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Published October 12, 2008 12:09 pm - THE PEOPLE SPEAK: Candidate switches tune on campaign There was this honorable senator from a really red state that recently claimed Sen. Barack Obama will lose the election for president because of the “patriotism question.”
This statement was like an unfair jab under the belt and at the same time a clever political sleight of hand, for the senator from a really red state called into question Obama’s patriotism and love of country and then just as quickly backed away from his own words. “Let me be clear,” the good senator said. “I am not questioning Sen. Obama’s patriotism, but ...” The accusation hangs in the air like dead meat and the good senator simply walks away. What’s a Bubba to think? This honorable senator from a really red state once played first piccolo in the GOP marching band, but now apparently is playing the confuseaphone. A masterful change of instruments. On June 6, 2006, this good senator while speaking in favor of the proposed Federal Marriage Amendment on the Senate floor pointed to a large photograph of his family, saying, “As you can see here, and I think this is maybe the most important prop we’ll have during the entire debate, my wife and I have been married 47 years. We have 20 kids and grandkids. I am really glad to say that in the recorded history of our family, we never had a divorce or any kind of homosexual relationship.” Did you notice there was no mention about cannibalism? Now was that a fair or germane observation made? I don’t think so. Whether John McCain or Barack Obama is elected president should be decided on the issues. I am quite certain that both men are capable of handling the job and both are equally patriotic. Still as much as I love Republicans (those people who vote Republican), I could never actually vote for a Republican politician myself because of all their silly social policies. Mike Dumford Stigler 
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