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With the presidential election quickly nearing and many voters still undecided, here are a few things to think about:
Do we want an experienced “leader” who thinks things are going well and will continue current policies, or will we elect someone who feels the same as the majority of middle-class Americans concerning where our government’s priorities need to be?
We see where the current administration has taken us: policy crafted by industry lawyers; a war that should never have happened; budgets that have profited contractors but destabilized the nation’s economy; a growing national debt; an ever-widening income gap; and partisan politics that threaten to fracture the nation.
The upcoming presidential election is not about the candidates’ experience, but about their plans for our future. The election is not about abortion, gun control or any other hot-button issue. The election is about issues affecting middle-class Americans — like food, shelter, and care for our loved ones — issues that many of us worry about every day.
One candidate talks about a change in government, and most Americans agree that a change is needed. If voters are reluctant to accept Barack Obama as president they had better be prepared for four more years of a government that ignores middle-class Americans.
The time to decide is close. Will we choose to continue to be led as George W. Bush led us, or will we choose Obama and change?
Allen L. Brock, Hartwell, Ga.
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You sound very much like an Obama speech. Talk, talk, talk about change.....just exacly how would the items you mentioned be changed???
You say...."We see where the current administration has taken us: policy crafted by industry lawyers; a war that should never have happened; budgets that have profited contractors but destabilized the nation’s economy; a growing national debt; an ever-widening income gap; and partisan politics that threaten to fracture the nation"
I ask you....How would Obama correct or change any of this?
I keep hearing the word change and the word hope but with no explanation of how and/or what he is wanting to change or hoping for.
Most discussions I hear involving Obama speak of history and what should have been. Again, I ask "How would he change things?" And why would I like his changed way better??
Oh and one more thing.....If Obama is elected president.........I guess we could end affirmative action and equal rights, because if a poor black man can attend Harvard (with his mother on food stamps while she gets her Masters degree) becomes president, then are we all on equal ground and no longer will need to make sure African Americans are given any edge??????????? Is this one of Obama's changes??
The only changes you will receive if Obama is elected, are the pennies you will receive from all the dollars we pump into Washington.
in response to ohenry35
And the change where terrorists will be welcomed with open arms by NObama. If NObama is elected, I feel sorry for us as a country. We will be going to hell in a hand basket!!
I agree with you all. If Obama is elected President, I'm afraid there will no longer be a "middle class".
I tell you what Obamas changes are. More handouts with no means of funding other than higher taxes on working Americans like myself. Weakening of our national defense, direct unconditional talks with rouge terrorist nations, UN imposed taxes on Americans, 20 million plus illegal aliens given amnesty, free healthcare, Social security, and probably some sort of cabinet position for Oprah. This guy is bad news any way you put it. Palin hit it out of the park last night. Never thought I'd say it but McCain/Palin 08.
This is just like what is going on. I have found out and caught The Anderson Indenpent Censoring my comments, Hypocrits!!!!!! Free Speach. Yeap there it go even more with Obama Hussein! Now they are telling us how to vote. Why don't you do a wright up on Vote McCain???????
Looks like we are all on the same page. Amen brothers and sisters.
Wow.
I didn't realize until now, just how many area residents are not only uninformed, but misinformed too.
Way to go AIM!
I think I will ask the Republican Party to change their "Mascot" from an Elephant to an Ostrich.
It would seem more fitting.
I'm very worried that if McCain and Palin are elected my free ride will end. Sitting at home pretending to be unemployable and receiving aid from myriad agencies is my family's lifestyle. How can I adequately raise my children in the style to which we've become accustomed if this all ends? To say I am worried about my and my family's entitlement is affecting my health. I think I'll file an additional claim.
in response to yankee
Well, seems to me like you are the one that is misinformed. Talking about an ostrich. Seems like you may have been from the north by your username, don't say duh, But I am sorry to tell tell you, but most of us are just as smart or smarter than you. We are also informed.
in response to tdr1945
I didn't realize I mentioned your (or anyone elses) level of intelligence.
I voted for McCain in the most recent and previous primaries and believe that he would have made a much better President than the lackey we have for one now.
It's too bad that he didn't win the nomination eight years ago, for all of us.
Bush...worst President since Buchanan.
in response to yankee
I think I read where an ostrich was kinda dumb.
I wish I could sit down and ask Sarah Palin a couple of questions.
> Like, how's that abstinence-only thing working out for ya?
> She wants to keep her daughter out of the fray, and I can respect that, to a point. If that's the case, she shouldn't trot out her enlisted son as evidence of her patriotism, or her disabled baby as evidence of her commitment to end abortion rights.
> All she proved with that speech was that she can lie and distort and use sarcasm with the best of the GOP.
> Here are some things voters ought to know about that "hockey mom."
> Palin said that the war is "God's task." Guess that means we're not supposed to question it -- at all. Her minister -- whom she had give an invocation at her inauguration less than two years ago -- says that being a Democrat means you aren't "saved." Her church believes in speaking in tongues. (What's next? A president who snake-handles on Sundays?)
> She seeks the support of the secessionist fringe group Alaska Independence Party. She has publicly supported their efforts to leave the US and adopted a position of "Alaska first."
> Palin wants to teach creationism instead of science in the public schools. She believes in global warming -- a little -- but doesn't believe that humans are causing it. Her religious beliefs are such that she believes that the earth is about 5,000 years old.
> Talk about Big Oil. Palin is its reigning queen. BP sponsored her inauguration.
> That little town she was mayor of, population 6,000? (There are housing units on the south side of Chicago with more residents, and more people in San Bernardino, California, than in all of Alaska.) You know, that little town where she said she had more "actual responsibility" than Obama ever held? She left it in debt, and spent a great deal of her time there seeking to ban books from the local library. She cut the library's budget and tried to get the librarian fired, much as she tried to get her sister's ex-husband fired from his job as a state trooper. (Firing people she doesn't like isn't her job; it's Albert Gonzalez' job.)
> Palin bragged about her daughter's brave "choice" to bear a child at 17. But the truth is, Sarah Palin doesn't want her daughter or anybody else to have a "choice," or even knowledge of or access to birth control, and, in fact, has publicly stated that she believes rape victims should bear their rapists' children.
> Palin stated that parents of disabled children will have an advocate in a McCain administration. But did she say one word about the health care that those parents so desperately need?
> Her widely-known support for the so-called "Bridge to Nowhere" is well known. She only stopped supporting it when it became clear that the federal government was going to ask the state of Alaska to pony up a small part of the cost.
> So, voters of South Carolina, listen carefully to Sarah Palin.
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"If I Could Turn Back Time.........." How I wish it were possible to do that but we all know we can never go back. I would take the good old Anderson days of going to The Chicken Shack with my friend Janice and dancing with all the boys from Oakway and Seneca. Now, all we have to entertain us is more and more arguments over who is the best politician. I hope the next President will have reason to pause and reflect on where the United States stands in the world today regarding its image, how its people are being driven to the poor house because of our over generosity to foreign countries, but most of all how most of the time the hand we extend gets bitten time and time again by countries who want our help and wealth but despise us as we give it to them. On the day, God help us, let the best man win.
Isn't it amazing that democrats can't stop blaming Bush for everything? It doesn't matter what the subject...it turns into a Bush bashing. If you have something bad to say about Mccain...say it. Leave Bush out of it...stop living in the past.
Bush beat Gore...get over it!
I am tired of people saying "If Obama is elected we have our first black president. Umm his mother is white and his dad is black, that makes him BI-RACIAL. I have also heard people say he has black blood in him, so that makes him black. If I remember from the times I donated blood, my blood was red, not black or white.
As Martin Luther King stated in his "I have a dream" speech,
"I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character."
The hipocrats keep saying that Bush has done nothing but ruin this country. Haven't the hipocrats ran the senate for the past two years. What have they done in that time, NOTHING. Who has been in the senate those two years, Nobama. Doesn't the hipocrat controlled senate have the power to "change" things. I agree that Bush has put us in some bad situations and the world hates us even more since he took office. Like other posts have said, the hipocrats need to come up with some solutions and stop just saying their going to bring change. What change? Please explain. All I hear is hot air. I need more than change to pay the bills.
Here we go... I hope people will vote for the person they think will help lead us out of the situation we are in now. Race should not be an issue, nor should a attrative face. I am undecided at the moment, but I will be voting without fear and not a straight ticket. Oh and remember no matter who wins the position, NO president can do ALL he says he will do, the senate does have a voice... ALL speeches are HOT AIR, it is called POLITICS! LoL
in response to clemson_girl
Society decides what race you are in... his (white)mother carried him for 9 months and his blood runneth red, to me he has a part of both worlds... he looks like a man with a nice complexion that many lie in the sun to get(I use to). MLK's dream may come to past one day, but it hasn't yet. VOTE!!!
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