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The Tampa Tribune

Published: July 30, 2008

Can't Wait For Jan. 20

Regarding: "Obama Exposure Irritates GOP" (Nation/World, July 23)

Gosh, I am so sorry to hear the McCain campaign is frustrated with Barack Obama's media coverage. Perhaps if their current administration had done a better job during the past several years, media folks might be showing more interest in their candidate. Whatever the outcome of the election, I have to believe there is no place to go but up. With any luck we'll be able to survive until Jan. 20, 2009. Once that day arrives, whoever is in charge can start to turn our ship of state around. It won't be easy, but it has to be done and it is long overdue.

JIM LYMAN

Lutz

Staff Of Whiners
McCain's campaign staffers and supporters should take a little advice from one of McCain's best friends, Phil Gramm. Instead of being a "nation of whiners" you have become the party of whiners. You complained that Barack Obama had not spent enough time on the world stage, and wasn't experienced enough to lead. So he takes to the world stage and looks intelligent and presidential, something we have been starving for under George W. Bush. It reminds me of the old saying, "Be careful what you wish for..."

RICK HENRY

Brooksville

Upstaging The President

Let's see, in the United States we have: a housing slump, rising unemployment, rising gas prices, rising food costs, a slump in retail sales, a broken infrastructure nationwide, a health care crisis, homeless veterans, homeless children, an unstable stock market, failed banks, a mortgage crisis and so much more. While Obama is enjoying photo-ops in the Middle East, who is addressing the problems back home?

The Obama trip was supposed to be a fact-finding mission. Instead, he upstaged our president and showed a level of arrogance that was incomprehensible. He can stand on the other end of a teleprompter, but he can't hold press conferences where he is asked more than one question at a time.

Change has to come gradually with intelligence and humility. The spotlight needs to shine on the challenges of the American people, not on Barack Obama.

KAREN YERBY

Tampa

A Slap To Americans

Regarding "Obama Calls On Europe For Aid In Global Challenges" (front page, July 25):

Barack Obama's speech to the people in Berlin last week was a slap in the face to all Americans. Personally, I could care less if the Germans "approve" of whom we elect president. How ironic that he makes a speech which references America's mistakes in a city which was once home to the Nazis, perhaps the worst perpetrators of evil in the history of the world.

Before he again makes implications regarding accusations of America's role in the supposed "torture" of terrorists, perhaps he should talk to John McCain regarding what torture is really about. Barack Obama is a socialist and will be the worst thing to ever happen to this country should he be elected.

Rest assured, under his leadership, we will see a rise in the power and influence of Islam in America due to his liberal acceptance ideologies, and the erosion of our own heritage. And for those who are scared of Christianity's influence in America, you should be morbidly frightened of Islam should it gain a foothold in American governmental policy as it is slowly doing in Europe.

ERICK WESTLY

Brandon

Concerned About Polls

Barack Obama should win the election, if not handily then at least by a respectable margin. There is no question that he is well-qualified and will have advisors who match my personal (and therefore correct) social and political views. Yet I am concerned that many liberal-progressives, traditional Democrats, will choose not to vote or, worse, hold their respective noses and vote for John McCain.

During the primary season, the exit polling consistently had greater numbers for Obama that the actual results. My concern is that, in the privacy of the voting booth, a number of voters will not cast their votes for an African-American or a person perceived, falsely, as Muslim. They will be ashamed to admit the prejudice or try and justify it, but the damage will be done.

The narrowing poll numbers worry me greatly.

JIM STILLMAN

Lutz

Drinking Obama Kool-Aid

Regarding "Obama Calls On Europe For Aid In Global Challenges" (front page, July 25):

Well I am done. After subscribing to the Tribune for over seven years, I have just canceled my subscription except for Sunday (I like the funnies). If I wanted to read the New York Times I would have subscribed to it.

You have joined the rest of the liberal media in drinking the "Obama Kool-Aid" by printing a front-page article that compares this "empty suit" to the great statesmen Kennedy and Reagan.

Don't you have any unbiased journalists of your own? And I guess the related story that McCain visited a German restaurant in Columbus, Ohio ("McCain Takes On Obama In German Eatery," Nation/World, July 25) is true journalism - or maybe a political jab?

DIANE SHERRIFF

Safety Harbor

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