February 05, 2008 10:21 pm
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Democrats not who they used to be
I am a present day conservative. I wasn’t always. I voted for Truman and JFK and, today, both of them would make good Republicans.
The Democratic Party has moved so far left in its ideology and the pursuit of government control of everything, that Truman and JFK would not recognize it as the same party that they supported.
The liberals or progressives, as they now like to be called, were at one time called by their correct name: socialists. They want to control our families through the schools, take the word God out of all public places and replace the word God in public places with pictures of party leaders, as happened in Germany, Russia and Italy.
The Democratic Party uses the ruse of taxing the rich. We all know that less taxes mean more money in our pockets, and the liberals want our money so they can give it back to us when and how they desire, and control our wages, and set the prices, and give all of us cradle-to-grave health insurance, and a fat pension when they decide to let us retire. All that we have to do is keep electing them.
They talk about the fat cat Republicans. Look at the rich millionaires in the Democratic Party: Chuck Schumer, George Soros, Jane Fonda, Sean Penn, Barbara Boxer, George Clooney and Diane Feinstein, just to name a few.
During the last 12 months, Harry Reid, the Senate Majority Leader, has predicted that the war in Iraq was lost. He was completely wrong. Yet he still sends legislation to the president demanding immediate withdrawal of our troops from Iraq. Now that he and his liberal friends in the press realize that we are winning in Iraq, they have turned their focus on the economy.
Then there is Ted Kennedy, who in my opinion is anti-military and anti-American, who also is a millionaire. What about his wonderful civil rights bill that makes things very easy for criminals and gangs, because they have rights too? And can we forget the reduction of our military forces under Clinton and the embarrassment of Jimmy Carter, who ran as the man that was away from the Washington crowd and who gave away the Panama Canal, although he had plenty of help with the liberal House and Senate?
It is rather sickening to see the other candidates for president in 2008 spout the anti-war theme, because they think it’s popular and will get them elected, such as Obama, Clinton, Romney and Huckabee.
I am asking all Americans to think about what has been going on in our Congress for the last year and think of what our country will become under a socialistic regime. I think it should be enough to make us realize that the Democratic Party is not the same as it was.
Let’s make God first, America second, family third, and party last in our priorities.
William J. Kuntz
Kokomo
This pastor doesn’t sugarcoat the Word
In response to the letter titled, “Preachers must start preaching the Word,” I read this letter and needed to speak to the one who wrote it.
First of all, I agree about needing more anointed preachers. I don’t know what church you belong to, but my pastor does not sugarcoat anything, he preaches the Word of God.
Don’t take my word for it, come and visit us. If you get your toes stepped on though, don’t get mad at the pastor. Take it up with God. My pastor is the messenger that God uses to deliver his message.
Carmen Harrington
Galilean Missionary
Baptist Church
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