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Hoping Against All Odds

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Hernando Today

Published: November 8, 2008

Hoping Against All Odds

Welcome to the new U.S. reverse osmosis economy. Trickle-down economics has been abrogated by trickle-up poverty. America has been conned into buying the proverbial "pig in a poke" and there isn't any lipstick on this one.

We fell for the hope and change con, hook line and sinker, and I've got to tell you, I'm left with a lot of hope too! I hope the movers and shakers of our country are not all taxed into oblivion or worst chased off shore. I hope we're not morphed into the U.S.S.R. (United States of Socialist Redistribution) with a chicken in every pot and a check in every mailbox. And I hope (and pray) that our enemies aren't going to take advantage of the naïvete in the White House or that they perceive him as a sycophant.

As far as change is concerned, it's amazing how the positions our president-elect had when he first started running, have changed to the positions he took right before being elected! Lo and behold he's moved ever so slightly toward the center! I hope it's a trend!

Don't get me wrong though, he wasn't my choice, there are no sour grapes here (well, maybe a few on the tart side). He won the election "flair" and square, with a little help from his friends in the media, a $100 million or so that magically appeared out of nowhere and the misguided conception that Sen. John McCain would mean status quo. And I don't begrudge him the black vote either. I can certainly understand where that comes from. Another good thing about his being the first black president is that it exposes the Wrong Reverend Wright's defamation of American attitudes for the unmitigated crap that it is!

Obama, so brazenly inexperienced, untried and untested, come what may, will now be our president. So join me in the hope that he can control the extreme left leanings of Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and keep them from running the country further into the abyss of abject partisanship; in the hope that his tenure, unlike George W. Bush's, will be treated with civility and respect so as not to demean the Office of the President of the United States in the eyes of the world.

But most of all in the hope that in these times of financial crisis, the fanatical assault on our way of life and the global political unrest, he knows what the hell he's doing. Hope springs eternal!

Tom Cannariato

Weeki Wachee

Welcome, Comrade!

Nikita Khrushchev said it was impossible to go from capitalism to communism. So, he said they would need to cause the U.S. to go to socialism first and then it would be easy to go from socialism to communism.

With this election, the uninformed have taken us on that first step. It is a sad day for our nation. Bienvenido a Cuba! The unintelligent, uninformed and, perhaps, unwashed masses have spoken. Let's hope the rest of us can hold on to the country for four years and bring rationality back in 2012.

Sandy Kaliscak

Brooksville

Equal Treatment

In answer to Francis Earl's column on in the Nov. 6 edition of Hernando Today, asking us to support President-elect Barack Obama: He will be supported the same way the Democrats supported President Bush and with the same enthusiasm.

John Kennedy

Hernando Beach

WWJD? Certainly

Not Run For President

Those who didn't vote for President-elect Barack Obama just because of the color of his skin, think about this: You probably wouldn't have voted for Jesus either because, in all probability, he was a dark-skinned, long-haired, hook-nosed Jew.

Since he never traveled more than 30 miles from his birthplace, he didn't have much foreign policy experience, and although he was obviously well versed in religious scripture, his education was pretty limited. He was, however, a good speaker.

One thing about it though. He was probably too smart to run for president.

Gail B. Leatherwood

Spring Hill

Wha! Wha! Wha!

Answer to Kingsley's daughter's letter: The people of Hernando County have spoken, and your father lost the election, so stop crying and get back to being in the Air Force.

If your father did his job, he would have been re-elected and so would have Diane Rowden. They both hurt Hernando County, and it was time they paid the price by losing the election.

You have no right being ashamed of the Hernando County residents; they didn't do anything. Your father did, be ashamed of him, not us.

Annette Shanley

Weeki Wachee

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