Articles for Sunday, March 23, 2008
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Andrew Travers, Aspen Daily News Staff Writer
Sunday, March 23, 2008
The rancher kneels in hay-strewn manure, his cold blue eyes and straight jaw shaded by his cowboy hat. He holds a lassoed day-old calf in his arms as its mother cow sniffs at him, its breath visible in the bitter March cold. A constant chorus of moos rings from the surrounding herd.
He pushes a plunger of pink liquid into the calf’s mouth as it wriggles. He holds its snout shut for a moment to make sure it swallows, then lets it go. It lays stunned for a moment before he pats it on its backside and it springs up, walking in a daze back to its mother’s side.
by John Correia, Dallas, Texas
Sunday, March 23, 2008
Editor:
Eric Orlander missed the point in his letter on Obama.
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Dave DanforthSunday, March 23, 2008
“Vacation Central,” smiles my friend Johnny into the phone. “What destination?”
I am visiting my old friend in his below-grade suite. Last year at this time, his pad became high-tech headquarters for the Party of the Angry Rich, monitoring the oncoming spring election. But there’s no election this spring, the place is becoming dingy and dusty, and I worry about him.
by Clarence Page
Sunday, March 23, 2008
Early reactions to Sen. Barack Obama’s Big Speech in Philadelphia about his pastor and spiritual advisor of 20 years, the Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr., sound like a mixed review. “It was a nice speech about race,” the conventional wisdom goes, “but what about that nutty preacher?”
Indeed, why was the Illinois senator delivering his brilliantly crafted argument for a renewed national dialogue on race at this moment in his campaign? Because goofy-sounding video clips were popping up all over television and the Internet of his Chicago pastor shouting nuggets like, “God damn America for treating its citizens as less than human!”
by Kathleen Parker
Sunday, March 23, 2008
Barack Obama is a magician.
He could tell me it’s raining on a sunny day, and I’d grab an umbrella. He could tell me the moon is the sun, and I’d reach for my shades.
by Cece Zumwinkle, Carbondale
Sunday, March 23, 2008
Editor:
I am well acquainted with Pamela Zentmyer and believe she would make an excellent trustee for the city of Carbondale. I know Pam as a friend and from her working for me at Juicy Lucy’s Steakhouse in Glenwood Springs.
by Toni Kronberg, Aspen
Sunday, March 23, 2008
Editor:
How many times have we heard “Aspen is so beautiful with views of the mountains, sunsets, sunrises, fresh air and green grass. No big buildings to block out the views. We come here to get away from the city and big buildings.” Aspen is such a breath of fresh air.