Getting sick of dirty politics, attack ads
Why is it that political ads have to be so nasty and hateful? I mean, what a person does in their private life has nothing to do with politics — it’s nobody’s business.
The political ads should be about whether or not the person has a good political record and has done or will do a good job when or if elected. No one should be calling each other names and making statements about how bad a job the person has done over the years — unless they have the proof to make such statements. These types of political ads are dirty politics. The person’s record should speak for the person rather than the dirt that can be dug up about them.
Clean up politics because I am sure that I am not the only one who hates listening to these kinds of political ads.
Ralph Correll
Morgantown
The players may change, but the politics don’t
The 2022 midterm — or the “déjà vu election” as I’d like to call it.
The probable outgoing party has already started pointing fingers at the outcome of this year’s elections. Most of the attention-getting news items don’t change from one election to the next. Just the level of bureaucracy involved changes. Was there any real change in election law from 2020 to 2022 or did we just make it harder for law abiding citizens to vote? My prediction is that after this upcoming election, the party actors will have changed but the rhetoric they espouse will not.
Since 2020, have we made any change of substance on immigration? Keeping in mind that we desperately need people willing to work in the United States. We have a declining birth rate and a declining job participation rate — and these two negatives do not make a positive. Pretty soon we will not only run out of people willing to work, we will run out of people able to work. If we want grow and harvest food to eat and build homes to live in, we need workers willing to do those jobs. Are you one of those people? If not, vote for people willing to make change, not just talk about it.
The increase in crime and the decline of families with two responsible adults are directly related to each other. In today’s economic and political world, it takes two adults to feed, clothe and, more importantly, teach our children morals and ethics.
Any of us can give away our authority but none of us can give away our responsibility. At the end of the day, we have one job: to make the world a better place for the next generation. We do that by producing a better generation today.
In the next two years, real change needs to take place. We have enough laws on the books in most cases. What we don’t have are politicians who have the will to enforce them.
Andrew Price
Core
Success doesn’t have to mean winning
I am not from West Virginia even though I have been here with my family for 20 years. As a non-native, I still don’t really know where Keyser is. And while I root for the Mountaineers and the Pittsburgh Pirates, I have to admit this is a special year with the undefeated Philadelphia Eagles and now the Philadelphia Phillies, who are now playing the Houston Astros in the World Series.
During Game 2 of the World Series, the camera pointed to Dusty Baker of the Houston Astros and stated that he had won 47 postseason games as a manager. It was soon to be 48 games, but it made me recall my youth when Frank Robinson broke the color line and became the first Black Major League Baseball manager. My perception after that was that he was not successful as a manager. I knew of his stellar career as a player, hitting monster home runs and showing unparalleled passion for excellence. But I didn’t know the whole story.
Now we have internet search engines, so I entered the search “Frank Robinson paved the way for Dusty Baker” and one search result popped out from mlb.com: “Frank Robinson was the coolest man in baseball and a true pioneer.”
That’s a great way of saying that you don’t have to win the World Series in baseball or an Olympic medal or a Nobel Prize to be successful. The article said Robinson’s passions for excellence and justice never died, even though he died of cancer at age 83.
A lesson we can take is that it is more important to be faithful than immediately successful. We laud those who reach the pinnacle, but — by design in sports and de facto in the rest of life — few do. Frank Robinson taught us that passion is more important than success, a lesson we should remember. And now I know the story better.
Please consult Wikipedia for more amazing facts about Frank Robinson.
Steven Knudsen
Morgantown
