“This is about Allan Powell editorial, ‘Obama’s win takes us forward.’ Forward to what, Mr. Powell? The gas prices have doubled in the last four years. Forward to your not-in-touch-with-reality president apologizing to other countries? Forward to a military where cuts may come close to a billion dollars? And you bring up in your article all the negative against Mitt Romney, but dismiss any negative against President Obama? Like putting us in a $6 trillion debt, and the Libya cover-up. ... And I guess if Obama has any excuses, he can blame the previous president for the mess the country is in, which would be himself.”
— Hagerstown


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“When I’m driving down Wilson Boulevard, it’s a dual lane, I guess you call it, and a school bus stops, if I’m wholly over in the other lane, am I supposed to stop, too? Because I do, and other people blow the horn at me and get all angry and stuff. I guess it would be like the same on a dual highway? If someone could answer that, maybe someone, a bus driver or BOE could call.”
— Hagerstown

“In response to the caller two to three weeks ago, asking how to stop the robocalls from Rachel and Jennifer, regarding lowering your credit card APR to 6.99 percent: This is a con, coming from call centers in foreign countries. Millions of these calls are made monthly. They are trying to get your credit card number and the three-digit security code on the back of your cards. Don’t get scammed. Just hang up. According to the FTC, they can’t shut them down, since they operate outside the U.S.”
— Hagerstown

“I called several weeks ago about the players complaining about the substitute referees in professional football, and I did admit, I’m not a big football fan. I don’t claim to be a football expert, but somebody else replied to my comments, and this person evidently is a football expert, replied in a nonprofessional manner, which didn’t really bother me, but if this person had watched the Washington Redskins game, they would have realized what I was talking about. The substitute referees were no worse and no better than the regular referees. There’s no difference.”
— Hagerstown

“If a woman has an abortion, it’s fine, but after the baby is born, and if she kills it, it’s murder. This I don’t understand.”
— Clear Spring

“Considering the stadium being built downtown, I just realized that people who are within eyesight of the stadium will be able to sit in their living room and hear who’s coming up to bat. The loudspeakers are going to be loud enough for them to hear everything that’s going on in the stadium. It’s definitely a bad decision.”
— Washington County

“In reference to the, another field of dreams article, keep reporting them, Herald-Mail, it’s nice. This is for Mr. Dahbura and Mr. Quinn. You said you’re going to leave the town if we don’t build a new stadium. Well, we’re all going to wave goodbye to you, because (we) don’t need it. We can go to Frederick, Md., and save a lot of money. And then we don’t have to worry about the convention bureau going there and everything else.”
— Leitersburg

“This is a question to those who voted for the Romney/Ryan ticket. Why were these two rejected by their own states? You need to check that out, and maybe you will learn something.”
— Hagerstown

“I wanted to say congratulations to the roads administration for the beautiful job they did on Pennsylvania Avenue. I’ve lived in Hagerstown for almost 60 years, and I’ve never seen anything so efficient and done so quickly. A big thank you to them.”
— Hagerstown

“I’m calling because I was at the ER last Sunday. While I was there, I was waited on by a young lady named Heather, and she did such a wonderful job. She was with me from the beginning to the end. She is such an angel. If anyone ever goes there and has an encounter with her, she will take care of you. God bless her.”