Posted on August 30 at 1:56 a.m.

Andrew Joppa is a fear monger. McCain and his followers are a bunch of reactionaries. They are against what is best for the common and poor people.

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Posted on August 30 at 1:38 a.m.

hesaves #4 -

The rock that people like Sarah Polin believe in is the gun, god, and greed of the Republican philosophy. They believe that families should have lots of children, guns, and to hell with the environment and poor people.

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Posted on August 30 at 1:23 a.m.

Sarah Palin is a member of the National Rifle Association. That is enough to vote against McCain. She's against a woman's right to choose an abortion. She believes in competition in health care. Evidently she wants more profits for insurance companies. She is much too right wing to suit me. If McCain dies in office, we would be in a terrible mess.

I'd like to vote for Ralph Nader, but I would throw away my vote. The lesser of two evils is Obama and Biden. The Democratic administration will be better than the last eight years of Republican disaster.

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Posted on August 29 at 8:18 p.m.

Politics turns sane people into maniacs.

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Posted on August 29 at 11:17 a.m.

Obama promised us a lot of things in his speech last night. Time will tell if all the things he wants to do can be accomplished. Although I will vote for him, I don't consider him my lord and saviour. I'm disinchanted by what politicians say they will do. I'm not easily hynotized.

I'm not sure what kind of health care he has in mind for this country. It doesn't sound like universal health care to me.

I saw the documentary "Sicko" and according to Michael Moore, medical care is free in Canada, England, France and even Cuba has a fantastic health care system. Is Obama going to give us that kind of medical care?

Medical care in this country is for profit, and millions of people can't afford medical care. Our system doesn't save lives, it kills people. I hope our country will soon come to its senses and help suffering people instead of making the rich people even richer.

I can't wait to see the Republican convention and see what MCain has to offer. Will it be just more of the same government of the rich, for the rich, and by the rich? We are fast becoming a third world country, and if there aren't lots of changes made, we may become part of the third world.

At least we have hope if Obama becomes president. I sure don't want to see more of the same that we've had for the last eight years. We might not survive as a democratic nation.

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Posted on August 29 at 10:56 a.m.

#110 yesterday - Canuck -

Just because someoone disagrees with you, doesn't make them hateful.

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Posted on August 28 at 5:36 p.m.

Gladys Webb of Marco Island -

You mentioned being surprised that your newspaper was delivered on the morning when Tropical storm Fay went through. You also felt that all is right with the world.

You must not have read your paper very well. When I read the paper, I come to the conclusion that all is not right with the world. My paper is full of Wars, murders, storms, accidents, cruelty, intolerance, hatreds, evironmental degradation, animal cruelty, sickness, death and other happenings that are not alright with the world.

I believe in looking at the good things in the world, but there is too much wrong with it, that we can't seem to do much about.

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Posted on August 28 at 5:16 p.m.

Barry Willoughby -

You mentioned endangered species in your letter. I didn't know humans were an endangered species. It's just the opposite. There are too many people on Earth. Human beings are causing the extinction of many forms of life. Humans should limit their numbers. In some countries, humans are breeding like flies and the quality of life is terrible. People live in poverty and squaler such as Bangladesh, Africa and India. Those people should be taught birth control and abortions for those who can't raise their large families. Religions in those areas are against birth control and abortions, while people suffer even more all the time.

China has about 5 times more people than the United States in an area about the size of the U.S. They've tried to limit the number of children being born, but their population continues to increase.

If the population gets out of control, People will have a poor quality and lfe, and eventually starve or suffer some other pestalance.

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Posted on August 28 at 12:15 p.m.

I'm sorry to hear of your loss. Please accept my condolenses. Losing a child is heartbreaking.

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Posted on August 28 at noon

I'm sick of religion in politics. If a person wants an abortion, it is no one else's business.

The Democrats seem to want people to have the right to believe what they want and to live their lives without governmental interference. That is why they believe in abortion rights and gay marriage.

I was dismayed by the talks at the Democratic convention that were ended with "God bless Obama, God bless all of you, and God bless America."

I thought the convention was interesting, but I'd have liked it better if they had left God out of it. I don't think God likes Democrats any more than Republicans. Maybe there is no God at all blessing anyone. Evidently some of our Democratic leaders don't believe that agnostics and atheists have any rights. I'm sure there were closeted agnostics and atheists at the convention. It is hard to be be an outspoken non-believer in our religious culture. Democrats aren't as liberal and progressive as they claim to be.

I wonder how much the Republicans will talk about God next week. It will be interesting to find out.

I believe in freedom of religion, but I don't like it in politics.

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