| To the Editor: Election gave woman renewed faith in citizens' evolving struggle to get it right |
| Written by Norma Davenport |
| Wednesday, 14 November 2012 10:22 |
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The day after the election, the sun was shining, and on my way to work, I could not help noticing that a sense of peace and calm had returned to our small town. I was surprised to see people assuming a business as usual mode. I wondered what had happened to all those dire, end of the world predictions before the election regardless of which candidate we elected. We, the people, did not experience a civil war, riots in the streets, or the fulfilling of any other doomsday prophesy. Instead, I felt a renewed faith in our citizens' evolving struggle to get it right. As with most elections, if both sides are willing to listen, there are always lessons to learn and personal inventories to review. It is my hope that most of us can agree that both candidates are good people who love their families and both politicians want what is best for our country. In addition, I pray that we can agree that most voters, like the politicians they vote for, are also good citizens who love their families and want what is best for this country. If this is true, can we visualize our voters to include men, women, gay, straight, whites, blacks, Latinos, Asians, veterans, soldiers, and any other category of people that you might want to add. Most people that I know and love just want a fair shot at getting a job, raising a family, having affordable health care, and perhaps more importantly, feeling pride in themselves for being responsible adults. Are there exceptions to this declaration? Of course, there are, but not just from people who are on welfare. We can find a misguided sense of entitlement on Wall Street, as well as main street, USA. Many people, including myself, would much rather give deserving people a hand up, rather than, a hand out. I am so grateful to live in this great country, where each day, I have the opportunity to make a difference . . . in the lives of my family, friends, coworkers, and even, the people who disagree with me. Without them, I would not be required to grow, or to reexamine my preconceived attitudes and beliefs. Norma Davenport Bowling Green |
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Comments
What is your hard evidence that the current administration doesn't respect this country?
Are you going to keep this up for the next four years?
You are also in no position to talk. You have no respect for the hard-workin, taxpaying people who disagree with you on politics, no respect for non-Christians, no respect for people whose gender orientations are different from yours, and no respect for people who call out prejudice when it exists.
72,you sound like Louie Gohmert..Terror babies anybody?By the way I just saw him in a picture with Bob Latta.Is this the way the 5th wants to be represented?A Gohmert fan indeed.The picture was very stoic.
So you where concerned with the Debt before 1/20/2009? The sad thing about you or anyone within the tea party. Is that any serious talk about long term debt reductions been drowned out by stupid. The tea party should be at the kiddie table while the grown ups are at the adult table.
And Sentinel, shame on you for allowing her post on here!
The bigger question is why so many on the right have declared that Keynesian economics has been "proven" not to work, when it in fact it has, whereas supply side economics is the only solution ever proposed, despite the fact that it has never been proven to work. (And, as the CBO reported, in a suppressed report that has only recently been fully published, lowering taxes on the "job creators" actually does not result in any appreciable creation of jobs.").
Quoting Christopher Williams:Blatantly false.
Quoting Christopher Williams:
Except for in the 1980's-'90's when it did work.
Are you suggesting that everybody who voted for Obama is either a "taker," a "liar" or stupid? That would be quite an indictment of the majority of Ohioans and the majority of the national electorate.
A funny aside: in addition to finding that people who get their news primarily from Fox News have a less accurate view of the world (by a large margin) than do people who get their news from other media, multiple academic studies have found that people who get their views from conservative media are more unquestioningly confident in the correctness of their views. But that's what propaganda will do.
Are you saying that university professors are "takers" who are, by definition disqualified from discussing policy (even if they happen to have expertise?
You are the very definition of an internet troll, whose entire purpose seems to be to stop me from posting on this blog, all from the safety of your own anonymous identity, because you can't stand to have your right-wing totalitarian views ever challenged.
Way to slam a whole field of research.
Hate & fear education much? Jeez.
Pathetic lame attempt to intelligently participate in a fact-driven (but not on your side) debate. Give up, kid, you're outgunned by someone with brains and real information.
Food for thought.
In reality the Civil War didn't end, it just took a time out. It wouldn't take much for it to resume and the days do sound a lot like the days prior to our war. I hear a lot of talk of secession.
And you do remember one of the primary issues in the Civil War, do you not?
It wasn't just "states' rights" in the abstract: it was states' rights to do _what?_
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