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The Tampa Tribune

Published: August 26, 2008

A Pro-Choice Ticket

Regarding "In Biden, Obama Taps Experience" (front page, Aug. 24):

Obama made a great choice in Joe Biden. Both are great public speakers; both are well-educated. And if that's all you're looking for in leadership, then I guess you've found your team.

Neither man should speak about family values: Both adamantly support abortion. Biden calls himself a Catholic; Obama follows some religion but knowing/believing when the soul enters a fetus is "way beyond him." Obama clearly wants to be the "abortion president." How's that for a goal? But he calls himself a "uniter." Who does he plan to unite?

Now I know why more people than ever before are praying for God's guidance on this one.

BARBARA WOOD

Tampa

Disappointing Choice

What a ludicrously disappointing choice for vice president Barack Obama made with his selection of Sen. Joe Biden from Delaware! This war horse has seen his better days, and his only credentials are his antiwar stance and his abiding love for the United Nations. Also, he suffers from an interminable case of foot-in-mouth disease that has plagued him throughout his political career.

McCain and company must be bursting with glee over this tired choice. It has gone a long way in securing for the GOP another four years in the White House.

EARL A. MYERS, JR.

Tampa

He Bombed In Primaries

Amidst the predictable "Huzzahs" for Joe Biden's selection by Obama, does anyone remember that the Delaware senator huffed and puffed his way into the hearts of a whopping 1 percent of Democrat primary voters?

Or, who realizes that Biden is even less popular among women than Obama, who is some 10 points below the norm for a Democrat in a presidential race?

Or, if Washington is as broken as Obama says, and Congress' job approval is even lower than the president's, why would Biden, a 36-year lifer in the Senate, be a wise choice?

I say the door is wide open for John McCain to make a far wiser VP choice.

KENNETH HOYT

Tampa

McCain Is Too Old?

I find Obama's VP choice so funny. They pin McCain as too old, but Biden is 65! They pin McCain as a Washington insider, but Biden has been a career Washington politician for over 30 years - longer than McCain! Plus Biden voted for the war in 2003. He ran for president in the Democratic primaries and never lasted long. Biden at times is more of a Republican-thinking senator than Democratic. Obama could not have picked a better person to lose the election with.

MARTY PETERS

Brandon

Doesn't Signal Change

So everyone thinks that Sen. Obama is the candidate of change? Well, with this pick he shows he is anything but. He is just another everyday politician who is realizing that he's not qualified to hold the presidency and is desperately picking a running mate with more experience to offset his complete lack thereof. Picking a man who's been in Washington for 35 years does not signal a candidate for change, just more of the same - without the experience.

STEVE ATKINSON

Spring Hill

GOP Rules The Radio

Why is it that every time I turn on talk radio in Tampa, I hear some host slamming Democrats?

On AM 860, it's Bill Bennett in the morning, then Laura Ingraham, followed by Michael Medved and Hugh Hewitt in the evening. On AM 970, it's Rush Limbaugh, with Todd Schnitt for the evening commute. On AM 1040, the team is Mark Larsen, Dennis Miller and Michael Savage.

I can only reason that it's because AM radio is big business, and big business means Republican. I'm tired of it and no longer turn it on. The Republicans speak of media bias on television, but they certainly rule the radio.

JOE YARBOROUGH

Tampa

Thinly Veiled Political Ad

Regarding "Two Against The One" (Other Views, Aug. 21):

Thank you for publishing the rantings of another New York Times looney-tune columnist. Professional Bush-basher Maureen Dowd has not only "left" the building, she's exited reality altogether.

Dowd uses her "opinion" to fabricate the clandestine meeting of John McCain and Hillary Clinton sitting together, tossing back Stolies and plotting to steal the election from Obama. After a few more Stolies, the deal is cut. Bill and Hill will help John if he agrees to one term only. Hillary gets the next two!

What Dowd attempts to pass as satire is nothing more than a political ad. She is so in the tank with "Twig Legs" (her words) that she has lost all journalistic credibility.

Way to go Maureen; Bob Woodward would be proud of you for uncovering this one.

DAN HOLMER

Brandon

Tribune Has Vendetta

Let me state up front that although I am a volunteer poll worker, I do not personally know Buddy Johnson, Hillsborough County supervisor of elections.

If I didn't know better, I would suspect that The Tampa Tribune really has a vendetta against Johnson. Surely a paper with any desirable reputation at all wouldn't use their position in the community to continually attack an elected official unless there was really something there to attack, would they?

It seems that at least once or twice a month there is a venomous, tabloid-type attack in your paper against the man. Each new article starts out making some kind of accusation against Johnson, but as one continues to read the article one is reminded of the old hamburger commercial where the little old lady is yelling, "Where's the beef?" (And before you go there, I know the whole story about Johnson's small herd of cattle grazing on his farm).

So, either show us the beef or get over it. Each time you print one of these baseless attack articles you make yourself look more and more like the National Enquirer and less and less like the reputable paper that you once were.

LESTER E. SCATES

Plant City

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