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Robert Moon: Democrats out of line to attack Palin's experience
It is insultingly phony for a candidate who has done virtually nothing in the U.S. Senate, other than run for president, to dismiss a successful reformer and governor as inexperienced for daring to come from a small town filled with regular people. I am not sure if Barack Obama has a problem with women or just cannot stand the thought of one of those bitter folks who cling to their guns and religion ending up in the White House, but either way, he will no longer be able to ride identity politics into office and is going to have to start coming up with attacks that actually make sense.
Hillary Clinton supporters, burned by their candidate being unfairly manhandled out of the race by an ideologue from the Chicago machine, can either swallow it or vote for John McCain, who opposed the Bush tax cuts, supports stem-cell research, promotes campaign finance reforms and is not afraid to put a woman on his ticket.
The American news media have some explaining to do as to how they came to the conclusion that Rush Limbaugh's chronic back pain and his resulting addiction to painkillers was more newsworthy than another National Enquirer story about a presidential candidate cheating on the wife he dragged around the country for the pity vote while she tried to survive breast cancer.
What unconscionable audacity for Barack Obama, who has blatantly reversed himself on virtually every position there is -- public campaign financing, NAFTA, telecom immunity for post-9/11 intercepts, unconditional negotiations with terrorist regimes, the D.C. hand gun ban, drilling for oil, listening to the generals on the ground in Iraq, even on wearing flag pins -- to accuse anyone of misrepresenting what he or she stands for to get elected.
Since when is it the government's right or its responsibility to artificially prop up an over-extended housing market with astronomical deficit spending just to meet some delusional public expectation of perpetual economic growth? If people cannot afford to live in the houses they purchase, then they must be expected to purchase more reasonable housing. The only responsible thing to do here is to let the market correct itself.
Robert Moon is a Cincinnati resident.
