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Dear Editor,

Hi, I just want to say THREE CHEERS!!!! We have to believe truth will set us free... and it’s about time someone besides Michael Moore took umbrage with the BS of polls suggesting this imbecile, cold blooded KILLER is a popular leader... like you nailed it, if the press wasn’t so into a sycophant role of laying Hosannas as this antiChrist’s (?) feet, maybe we’d see an uproar... it’s a mixture of “give ‘em cake” mixed with “a sucker is born every minute,” with a final dose of “short attention span theater” thrown in... I hear 60’s songs in my head now, as if resurrecting the all but forgotten dreams, that our generation, like Hamlet, not forget our almost blunted purpose... to maintain LIGHT in the world as these dark lords rise to ascendancy on might alone... knowing JUSTICE slows down the other guy, the ones who “give a damn about their fellow man....” If Gore starts the liberal radio network, 60’s music to re-rouse our ideals would be a good start. After all, seems to me all the hate in rap and all the obscene boom box pounding is either Hiroshima’s revenge or some kind of atavistic drum pounding to signal war a’perpetually coming... thanks again.

Keep in mind that whenever the Columbus Public Schools system determines that it needs our money, a theme central to nearly every campaign for dollars is safety. When the facilities bond issue was to go to ballot, it was safety. When the operating levy was to go to the ballot, it was how certain cuts could affect services and safety. Whenever they need our money, the theme is safety. With the most recent allegations of district employees using our children as their sexual playmates, where’s the issue of safety now?

In every superintendent’s administration comes a test of the character, cadence, register and resolve of its leadership. Columbus Public Schools has had no shortage of memorable opportunities that not only challenged the integrity and grit of the leadership, but defined it for those of us who were paying attention.

My dear Democratic  candidates for the Presidency in 2004!

  Recently I watched some of your debates, saw you all and  listened to your speeches. It was a pleasure to  watch you. Mr. Graham was solid, Mr. Lieberman was experienced, Mr. Kerry was handsome, Mr. Kucinich was persistent, Mr. Gephardt was stately, Mr. Edwards was southern, Mrs. Moseley- Braun was articulate, Mr. Sharpton was dedicated, Mr. Dean was  as cool as a cucumber.  All of you, folks said  proper words, made proper statements, agreed to disagree and promised what  you usually  promise. Oh yes, it was a pleasure. Also it was a total disaster. You can't win, you, a bunch of sissies. And the reason is simple: you don't want to win.  Either you have no guts or you are very foolish.  You think it is the politics as usual? You think you make your day, look cool and  maybe have a chance to win. But if you don't win, why worry? Nothing will change, right? You still will retain your  positions, perks, salaries and constituents,  right?

WRONG!

Mr. Wasserman,

Your article is a sobering account of this vile administration.  Why do they war on the poor who have no lobby in Washington.  To trash the head start program is indeed a miscarriage of justice for our very young who deserve a better environment to grow , which should be a matter of right and not subject to any alleged budgetary constraints.  To grant tax cuts to the rich and token benefits to the poor is grossly obscene and grossly negligent.

So my plea to you is to continue to report the facts about the Bush administration. I would suggest your columns keep the heat on the actions of the office of president.  I would also suggest that you publicize the workings of the Carlyle Investment Group as most of its executives are attached to the Bush family interests and most of this "private investment company." Senior Bush has profited enormously because of the large governmental projects in Iraq with companies that Carlyle companies have received fromthe US government.

I taught for sixteen years and consider myself an educated, sophisticated man.  However calm reason doesn't work with the republicans or their supporters.  These bastards are sending three nuns off to prison for an act of bravery second to none!!  "Dangerously irresponsible," Blackburn called them.  THOSE GODDAMNED MISSLES BELONG TO ME AND THE PEOPLE OFTHIS COUNTRY, NOT THE US GOVERNMENT!!!, and frankly, I don' t give a damn about em as long as the nuns are ok.  They are political prisoners, no less than in China, or the DPRK, or the former USSR.  This rogue group of terrorists, the Bush Cartel MUST BE STOPPED SOMEHOW!!!  They are MURDERING what is left in the US that is good and caring!!  Every word they utter murders some part of the world.  How many more must die before these black guards are brought down!?  I'm convinced due to and unlimited body of data, factual and evidential, that goes back at least a century, that republicans can not be reasoned with, and absolutely will not stop until they are DESTROYED.  Just as any rabid animal would be.

I have read your article with interest, as one of your northern neighbours the actions of your government from time to time affect us up here in varying degrees. I would prefer a neighbouring people vigourous in the defense of their constitution and their rights and with few exceptions it isn't happening, at least from my limited view point.. Your president is just the tip of the iceberg it seems to me for I think the republican party has corralled in the business interests which includes the media, with Congress a republican sea and the old cry of "the business of America is business" a neofacist regime is being brought into being. I predict with tongue in cheek that before the 2004 election either a red alert will be brought in and martial law declared and that will be the end of free elections or the voting will be done by electronic means with no paper trail and guess who gets in.. I don't look to the democrats to turn back the tide as they to some extent suffer from the same need for large lumps of money.

The Bush Administartion's recent tax giveaway to the richest citizens of this country have left progressives scrambling for an alternative way to stimulate the economy.  Simply opposing Bush's plan is not enough.  The answer may be found in the Apollo Project, which not only promises to create two million manufacturing jobs, but also promotes environmental sustainability and strenthgens our national security.

It has been over thirty-five years since Al Feldstein was a political science major at the University of Maryland. It was then, in 1967, he picked up his first protest button. He was attracted to the bright colors, the graphics of the period, and the contemporary history the button represented. Al went back to his dorm room and pinned the button on the strap of his arrow quiver for decoration. Other buttons followed. He did not know these would be the first of thousands of political cause, protest, social movement, and campaign buttons he would amass through the years. His collection now holds more than 8,000 buttons and is a visible portrayal of modern American history.

Hello Mr. Wasserman. I have just discovered your site/articles. As a Canadian who suffers through the bullying tactics of Ambassador Cellucci I can't tell you how happy I am to read your articles and the news that the " grass roots " are so active in the US. Canada is so economically tied to the US that we have little clout , so to speak, to influence the agenda. After intense world watching, dialogue with friends, letters to your administration and mine I have concluded that the only hope to avoid world disaster from both military and environmental ignorance lies with the American voter and their friends abroad. I am encouraged by the courage of yourself and others in the States who dare to oppose the fundamentalist stance of the administration in Washington. Your article conjured up the idea that it might be useful to ask the UN to send inspectors to the US and Canda to inspect our nuclear sites. From what I read they are in a dangerous state of disrepair and the maintainance of them is sucking the economies dry. This action may encourage the development of other energies, adjustments in lifestyle, reduction in armament.

"This is total war. We are fighting a variety of enemies. There are lots of them out there. All this talk about first we are going to do Afghanistan, then we will do Iraq... this is entirely the wrong way to go about it. If we just let our vision of the world go forth, and we embrace it entirely and we don't try to piece together clever diplomacy, but just wage a total war... our children will sing great songs about us years from now." Richard Perle (The Prince Of Darkness)  

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