My faith is with the Democrats



What a hysterical hypocrite Kenna Amos is. Telling Obama to “Stop your scare tactics?” After right-wing Republicans invent a brainless lie about “government death panels” and keep repeating this moronic lie over and over in an attempt to scare people. And then he gets upset because Obama rightly says “If you misrepresent what’s in the plan, we will call you out.”

It seems OK for the extreme right to spew out hate and half-witted lies, but if Obama calmly calls them down for it, they go crazy. And private health insurance company death panels operate right now, finding every way possible to terminate anyone who gets a catastrophic illness.

Where were these pin-headed tea baggers in 2001, when Bush Republicans gleefully wiped out our hard-won national budget surplus to give massive tax cuts to the filthy rich? Our children and grandchildren will be paying for that and they didn’t march in protest.

I have listened to many of Obama’s speeches and I am so grateful we have a real president for a change, a deeply intelligent, pragmatic man who cares more about working people like me than any Republican would.

I am angry with Obama over several issues: He is way too polite to the gutter-scum conservatives that have done so much to hurt this country over the past nine years. They are America-hating, lying hypocrites and they should be called down for what they are. He has refused to initiate large-scale criminal investigations into the abuses of the Bush/Cheney regime and that is inexcusable. Justice in this country should apply to everyone.

I wish we had better Democratic leadership in the congress. I lost all respect for Nancy Pelosi the day she became Speaker of the House, because she immediately ruled out impeachment proceedings against Bush and Cheney. Over 4,000 of our brave men and women are laying dead because of their bald-faced lies about Iraq being “an imminent threat.” I wish I could make Robert Byrd 40 years younger and put him in Harry Reid’s place. Regardless, my faith is with the Democrats.



Thomas E. Ingles

Fayetteville



Some people need public transportation



I grew up in Pemberton and the local bus company was the Consolidated Bus. It shared the terminal beside the A&P; Store on Prince Street with the Greyhound Lines.

I read in the paper that there will no longer be a terminal for Greyhound in Beckley. The city officials quoted seemed to be most casual about announcing that they have no place for the bus to park for the next few years. To me, it seems to be gross incompetence and a dereliction of the duty to provide transportation facilities for the public.

I have become an old man and have become accustomed to people in authority providing for its citizens. I realize that most people have a vehicle today, but some people need public transportation the same as they need medical facilities.

I would be ashamed to be the mayor of a city that did not have a bus terminal. If you accept the fact that Beckley has less than other cities, then you soon lose prestige and citizens. I suppose if Calfee Funeral Home is still there when I die, it is the only business that I will ever need in Beckley.



Frank Samples

Bakersfield, Calif.

formerly of Pemberton