JOPLIN, Mo. —
If concerns over Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney’s character have not been resolved in an individual’s mind, then that individual simply has already made up his or her mind to vote for Barack Obama.
Trying to change that mind now is hopeless. Ann and Mitt Romney are quintessentially an America success story, period. And no one should have to apologize for success as long as it was achieved legally and morally.
So now voters must return to policy analysis to decide for whom to vote. Do you vote for what we have received, federally, in the past four years or do you believe “we can do better,” federally?
It seems to me that reliance on government to pull us out of the recession has failed, rather miserably. That list of failures can be simplified down to: “What did this country get as a result of borrowing $5 trillion and counting?” As well as what will it get with another round of continuing $1 trillion deficits as far as the eye can see?
Condi Rice made the case for preserving American strength internationally and Romney/Ryan made the case for relying on the private sector, not government, to make a resounding turn upward in economic matters.
Vote for what got us here internationally and economically today, or vote for change, significant change, to give America a chance to do better than the past four years.
I look forward to hearing Democratic responses next week.
Anson Burlingame
Joplin
Opinion
Your View: American success story
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Our View: Spying on us
Distrust of government secrecy has been elevated to an exceptional level with the disclosure the Justice Department covertly examined two months of Associated Press phone records to determine who leaked details to the AP about a foiled terrorist plot.
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Our View: Pass on the legacy
Forty hungry members of the 1st Kansas Colored Volunteer Infantry began gathering corn at the Rader farm near the village of Sherwood when they were ambushed by a guerrilla band of about 70 Southern sympathizers.
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Our View: Big Brother looms large
The federal government, working under the cloak of secrecy, has been having a heyday at the expense of all Americans.
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Our View: Disgraceful military assault
We want to make one thing clear: A sexual assault is not a sex scandal. Nor can the rise in sexual assaults in the military be justified in any way.
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Elliott Denniston, guest columnist: Right-to-work laws only hurt workers
Middle-class workers have been fighting an uphill battle for the past 30 years.
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Marta Mossburg, columnist: Maybe government is tyrannical after all
Less than two weeks ago President Obama stood in front of graduates from The Ohio State University and told them to reject those who warn of government tyranny.
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Sandie Morgan, guest columnist: Unions benefit workers more than they may know
In a recent guest column (Globe, May 14), Elliott Denniston made the case for Missouri not to become a right-to-work state, and he made this case very well.
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Your View: Food drive efforts
Branch No. 366 of the National Association of Letter Carriers along with the National Rural Letter Carriers Association, the American Postal Workers Union and the U.S. Postal Service would like to thank all the area communities that participated in the 2013 Stamp Out Hunger food drive.
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Your View: More about tax credit
The Globe’s editorial in “Our View” (May 10) may have left readers with a few inaccurate impressions.
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Other Views: Sickening disparity
Don’t feel bad if you don’t understand the wide, sometimes huge, discrepancies in fees hospitals charge for the same procedure. Or if you don’t understand the arithmetical magic the hospitals use to arrive at those fees.
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