2008.10.31
Discuss Friday's editorials
Now a bailout for auto companies?
If lawmakers decide to help Detroit, they should come up with new money and place some restrictions on it this time.
Now that the federal government is well on its way to bailing out the nation's big banks, the auto industry wants its own cash infusion. The head of General Motors recently visited Washington, hat-in-hand, and asked for $10 billion to fund a merger with Chrysler.
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Don't mix politics with religious bigotry
A U.S. House candidate exposes her own shortcoming with her attacks.
Janice Lee Allen's quixotic third-party bid for Virginia's 6th District seat in Congress is notable for one thing: religious bigotry. Allen is challenging a well-established Republican incumbent, Bob Goodlatte, who also faces a Democratic opponent, Sam Rasoul. Goodlatte happens to be a Christian Scientist. Rasoul is a Muslim. So what?
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I may be a minority in this view, but in terms of politics and religion, I could care less what a person's faith is so long as they held overall policy views in line with my own and did a solid job of representing their constituents. I have voted for numerous Christian candidates, and would just as gladly support Jewish, Muslim, Atheist, Buddhist, Hindu, or Pagan candidates if they were running and I felt they would represent me well. But like I said, I'm probably in the minority in that opinion. I know that many, if not most, people simply cannot bring themselves to support anyone with a religion dissimilar from their own.
Comment by Other John — October 31, 2008 @ 9:43 am
I am with you on that OJ. As long as they are doing their job well it doesn't matter. I will vote and support office holders based on their policies and their view on issues rather than what their religous background is. Besides, don't we have freedom of religion in this country?
Comment by HCS — October 31, 2008 @ 10:49 am