Ken Anderson, Las Vegas

Wed, Oct 8, 2008 (2:04 a.m.)

Question: Why are campaign politics like baseball? Answer: A great deal of immature slurs go on in both, but the bottom line is determined by ability and performance.

For instance, I attended the second game of the Red Sox-Angels playoffs in Anaheim on Friday, wearing my Boston baseball cap, and was greeted by a number of Angels fans telling me “Boston stinks,” or something like that. Regardless of how many times they said that, the Red Sox won the game and eventually the series, and the Angels fans will have to wait until next year.

I am like many who are turned off by the criticisms of both presidential candidates. When I hear them, I wonder just whom they are addressing. Are there people out there who want to hear about shortcomings rather than strengths?

My next president must be a man of strength and vision. I want a man to govern with his mind focused on this century and the problems our nation is facing now. I want a man who can tell me clearly how he plans to correct the mess we are in and not tell me what the other guy did wrong in the previous century.

Come on, men, step up to the plate and hit one out of the park. Show us whom we should be voting for in a few weeks. None of us wants to spend next winter recalling the great slurs our losing candidate dumped on us.