PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION

MCCAIN DESERVES SAME KIND OF NEWS COVERAGE

In today's edition of The Honolulu Advertiser (Aug 29), the majority of the front page and all of pages 2, 3 and 5 were devoted to the nomination of Barack Obama as the Democratic candidate for the presidency.

Will you devote the same amount of coverage for John McCain after his acceptance speech at the Republican nomination?

I hope so, in the interest of fair and equal reporting!

ENOUGH IS ENOUGH: VOTE FOR OBAMA

I cannot remember when I have felt more inspired, emotional and hopeful about the possibility of our country's future.

I cannot imagine how anyone who is not a multi-millionaire can even consider voting for John McCain and getting "more of the same."

Barack has served several terms in his state legislature, and yes, less than one in the US Senate. But JFK had the same level of experience.

Unemployment at the highest in many years, healthcare insurance at an all-time low, outrageous tax breaks for the mega- corporations and a war that is costing us money we must borrow from foreigners with too many lives lost unnecessarily for a lie.

John McCain has voted 90 percent of the time with George W., and that says it all. This is the 21st century. How can we have a president who does not know how to use the Internet or remember how many houses he has?

We need Barack Obama, an everyman who has grown up in a single-mother household, with college loans, and who worked for everything he has.

We don't need the tax breaks for the richest but for the poor and middle class. I hope our youth and our seniors get out and realize the opportunity presented here and vote.

I cannot understand how any American could consider voting Republican with our country in so much trouble on every front, our civil liberties stripped and the economy, housing, unemployment and healthcare sinking all since W took office.

Enough is enough!

SARAH PALIN: A REAL CHANGE IN POLITICS

With all the money the Democrats spent this last week, telling the world how great they are, they could have fed a lot of children around the world.

Now that Sen. John McCain has a running mate who at least knows something about running a state government and a National Guard, it would seem likely that McCain outsmarted all of those high-priced Democrats.

So let me see if I got this right: a women on the Republican ticket, from Alaska and a member of the National Rifle Association, a mother of five children, and one who wants to drill for more oil in Alaska to lower gas prices. I bet she even cooks, bakes and serves apple pie, does the wash and cleans the truck, too.

Now that's a real change in politics, a VP pick, just a simple plain American girl.

I can vote for that.

CHOICE OF SARAH PALIN AN ACT OF DESPERATION

The choice of Sarah Palin as the Republican candidate for vice president is a desperate act by a desperate party.

The upside of this is that John McCain has to stop saying that Barack Obama lacks the experience to be commander-in-chief (not that he ever made a case for it).

And what gall for him to ever say that Barack Obama, "...will do anything to win the election."

I anxiously await her railing against Murphy Brown.

BIDEN CHOOSES POWER OVER FRIENDSHIP

A few short weeks ago Joe Biden said he'd be proud to run with or against John McCain because he has such a high opinion of him. He also said repeatedly that Barack Obama isn't qualified to be president.

Now that Biden is the Democratic vice-presidential candidate he's done a complete 180. He's now busy trashing McCain while praising Obama as the solution to all our problems.

So what happened? Nothing new. The lust for power in a politician supercedes a decades-long friendship. It's called politics.