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...Which candidate has Gerald Ford's fundamental decency? Both. Jimmy Carter's discipline? Obama. Ronald Reagan's sunny optimism? Obama. George H.W. Bush's diplomatic instincts? Both. Bill Clinton's intellectual curiosity? Obama. George W. Bush's dogged determination? Both. The score: Obama 6, McCain 3. Victoria Brago, Los Angeles...
...Democratic Tilt? We read Joe Klein's "The Obama Surge" in my English class [Oct. 20]. We had heard about Klein's bias toward the Democrats, but this column took it too far. There was not a single complimentary remark about McCain or a single negative one about Obama. Klein also noted that McCain seems awkward because of his physical impairments. This was insulting and, I believe, irrelevant to voters. McCain has sacrificed far more for his country than Klein ever will. Peter Fitzpatrick, Norwell, Massachusetts...
...poll indicating that many white voters who lack college degrees would not vote for Obama because he is too "globalized," too "multicultural," too "cosmopolitan." I have news for Beinart. Many of the emigrants from the U.S.S.R. who came to the U.S. in the '70s and '80s support John McCain. A lot of us have undergraduate or graduate degrees. There is a simple reason for our choice: we already lived in a socialist country and left it. The U.S. surely would move in that direction should Obama win. Mikhail Godkin, SAN DIEGO...
...American people want to hear, nor does such directness help the candidate during an election campaign. In August, in the midst of the oil-price surge, Obama tried to suggest to Americans that maintaining inflated tires could conserve fuel. The suggestion, backed by experts, was mocked by the McCain campaign. Clearly Obama learned the lesson of Walter Mondale's attempt to tell the truth in 1984 about the need to raise taxes. Steve Charing, CLARKSVILLE...
Family Politics I found Elizabeth Gilbert's essay "A Family Divided" to be eminently sad [Oct. 20]. An Obama supporter, Gilbert tells us she is "losing sleep" over the possibility that her father will vote for McCain. She worries that it "could somehow threaten our affection." Really? I understand that many people are passionate in their political beliefs, but to obsess over your own father's political preferences to the point where you want to "scold him or force him to accept [your] worldview" strikes me as rather extreme and narrow-minded. Salvatore Astorina, BROOKLYN...