Published: November 14, 2008 05:49 pm            

More thoughts on Election ’08

Editor:

What a disappointment your Nov. 5 issue of the McAlester News-Capital was. I was looking forward to having a souvenir front page copy of our newly elected president.

What I found was limited coverage on the back page of your newspaper.

I will be receiving my news coverage in the future from an unbiased, unprejudiced source.

Elaine Ockletree

Hartshorne

Editor:

I have to agree with the writers to the editor in Friday’s News-Capital. Tradition dictates that the presidential election (whoever had won) be front-page news.

Having said that, though, and given the apparent affection the writers had for President-elect Barack Obama, I have to ask them: Do you respect John McCain as much as you do our president-elect?

You cannot expect respect and admiration for “your” president or candidate when you have no respect for your “neighbor’s” president or candidate.

One cannot demand respect: it must be earned.

Also, understand that your neighbors are not here to validate your choices.

I have read too many letters to the editor that sound like angry 8-year-olds in the school yard rather than presumably mature adults.

If you have some objective evidence for or against a candidate, fine: express it. Otherwise, save your ink and time for paying bills: I do not want to hear your childish epithets.

You will not gain respect for you or your candidate by placing a “Friends don’t allow friends to vote (fill in the blank with your neighbor’s political party)” bumper sticker on your car.

We are not speaking of the football team we have chosen to support, we are speaking of the leader of the free world.

Whether our candidate won or lost does not reflect personally on us.

Thomas N. Treue

McAlester

Editor:

Thank goodness this election war is over. I have never been so tired of listening and reading “junk” about the candidates. I only wanted them to tell us what they were going to do to help the current situation that is crippling our county and state.

I wish that I had saved all the mail so that in six months to a year I could take it out and see what, if anything, the winner of the race had done to keep his promises.

It has been my experience that once they are elected they have a short memory about what was promised to the people of their county and state.

It is my wish that I live long enough to see some of the promises come to fruition.

I consider it an honor and a responsibility to vote. It is just my hope that our votes did not fall of deaf ears.

Edwinna Gotlieb

McAlester

Editor:

I read the bad reviews from readers about your coverage on President-elect Barack Obama’s win.

My view on all of this is I watched CNN, all the unfair reporting from Jack Cafferty and Wolf Blitzer reporting who they were backing. I feel a TV reporter should not be allowed to do this. That’s swaying to the people and unfair. They were very rude to a great hero, Sen John McCain, D-Ariz., and his running mate.

Never will I be a CNN viewer again.

So, if we, the people, had to put up with this, does the McAlester paper not have the right to print a story on any page they choose or not report it?

Grow up people. By the way, McCain won Oklahoma.

Tena Dees

Kiowa

Editor:

In response to the letter to the editor of Nov. 11, it seems that Little Dixie is alive and kicking. It’s like the old saying, you can cut off a rattle snake’s head and still get poisoned by it’s fangs.

Approximately 30 republican campaign signs were taken down and dumped at the upper end of Cravens Lake in Latimer County prior to the November election.

It looks like someone is interested in keeping things just like it has been.

Everyone should thank the editor of this paper, Matt Lane, for trying to change things because no one else seems to care.

Haver Jetlos

Red Oak

        

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