Editor,
Many will be disappointed with last Friday’s job report of 96,000 new jobs created. I suspect 96,000 Americans will be rather pleased.
When you consider that this was done with no cooperation from the GOP, just obstruction, I’d say the report was pretty impressive.
I suppose I should join the pundits, bilateral naysayers and party die-hards and give my reaction to the two party conventions. First, the Republican National Convention theme seemed to be a doomsday message of “since we can offer nothing concrete for the future, let’s just attack Obama.” The Democratic National Convention, while attacking the GOP, gave more specifics, more ideas and a better vision. Its theme reminds me of the definition of fishing: “Fishing is the pursuit of that which is elusive but attainable, a perpetual series of occasions of hope.”
I’d rather be fishing with hope than hunting with revenge.
Jeffrey Paul
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