Take's One To Know One

In the article delineating Barak Obama's advisors and the kinds of advice they give ["The Outsider's Insider," front page, Aug. 27 in the Washington Post] exhibit A was Senator Obama's vote against John G. Roberts for the Supreme Court. Even though the "...Illinois Democrat expressed admiration for Robert's intellect," and even though "...Obama said...he wouldn't want his judicial nominees opposed simply on ideological grounds," in the end his decision to vote no was both personal and political. Indeed, it was an effort to push his own political agenda and career. Later that day in reacting to Alberto Gonzales' decision to resign, Senator Obama said that the Attorney General "...subverted justice to promote a political agenda..." Was that a compliment to Mr. Gonzales or a critique of his own voting record in the Senate? Or, just an example of that high school favorite, it takes one to know one?

Quote of the Day

Republican Presidential candidate Mitt Romney at the Republican debate in Iowa Sunday, August 5, 2007.

"He's gone from Jane Fonda to Dr. Strangelove in one week," Romney said of Barak Hussein Obama.

Romney continued: "I think Obama is confused as to who our friends and who our enemies are."

Republicans and the Black Vote

n 1870, African American men in Circleville, Ohio attempted to vote in municipal elections. Despite the recent ratification of the Fifteenth Amendment, pollsters refused their votes on the basis that state law forbade them from receiving the ballots. The Second Baptist Church was the site of a meeting of 147 African American men seeking redress. Together with Republican leaders these men produced petitions that were sent to the United States Senate and House of Representatives. These petitions gave the Republican party the grounds to introduce bills to enforce the Fifteenth and Fourteenth Amendments. The passage of the Enforcement Act of 1870 imposed criminal penalties for interference with the right to vote and also helped to shift power and authority from the independent state legislature to the centralized Federal government.

Historical Marker located in Circleville, Pickaway County, Ohio at the location of the said Baptist Church.

Don't you agree that the Republican Party of Ohio should be trumpeting this message at about the October push for votes each election campaign?

I thought you ought to know and to be proud of our Party for its history of standing for voting rights in the United States of America for descendants of those who came from Africa.

Letter to The Washington Post

In "The Rise of Kos" on August 3 http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/08/02/AR2007080202023.html E.J. Dionne postulates that the DailyKos is the ideological and partisan opposite of Rush Limbaugh and that it supples the "needed...discipline" to the party of FDR and JFK. I can only conclude that Mr. Dionne has never listened to Limbaugh, has never visited the DailyKos site and at best is glossing over the qualifications of Kos founder Markos Moulitsas. I watched Moulitsas interviewed on C-SPAN's book review and I was right with him until he said that he was so impressed with the way the military gets things done that he believes society as a whole should be similarly organized. What? I was associated with the U.S. Army for 31 years. It is a distinguished organization, but it is not democratic nor is it a place where decisions are debated. After that and often since I have visited the site. It is filled with invective and hate, but scarcely an idea or a sane discussion of anything. It's junior high at best and Mr. Dione has grossly insulted his idols. Limbaugh on the other hand deals in ideas, satire and humor. You must listen carefully lest you miss the most hilarious quips. According to the Pew Research Limbaugh has the most educated and informed audience in radio. In addition, Mr. Dionne is wrong to say that Dittoheads "despise all things liberal and Democratic." I understand he is using the adjective democratic to denote his political party, but conservatives are keen on democracy and liberality in the ancient sense that stresses the importance of the individual over the group and values freedom for that individual. These are classic values that have no relation to Mr. Dionne's political party as it operates today right in tune with the idealess, valueless, and hate-filled DailyKos. The fact that the Democrat candidates are "paying homage" to Kos tells us everything we need to know about those candidates