Attacking Palin, veterans unite and no second pet

By Published by The Editorial Board

Published: September 5, 2008

These attacks will backfire

To the editor:

Leftist politics has reached a new low! Personal attacks on the Republican vice presidential candidate, Sarah Palin, are extremely vicious and typical of the MoveOn.org-supported leftist blogs, Democrats and their allies in the mainstream news media — and now Marxist-inspired protesters.

These nasty little protesters had the Marxist hammer and sickle symbol on their banners. They are obviously well organized and funded by radical leftist anarchists who only wish to destroy our republic and implement a socialist/Marxist government.

Interestingly, the major news media are participating in the vicious attacks on Sarah Palin. Yet, they continue to allow “Obamato” get away with his long-term relationship with Resko, the gangster. They continue to let him continue his long-term friendship with domestic terrorist William Ayers, who continues to be a Marxist-style radical.

Obama has a 20-year relationship with the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, the longtime black liberation theologist who preaches hatred toward all white people.

Democratic politicians never have to say I’m sorry.

Obama has a few months more experience than Palin, while she has executive experience running a state with a $1 billion budget, while he was a “community organizer” in the sleezy town of Chicago.

The huge, vicious attacks against Sarah Palin will backfire, I think, and propel McCain and Palin to the White House.

DAVID W. GRAY SR.

To the editor:

Last Friday, John McCain surprised the mainstream news media by naming Sarah Palin as his vice presidential running mate. The news media knew very little about her, but they immediately went into a feeding frenzy — like a bunch of sharks — trying to dig up any dirt they could find. They have even reported that her husband had a DWI 20 years ago.

They have said that she lacks experience, but when Gov. Timothy M. Kaine was mentioned as a vice presidential candidate for Barack Obama, it wasn’t questioned — even though he and Sarah Palin were both elected as governors at the same time and Palin, like Kaine, was previously a city council member and mayor of a city. Palin didn’t have the advantage, like Kaine, of a father-in-law who was a former governor to grease the path to the governorship. She had to make it on her own. The fact of the matter is that Sarah Palin has more executive experience than either Obama or Joe Biden.

From what I have heard, Sarah Palin is a great selection as a candidate. In her short career in government, she has been a whistle blower by reporting corruption, she has been a cost cutter as governor by cutting pork from the budget, she canceled the bridge to nowhere earmark that Sen. Ted Stevens, a Republican, put into the federal budget for Alaska because, she said, if Alaska needed a bridge, it would pay for it.

I only hope the people in this country will ignore what the news media is doing and listen to what Sarah Palin has to say about what she wants to do for the country. Listen to her and make up your own mind. This is a fine and decent woman whose only objective is to work to try and make this country even better than it is today. I hope that many of you feel like me and are tired of the news media in this country trying to ruin the lives of people simply because they disagree with a person’s beliefs and ideologies.

RAY LAWSON

To the editor:

Veterans of World War II, the Korean War, Vietnam, Desert Storm and the present conflict — it is now time to show your appreciation for all the things U.S. Rep. Virgil Goode, R-5th, has done and is still doing on behalf of the veterans of the 5th District of Virginia. Consider supporting him and voting for him in November. Let us unite and return him again to Congress.

F. ZANE KINN

To the editor:

A few years ago, I tried to adopt a pet from the Danville Area Humane Society. I was told that I couldn’t because I had another pet.

Am I the only one who read Paulette Dean’s “Critter Corner” column in Sunday’s paper? So, how can these people adopt four and five animals and I can’t even adopt one? Anyone who wants a pet, go to the county pound. They are more than willing to adopt an animal out to a good home rather than euthanize it.

BONNIE HUNT

Danville