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...friend: "They give witness at great cost, and it obviously touches people," who become Anglicans. The denomination leaped to the forefront of Nigerian Christianity, and Akinola became a civic as well as a religious voice, denouncing the country's plagues of corruption and materialism and, in a brave stance that may have helped preserve Nigerian democracy, opposing current President Olusegun Obasanjo's bid for an extraconstitutional third term...
...stated that part of President George W. Bush's strategy for saving his presidency involves a "new way forward" in Iraq. But just as the reasons for the war were baseless, there is no imaginable outcome that could be called a victory, although this doesn't mean that the brave men and women who have fought in Iraq have been defeated. The ignominious defeat belongs to the Bush Administration and it alone. Let's make sure that not one more person dies for Bush's mistaken adventure. John Cosgrove Keyport, New Jersey...
Even in Iowa, though, few voters are brave enough to talk about their doubts and reservations to a candidate's face. Clinton knows that. So as she stumped from Des Moines to Cedar Rapids to Davenport, you could hear her trying to answer the question that hadn't been asked: Can someone as polarizing as Hillary Clinton really be elected? "I know how to win," she insisted at the Teamsters hall. "I can win the nomination and I can win the general election because there isn't anybody besides my husband who's been through more with the folks...
...What they fail to understand is that African-Americans meet other intelligent, articulate African-Americans all the time. In almost every cycle since 1984, at least one of these brave chaps has run for President. Forgive us if we don't automatically pledge our votes to Obama and instead make judgments based on things besides skin color - like, heaven forbid, issues. Joe Biden may have misspoken - and in the process probably destroyed any remote hopes of winning the nomination - but he spoke truthfully for a lot of his ilk; Obamania is rooted in the belief that 50 Cent, not Barack...
...stated that part of President George W. Bush's strategy for saving his presidency involves a "new way forward" in Iraq. But just as the reasons for the war were baseless, there is no imaginable outcome that could be called a victory, although this doesn't mean that the brave men and women who have fought in Iraq have been defeated. The ignominious defeat belongs to the Bush Administration and it alone. Let's make sure that not one more person dies for Bush's mistaken adventure. John Cosgrove Keyport, New Jersey...