TO THE EDITOR
that my children should be able to breathe the
air without danger, and be able to make
healthy, personal, choices without fear of the
government imposing on those inherent
rights. Can Bush promise this? Can he prom-
ise that there will be forests for my children to
hike in, or that if a college education is still
affordable with aid from the government, that
there will be a job waiting for them, or me for
that matter?
Please, help me understand how we can
insure that these possibilities will still
be available. Peace and good luck,
America.
Anna Gordon-Norby
Eugene
BIN LADEN FAKE
Great timing for an Osama
bin Laden videotape! No, I’m not
alluding to the coincidence of it
showing up just prior to the U.S.
elections. I’m referring to a very good
actor showing up on our doorstep two days
before Halloween!
His giveaway is a professionally shot
video and his vigorous and healthy de-
meanor. He even forgot to put on a thinner
nose piece! But U.S. intelligence and the CIA
assure us with a “high degree of confidence”
that the tape was authentic. Didn’t they say
the same thing about WMDs in Iraq? No mat-
ter who set this up, the world is quickly be-
coming a caricature of itself.
Robert Simms
Eugene
VOTING WITH BANANAS
It was chilling to hear Ed Gillespie’s
(Republican National Committee) comments
to members of the National Press Club on
Nov. 4. He was asked about voter exit polls
being conducted as voting was occurring
across the country. Exit polls reported the
majority of voters were supporting the Kerry-
Edwards ticket. Gillespie’s response? “I
would urge you (the media) to not pay any at-
tention to exit polls.”
This cavalier dismissal of polls
reporting the will of the people,
coupled with news reports (R-
G, Nov. 3 “Electronic voting
problems noted”), is beyond
troubling. The article re-
ported that Roberta Harvey,
57, of Clearwater, Fla., said
she had tried “at least a half-
dozen times to select the
Kerry/Edwards ticket.” Poll
workers “wet-wiped” the screen.
Harvery reported it still took about “10
attempts to select Kerry” before the screen
eventually confirmed her vote.
Exit polling may well be our last gasp at-
tempt to reveal the true will of the people dur-
ing this era of electronic voting machines.
Voting machines were distributed by Diebold
Co., whose CEO also ran the Bush/Cheney
campaign in a mid-west state. Ed Gillespie
blithely urges our “free press” to ignore voter
exit polls. Can you say “Banana Republic?”
Carol Berg
Pleasant Hill
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