What has suddenly changed?

What has suddenly changed?

EDITOR:

The 2000 presidential election was the most controversial presidential election in this nation’s history. Poll analyst first project Al Gore as the winner. Because of discrepancies at the ballot boxes in Florida, a recount was done and the supreme court decided the matter. George Bush became our 43 president.

Angry and bitter as many Americans were at the court’s decision, they turned their attention and support to the president and put their political affiliations behind them. That’s tradition. It has always been done that way.

It has always been done that way until Barack Obama became our 44th president. Speakers at the recent Tea Party Convention in Nashville, Tenn., are an example of the kind of opposition Obama has had to deal with from day one. Joseph Farah, editor and founder of the WorldNet Daily spoke Feb. 7. He painted the picture that Obama was really an impostor who somehow managed to slip in without revealing his proof of American citizenship. Joseph went on to say that Obama’s ascension to the presidency was orchestrated and financed by some outside group aimed at changing the constitution and destroying America’s free enterprise system.

This is the kind of thinking Obama has to deal with. Joseph wasn’t in the least concerned about the truth. The uniqueness surrounding the Obama presidency created for him an opportunity to entertain and plug his book.

There is so much confusion going on in this country now that it’s easy for Rush Limbaugh personalities to create the illusion that it all started with the Obama presidency. Read this comment by a 40-year-old sales representative who attended the Nashville convention. “We are people who understand that something is going wrong in this country, and we want to change it.”

The something that’s wrong with this country was wrong before Obama became the president. No tea party movement sprang up during the reign of Obama’s predecessors. Why? It’s American tradition to put political affiliations aside and support the winner. That’s the way it used to be.

ALFRED SPENCER

Warren

Prosecute animal abuse

EDITOR:

This is in response to a Feb.. 17 letter from a Kinsman woman who thinks Cathy Witzman did no wrong, and that the Animal Welfare League of Trumbull County missed the boat on this one?

Cathy Witzman was extremely irresponsible in thinking that she could care for over 100 animals on her private property. She subjected all those animals to pitiful living conditions and did not feed them properly. That in my book is abuse. Anyone can read the facts in the papers or listen to the individuals who entered her property regarding the conditions. It is unbelievable that a person could stand living like this, let alone subjecting a poor animal to these unhealthy living conditions.

The Feb. 17 writer was able to realize a year ago that Cathy Witzman reached her capacity to take in animals, when would Witzman come to this conclusion? I am sick and tired of hearing excuses and it’s time people take responsibility for their actions. Cathy Witzman is an abuser and she should be charged as such and never have the privilege of owning an animal again in her life.

FRAN SPENCER

Salem