<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div><br></div><a href="http://www.news-gazette.com/opinion/letters-editor/2015-08-26/iran-deal-shows-parties-differences.html" target="_blank">http://www.news-gazette.com/opinion/letters-editor/2015-08-26/iran-deal-shows-parties-differences.html</a><div><br></div><div><h1 style="margin:15px 0px 0px;font-size:2.5em;font-family:Oswald,sans-serif;line-height:1.1;color:rgb(51,51,51);padding-top:4px;border-top-width:9px;border-top-style:solid;border-top-color:rgb(34,34,34)">Iran deal shows parties' differences</h1><div style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:20px"><div style="min-height:1px;padding-right:15px;padding-left:15px;float:left;width:710px"><div><form style="margin:0px;padding:0px" target="_blank" onsubmit="return window.confirm("You are submitting information to an external page.\nAre you sure?");"></form><span style="font-family:Oswald,sans-serif;margin-bottom:20px;margin-top:10px">Wed, 08/26/2015 - 7:00am | <a href="http://www.news-gazette.com/users/digitalmedia" title="View user profile." style="color:rgb(19,41,75);text-decoration:none;background:0px 0px" target="_blank">The News-Gazette</a></span><div><div><p style="margin:0px 0px 1.2em;font-family:Georgia,'Times New Roman',Times,serif;font-size:17px;line-height:1.5em">David Gill has certainly chosen an odd time to claim that there is no meaningful difference between Democrats and Republicans, or that political parties don't matter. Doesn't he read newspapers?</p><p style="margin:0px 0px 1.2em;font-family:Georgia,'Times New Roman',Times,serif;font-size:17px;line-height:1.5em">Democratic President Barack Obama and Democratic Secretary of State John Kerry worked with our European allies to negotiate an agreement to control Iran's nuclear program. Illinois Democratic Sen. Dick Durbin supports the agreement. All Democratic presidential candidates, including Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders, support the agreement.</p><p style="margin:0px 0px 1.2em;font-family:Georgia,'Times New Roman',Times,serif;font-size:17px;line-height:1.5em">All Republican presidential candidates, including Donald Trump, Jeb Bush and former war-skeptic Rand Paul — the apple fell far from the tree — oppose the agreement. Republicans in Congress like Illinois Republican Sen. Mark Kirk and Illinois Republican Rep. Rodney Davis are trying to blow up the agreement so that the Republicans who brought us the Iraq war can have a war with Iran.</p><p style="margin:0px 0px 1.2em;font-family:Georgia,'Times New Roman',Times,serif;font-size:17px;line-height:1.5em">If the agreement survives Republican Congressional attempts to sabotage it, it will be because congressional Democrats stood with the Democratic president.</p><p style="margin:0px 0px 1.2em;font-family:Georgia,'Times New Roman',Times,serif;font-size:17px;line-height:1.5em"></p><div style="float:right;margin:10px;clear:both"><div style="text-align:center;margin:0px auto;width:300px;min-height:250px"><div style="border:0pt none"></div></div></div>No difference between Democrats and Republicans? Really, David?<p></p><p style="margin:0px 0px 1.2em;font-family:Georgia,'Times New Roman',Times,serif;font-size:17px;line-height:1.5em">David is right about one thing: A Democrat is sure to run to challenge Rodney Davis. I personally guarantee it.</p><p style="margin:0px 0px 1.2em;font-family:Georgia,'Times New Roman',Times,serif;font-size:17px;line-height:1.5em">If no other credible Democrat steps forward, I will.</p><p style="margin:0px 0px 1.2em;font-family:Georgia,'Times New Roman',Times,serif;font-size:17px;line-height:1.5em">ROBERT NAIMAN</p><p style="margin:0px 0px 1.2em;font-family:Georgia,'Times New Roman',Times,serif;font-size:17px;line-height:1.5em">Urbana</p></div></div></div></div></div></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><div><div><div dir="ltr"><div><br></div></div></div></div>
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