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Letters to the editor - Tuesday, April 29, 2008

Time for woman to be president

Recently, a friend asked me why in the world I would support a woman for president of the United States. My reason is simple. For the past 232 years, the men have had the opportunity to make the United States of America the best it can be. Just look at the mess that this country is in right now.

I feel it is time to elect a woman to our highest office and give her the opportunity to make things better. Stronger economy, individual health care, the war in Iraq, home foreclosures, Social Security, our children’s education. This is only a short list of the problems facing our next president.

After eight years of the failed policies of the Bush administration, our standing with other countries around the world is in disrepair. We need someone with the experience, strength and determination to find solutions for these problems. That person is Hillary Clinton.

Get out and vote on May 6 and be a part of helping our country be the best it can be. God bless America!

Mark Gustin

Kokomo

Obama an elitist? Yes, he certainly is

In an article titled “Elitist is as elitist does,” columnist Dick Polman raises the irony of Sens. Clinton and McCain branding Sen. Barack H. Obama an elitist. He is absolutely correct in his observations that neither of Sen. Obama’s opponents can escape the same branding.

However, Mr. Polman exceeds the boundaries of credulity by suggesting that we are to believe that Sen. Obama is not an elitist. It is not his childhood background that we should evaluate; it is the ideologies and policies that he expresses now that are to be evaluated. Virtually everything that Sen. Obama currently espouses is based upon the premise that he knows what is better for us than we know ourselves. The unspecified “change” upon which he is basing his campaign indicates a belief that government – specifically the federal government – should accumulate more power through the economic machinery of higher taxes and limited economic choices. There is hardly anything more politically elitist than this.

Sens. Clinton and McCain are right to brand Sen. Obama an elitist not because they are not, but because that is exactly what Sen. Obama is.

Charles A. Layne

Bunker Hill

Clinton is candidate with experience

It’s up to you now Indiana. Pennsylvanians had their voices heard on April 22, and amidst the huge financial disadvantage, Hillary Clinton faced with six weeks of mailings and political pundits calling on her to step aside. Americans are telling her to carry on this process of determining who is best qualified to be our nominee for president of the United States of America. We, as Hoosiers, have seen many tough times and it is not a matter of clinging to religion and guns. It is our right given to us by our forefathers and the Declaration of Independence and the First and Second Amendments, and we take that to heart.

Hillary is the candidate with experience, resolve and abilities to put our nation back on a path of growth and prosperity. I truly feel that Obama is not experienced enough to face the challenges of this complex world we live in at this point in time.

Larry Brown

Kokomo

        

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