OpinionDecember 20, 2000
SPEAK OUT
AFTER EIGHT years of vicious attacks on the Clinton administration, an election that is highly suspect and that razor-thin majority in both the Senate and the House, I have to agree thoroughly with the caller who said, "There ain't no honeymoon after a shotgun wedding." As my old friend from West Virginia used to say, "This is getting-even time." We feel we had an election stolen, and we will have a long and bitter memory. Bush wants to heal the wounds, but the Democrats want to wound the heel...
Get-even time
AFTER EIGHT years of vicious attacks on the Clinton administration, an election that is highly suspect and that razor-thin majority in both the Senate and the House, I have to agree thoroughly with the caller who said, "There ain't no honeymoon after a shotgun wedding." As my old friend from West Virginia used to say, "This is getting-even time." We feel we had an election stolen, and we will have a long and bitter memory. Bush wants to heal the wounds, but the Democrats want to wound the heel.
No cooperation
I BELIEVE the reason these Republicans on TV are saying Bush will be bipartisan and work with the Democrats is because they know he can't work without the Democrats. It's like "We won, and now we want you to work with us because we got our way." I know what Gore said, and I admire him for it, and I guess we should all be bigger than this, but I have no desire to work with the president for the next four years. I'm really disappointed they didn't count the undervotes.
Elian in reverse
I'M WONDERING about the little boy who flew to Cuba with his Cuban mother, without his American father's knowledge or permission. Just like the Elian situation in reverse. You sure don't see many news articles about that. Are the Cubans going to send that little boy back to the U.S. to be with his father or at least have partial visitation? We want to know what kind of justice this boy is getting.
Nobody knows who won
OUR VERY Republican newspaper, the Southeast Missourian, proclaims "A new president." At least the paper didn't say, as it did before, "Bush wins." Bush didn't win anything. Bush was given the presidency by the Republican judges and the Republican Supreme Court. Nobody actually knows who won this election.
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Intolerable articles
WILL YOU please stop publishing articles from National Review Online, at least during the holiday season? It's bad enough when you publish survival-of-the-fittest screeds from the magazine itself, but when you start running excerpts from the quasi-fascist online version, it's intolerable.
Not my president
I HOPE the Missourian is happy. Their president got in. But he's not my president. And I'm not listening to any more national news. I may even give up voting. It didn't mean a thing. The Supreme Court justices decided who my president would be, and he's not my president. So bask in your glory.
Not a good choice
COLIN POWELL is a good man, but his appointment as secretary of state makes no sense. Powell was initially a critic of using military force in what became the Persian Gulf War. The short but extremely necessary conflict was crucial to the national interest. For all intents and purposes, Powell is an isolationist when it comes to using U.S. military power. One of Bush's major goals is to rebuild the military. If he heeds Powell's advice, what's the use?
Mother sees ruination
MY MOTHER lived about 90 years. She voted in just about every election since 1919. She said this is the sorriest day she ever saw in her life. She said Bush is going to be the ruination of the country. Rush Limbaugh is a hate-monger and so is David Limbaugh. It's just an empire-building society now. My mother no longer cares if she lives anymore. She says this is it for her.
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