Actions, not ancestry, should be issue with Barack Obama

To the editors:

I am sure that Michael Jensen's editorial Thursday is just the beginning of a plethora of Republican biased columns extolling to the public what good the Republican party will do for you by way of making personal attacks on Democrats. I would like to point out, however, that none of us can choose where we came from, nor can we choose our families.

Attacking Senator Obama by stating his father was a Kenyan and his mother a white atheist is disgraceful. Attacking him for being raised by white grandparents is also in poor taste. What is a matter of importance is what the man has chosen to do with his life after he is born.

Whether you agree with Barack Obama's policies or choose to vote for him is your own personal choice, but what is important is Senator Obama has chosen to be a Christian, has married and established a stable home life for his family. What any person chooses to do with the life God gave him should be the matter of their measure, not the choices of those ancestors.

Think back 45 years ago when you were a young child going to Sunday school and the song you learned, "Jesus loves the little children, all the little children of the world." It did not go "Jesus loves the little children, except for Johnny whose parents were one black and one white, except for little Sally whose mother was a drug addict." Come on, folks, let's drop the racism and the bigotry. Ask yourself what Jesus would have to say before you write your personal attacks.

David Seabaugh, Jackson