The Joplin Globe, Joplin, MO  May 8, 2012  Anson Burlingame,
guest columnist; Voters need to focus on future  By Anson
Burlingame Special to The Globe  JOPLIN, Mo. — It is inevitable
that progressives will use sound bites from a long and hard-
fought primary campaign for the GOP nomination for the
Republican Party’s nomination. Duane Graham did exactly that in
his column (May 6) in the Sunday Globe. Any high school student
with a computer could come up with such comments in about five
minutes.  OK, try this one:  “I was fighting against
(Republican) ideas when you were practicing law and representing
your contributor, Rezko, in his slum landlord business in inner
city Chicago.”  — Hillary Clinton, Myrtle Beach debate, 2008  I
can easily go back four years and come up with all sorts of
anti-Obama rhetoric in terms of Democrats opposing then Sen.
Obama. I can also come up with all sorts of campaign promises
made by candidate Obama that never came true.  So, what?  Our
job as American voters is to choose the best