Here are some issues that area residents are discussing. The statements were phoned in anonymously, so the Courier does not vouch for their veracity, nor do we know what motivated the callers:

The Repbulicans are not finished and the president did not trump them at every turn. He just happened to have the deck stacked in his favor.

If most people had the intellect of that "flaming-gas bag" Rush Limbaugh, the United States wouldn’t be in the predicament we are today.

I’d like to sound off about the commanders of 3rd ID not supporting their troops being able to stay at Fort Stewart with 17 years of service. The guys who just came back from deployment and wanted to stay here, but the commanders didn’t do anything to help.

Yes we have had 43 white presidents before, but President Obama makes 44. This is just a correction of what was printed earlier.

The Democrats want to blame the Republicans for the economy, but the last two years who was in charge of the banking system? Frank Barnes. He sure isn’t a Repbulican. I guess in two years Obama will destroy the economy as well.

I bought my house back in the ’80s, when the interest was 17 percent. I paid it for 30 years, never missed a payment. Why should I bailout other people? Let them get a second job and stop using the plastic.

Tell all the Republicans to run out and get their Rush Limbaugh stickers ready for 2012.

Some of the people you’d think are sick are not really sick. They have a double dose of laziness.