SPEAK OUT

Very strange lot

NO, EVERYONE is not on Bush's side. According to a recent poll, 50 percent of those polled think he should continue "full speed ahead." If the situation were reversed, how you Republicans would be screaming, but that would be OK. You Republicans seem to have a convenient way of accepting and believing only what you want. A very strange lot, I would say.

GOP good, Dems bad

LET'S SEE if I correctly understand this Republican Bootheel, "Hee Haw" mentality: Everything the Republicans do is honest, moral and good for the nation. Everything the Democrats do is bad. I never cease to be amazed.

Another perspective

HERE'S A different view of the Election 2000 debacle:

God is really busy taking pictures and making notes

As Gore provides time for him to separate the sheep from the goats.

Sop up those tears

MY PAPER is almost too wet to read in the morning because of all the tears coming from the Republican callers to Speak Out.

Shut out of process

I HAVE just been informed by the Cape County circuit clerk's office that in order to request a recount of the Jackson school bond election I will need to hire an attorney to file a petition for me. Not being able to afford an attorney, I suppose I am just shut out of the process.

Slap in the face

JUST A thought. It is a shame that the Sheryl Crow concert isn't selling better than it currently is. It is a slap in the face to a regional young woman who sells out every place she goes.

It's not that easy

I WOULD like to make a comment on the election. Remember just a year ago around this time, Clinton issued an executive order to make sure most military people wouldn't get a chance to vote. Did you really think it was going to be that easy for Bush to win the election? You have to remember you are dealing with people who have changed the laws of the nation.

A touching story

IT IS the most touching thing I have read in some time in the Saturday paper about Jim Stephens and Captain Mearlin Allen from Knoxville. Thank you.

Death penalty, abortion

I AM not a political analyst or anything like that. But someone asked me who I thought would win the election, and I said Bush will win but I won't vote for him. Well it looks like he will manage enough ballots that he will win this election, and I did not vote for him. I suspect that in a few months everybody will be whining because there will still be the death penalty and abortion from this pro-life candidate. It is not fair to lay all the blame on his shoulders, but that is how he won the election, by proclaiming to be pro-life. Then when the next election comes they will sit at home and say they're not going to vote because my vote doesn't count.

Don't blame God

TO THE person who called in and said "You didn't vote Gore or Bush in. God put him into office. He puts into office whom he wants in." I think you need to reread your Bible a bit more closely. God is not responsible for everything that happens on the earth. We have an adversary and his accomplices whom we are up against daily. Please read Ephesians 6 and rethink your statement. God gets blamed for too much evil that occurs. It isn't always God's will. Sometimes it is man's stupidity and wrong choices that are to blame. The adversary seeks to destroy us daily. He is the author of confusion, not God.