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“May St. Francis of Assisi protect the defenseless against the oncoming slaughter from those hiding in the woods and forests with high-powered weapons, who consider this slaughter to be justifiable. May The Herald-Mail spare those of us who are sickened by this onslaught against the helpless, from being forced to view photos of the carnage.”
— Smithsburg
“I guess it’s OK for NASCAR driver Jeff Gordon to destroy his opposition. As long as he goes out and wins, he can apologize, but gee, I won three times what I was fined, or two times what I was fined. Maybe he’d be a good politician, and can replace President Obama on the Democratic ticket, who seemed to do the same thing to the honorable Mitt Romney. Oh, well, politics and NASCAR.”
— Washington County
“I do not believe people are really against gays and lesbians living together and being able to share their lives. Certainly they want to consider each other next of kin, and have all the legal rights of male and female couples. I believe the naysayers are just against calling such a union a marriage; redefining the word ‘marriage’ as most English- speaking people define it. Marriage between people expects a husband and wife. You can have a marriage of ideas or a marriage of organizations, but a marriage of people requires a man and a woman. Why not call a gay or lesbian couple a ‘legal union’? Otherwise, the word marriage does not define anything.”
— South Hagerstown
“The last several emails I sent were never printed, so this one probably will not get printed either, but I will send it anyway. I have been in mourning since Nov. 6, 2012, and I still weep for our country. The headstone reads: Born July 4, 1776 — Died Nov. 6, 2012. To all you folks who voted for President Obama and are still celebrating, time will tell if you will get what you think you will get. The fact is that you will get what you deserve, but unfortunately, all of us will suffer. It won’t take long, as it has already begun. God bless America.”
— Hagerstown
“This is a response to Falling Waters, W.Va.: The comment was that President Obama’s being blamed for everything, and that the Republican House of Representatives votes against everything he wants to do. Well, the caller either has a poor or selective memory, because Bush has been blamed by Obama and his administration for every responsibility they can’t handle. Didn’t Bush have a Democratic Senate and House his last two years? Does anyone wonder what Obama means when he screams, ‘revenge,’ in a campaign speech? It sure doesn’t sound like cooperation or hope and change to me.”
— Hagerstown
“Since they’re going to investigate Susan Rice for this Pelosi deal, are they going to investigate the Bush White House, for taking us to war on a lie and exaggeration, and getting three or four thousand kids killed, service people killed and all, about 100,000 civilians killed? I think that’s what they should investigate.”
— Hagerstown
“The old church hymn, ‘The strife is over, the battle done.’ No, it now says in the American political spectrum, the strife continues, the battle continues. We have re-elected a real winner, wait and see. In other words, we have elected the worst president in American history. And think about it, we did it twice.”
— Hagerstown
“As an independent, I found the election very interesting, the way both sides were going at each other. I see a Mail Call here this morning, one of the ignorant people from Boonsboro, says that, ‘I’m glad the hearts and minds of everyday citizens cannot be bought.’ Actually, they can. It’s what President Obama did. It’s called welfare without responsibility. Obama had a built-in welfare class voting base ... untruths and your misrepresentations.”
— Hagerstown
“To the caller interested in recycling newspapers: The Potomac Center on Florida Avenue recycles them, and it’s really helpful for the individuals who are clients there.”
— Funkstown
“I will not frequent any store or restaurant who cuts hours on their employees, lays off workers, or fires workers because of Obamacare. Actually, it is the Affordable Care Act. That is unpatriotic and un-American, and I will not frequent those places.”
— Washington County
“Saturday morning, a man with two children came walking out my driveway. Now, that does not mean they came in. So what were they doing behind my house and barn? Also, this is a disrespectful way to raise these children or to teach them in the future, that they can walk anywhere they please. My place is posted, and they had no business.”
— Mount Lena
“All you people who keep calling in about the four people who were killed in Benghazi, and acting like the Obama administration is worse than Nixon, you have to be kidding me. Two hundred Marines were killed under Ronald Reagan, not a peep out of conservatives, 3,000 Americans got killed under Bush, not a peep out of conservatives, and here you go again with this. And all you people about the doctors not taking Medicare, that’s been going on for a long while, so don’t blame that on President Obama.”
— Hagerstown
“I am a right-wing conservative Republican, but I think anybody with any common sense needs to realize we need a president, Democrat or Republican, who can unite this country. That is the bottom line, unite the country. We are an industrialized nation, and we have gotten far away from that. One of our biggest problems is we need a president — and President Obama can do this — who can push aside the special interest groups. People who realize what the economy has come to, one of the first things is the environmental special interest groups have damaged this country irreparably as I speak. Check it out.”
— Hagerstown
“Regarding redevelopment of downtown Hagerstown, out where the Venice motel is being torn down, that would be a perfect place for a very competitive, deluxe grocery store, from a grocery chain that is not in the area.”
— Hagerstown
“I was reading the paper this morning, and as a South High fan, I want to (thank) North, Smithsburg and Williams-port for an outstanding year, winning three state championships for Hagerstown. You make me proud. Way to go, girls. And boys, you got something to live up to.”
— Hagerstown