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The Tampa Tribune

Published: November 7, 2008

Will Obama Get

The Same Treatment?

So, Barack Obama is now our next president. He wasn't my choice, but I wish him well in the difficult job ahead. Several good things will have come out of his election to office.

For one, our country will now come together racially, because he never could have won the election if America was a prejudiced country.

Obama needed the majority of the white vote to become president. So, I take that to mean we will not hear how racist a country we are anymore. Reverends Jackson, Sharpton and Wright will no longer be spewing their hatred.

The television commentators will now be ridiculing and criticizing him at every turn. Chris Matthews, Keith Olbermann and Rachel Maddow will be at their sarcastic best.

The press will write terrible articles about him, and the political cartoonists will still be able to draw their demeaning cartoons of our president with big ears!

And of course, Jon Stewart, Bill Maher, Steven Colbert, Jay Leno and David Letterman will be relentless with their jokes at his expense.

Can you just imagine the great material "Saturday Night Live" will now have for their demeaning skits about President Obama?

What's that? You don't believe this will happen?

Neither do I.

Russ Colombo

Spring Hill

Goodbye, Good Riddance

Dear Bush, Cheney, Wolfowitz, Perle and all the other Right Wing nuts who played "destructo" the past eight years: You can leave now!

Take your slimy, boney, greedy hands off the power hold!

Don't let the door hit you in the back end!

Goodbye, goodbye and farewell forever!

Barbara Rice

Spring Hill

Duh!

Just how stupid have we become is America?

Regardless if you are a Democrat or Republican, with a rating of 17 percent approval for the Congress, how can we elect nearly all of the people back into office?

When did the American people loose all their common sense? Wake up before it is too late.

Gerald Kohen

Spring Hill

Hoping Obama Fulfills Hope

This is in response to the column by John Reiniers in Hernando Today. First, I will say that I share his concern about the lack of intelligence and education in a large portion of American voters. But I have to point out that, while the quality of education is the responsibility of the adult population, intelligence is genetic and no one can be responsible for what they were born with.

Of course, the religious person would talk about God and faith as the source of our wisdom. To them, I would recommend an article by Jesse Bering in the October/November edition of Scientific American Mind: "The End?"

Of course, we all make mistakes, as Reiniers did today. H.L. Mencken's statement was: No one ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public, not the intelligence. As one who was raised and educated in a Republican family and to believe that government should be "of the people, for the people and by the people," the fact is that it is used primarily to promote a conservative or liberal point of view.

I am now an independent who voted for Barack Obama. He may turn out to be less than I perceive him to be, but then, in my lifetime, there has never been a Republican president, except Ronald Reagan, who has proved to be concerned about all our citizens, rich or poor, intelligent or not, heterosexual or not, religious or not, but still law abiding.

And George W. Bush is a disgrace to our history.

I hope Obama fulfills my hopes, if he is elected, but I know John Reiniers' point of view is "nothing more than words."

George Carlson

Spring Hill

Kingsley Cared

I am a politically active Republican resident in Hernando County. I am very disheartened by the recent elections.

I believe with all my heart that Diane Rowden needed to be replaced on the county commission. She only dealt with front-page issues. If you had a problem that wouldn't get her sympathy or on the front page, she didn't care.

Chris Kingsley, on the other hand, did what needed to be done for plain old quality-of-life issues. He doesn't care what party you belong to or where you live. He came from Ridge Manor to Weeki Wachee to help me with a problem I had when "my" commissioner right around the corner couldn't be bothered with my trivia. He used common sense and plain talk on the board.

I hope Blaise Ingoglia hasn't thrown the baby out with the bath water. The next four years will tell the tale; I hope it's not a tear jerker.

Cynthia Hall

Weeki Wachee

That's Our Girl!

Wow! Neither Chris nor I had any idea our daughter was writing a letter to the editor about her dad. I smiled when I read the letter. I thought to myself I could not have written it any better.

There is a great deal of ignorance and apathy when it comes to people doing their homework for whom they will cast there vote. I witnesses that as I campaigned for Chris this past week. Also, papers like to print negatives and partial truths. I have never seen an article talking about the times Chris spent his own money when he was doing county work or all the times during the storms a few years back when he went out with his chainsaw and was helping clear branches so people could get in and out of their homes. Or how about all the organizations he has been active in for the past 10 years. Or the fact that he has been a Big Brother to a young man for the past nine years. I could go on and on, but I am sure that some people will read this and say I am full of something.

So, I will end. But Chris, I, your daughter, my parents and so many others are proud of you, love and respect all you have done for this county! Thank you.

Terry Nikodem

Spring Hill

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