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Letter to the editor: The coming election

Posted on September 11, 2008 by Staff

I am not afraid of the color of Barack Obama’s skin. I am afraid of the alliance of powerful men like Cheney, Rove and DeLay, with their narcissistic ethics and ideology reflected in their disregard for moral and judicial law. I am not afraid of Barack Obama’s insightful intellect. I am afraid of a president who doesn’t bother to think — not even when he commits our children to die and suffer in a needless war. I am not afraid of Barack Obama’s “inexperience” in foreign policy. President Bush has created a more dangerous world then anyone can even imagine, with Iraq, Afghanistan, Iran, Pakistan, North Korea and Russia all presenting various threats against democracy and the possibility of peaceful co-existence.

As Obama’s first presidential act, he elected to partner with Joe Biden, one of the most experienced and knowledgeable men about foreign affairs in the world, to help him guide America through these volatile times. I am afraid of a potential president who chose his running mate with no real thought and regard to whether she is truly capable of leading this country from the quagmires of war, economic disintegration and climate disaster. Instead Sen. McCain opted for a candidate with questionable ethics, a reformist in name only and a right-wing propagandist to prop up his numbers. I am not afraid of Barack Obama’s social consciousness. I am afraid of who will be nominated to fill those nine important robes; they will be dictating generations of civil liberties to come. I am not afraid of Barack Obama’s faith. I am afraid of those who whisper “muslim” as a way to create distrust and fear.

We cannot afford to choose party lines based on treading the same path of pro-life issues or whom we bed. America is on the cusp of losing everything that our history of greatness has built. China is propping up our economy. We have become a service industry, not a nation with the ingenuity and intelligence to create and produce. Our military has been weakened by a new Vietnam, a war that we entered because of lies packaged in patriotism while Afghanistan, the first frontier to address terrorism, has been allowed to become a terrorist stronghold. Global warming can no longer be dismissed as a liberal chant. We have no choice but to act aggressively to ward off natural catastrophes of Hollywood proportion. We cannot continue to live in an America where health care, college and a better tomorrow are limited to the dreams of the wealthy.

I am not afraid of change. I am terrified of more of the same.

Mae Arant

Carrboro

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