Why the liberals want Obama

To assuage their guilt, which unless they have a history of owning slaves, carpet bagging, red lining, organizing to bus black children out of their neighborhood, guarding the school door with guns, or dissing their black co-workers, is most likely misplaced.

This is the final argument in a "Letter to the Dispatch editor," Sept. 2.

“Obama's election would tell this country and the world that America is better than it has seemed recently. Watching again Ken Burns' The Civil War epic on television is a grim reminder of where we were. Obama can be a telling statement of where we are now.”

JOHN W. VanDERVOORT
Columbus

This is the most pitiful reason I've ever heard to choose a president--because of what you've done wrong in the past and to please people in Europe and Asia (like they've never had an ethnic or racial problem!) rather than what he can bring to the office through his abilities and experience. What an impossible burden to put on Obama!