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Editor-> Dear Kenneth, Thank you for expressing your well thought-out and provocative views. Unfortunately, to me, the bottom line is that any voter who can elect a person like George Bush, as their leader, are the ones that need the more balanced perspective. I was no big fan of Senator Kerry, and I did not support him in the primaries. But I definitely found him far less objectionable than a fictitious cowboy prevaricator who sends our youngest and finest citizens off to die in an unnecessary war in Iraq. Afghanistan was a valid military objective; Iraq was not. No man who can lie so blatantly, or excercise such poor judgment deserves the honour of leading our nation. However, I also allow for the fact that we are all entitled to our opinions and beliefs, and therefore my hand remains outstretched in friendship and hope. Michael

Kenneth Yas		November 7, 2004
	Snap Out of it Man
You are shrouded in a sense of loss and sadness at the direction of things in this country and you feel that we have lost our moral compass? Apparently a larger number of Americans, including many Jews, feel the Democrats bear no resemblance to the party of John F. Kennedy, Scoop Jackson and Hubert Humphrey, who, aside from being ardent supporters of the State of Israel, believed in a strong defense, were committed to social welfare and the economic security of the middle class. It is that middle class who endured the reluctant and clumsy campaign of an aristocrat ill-suited for and uncomfortable with the roll of Presidental candidate and ultimately rejected the efforts of his supporters from George Soros to Bruce Springsteen to get him elected. The middle class is neither ignorant nor asleep. Among them are the farmers who grow our food and the workers in many blue collar jobs who grind out our goods and services in the face of withering and growing challenges. They are hard-working, sensible people who reject moral relativism and political equivocation. The Democrats are meaningless to them, because it is indeed the Democrats have lost their direction and have nothing to offer them. The voters who turned out in record numbers to re-elect Bush are demonstrating a common wisdom through their indifference to John Kerry. For them, anybody but Bush, a specious reason to oust a sitting President in the first place, was never even a consideration. Get over your melancholy and get a grip with a world that is increasingly dangerous both within and without. Instead of parading your angst to your readership, offer them some hope. Surely as a Jew, you understand what that is all about. I wouldn't be writing you today, as a child of Holocaust survivors, if somehow hope and faith did not prevail over fear and despair. What you need, I would submit, is a more balanced perspective. Snap out of it, man.
Editor-> Dear Kenneth, Thank you for expressing your well thought-out and provocative views. Unfortunately, to me, the bottom line is that any voter who can elect a person like George Bush, as their leader, are the ones that need the more balanced perspective. I was no big fan of Senator Kerry, and I did not support him in the primaries. But I definitely found him far less objectionable than a fictitious cowboy prevaricator who sends our youngest and finest citizens off to die in an unnecessary war in Iraq. Afghanistan was a valid military objective; Iraq was not. No man who can lie so blatantly, or excercise such poor judgment deserves the honour of leading our nation. However, I also allow for the fact that we are all entitled to our opinions and beliefs, and therefore my hand remains outstretched in friendship and hope. Michael
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