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The Tampa Tribune

Published: October 17, 2008

Vote For A Grown-Up

We have a chance to have a grown-up as president after 16 years of baby boomers in charge in Washington and Wall Street. Maybe it is time for a grown-up to clean up the mess.

A President McCain would have a veto on the Democratic Congress. It will be dangerous to have Obama OK every big spending plan Nancy Pelosi can think up.

KAREN MORROW

Tampa

Bush Took Me To Cleaners

Eight years ago I was a conservative Republican who voted for George Bush. As a fiscal and social conservative Catholic with six children and nine grandchildren, I voted on the pro-life issue and fiscal responsibility.

I did not bargain for what I got. I am disgusted with the lies, financial irresponsibility, alienation of our allies and the violation of human rights.

I feel like I was taken to the cleaners. The Republican Party is now hiding behind the flag and a pretty face they imported.

They didn't have the guts to have Bush or Cheney appear at their convention. They will do nothing for education, the environment, or to create jobs or set a timetable to end the war.

We cannot return these people to power through John McCain. We need real change: middle-class tax cuts, national service, college aid, respect in the world again. Barack Obama will give us that.

MICHAEL McMANMON

Indian Harbor Beach

Double-Digit Trouble

The change Sen. Obama really wants - he has the most liberal record in the Senate - is a change back to President Johnson's "Great Society." That's when we waged "war on poverty," and historians laugh that poverty won.

We ended up with a triple-double: double-digit inflation, double-digit interest rates and double-digit unemployment.

You might think our economy is horrible now, but back then it was more than twice as bad. Class warfare, big spending and income redistribution will kill the economy and jobs.

Our last experiment with socialism was when Democrats also had huge majorities in Congress, unlike the Clinton years, when Republicans controlled Congress.

If Obama wins, they will again, so hang on to your wallets!

SHARI KOTSCH

Holiday

The Mad Scribbler

I'm envisioning McCain's campaign handler advising him before the debate:

"Now John, you're going to have to keep a lid on that thing. There's nowhere to pace around in this venue.

"So, if you feel she's starting to blow, I want you to take this yellow pad here and start scribbling like there's no tomorrow.

"You got that John?"

GLENN POSKOCIL

Tampa

McCain's Seedy Tactics

I am saddened to see the direction that John McCain's campaign has taken. His personal attacks on Barack Obama seem the act of a desperate man.

What is particularly disturbing is the fact that the people he has hired who are responsible for this assault are the same people who worked on Karl Rove's staff during the 2000 presidential election. This shameless group orchestrated one of the most famous character assassinations in modern political history. As the campaign team for George W. Bush, they spread false rumors, made baseless insinuations and flat-out lied about John McCain and his family.

Now McCain, the self-professed maverick and reformer, has done nothing less than embrace the same dishonest, seedy politics that he and his family were victims of eight years ago. This is not change, and the American people deserve better.

MARK KERR

Tampa

Election Revelations

Even if Barack Obama does not win, this election will have a significant impact on society for two reasons.

First, we have all had to examine our belief system and our biases and face any prejudices that we may not have even realized were with us in the core of our being. People have had an opportunity to discuss prejudices and see things in a different light.

Second, we women have been voicing a desire for a woman in the White House for quite a while. Our cry for women's equality was not only for pay and status for a woman against a man, but for the most qualified woman against an equally qualified man.

We want to be taken seriously.

Perhaps these revelations will help us build a better, stronger society for us and future generations.

SUSAN A. HART-MEDVIN

Tampa

Correction

Pasco County Commission candidate Ginny Miller is a Democrat, and she opted to run for county commission instead of seeking re-election to her New Port Richey City Council seat when her term expired in April. Monday's editorial, "Pasco Commission Majority Deserves To Be Kept Intact," was incorrect on those points.

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