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What's In a Name?

Bill Ross

Published: October 26, 2008

I have sat back long enough. I can't take it anymore. So here goes ... wake up America! For the last eight years we have suffered through George W. Bush fighting a war that clearly was a waste of lives to our brave men and women. He was looking for WMD's or his misguided delusions instead of going after the "real" terrorists.
It's a war we cannot win. This, no less, is right in the Bible! So now what? How about a change? Oh, I know we can't trust Obama right? How about McCain and his Palin? Now my point is, if Obama was named, say, Barry Jones, and had endorsed the same ideas that he has, he would be thought of as the next JFK. Do we really want four more years of the same old Republican baloney? I sure don't.
Seems to me a while back there was a young boxer by the name of Cassius Clay. Some of you may know him by his "Muslim" name, Mohammad Ali, a world champion boxer but also, a world champion humanitarian and ambassador. I think that worked out OK? So before you hand the reins of this great country of ours back to the very people that have all but ruined it, I ask you what's in a name?
Bill Ross
Sebring