Published: May 12, 2008 09:45 pm            

Letters to the editor - Tuesday, May 13, 2008

Democrats cheating us out of our vote

Wait just a dad-burn minute! On election day, I voted for the candidate, not a superdelegate.

Why should this so-called superdelegate have more clout than we common people?

We, the people, voted, why? I guess it doesn’t matter, if the superdelegate is going to decide whom we, you and I, are going to vote for in the fall.

Nowhere on the ballot did I see a place to vote for a superdelegate.

Wake up, America, we are the ones getting cheated out of our vote.

Jim Butler

Kokomo

‘Now you’re thinking like true conservative’

During a recent break from her college classes, our daughter returned home. While we were together, she shared with me the thoughts of her professors.

Most of them thought that the rich Americans weren’t paying their fair share of taxes, and they thought that I, her father, was one of those selfish American conservatives who wanted to keep the wealth he had worked for and earned.

She asked me why I didn’t pay more taxes? Redistribute the wealth, so to speak, to the government to help the government to provide more programs to help the poor and underprivileged.

I asked her what political philosophy her professors had? She said most of them had a liberal philosophy, and that she felt that they were correct in their beliefs. I then asked her how she was doing in school.

She said, just fine, and that she had earned a 4.0 GPA, and that she was taking the hardest classes and that she didn’t have time for a social life like parties, dances or sports. Then I asked her how her friend was doing in school. She told me that the friend wasn’t doing well. She skips classes, doesn’t study, but has a great social life, dates, goes to dances and the games.

The friend’s GPA is 2.0. I suggested to my daughter that she go to the dean and ask him to take a point from her GPA and give it to her friend, then they would both have a 3.0 GPA.

She answered angrily, no! It wouldn’t be fair. She had invested too much of her time in getting that 4.0 GPA while her friend played around.

Then I said to her, now you are thinking like a true conservative.

William J. Kuntz

Kokomo

        

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