Letter: Kaine should support those who represent his values
Gov. Tim Kaine has announced that he is backing presidential candidate Barack Hussein Obama. As a Virginian, I find this quite a surprise since Kaine campaigned to me on how he is pro-life (but he will follow the law) and, incidentally, he is anti-capital punishment (but, once again, he will follow the law). With Kaine embracing such a staunch defense of the unborn, (he told us he's pro-life, you know) I don't see how he backs up the quasi-divine Obama who voted against providing health care to Americans who survive an attempted murder (the word the elitist media used was "abortion"). Sincerely Brian Stanley, Pulaski, Virginia .
Talking Point
The day after the national celebration of King Day, Senator Barack Hussein Obama (D-Ill.) announced he was forming a committee to explore a run for the presidency. Obamas rapid ascent and the popular draft that has swept him into the presidential race would have amazed the Reverend Martin Luther King Jr.
Less than 40 years after Kings assassination virtually killed the civil rights movement, many white Americans seem willing to back a black man for their leader. Even King dared not include a black president in his celebrated dream.
To paraphrase James Brown, this is a brand-new bag. Had Brown not died last Christmas, he might have written a song about it.
Obamas announcement was met with the kind of media coverage that makes politicians mouths water.
President Obama: Is the United States ready?
MOSCOW - A person of mixed race with a name that reminds Americans of their main enemies would need a lot of luck to be nominated as a candidate for president of the United States. This is what comes to mind when you think of Barack Hussein Obama, 45, a Democrat representing Illinois in the Senate. Obama, who joined the presidential race on Feb. 10, talks about his name quite openly, in a manner than wins thousands of supporters. He said he used to be called Alabama or Osama, and his middle name really is Hussein, which in Arabic means "small and beautiful." But then, Americans seldom use middle names anyway, and, as Shakespeare put it, "what's in a name?" The main thing is that he, the son of an economist from Kenya and an American from Kansas, now draws bigger crowds than the Rolling Stones.
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