Letter:
How sad that people still believe in demons. Such a belief does wrong because it gives us an easy out -- "The devil made me do it!"
It is also wrong in that it ignores important research done in psychology, psychiatry, neurology, cognitive science and other fields. Multiple personality, psychosis, schizophrenia, post-traumatic stress syndrome and other forms of mental illness are the result of chemical imbalances, which are often caused by trauma.
To believe that people with these disorders are possessed, and to inflict horrid exorcism on them, is nothing less than criminal.
Response:
Yes, it's sad, sad, very sad that humans still believe in demons, but it's equally sad and tragic when a president of the United States stated that God told him to bomb and devastate Iraq.
The coin has two sides.
The brain does, too.
Letter:
Barack Obama will be the 44th president of the United States, the first African-American president. I can appreciate the historic significance of that. However, I voted for John McCain.
That being said, I am disappointed and a little depressed today, but I am an American first, so I will respect that Sen. Obama will fill the office of President of the United States for the next four years. I was raised not to be a sore loser.
I woke up the day after this historic election to find that someone took the liberty of removing my McCain/Palin campaign sign from my front yard. I wonder, is this an indicator of the next four years: "No opposition allowed?"
Why someone felt they were justified to come onto my property and remove something that expresses my personal views offends me deeply (remember freedom of speech).
So, to the arrogant, gloating person who did this, shame on you. You got what you wanted, you got who you wanted, so be a gracious winner and let's get on with this "change" your candidate keeps telling us about.
I hope actions like yours are not indicative of what we have to look forward to in an Obama presidency.
Response:
It was wrong for anyone to remove anything off of your private property, but I couldn't avoid thinking about everything that the George W. Bush presidency has removed.
I think what the Deceiver did is far, far worse than anyone removing a political sign off of your front yard.
Still, two wrongs still cannot make one right.
Letter:
Now that Obama has been named President, people should make recommendations on how to end the war in Iraq before the government divulges its plans. I think we made some huge mistakes in Vietnam, and no one wants to repeat what happened there. The responsibility to give the Iraqis restitution for the damage done by cluster bombs should be taken into consideration. We have also damaged many sewer systems, and infrastructure there. I would like to hear what ideas other people have for responsibly exiting Iraq. I especially would like to hear what the peace community has to say.
Response:
Depleted Uranium from U.S. and British weapons is in the soil, food, and water...
Deformed infants have resulted.
American soldiers are sick from it.
This barbaric, unnecessary war based on bloody lies is a shameful sore that not even time can heal.
But the U.S. will probably remove its troops and leave Iraq to rust and rot, and then continue to fight a war without end in Afghanistan...Pakistan...Iran.... Syria...maybe Russia---but not China---they're our banker and the maker of all of our gadgets and trinkets that we so dearly love.
The mercenaries and corporations got what they wanted in Iraq.
C'est la vie...
Que sera, sera.
Letter:
Why do you people always have to bring George Bush into everything? This has nothing to do with Bush, nothing! He was not running in this election despite what some of you Libs seem to think. His presidency is almost over, get over your hate!! I am proud to say that 99% of Republican and Conservatives that voted for Bush and/or McCain, will not treat you Obama supporters like you treated them and us. We are better then that and support the President because of the office, even if we don't agree with him. Your rude comments show your true colors and reek of inexcusable hate and intolerance for others, just because they disagree with you politically. Shame on you.
Response:
The shame, misdemeanors, fabrications, lies, blood, and crimes which lie in the soul of George W. Bush's presidency should not be something we should forget, ignore, or ever get over.
This country deserves better.
He deserves to be despised as do those who followed his murderous orders.
The intolerance shown by Bush and his thieves and cronies for the Constitution and human rights is egregiously huge, abominable, and unforgivable.
History will not forgive or forget what this bungling president did to America and Iraq.
George Bush is not quite in everything, but he's in plenty of the things that have produced the BIG MESS WE FIND OURSELVES.
Let's not forget how he pillaged the American language.
That alone is qualification for a scaffold.
Obama did not do as nearly as good a job of making slanderous innuendos and accusatory personal attacks that McCain's handlers (and his cute and cuddly bimbo, moose-killing, hockey mom, running mate did).
You're lobbing stones from a glass house.
LETTER:
I love our country.
I would gladly spill my blood in her name for a cause worthy, and for the people who inhabit it.
Our country presents a magnificent dichotomy, unrestricted freedom to vote and the complete abuse of the ability to make rational or educated decisions.
Alexander Hamilton once said, "The people are turbulent and changing, they seldom judge or determine right" and never has this been more applicable than today.
America has drifted from a culture of relatively educated decisions to a country that chooses based on fear and manipulation.
This is not a partisan remark.
Bush was elected through fear, as has been Obama, and never, and I must emphasize never, has there been an election based more on emotion than 2008, and never has there been less reason in a political decision by the masses.
The sound and the fury of the campaign and election process has trumped issues and the American political decision process is irreparably damaged.
Perhaps restricting voter registration would be the only solution to the fatal virus of ignorance and emotional voting, similar to that in Germany in 1930.
RESPONSE:
George W. Bush was selected by the Supreme Court.
Fear did not have much to do with that.
But it was fear and loathing that motivated people to get out and vote for Barack Obama.
It was about time that people used their hearts instead of their heads, the way things have gone so wrong the past eight years.
Actions done in the name of reason (and National Security!) have produced a long and bloody history.
It is and was time for change.
Oh, and dictators would love it if voter registration was restricted.
How sad that people still believe in demons. Such a belief does wrong because it gives us an easy out -- "The devil made me do it!"
It is also wrong in that it ignores important research done in psychology, psychiatry, neurology, cognitive science and other fields. Multiple personality, psychosis, schizophrenia, post-traumatic stress syndrome and other forms of mental illness are the result of chemical imbalances, which are often caused by trauma.
To believe that people with these disorders are possessed, and to inflict horrid exorcism on them, is nothing less than criminal.
Response:
Yes, it's sad, sad, very sad that humans still believe in demons, but it's equally sad and tragic when a president of the United States stated that God told him to bomb and devastate Iraq.
The coin has two sides.
The brain does, too.
Letter:
Barack Obama will be the 44th president of the United States, the first African-American president. I can appreciate the historic significance of that. However, I voted for John McCain.
That being said, I am disappointed and a little depressed today, but I am an American first, so I will respect that Sen. Obama will fill the office of President of the United States for the next four years. I was raised not to be a sore loser.
I woke up the day after this historic election to find that someone took the liberty of removing my McCain/Palin campaign sign from my front yard. I wonder, is this an indicator of the next four years: "No opposition allowed?"
Why someone felt they were justified to come onto my property and remove something that expresses my personal views offends me deeply (remember freedom of speech).
So, to the arrogant, gloating person who did this, shame on you. You got what you wanted, you got who you wanted, so be a gracious winner and let's get on with this "change" your candidate keeps telling us about.
I hope actions like yours are not indicative of what we have to look forward to in an Obama presidency.
Response:
It was wrong for anyone to remove anything off of your private property, but I couldn't avoid thinking about everything that the George W. Bush presidency has removed.
I think what the Deceiver did is far, far worse than anyone removing a political sign off of your front yard.
Still, two wrongs still cannot make one right.
Letter:
Now that Obama has been named President, people should make recommendations on how to end the war in Iraq before the government divulges its plans. I think we made some huge mistakes in Vietnam, and no one wants to repeat what happened there. The responsibility to give the Iraqis restitution for the damage done by cluster bombs should be taken into consideration. We have also damaged many sewer systems, and infrastructure there. I would like to hear what ideas other people have for responsibly exiting Iraq. I especially would like to hear what the peace community has to say.
Response:
Depleted Uranium from U.S. and British weapons is in the soil, food, and water...
Deformed infants have resulted.
American soldiers are sick from it.
This barbaric, unnecessary war based on bloody lies is a shameful sore that not even time can heal.
But the U.S. will probably remove its troops and leave Iraq to rust and rot, and then continue to fight a war without end in Afghanistan...Pakistan...Iran.... Syria...maybe Russia---but not China---they're our banker and the maker of all of our gadgets and trinkets that we so dearly love.
The mercenaries and corporations got what they wanted in Iraq.
C'est la vie...
Que sera, sera.
Letter:
Why do you people always have to bring George Bush into everything? This has nothing to do with Bush, nothing! He was not running in this election despite what some of you Libs seem to think. His presidency is almost over, get over your hate!! I am proud to say that 99% of Republican and Conservatives that voted for Bush and/or McCain, will not treat you Obama supporters like you treated them and us. We are better then that and support the President because of the office, even if we don't agree with him. Your rude comments show your true colors and reek of inexcusable hate and intolerance for others, just because they disagree with you politically. Shame on you.
Response:
The shame, misdemeanors, fabrications, lies, blood, and crimes which lie in the soul of George W. Bush's presidency should not be something we should forget, ignore, or ever get over.
This country deserves better.
He deserves to be despised as do those who followed his murderous orders.
The intolerance shown by Bush and his thieves and cronies for the Constitution and human rights is egregiously huge, abominable, and unforgivable.
History will not forgive or forget what this bungling president did to America and Iraq.
George Bush is not quite in everything, but he's in plenty of the things that have produced the BIG MESS WE FIND OURSELVES.
Let's not forget how he pillaged the American language.
That alone is qualification for a scaffold.
Obama did not do as nearly as good a job of making slanderous innuendos and accusatory personal attacks that McCain's handlers (and his cute and cuddly bimbo, moose-killing, hockey mom, running mate did).
You're lobbing stones from a glass house.
LETTER:
I love our country.
I would gladly spill my blood in her name for a cause worthy, and for the people who inhabit it.
Our country presents a magnificent dichotomy, unrestricted freedom to vote and the complete abuse of the ability to make rational or educated decisions.
Alexander Hamilton once said, "The people are turbulent and changing, they seldom judge or determine right" and never has this been more applicable than today.
America has drifted from a culture of relatively educated decisions to a country that chooses based on fear and manipulation.
This is not a partisan remark.
Bush was elected through fear, as has been Obama, and never, and I must emphasize never, has there been an election based more on emotion than 2008, and never has there been less reason in a political decision by the masses.
The sound and the fury of the campaign and election process has trumped issues and the American political decision process is irreparably damaged.
Perhaps restricting voter registration would be the only solution to the fatal virus of ignorance and emotional voting, similar to that in Germany in 1930.
RESPONSE:
George W. Bush was selected by the Supreme Court.
Fear did not have much to do with that.
But it was fear and loathing that motivated people to get out and vote for Barack Obama.
It was about time that people used their hearts instead of their heads, the way things have gone so wrong the past eight years.
Actions done in the name of reason (and National Security!) have produced a long and bloody history.
It is and was time for change.
Oh, and dictators would love it if voter registration was restricted.
IT WAS THE OIL STUPID!
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