Thursday, November 1, 2012

Winston-Salem Journal LTE TH 11/01/12


A sharp contrast
It's time that Winston-Salem had a representative in Congress again, and I am delighted to support Elisabeth Motsinger for the 5 th District.
With her emphasis on education, jobs and bipartisan cooperation, Elisabeth Motsinger offers a sharp contrast to her opponent, who has voted repeatedly for the Ryan budget that would harm so many in our district.
MARSHALL LANCASTER
Clemmons
An excellent job
Norman Holleman has done an excellent job as our Forsyth County Register of Deeds. As a former real-estate attorney, it is my pleasure to support his re-election.
His administration has made terrific improvements in the running of the register's office. Early on he did away with a system of prior registers that required the public to pay monthly for online access to our public records. Forsyth County was one of only a handful of North Carolina counties charging for this access. Now that access is free online to all.
In addition, Norman has modernized the office, reorganized it and worked to reduce costs and save money for the entire county. His administration has been a breath of fresh air to the management of public records in this county. We should re-elect Norman Holleman.
WARREN HODGES
Winston-Salem
The right direction
Seemingly there is enormous optimism in the air over the election. But apparently people are still apprehensive and concerned about overall prospects for the future, including the country’s ability to stabilize and diminish the stagnation of the economy going forward.
Fortunately, after four years, the good news of lower unemployment this month certainly indicates a move in the right direction.
The candidates have spoken relentlessly to the American people about specifics of their agendas and policies if elected president. It’s also evident that their philosophies differ tremendously.
We must not take for granted that our lives won’t be affected in some way on a personal level.
Obviously we are left with more queries than not, as we ponder our decisions to vote for the candidate with credibility, who has been forthright and truthful, or the one with the rhetoric of deceit and falsehoods.
We have a choice, if we clearly understand the ramifications of what’s at stake. We have a duty to fight for the rights of all people, and in doing so, vote for the candidate who will preserve Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, job equality, immigration rights, gay rights, women’s rights (contraception, reproductive issues) and Obamacare. Our votes matter, and my choice is Barack Obama, because his record as president reflects an earnestness and determination to support the people, with a vision to ensure that he has our backs and the courage to make it happen.
IMA LAWSON
Winston-Salem
Tar Heel awakening
I’ve been thinking about how extremely biased the major news media is.
One example: After watching the congressional hearings concerning the Benghazi scandal, I decided to watch one of the mainstream networks to see how it was covered. Eight minutes into the program, it was briefly mentioned with the typical liberal spin.
I have tried to analyze why the major news media have become so radically left in the last 50 years, and here is my conclusion:
In the late 1960s after the great hippie revolution, a disproportionate number of the hippies moved into the news media and as college professors, thereby gaining great control over the minds of so many people in this great country. Now, however, with many alternative sources of information, the lock on information is being broken.
Now if you wish to survive in this free-enterprise system, you’d best wake up. Suckers can only be snookered for so long. An example that even you should understand: Little Johnny decided to please his dog by giving it his bag of lollipops to enjoy. However, later he realizes he no longer has any suckers.
Now if you can’t accept the fact that people in this great Tar Heel state are wising up, think about what happened in 2010 and with the marriage amendment this past May. If you think that was just a freak, wait for your eye-opening on Nov. 6. The Tar Heels are waking up.
KEN HAYES
Mocksville
She cares
Elisabeth Motsinger cares about our environment.
Long before her decision to run for 5 th Congressional District, she was frequently coming to the monthly movie nights put on by the Temple Emanuel Environmental Movement, when we show a film or video on a current environmental problem followed by speakers. Motsinger’s knowledge of environmental problems is broad and deep, and it is especially important for Congress to have that expertise at a time when some are denying that these problems — including global warming — even exist.
So a vote for Elisabeth Motsinger is a vote for our environment.
ROBERT CONN
Winston-Salem
Leadership and hard work
I retired as superintendent of the Davidson County Schools, and was recently chairman of the Davidson County Board of Commissioners. I believe I am in a position to be objective and knowledgeable about what is best for our public schools going forward.
When June Atkinson became state superintendent of public instruction, North Carolina’s high-school graduation rate was 68 percent. Last year, North Carolina’s graduation rate increased to an all-time high of over 80 percent. June’s leadership and the hard work of teachers and educators across the state have made the difference in our reaching this historic level.
June Atkinson, unlike her opponent, has the experience, education and proven record of making positive differences in our schools.
My daughter has taught in the Wake County schools. My wife and I have a grandson in the school system. We have carefully followed the events over the last couple of years in the Wake County schools.
John Tedesco, June Atkinson’s opponent, as a Wake County school-board member, helped turn a once thriving, nationally recognized school system into chaos. His so-called “school reform” turned out to be divisive and disastrous, and the voters in the spring election let him know how little they thought of his policies. North Carolina needs June Atkinson as state superintendent and not someone who has no idea what to do to move our education system forward.
MAX WALSER
Lexington
Commander in chief
It was a pleasure to vote early at the Clemmons library.
I served in Gen. George Patton's 3rd Army in World War II and I'm proud of the five bronze battle stars on my European Victory medal.
Mitt Romney is running for president of the United States, and if he is elected, he will also assume the title of commander in chief. Nobody in the immediate Romney family has served in our armed forces — not great-grandpa, not grandpa, not dad nor any of his five sons. This would be an insult to our veterans and the heroes currently serving. It's really disgusting.
Vote Obama!
NORMAN AKERVIK
Winston-Salem
North Carolina elections important
State elections are every bit as important as national elections, but I often wonder how many voters really know what they’re voting for when they mark their ballots for state officials. Do we want to see off-shore drilling and fracking come to North Carolina to endanger our coast and water supplies? Do we want to see minimum wages frozen, health care for women cut and public education “privatized”? Do we want to see corporate income taxes eliminated, which will only put more money into the pockets of the fat cats and throw more of the burden of funding education and other vital social programs onto the backs of the already-struggling middle class?
Radical extremist Republicans have been avidly at work nationwide to build more and more momentum against the middle class, and it’s no different in North Carolina. That’s why I’m voting for Walter Dalton for governor, Linda Coleman for lieutenant governor and Elisabeth Motsinger for 5th Congressional District representative.
NANCY KEGRESSE
Clemmons
Her skills are needed
Historically when Congress refuses to cobble together the legislation we Americans desperately need, we vote in new cobblers. Our best national interest would be served by voting for Elisabeth Motsinger as our 5 th District Congresswoman. Her incumbent opponent has for too long stood in the way of what we all need and has refused to engage in healthy listening, negotiating, bargaining and compromising.
Elisabeth Motsinger, on the other hand, has shown her teamwork abilities while serving on the Winston-Salem/Forsyth County School Board. She has accomplished significant goals with a school board populated by a majority that generally starts out not agreeing with her.
Motsinger’s skills are sorely needed in Washington. Her talents will enable our Washington cobblers to get back to work for the benefit of our beloved America.
DAVID B. HOUGH
Winston-Salem
Asking questions
Kudos to Shannon Vickery for her outstanding moderating of the North Carolina Gubernatorial Debate on Oct. 16. It is surprising that a local/regional TV personality could do so much better than a nationally known CNN news-show host.
During the second presidential debate, CNN’s Candy Crowley continuously let the debaters interrupt, run over time limits and talk over each other. However, while I’m not a conspiracy theorist, I was surprised when President Obama asked her to “get the transcript” of his Rose Garden speech the day after the attack on our consulate in Libya.
I didn’t realize it during the debate, but noticed her holding the document while watching a replay. She actually had that transcript at her desk. I have watched almost all of the presidential debates since Kennedy/Nixon and have never seen a moderator actually have any transcripts with them or ever correct one of the debaters.
Perhaps some questions need to be asked. Why did she have that one speech out of the thousands that each candidate has made over the past month? Why did she know exactly where in the transcript that phrase being discussed was located? Why did the president know that she had that transcript?
About 65 million people watched her tell Mitt Romney that he was wrong, but just how many people heard her admit later that night on CNN that she was the one who was wrong?
Is there media bias?
R. BRUCE HEYE
Clemmons
In later statements, Crowley said that while it was a fact that Obama referred to “acts of terror” in his earliest statement about Libya, Romney had been right “in the main” about the Obama administration's broader response to the attacks. — the editor
Welcome Joe’s
I clutched at my heart in terror and dismay as I read the opening sentences of Scott Sexton's column last week (“Trader Joe’s came to town without incentives,” Oct. 23). What was he thinking? Winston-Salem is fortunate enough to have a Trader Joe's opening here and Sexton can't wait to insult both the store and its clients. The heavy-handed implication that only “yuppies” and “doofuses” (his words, not mine) are excited about that marvelous store is so off-base. Trader Joe's appeals to a broad base of shoppers and it adds to Winston-Salem's much-improved image as a happening place for people of all ages and inclinations.
While Sexton may have wanted to make his point about a retailer that did not receive incentives, the snide comments about the store and its patrons is no way to welcome Trader Joe's to the community. I plan to make a point of telling its management that Sexton's feelings in no way represent those of the rest of us, who are thrilled to have Trader Joe’s here.
ROBYN MIXON
Winston-Salem
Healthy candidate
I would like to tell you about Elisabeth Motsinger, my favorite candidate for 5 th Congressional District representative. I have shared a meal with her several times and she is delightful company. She is personable, friendly and kind. I see she is careful about her own health in a way that makes me feel she would be careful about the well-being of North Carolinians.
And so with a sense of ease and confidence, I see my vote for Elisabeth Motsinger as a way to benefit myself, my family and my community.
AUDREY LYNGE
Winston-Salem
Pride in America
It could have been different.
Republicans could have taken pride in President Obama. They could have praised him for fighting terrorism and killing Osama bin Laden; for saving the American auto industry; for slowing the growth of government; for staunching the loss of jobs; for expanding gun rights; for making health-insurance freeloaders take responsibility for themselves.
They could have been proud of the fact that so much of the world loved the American president. They could have admired his calm, rational demeanor and gentle, reassuring humor. They could have said, “He’s not so bad for a Democrat. He actually agrees with us on a lot of things.”
They could have been proud of America, moving ahead in unity to rebuild its splendor after a devastating economic fall.
If Obama had been a Republican, and said and done the very same things he said and did, they would have loved him. And if they doubted, they would have given him the benefit rather than the blame.
Instead, they chose — it was a choice — to embarrass themselves and America by feeding on anger, by delighting in every divisive lie told about the president, by wasting four years in a bitter outrage.
Not all of them did, of course. But the rational Republicans, the mature ones who understood that not everything had to be their way all the time, were reviled by their own.
It could have been different. I hope they’ll have an opportunity, these next four years, to make amends.
JANE FREEMONT GIBSON
Winston-Salem
Equal rights for all
I will be voting for Elisabeth Motsinger for Congress as our representative in the 5th District. She believes in the protection of Social Security and Medicare, the creation of a strong middle class, the protection of our environment and at the same time the development and production of renewable energy sources.
As a woman, it is also important that my rights to health care are not limited — as a health-care provider, Elisabeth understands this. The most important thing to me is that Elisabeth Motsinger believes in equal rights for all North Carolinians, will work hard to achieve them and be a true representative for the people in the 5th District.
SUSAN GROTE
Winston-Salem

28 comments:

  1. LTE #4 Tarheel Awakening
    Here it is the 21st Century and you're just now waking up. Well I'm a Tarheel born, a Tarheel bred, a Tarheel grad, when I die, I'll be a Tarheel dead, and when I voted, it was too be Democratic lead.

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  2. If governing were like running a business, then Romney will probably sell off the red states and liquidate the old people.

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    1. When I go I want to be Resomated anyway.

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    2. I have contracted with the Iranian Space Agency to be shot into the sun...I hope to be alive when we launch, but that won't last very long.

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  3. Remember yesterday's Romney Lie of the Day? How Jeep is moving its production lines to China?

    Now it has gone much farther. Despite the fact that the whole world, even FoxLies, knows that he is lying, he is again doubling down by making the same claim in TV ads now running in Ohio.

    But that wasn't enough. Yesterday, he began running radio ads making the same claim about General Motors. I guess if his mother was still alive he would gladly strangle her on national TV to get to the White House.

    General Motors incredulous response:

    "We've clearly entered some parallel universe during these last few days; no amount of campaign politics at its cynical worst will diminish our record of creating jobs in the U.S. and repatriating profits back to this country."

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    1. Romney brings to mind a hit by the Eagles:
      Desperado, why don't you come to your senses?
      You been out ridin' fences for so long now
      Oh, you're a hard one
      I know that you got your reasons
      These things that are pleasin' you
      Can hurt you somehow

      Don't you draw the queen of diamonds, boy
      She'll beat you if she's able
      You know the queen of hearts is always your best bet

      Now it seems to me, some fine things
      Have been laid upon your table
      But you only want the ones that you can't get

      Desperado, oh, you ain't gettin' no younger
      Your pain and your hunger, they're drivin' you home
      And freedom, oh freedom well, that's just some people talkin'
      Your prison is walking through this world all alone

      Don't your feet get cold in the winter time?
      The sky won't snow and the sun won't shine
      It's hard to tell the night time from the day
      You're losin' all your highs and lows
      Ain't it funny how the feeling goes away?

      Desperado, why don't you come to your senses?
      Come down from your fences, open the gate
      It may be rainin', but there's a rainbow above you
      You better let somebody love you, before it's too late

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    2. Chrysler is building a Jeep production plant in China, but those Jeeps are only intended for the Chinese market. Jeeps produced in the US would face a 100% tariff if they were sold in China, which would make them a wee bit uncompetitive if Chrysler decided for some odd reason to make a profit off the Chinese market.

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    3. Actually, Chrysler isn't building anything in China at the moment. They already have Jeep plants there that have been idle since 2009. Any Jeeps built in China in the future would be sold in China.

      That would have no immediate effect on American Jeep building jobs, and would probably lead to more Jeeps being built in the US in the future.

      Romney is an out and out liar. Thank goodness I will never have to admit that I voted for him.

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  4. Good AM, folks!
    Re Romney and his family's lack of military service. What is the record of Obama's. Clinton loathed the military. I wonder if the indignant LTE writer voted for him. The much excoriated GWB flew F102's, albeit in save circumstances.

    GM's statement noted, but we taxpayers hold much GM stock priced at double what it would sell for.

    OT, I beg you reconsider your flight to the Sun, but if you must go, may I furnish a list of possible traveling companions.

    Arthur's suggestion that I note the performance of Obama's Justices, point noted. I retain deep distrust of future appointments based on his insistence on appointing trained seals like Becker.

    The Administration's response on Benghazi has been a been muddy.

    I am distressed once again at America's youth. Driving home last night from Susan's at about 9PM, I saw no smashed jack o'lanterns, no dirty words written on pavement with soap bars, no husks of exploded fireworks. I heard no distant firecracker explosions. What's this country coming to?

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    1. Agree on the last. One year there were huge piles of raked up leaves in the gutters all along Buena Vista Road. Somebody had the bright idea of setting some of them on fire. They burned very nicely along a three block stretch.

      Within moments every fire truck and police car in the city was on Buena Vista Road. Fortunately, my friends and I had mastered the ancient juvenile delinquent art of becoming instantly invisible, so the only folks that the police could find to arrest were some girls, the very ones that we had set out to impress with our act of arson. Since they were Buena Vista girls, the police didn't get very far with that project.

      I think today's teenagers use their computers and smart phones to commit acts of virtual vandalism. Without the smell of real smoke and the sound of real sirens, not to mention the squeals of the girls, somehow not as satisfying.

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    2. A friend and I set out late one night to toss water balloons at passing cars on Buena Vista Ave. We lay in ambush and scored two direct hits on our first target. Two irate and very athletic young adults sprang from the car. We fled. I ran across the yard of a Western Electric engineer named Duttweiler.

      Mr. DuttWeiler was in the process of having his yard landscaped. The contractor had removed a rail fence in order to refurbish a very tall retaining wall between front and back yard. As I raced toward the backyard and the safety of the woods beyond, I found myself running on air. I flopped onto the (fortunately soft) backyard flat on my back, wind knocked out of me.

      My pursuer stopped short of the precipice, and looked straight ahead into the gloom. Then he gave up the chase and returned to the car. I caught my breath and slunk off. We tossed our water balloons on to the street, and moved on to safer pursuits, such as setting off cherry bombs with cigarette time fuses that enabled us remove ourselves from the scenes of the crimes.

      Who says youth is wasted on the young?

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    3. lol, you and the soon to be MS Stab will be glad to know that most were in Chapel Hill last night.

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    4. Excellent. Glad that our collegians share some of my core values. Not sure that Susan is fully aligned with those values. She scolded me some years back when I provided a young coworker with sightings of pumpkins for smashing. The young lady would then seek and destroy. She also set leaf piles ablaze, followed later by dried out Xmas trees. I did not assist in identifying targets for her pyromania.

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    5. Not only that, there was also no Great Pumpkin <'-( I should learn to never trust a little boy with a blanket and a bossy sister.

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    6. Oh, would that that had been a Great Pumpkin. We would have gone after him as we did for lesser pumpkins, and sent him to join them in the Great Pumpkin Patch in the Sky. Be still my heart.

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  5. Good afternoon folks! Happy All Hallows Day!
    LTE 1, 2, 3, 5, 9, 12, 14: Endorsement

    LTE 4: TB rant. Cry me a river about the "media bias". While the media as a whole is left of center, one would have to be radically right of center to consider the media to be radically left of center. I assume Mr. Hayes considers Ann Coulter to be right down the middle? Btw...what "great hippie revolution"?? What on earth is Mr. Hayes trying to point out with his analogy?? It makes absolutely no sense.

    LTE 6: Endorsement worth mentioning. Tedesco was indeed a disaster as a member of the Wake school board and his election would be a disaster for NC's public schools.

    LTE 7: Thanks to Mr. Akervik for his service. Obama's father was from Kenya, so he obviously did not serve. Obama's daughters are still in school and therefore too young to enlist. Kerry did serve in Vietnam, but look how his military record was impugned. GHWB was the last POTUS to actually serve in combat, and it may be decades before we elect another POTUS who served.

    LTE 8: I would say that state elections are not only "every bit as important as national elections", they are more important to us since they affect us far more directly. Everyone is focusing on the POTUS race, but its only impact will be on the SCOTUS and the Fed Reserve, because neither agenda will not get past Congress. The issues raised by Ms. Kegresse will have far more impact on us. McCrory does not strike me as a "radical extremist Republican", however, there are enough gerrymandered districts who will probably elect TB's with alarming views particularly towards public education that will warrant genuine concern should McCrory turn into a rubberstamp.

    LTE 10: Mr. Heye's "while I’m not a conspiracy theorist" statement remind me of many "while I'm not a racist" statements posted that inevitably lead to many racist remarks, only in this case it's followed by many conspiratorial remarks. Oh, please quit whining about the bloody "media bias". Why is everything a conspiracy led by the media in conjunction with the govt? How do people go about their daily lives in such paranoia?

    LTE 11: I generally eat out and Trader Joe's, even at its new W-S locale is a bit of a hike for me for just the groceries I need, so I will be an infrequent guest at best. Calling Sexton a "doofus" for referring to others as "doofuses" is fair game, imo.

    LTE 13: If one examines Obama's record, he has actually governed as a late 80's - early 90's R. He has essentially carried through GWB's policies towards the wars, Gitmo and the tax cuts. ACA was a Heritage Foundation idea presented by the R's as an alternative to Clinton's health care proposal. Unfortunately, confrontation as opposed to compromise reigns supreme today, so you're either one of "us" or one of "them". Competition of ideas is great, but they should be judged and accepted / rejected based on the merits of the idea instead of the source. Neither party has a monopoly on the best or worst ideas.

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    1. I don't normally comment on endorsements either, but I will second dotnet's comment on Tedesco, who has two goals:

      1. Resegregate the public schools.
      2. Force taxpayers to pay for private schools, particularly "christian" ones.

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    2. That's the part I hate about voting...it would be such a pleasure to be able to vote "for" someone.

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    3. I was about to reply that I had voted for Berry for NC Labor Secretary, but realized I am for her because I am emphatically against John Brooks. My other votes were either against votes or lesser of two evils/fools votes. For some of the elections, I could not vote either way, or felt insufficiently informed, so I withheld my vote.

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    4. I don't get to vote here, but my friend at the library does. He comes up with some pretty bizarre reasons for his votes.

      In the case of Labor Secretary, he doesn't like Brooks either, but voted "for" him anyway. Why? Because he is sick of looking at Cherie's picture every time he gets into an elevator.

      But my favorite reason came in one of the local District Court races, Amy Allred vs David Sipprell. He doesn't know Sipprell. He knows Allred, but isn't crazy about her, so probably would have voted for Sipprell.

      About a week or so ago, the Journal "received" some information from an "anonymous" source, so published an article about Allred being charged in some domestic squabble with her former boyfriend in which she apparently threw the TV remote at him.

      My friend does know the boyfriend and considered that justice had been done, so voted for Amy. You go girl!

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    5. Fam's logic is no worse than that of a lot of other voters, at least furnishes some humor. But the logic re Cherie is unfathomable. Who in hell would want to look at Brooks' photo?

      As for Allred: the boyfriend charged her for flinging a TV remote? What a worm. Either work it out or leave her or throw her out, depending on whose residence it was.

      In my tumultuous last marriage, I walked off during one of my wife's tirades about some slight or the other, she hit me with a 15# bag of ice and yelled at me to clean the mess up. I kept on walking, and walkin', and walkin'. UCLA grad and editor at LA Times, she was, but damn, she had a temper. After a couple of days she asked me to return. I reluctantly did, and we lasted a little while longer.

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  6. Ah, Mr. Heye...so it wasn't just "her notes". You saw the document, and were able to transcribe it, after saving an image capture from your DVR. Right-wing paranoia is an endless source of amusement for me.

    Bruce's son Doug was a communications guy for Richard Burr and went on the work at the RNC. You used to be able to see him every now and then as a talking head on MSNBC.

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    1. How do you image capture from a DVR, not that I'd take the time to do it.

      I think technologically, I remain in the 20th Century.

      Yes, and politically, I'm sure I remain back in some previous century (Hah! Beat you to it! :)

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    2. Doug now works for Eric Cantor as head of his press office as deputy chief of staff.

      I follow him on twitter. Became interested after I took a few of Bruce's wine classes.

      DVR capture thing is possible.

      Bruce's lady friend has her yard full of N.C. democratic candidate signs, but not Obama's.

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    3. On a Mac, you just open QuickTime, click, click and you're recording whatever is on your screen. Now as to zooming in on the document in question and identifying it as "the transcript", dream on. Heye may be a great wine expert (my friends who grow award winning grapes have their doubts about that), but he knows nothing about real life for sure.

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    4. Interesting to note that I know most of today's LTE writers, but I don't know Mr. Heye, nor do I want to.

      The President's remark "Get the transcript" was addressed to the great liar in chief, not to the moderator. She was not holding a transcript of anything. When she corrected the liar in chief, she was speaking from memory, something that many of us have while others have none. That is one of the things that the liar in chief is counting on, Etch-A-Sketch memory of his eternally twisting and turning positions on nearly everything.

      The rest of Mr. Heye's tirade is classic paranoia…the moderator was chosen by the President because they are in cahoots and out to "get" the liar in chief. I know a number of real, decent people who suffer from real paranoia, which makes their lives hell every day of the week. We can really do without Mr. Heye's type of politically infused paranoia.

      That being said, the President has not handled the Benghazi incident well. What he and his minions all should have said right from the start is that "We have no idea what happened, but we are working very hard to find out." That would be the truth. We are now approaching seven weeks after the incident, and still, no one, not the CIA, not the Libyan government, not anyone, "knows" what happened.

      By failing to make that statement, the President left an opening for the paranoids and liars to make a mountain out of what is essentially a molehill…an attack on a remote US consulate resulting in the deaths of four people.

      The first attacks on US embassies occurred in Uruguay and Argentina in 1926 in reaction to the Sacco and Vanzetti trials in the US. The next came the next year, also during the Coolidge administration, in China over the "Nanking Incident".

      The next three came during the LBJ administration, one in 1964 in Gabon and two, in 1965 and 1968 in Saigon.

      There was one attack during the Nixon administration, in 1971 in Cambodia (Khmer Republic).

      Three more followed during the last year of the Carter administration in 1979, in Teheran, Islamabad and Tripoli.

      There were 6 during the Reagan/Bush years, Beirut (1983, 1984), Kuwait (1983), Jakarta (1986), Rome (1987) and Tel Aviv (1990).

      The Clinton years saw three, Nairobi (1998) and Dar es Salaam (1998) and Beijing (1999).

      The W. Bush administration had the worst record of any administration, nine attacks in eight years: Karachi (2002), Tashkent (2004), Jeddah (2004), Damascus (2006), Athens (2007), Vienna (2007), Belgrade (2008), Istanbul (2008), and San'a' (2008).

      The second worst record has been in the last two years, with six: Damascus (2011), Kabul (2011), Sarajevo (2011), Cairo (2012), Benghazi (2012) and San'a' again (2012).

      In modern times, there have been a total of about 131 attacks on embassies of all nations worldwide. 34 of those have been on US embassies…not surprising considering the aggressive posture of the most powerful nation on earth in international affairs.

      19 of the attacks on US embassies occurred during Republican administrations. 15 occurred during Democrat administrations. Anyone who thinks that the President of either party has any control over such matters is simply an idiot.

      BTW, by far the worst attack on a US embassy occurred in 1998 in Nairobi and Dar es Salaam. 224 people were killed and thousands injured. 12 of those killed were Americans. Those attacks brought forth, for the first time, the name of a little known Saudi terrorist called Osama bin Laden.

      The worst attack involving US casualties occurred in Beirut in 1983. 63 people, including 17 Americans, were killed. Barely 17 months later, the same embassy was attacked, killing 23 more people, none of them Americans.

      In between, the Marine Corps barracks in Beirut was attacked, killing 241 US Marines, the single worst terrorist attack ever on US citizens abroad. 58 French soldiers, 6 civilians and the two suicide bombers were also killed.

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    5. If you listen to his mouth, Mitty, the great liar in chief, would have started WW III over four American deaths in Benghazi. His predecessor, the Great Reagan, who presided over 95% of all American deaths by terrorists on foreign soil, did exactly nothing. Guess what…he did the right thing.

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