limited experience as senator.
I find it interesting the media has been trying to say McCain blew his experience argument when he picked Sarah Palin. When Obama picked a 35-year Washington insider for his running mate, hardly anybody in the media accused Obama of blowing his change message. I have to say Obama’s pick of Biden is far more of an abandonment of the change message than Palin’s pick is on the experience message. Palin has far more experience as a change agent and a fighter of corruption than Joe Biden. Joe Biden is a part of the corruption in Washington, not the answer to it. It is funny how Obama simply dresses up the tired old messages of Michael Dukakis and Ted Kennedy and sells it as change to a generation of Americans who don’t know any better.
I am an avid reader of Diana West. I personally believe the branches of our government should pay attention to her messages. I sent her an e-mail informing her of your reader’s response to dropping her column. The following is her reply. It would be appropriate for the Sierra Vista Herald to inform her readers of her thanks. “Dear Sierra Vista Herald readers, Just wanted to thank you for your support for my column, which I understand will continue to run in the paper every Tuesday. I posted something at my Web site here: http://www.dianawest.net/Home/tabid/36/EntryID/460/Default.aspx. Please pass it on to anyone you know who helped keep my column in the paper. Gratefully and sincerely, Diana West”
EDITOR’S NOTE: We’re glad to hear she’s acknowledging our readers. We, too, appreciate the feedback we received on her column.
I think Gabrielle Giffords wanting our troops out of Iraq is supporting our troops. It’s saving American lives. Pull them out. That is supporting our country and our people.
LOOK FOR more On Your Mind in Friday’s editions of the Herald/Review. OYM appears on Monday, Wednesday and Friday.
To To Sickened wrote on Oct 9, 2008 8:48 PM: