Dear Editor,
I can’t imagine what could make a person a Republican now, or even in the past century an a half. Republicans claim Lincoln, but he broke from the party in his second administration and chose Johnson, a Democratic candidate from Tennessee. Lincoln was probably the best president this nation has ever known. It’s true. But he is not owned by either party. Which is why he is so remarkable.
Republican administrations have increased taxes and the national debt every single time they have held office. Reagan, the saint of that party, increased taxes six out of his eight years in office. For the Iran/Contra affair he surely should have been impeached.
Republicans point at the Carter administration, but his call for a real energy policy might well have ended our reliance on OPEC by now.
Nixon, probably the best political strategist to ever get that office, began the “southern strategy.” He made it popular to equate being a Democrat with being black. And being a Republican, meant holding onto “white values.”  If you know what that phrase means, then you are a part of the problem.
President Obama is almost a black man.
And he is this nation’s president.
It’s not just the many, many bills he has signed into law to help the so called “middle class.”
It is his amazing bravery at every venue.
I would have bet hard money that Joe Biden would have been the president of the United States after Obama’s assassination.
So far, that has not come to pass.
This guy, Obama, is brilliant on many levels.
We need to calm down, cool out, and see what happens next.
John Grow,
Great Bend