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The many REASONS TO BE CHEERFUL after Election Day 2008
After casting her ballot for Barack Obama, Amanda Jones said simply, "I feel good about voting for him." Ms. Jones, of Cedar Creek, Texas (a town just south of Austin), is African-American, and what gives her vote some historic punch is that she's 109 years old. Her father was a slave. Her mother was born right after Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation. She's been through it all--Jim Crow segregation, women's suffrage, the Great Depression, the poll tax, FDR, the civil-rights movement, desegregation, 13 years of George W (five as guv, eight as prez), and now: Barack Obama. This last change fills her with joy, she says.
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Clinton's met the enemy, and it is us
There's a tradition in America as old as the Bill of Rights: trampling on the Bill of Rights.
The latest excuse is "fighting terrorism here at home," and it's inventor is Bill Clinton. He says he's spent sleepless nights over what he calls the "highly likely" possibility that a terrorist group will launch a chemical or bacterial attack on American soil sometime soon, so he's been issuing secret directves to "protect" us.
Protect us how? One, there is to be stepped-up monitoring of civilian computer networks. (Nobce that every move to protect us begins with more surveillance of those to be protected.) Two, Clinton says he'll create a special new corps of computer experts to keep track of ... well, of what? "Terrorists," of course, but who are they? Your neigh- bors? Certain citizens who fit a profile? Any "odd" political group?
Clinton is even considering creating a new "commander-in-chief for homeland defense," giving the military a new beachhead in our own country ... and a new target us!
And we're supposed to Wieve this guy is a Democrat?