"In my Reverie": Here's What Readers around the Country think about the Election!
Posted: Tuesday, October 14, 2008
by Walter Rhett
Charleston Perlo
Curious about what people are saying about the election and the prospects of the two candidate
s? Here's a short collection of America's comments from blogs at daily papers across the country.
First, from the original nation's capital, Philadelphia:
bthogan19130 do you really think that your sorry life gets any better with Obama in office??? Nope your still gonnna be stuck in the ghetto living off my tax dollars. Pathetic. Everyone think the economy is so bad. I just bought a new car today and had no problem. So as saw Obama today at Progress Plaza and it was a beautiful thing to see so many people of different backgrounds come together and get excited about voting for change. Even these negative, juvenile comments can't put a damper on it.you sit on the side of the street with our sign asking for my change. Remember im the guy in the grey 09 525i whose window you just knocked on
Another reader wrote: I saw Obama today at Progress Plaza and it was a beautiful thing to see so many people of different backgrounds come together and get excited about voting for change. Even these negative, juvenile comments can't put a damper on it.
One reader responded to the earlier comment: you sound very angry. You just bought a bimmer, cheer up. I was at 52nd street and I realized something. All the corward racist that post here are an insignificant minority. White, Black, Latino, Aisan, you name it, they were there in numbers supporting the next President. Compare that to the small angry mob at the GOP rallies. I feel good.
Still another: So why is everybody a racist that does not vote for Obama.
One reader:
Obama is the worst thing to happen to the USA since WW2.
And now to Boston, the home of the nation's first patriots:
Blacks had better get a life, slavery has been over for many years and the perceived injustices against them are mostly a figment of their imagination and fanned by the most racist leaders
Another: You are quick to put the blame for these outbursts of "kill him" on McCain's supporters. It is just the thing that Democrat shills revel in. Stir up an opponent's rally and sit back and watch the consequence
This response, too, from Boston: Is Hillary the first slave to Obama?
I would vote for Alan Keys and he's an African-American.
I would vote for Alan Keys and he's an African-American.
And one quote from a reader of the venerable New York Times: It's shocking to me that McCain does not think that he's doing anything wrong. I'm not surprised that Palin does not know any better.
And lastly, the author's quote, left this morning at Philly.com:
As always the fur flies, but the facts--just the facts say: as the SAT is no predictor of college success, neither is the elusive "experience a predictor of presidental success. Governor G. Bush--a success, by the measure of either party? Did experience help him either term? When Philly was the country's capitol, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, John Adams--to name only a few--didn't have ANY experience at governing, neogiating, legislating, or conducting foreign affairs. Small, weak, new, by wit and vision these men carried America to themajestic plain. Americans have always values gifts of vision and ideas, gifts of leadership--and like the inexperienced founding fathers--Obama has thoe gifts. Who disputes it? Label it "rhetoric," label in "speeches," label it inexperience, but you can not overlook that he has a wide grasp of issues, an ability to think and reason well, a skill at sharing and explaining those ideas, and a gift at inspiring and moving the country's masses and its leaders to stand for him because he stands for them. Pare away and over simplify and ignore that Abraham Lincoln, who carried this nation through war and turmoil, had less experience than Barack. We don't review resumes to pick our leaders, we listen with our hearts and souls!That huge cheer is for change--the campaign theme introduced by Barack--and adopted by McCain. That feeling isn't celebrityhood, it's celebration as the nation marches to climb out of its economic losses to rebuild together. Washington did it. Lincoln did it. Barack will do it too. That's the view for Dave's Seafood, here in Charleston, SC.
(You might also enjoy my article, "Wading in the Water": Who Will Present the Better Plan for Rebuilding America--Obama or McCain? here on searchwarp.)
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Top-level comments on this article: (2 total)It's interesting to see that the "isms" are alive and well in America, the land of the free, the home of the brave and where freedom of speech reigns supreme...unless you're, God forbid...something other than of Anglo-Saxon origin.
An interesting summary and insight: but does it accurately reflect the broader public views?
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