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“I hear that the GOP are all up in arms because Joe Biden appeared to be laughing at some of Paul Ryan’s grandiose claims last night. Did their poor little puppy get his feelings hurt?”
— Chambersburg, Pa.
“U.S. Congressman Paul Broun, Republican, of the House science committee, said that he does not accept the science of evolution, embryology, or the Big Bang theory. Congressman Todd Akin says that women cannot get pregnant when legitimately raped. ... Republicans in Congress think global warming is a hoax. Be careful. Be careful who you vote for. Our very lives depend on it.”
— Halfway
“I think it’s awful that these political people post their signs wherever they want, without asking. They have four of them at the Funkstown war memorial. That’s as tacky as you can get. I hope they get removed.”
— Funkstown
“I would just like to inform people, if there’s two lanes, if you’re pulling out of a parking lot and it’s the exit only, and there’s two lanes, one’s for turning left and one’s for turning right, and if you park right in the middle, and you’re turning left, you’re keeping the people that want to turn right that doesn’t have to stop for as much traffic, you’re blocking them. Every day at a school here in Hagerstown, I get stuck behind people who want to turn left and they’re in the middle of the road, and I could’ve turned right like 15 minutes ago, but they’re blocking it. Please move over.”
— Hagerstown
“President Obama’s ‘Forward’ slogan sure sounds familiar. Where have I heard it before? Oh, yes. Lean forward, you’ll feel some slight discomfort, followed by excruciating pain. How appropriate. Yes, don’t look back, don’t look down, don’t look up. Just keep mindlessly looking forward, and walk right off a cliff. No, thanks.”
— Frederick, Md.
“To the Williamsport caller who’s saying our president’s weak, why we have problems in the Middle East: Again, here’s a guy that’s taking up for George Bush’s policies, who had the largest terrorist attack on American soil in history, because he took his eye off the ball, even though he was warned about al-Qaida and the imminent attack on America. Yet one ambassador gets killed, and all of a sudden Barack Obama’s weak. He killed more terrorists than George Bush. You are so partisan in your beliefs that you don’t care what this president does, you won’t give him credit for anything.”
— Hagerstown
“I know it’s a law that mopeds are supposed to have helmets and insurance and tags and all that, but I see a lot of mopeds going down the road, people driving them, and they are not having helmets, eyeglasses, insurance or tags. The police are supposed to be stopping this kind of stuff, but I see that they’re not doing their job.”
— Hagerstown
“I remember Richard Nixon having to resign because of lying and covering up over the breaking in of the Watergate apartments. Now we have the problem in Benghazi. We lost four Americans. No one wants to tell the truth down in the White House, which is very ... pretty unusual for these guys. They like to put the blame on other people.”
— Hagerstown
“I think all voters would do themselves a favor, and everyone else, if they would vote for someone else and remove everybody who is in the current office. That is from Hagerstown to Washington.”
— Hagerstown
“As we go to the polls again, Maryland residents need to look at our local and state representatives, as we watch states on both sides of us bringing in more manufacturing jobs, more distribution jobs, we watch here in Maryland, our jobs, factories, distributions, just leaving ... seems like all we’re worried about here in Hagerstown is building a new stadium, while our companies just fold up and leave town. Remember this when you vote again.”
— Hagerstown
“I keep hearing these here Republicans having this hearing on these poor people getting killed over in Libya, and then trying to trap President Obama, but how about the 3,500 that got killed in Iraq, by a lie, on Bush. They didn’t want to have a hearing on him, did they? But he’s responsible for all them, plus about 100,000 Iraqis getting killed.”
— Hagerstown
“I am concerned about the rules at the local trash dump concerning aluminum cans and people picking them up. Why is it that some folks are allowed to collect cans, but others are turned away because it is against the ‘rules.’ Is this favoritism? I know I pay to dump, and others do, too. Why are people allowed to pick through our trash for their own gain, and others aren’t?”
— Sharpsburg
“I was just calling, it’s kind of that ‘What’s wrong with this picture?’ thing, but I don’t have a camera to take a picture. On the block of Cannon Avenue between the hospital and the Sheetz store, the wires that go across the street, there’s a whole bunch of ivy, a whole bunch of it growing on the wires that cross the road, and it’s very dangerous. I’m afraid the wires will break. So if someone could check that out.”
— Hagerstown
“Calling about Potomac Edison sending people around in their private vehicles to read the meters. This is not a very good idea. I wish they would change that practice or do something about it. It is totally ridiculous. I mean, at least they are reading them now, I guess, is the main difference from what it was before, but something needs to be done about people getting in their own private vehicles pulling in people’s driveways, especially the way things are right now in this area.”
— Clear Spring
“I see that a Mercersburg school is giving up the right to say the Lord’s Prayer at its meetings, along with, well, Greencastle already gave up. You need to call the American Center for Law and Justice. The number is 800-296-4529. You cannot let these atheists step in like ... take your rights. These are our Christian values. Stand up for what you believe. Have some backbone.”
— Williamsport
“I can fully understand now why our local fire department was suspended. Nothing like teaching a bunch of school kids about fire prevention at Fountain Rock school, when their own company is suspended for handling emergency calls. But don’t fear, one of the firefighters said they will be back up and running by next month. Thanks for the warning.”
— Fairplay
“This is in reference to the piece that’s in The Herald-Mail on Thursday, Oct. 11, in reference to breast cancer. They’re saying can breast cancer be prevented, the symptoms, and this, that and the other. I do sonographic, which is better than mammograms, as far as I am concerned. I’m not a doctor, I’m just an average woman, 73 years old, and I’ve been doing it for over two years. It diagnoses a lot quicker and better than the plates when you do a mammogram. You might want to check with your doctor about this, or someone else who knows anything about it, because it’s very, very good.”
— Hancock
“To answer the question that was in Mail Call, the guy that’s running against Mayor Bruchey is Dave Gysberts, and he’s against the new stadium. I live in Potomac Towers.”
— Hagerstown
“I think it’s interesting that the people who get the most angry about the election and the different things the candidates have said, are the ones who don’t vote. They’ve never voted, they never will vote. They just want to hear their heads rattle.”
— Hagerstown
“Where was Mitt Romney during the Vietnam War? He was laying on a beach in France, and doing his church work. And none of his sons has ever served, either.”
— Waynesboro, Pa.
“I’d just like to say ‘Good job’ to the company that tore down the stone house on Virginia Avenue by the overpass. They were neat, efficient, they cleaned it up so well, you can’t even tell a house was there. Good job.”
— Clear Spring