Thank God we voted out the corrupt Republicans. Now we can get some corrupt Democrats in there!

MO Son of a Local Prez,

I agree. I voted for a Pro-Life Democrat in Sue Schoemehl and would love to vote for more. But I am sorry, I won’t vote for anyone that isn’t Pro-Life. I am typically a conservative/libertarian voter, but would like more options.

I am not tied to any one party, but the way things are today, I really don’t have many choices. Sorry folks, this is a moral issue for me and that isn’t going to change.

Think! - the current Globe issue is covering the Obama non-citizen story and has a cover with his Kenyan Hospital on it. Can you imagine what a tizzy the media would be in if this story was about a Republican.

MoSON - how sad that the left has to embrace conservative social issues in order to win and it really is amazing how it works for them. But you guys really confuse me. I thought choice was so important.

Good addition, Ted. Also we must not forget that Obama’s grandmother confirmed that she was witness to his birth in Kenya.

It seems that Obama has not learned a lesson that all of us learn as teenagers. The longer you withhold the truth and lie to cover it up, the harder it is to tell the truth. This may have been an innocent oversight to start, but now there is no question that he is covering this issue up and hoping it goes away. If there wasn’t a cover up, then why on earth would he not make it go away by releasing one simple document?

The Supreme Court and Congress need to act before the inauguration. They should have acted before the electoral votes were accepted. They should have acted before the election. They should have acted before accepting his candidacy. The worst possible outcome of this mess is to ignore the issue.

Good point Centrist. I went to their site and saw many more posts that I expected expressing outrage at Obama.

http://www.globemagazine.com/story/286

Everyone, feel free to join in.

(Jo perhaps you have some contacts at the Globe that could help you out with your research)

As someone raised Jewish, tho I’m more ecumenical now, often going to Cathedral Basilica in my neighborhood or Grace Church in North County, tho always feeling proud of my Jewish heritage and close to it, I try hard to be objective about mideast peace and war. For example, Palestinians have often lived in camps with open sewers since 1948, 50 or more years, an atrocity long overdue for correction. Gaza is a tough problem. I dont think people should resent Israel defending itself from Hamas’s rockets. It’s their security, the decision how best to safeguard it in their precarious situation, should be theirs. But the west should push forward with the peace process. We should pray that Gaza should not be the incubator of a larger conflict, and some movement seems evident. But I understand that the palestinians in Gaza are by and large terribly poor. Most warfare is directly or indirectly economic. As I always say, middle-class people dont go to war, they might damage their SUVs. So it seems to me that Israel, the West, and other mideast nations should build up the economy of Gaza and other poor arab and muslim communities; we/they should nto take no for an answer in doing this. Sure there will be complications, but as I said in letters to the editor (all unpublished) the day after 9/11, a billion dollars in economic aid will go farther in bringing peace than a billion dollars in warfare. Without judging the was in Iraq and Iran, tho it would be somewhat easy to, let’s think about what peace could have been brought about by using all those dollars for economic development of palestinian communities long overdue for that sort of middle-class dream. I hope our new president recognizes that approach. I’m not always right, but think I am in this case. Not judging, just saying.

> Biggest non news of the week:
> Slay is one crooked slimebag…..

So chipdaniels, do you have any FACTS on which you are basing this statement? Or is this just the usual meaningless attacks on the most effective St. Louis mayor in decades?

I was waiting in a check-out line and read the National Enquirer headline.
“OBAMA NOT U.S. CITIZEN”!

Underneath the main headline:
“ALIEN BABY ADOPTED BY BRAD AND ANGIE”!

Raise your hand if you think Israel is rolling into Gaza because they want to do it now before Bush leaves office. The US weapons industry should be making a huge profit on all this, selling all the jets and bombs Israel needs to stay there for eternity. I was beginning to think that I would never be able to abandon all hope of any peace in the region. I’m keeping my fingers crossed. (please note sarcasm)

Hamas has been trying hard to hit Israeli citizens with their rockets and only rarely do they succeed. Israel claims to try very hard NOT to hit Palestinian citizens, but it seems that’s largely what they are doing. It is not the first time Israel has resorted to collective punishment on citizens, whether they are in Gaza, the West Bank, or Lebanon.