Sharman’s views don’t bring about the unity we need
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Elizabeth Franklin
Published: November 17, 2008
It seems that Mr. Mike Sharman stopped reading his reference material at Exodus 20 (“Making a biblical decision,” Nov. 3).
The Bible speaks of not using the book to make a point. The book teaches about love, to whom vengeance belongs and waiting for change.
Such blatant, negative, de-plorable terminology terming KKK and Planned Parenthood and abortion as “extermination tools of blacks,” filled me with anger and disgust (“Power must be used properly,” Oct. 20).
We realize that lack of equal opportunities and ignorance help fuel those situations. I, and many other Americans, hoped that this reprehensible phase in our lives had passed.
We cannot trust those who are considered upright citizens and have claimed to be friends. Many are still “wolves in sheep’s clothing.”
It is time to realize our creed of all men being created equal.
The column, meant in a negative manner, accomplished the opposite.
It was inevitable that young, brilliant Barack Obama would have the opportunity to become our president.
While we thank Mr. Sharman for his views, change has come to America.
Elizabeth Franklin
Culpeper
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Posted by ( Geriberi ) on November 20, 2008 at 5:31 pm
I’ll stay vigilant until the day I’m forced to admit I was wrong - until then, I’ll keep crying, talking, asking, and doing my part to inform when I can. If you don’t like it, quit reading.
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Posted by ( El Debibble ) on November 20, 2008 at 3:50 pm
If W couldn’t ruin it in eight years Obama won’t be able to ruin in it four. Quit crying.
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Posted by ( Geriberi ) on November 20, 2008 at 10:34 am
Wow - I couldn’t agree more about the kids we’re raising today. They’re being raised to believe that they deserve everything, just because they want it, and shouldn’t have to work for it. They’re lazy, self-absorbed, rude, and getting dumber by the day. And yes, there are many fine exceptions, but bordering on worthless is pretty much the rule. Discipline is viewed as “harmful,“ and something that we must avoid to keep from doing damage to the pysche of our delicate children. Teachers are reprimanded for trying to be helpful with the truth about the children they’re trying to teach. I know a young, professional woman who just missed out on a nice promotion because she couldn’t handle criticism without breaking down and crying. Why? Because she’d never been criticized. One of my children teaches 3rd grade, and has kids of all learning abilities lumped together because the system would rather hurt everyone with a lie than temporarily hurt the feelings of a few to save the future of all of them. All people are created equal, but that doesn’t mean they all have the same abilities or needs. If parents don’t take back the responsibility for actually raising nice, intelligent kids, and allow teachers to do their jobs, it won’t matter who our president is, will it? And now that I’ve said all this, I will say that I’ve felt all during the election that many, many of Obama’s supporters are these brats who’ve reached voting age, and see in him an extension of the same adults who’ve spoiled them all their lives. I just don’t see, with a government that is so supportive of this welfare system, how we will ever again become a nation of doers and thinkers - why should anyone bother with all that? It’s much more fun to work a little, play a lot, and let someone else take care of us and pay for all of our toys. So bleak.
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Posted by ( herewego ) on November 20, 2008 at 9:51 am
Culpeper, I agree with you. I worry about our children of the future. Where have their values and morals gone? You know, it’s our fault though. We are so afraid of what someone else might think or do if we are even caught discipling our children! The world today is for “what feels good to them.“ Look at commercials, they are mostly based on ourselves and what’s good for us. There is a Christmas commercial on now that has a little boy saying “I want” this and that for Christmas, and it goes on and on the whole commercial! And don’t even get me started on how people treat each other! I just pray to God that He will have mercy on this country for our ignorance! I am not a political person at all, but I know my heart, and I know that times will get worse before they get better.
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Posted by ( culpeper ) on November 20, 2008 at 9:42 am
Finally you and I agree on something. McCain wasn’t conservative enough for me either. Particularly on abortion. Abortion is murder regardless of how the pregnancy occurred or in what stage of pregnancy it’s performed. For someone to say they are pro life EXCEPT…means they aren’t. It’s blowing smoke. Palin is a very intelligent woman, but even her own party members didn’t believe she was capable of being the President and with John McCain’s age such a factor, I felt a vote for Obama was warranted. Nobody can argue that he’s intelligent, gracious and eager. Every President has made mistakes, some worse than others, and we’re still here to complain about them. We should be thankful that anyone is still willing to take the job in these tough times. And you’re also correct, not one of them was ‘perfect’ for the job. News flash, it’s going to get worse in coming years because the youth of today are not great thinkers. They’re great gamers. Now that’s scary!
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Posted by ( Geriberi ) on November 20, 2008 at 6:36 am
I don’t think anyone is arguing the point that the first black American president is a very positive, historical accomplishment. My argument is that, for far too many, that was his only necessary qualification. I would have voted for him in a heartbeat if he had offered ideas that didn’t scare the bejeebus out of me.
The media hated Sarah Palin. People who were part of the campaign also turned on her, but not openly until after the media had already done tremendous damage. And, once the campaign quit coaching her to be someone she wasn’t, she proved herself to be a very intelligent, knowledgeable woman. I heard the bits that were played from the Couric interview, and then heard many other parts that the media DIDN’T play that were very, very different, including her ideas on abortion. Part of the problem was that she was incredibly irritated with being drilled with questions about what newspapers she read (I would have answered as she did - all of them - anything that appears in front of me), and how she stands on the morning-after pill. To say she couldn’t put a sentence together is a horribly distorted statement. And I can say that I would not have voted for her just because she’s a woman - I’ve never been that type of feminist, but I would have voted for her based on her conservative policies and values. McCain was not conservative enough for me.
OK, anoptimist, could you now please explain to me what exactly is meant by being progressive? Are you talking about giant government?
I’m really hoping, actually, that a third party starts getting people into local and state positions, and works toward getting us out of this hideous two-party stranglehold.
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Posted by ( anoptomist ) on November 19, 2008 at 11:38 pm
A McCain victory would have been historical as well because of the first woman VP. Although the XV Amendment gave blacks the right to vote in 1870, it was ineffective because of Jim Crow. It wasn’t until the 1964 Civil Rights Act that blacks really got the right to vote. So blacks have been voting for whites for a long time (if you call 40 years long) but there hasn’t been much said about that. And whites have been voting for whites, and that’s usually not referred to as racist. So why is it such a big deal when blacks vote for a black man?
I think the media loved Palin. What did her in were the vocal critics from her own party. That, and the fact that she couldn’t seem to put a coherent sentence together. I suspect that there were some women who would have voted for her because of her gender. Is that sexist?
I know what you mean about the savior-thing. Expecting one man to fix everything. It’s a kind of “beam me up, Scotty” attitude. We’d all like to elect someone and have them do a perfect job so we can go back to our lives. It ain’t gonna happen. I’m probably in the minority here, but I’m concerned that Obama’s not going to be progressive enough.
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Posted by ( Geriberi ) on November 19, 2008 at 4:03 pm
herewego, I honestly pray that we somehow are glad, at the end of four years, that Obama won. I just can’t see it, but there’s always hope.
I also honestly believe that the hatred coming from the liberals if Obama had lost would be so severe that the media wouldn’t dare call it “of historical significance.“ They hated Palin, and not having their man get elected would have sent them into a vicious frenzy the likes of which we’ve never seen.
I was just listening to the radio in my car, and a listener called into the host. She was a black Democrat who had voted for McCain because Obama scares her (her words), and was the recipient of incredible anger from her friends and family who couldn’t believe she wasn’t voting for Obama. She said that, absolutely, the people she was surrounded by were voting for him solely because he is black. Sorry, but racism is racism, and voting for a man just because he’s black is equally as disturbing as voting for one just because he’s not.
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Posted by ( herewego ) on November 19, 2008 at 2:34 pm
I know it’s silly to ask what if, but what if Mccain won? Would people be equally saying how this presidency is making history because of having a female vice pres, or is it just a “black and white” issue? I just hope we all are surprised at the end of the next 4 yrs. and it not be because we have lost greatly, but because Obama really does care about this nation.
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Posted by ( Geriberi ) on November 19, 2008 at 2:29 pm
juleless - I’m waiting with you. I hope, as you do, that there’s enough left of this once great nation to salvage, in four years. Maybe by then we’ll have a viable third party, or the Republicans will have returned to their CONSERVATIVE senses. I am somewhat heartened by what seems to be some pretty good movement in that direction - at least we have some promising looking people who may be able to return the Republican party to sanity. It looks like the Republicans have become what the Democrats were, and the Democrats are just completely out of control. Glad there are others out there who are just as fed up as I am with the buffoonery that is costing us all so dearly.
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