Obama agenda ruining U.S.
Rev. White may have damned America only in speech, but Democrats have made it a reality when they chose and elected someone unqualified, with the most damning evidence against a presidential candidate, possibly ever. President Barack Obama has a devious, hidden past and associated with Marxist and extreme anti-American activists.
In fact, he was endorsed by every major terrorist group in the world. To quote the comedian Ron White, "You can't fix stupid." Obama has shown his arrogant disdain for our past history and form of government in contemptuous overseas speeches.
During his campaign, he proclaimed we are living in the greatest country on this planet, then arrogantly asked for help to change it. I believe all this country really needed to return to past greatness is old-fashioned sensible, patriotic bipartisan leadership and proper, honest representation. Not drastic liberal and socialistic changes.
We now need our good, honest citizens who didn't vote in 2008 to come out in November and vote to help elect a president who will try to improve our free capitalist system and restore our economy back to prominence rather than try to destroy them.
They must also help rid Washington of all incumbents who sat on their butts, or profiteered from lobbyist kickbacks and bribes while our treasury was being ravaged and squandered into bankruptcy by blown budgets and continued over-spending on failed programs without proper oversight control.
I feel another four years of Obama's agenda would be further detrimental to our future development, and will further erode our waning trust in our government.
Some jerks have called me a bigot and racist for my opinion letter in 2008. With their way of thinking, we can't publicly disagree or disapprove of a candidate other than whites, or be labeled a bigoted racist. Don't white people have civil rights, too?
Howard Lynch
Oneonta
No one has control over Mother Earth
It is clear to me that in our time now, many in our human family have changed their attitudes toward our Mother Earth from one of respect, dependence, trust and appreciation to one of arrogance, domination, greed and cruelty.
The remembrance of the "old ways" of natural law and the oneness of all life forms is now being denied, reversed, forgotten, scoffed at or overruled by attitudes of "power over" all life forms, with the result that we have turned the whole beautiful planet, which has up till now sustained all living beings, into a very torturous, dangerous and inharmonious home.
We have enslaved each other with fear, which brings with it hierarchies of limitation and false ownership claims to "our spot of ground" versus "yours."
But no one owns Mother Earth, which gives us everything. You can't own the sky, the water, the land, the air _ these are temporary, sacred gifts; even your own body is a temporary gift.
Certainly, different cultures have different rules for how to declare a spot of ground for each member of the tribe to pitch their personal tent. But there is no spot of land on the surface of the round Earth that can be, in reality, "owned" by a single being living on it.
We are all interconnected. Everything in existence lives in agreement elementally with all things. To understand this, imagine all the spots on Earth tunneled in a line directly underneath _ they go to the heart of the Earth, where all these lines are joined in one center.
We have lost our way _ but it is not too late. We have a higher power as humans to share our different cultures to create wondrous lives here, with beauty, music, creativity, and love.
Alberta Hutchinson
Gilbertsville
