Both sides are guilty of vicious attacks
In reference to ” Turning Back”,The writer says the Democrats rejected Sen. Hillary Clinton, and then Sen. Barack Obama bypassed her as his running mate. I have been reading the newspaper for a month and haven’t seen Mike Huckabee, or Mitt Romney’s names as running mate for Sen. John McCain.
For two years, both Democrats & Republicans wanting to be President, talked about how much better they would be than their opponent. If it was the other way around, they probably wouldn’t have picked their opponent for a running mate either.
You say that the Democrats are viciously attacking the Republican Vice Presidential candidate. You must not be listening to you’re own Republican party. John McCain & Sarah Palin hasn’t had one good thing to say about the Democrats.
Sen. Hillary Clinton might not have been picked for a VP running mate, but she is still backing her political party.
Ray Westrich
St. Louis County
That’s why she gave that fired up all intense speech at the Dem. convention. (she did not smile and almost yawned twice)
Gee, and Palin has been dissed by Sen. Hagel as “unqualified.” Gee, isn’t he the ranking GOP member of the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee?
http://dangerousintersection.org/2008/09/19/governor-sarah-aka-caribou-barbie-palin-mounts-coup/
John McCain proudly wields McCain-Feingold as a legislative accomplishment, yet many news sources have reported that McCain has hired the very lawyer who defended McCain-Feingold from legal attacks to assist him in gaming the rules he made because he has fallen seriously behind in fundraising and chosen to finance his campaign from the public coffers. If only this were the end. First, his admission that he does not understand economics might give voters pause in believing that his presence is required in Washington to solve an economic mess that he clearly does not understand (and apparently only recently discovered; one thing is for sure, he knows how to intervene on behalf of crooked CEOs in the financial sector, anyone remember Charles Keating who John McCain assisted during the S&L Crisis). Moreover, he has grandstanded the suspension of his campaign until the crisis is solved so that he can save funds that he desperately needs to campaign in the final days, lest his paltry fundraising and inability to manage campaign expenditures leave his campaign bankrupt in the final days. Patriot or desperate? Hard to tell….. But how convenient that both lead him to the same set of choices.