Letter to the editor

Convention is much ado about nothing

Dear editor:

After watching the Democratic Convention, it is evident that the verdict is still out. We watched intently all the theatrics and the song and dance that Mr. Kerry choreographed, through it all he had a lot to say about nothing. If they gave grades for evading the issues, Mr. Kerry would get top honors.

Mr. Kerry should regroup and get a finger on the pulse of America. We the people don't care about alliances and who we can best benefit from being friends with. We the people don't care if alliances join to help win the war against terror. We the people don't care if Iraq gets rebuilt, especially at our expense.

We the people are concerned about jobs. We the people are concerned about being able to support our families. We the people are concerned about health care and the medicine we have to have to get us out of bed in the morning so we can get out of bed in the morning and go to work in order to support our families.

We the people are concerned about going to work and finding the plant closed.

We the people are concerned about those around us, who can't afford to buy food. We are concerned about those in our community who don't have health care, or who cannot afford their medicine because the pharmaceutical companies have been allowed the keep the drug prices inflated.

We the people are concerned about our people here at home, who are going hungry while our hard earned tax dollar goes to feed the masses around the world.

The truth is that Mr. Kerry is so blinded by CATSUP and MUSTARD that he can't see me or the thousands like me, working for a living here in the heartland of America..

We the people do not care if he served in Vietnam. We don't care that he won the war all by himself. Rambo would be proud, but We the people don't care. We the people care about each other. We care about the hard times, we share the sad times, and when the chips are down, we pull together, as a force to be reckoned with.

It should be evident to each American by now, that Mr. Kerry has a memory loss when it comes to people, unless they Are part of an alliance. Mr. Kerry would do well to remember WE THE PEOPLE, because We the people are going to remember him, come November. SO HELP US GOD.

Kenneth R. Mc Clure

Fort Scott

Found balanced coverage

Dear editor:

Unlike Ms. Ostrander in last Wednesday's Daily Mail, I enjoy Fox News.

It's refreshing to have a news service that will give me both sides of an argument. Sometimes they're too conservative, sometimes too liberal, but at least they allow me to decide. It's funny when you see the letters and emails to Fox that the viewer either finds them a Democrat or Republican news channel. It runs about 50/50.

I guess that's why it has become the fastest growing news channel.

Frankly I thought they showed WAY too much of the Democrat convention as they will during the Republican convention. There has to be other news stories going on. Since the conventions are nothing but one team or the other slapping each other's back, I feel they're pointless. At least the network channels won't carry either and we'll have something to watch, even if it is reruns.

Eric Nichols

Nevada