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

OK all you Democrats, I hope you’re happy. You complained about four more years of the Bush administration with McCain. Now you’ve got four more years of Clinton.

To the person who hit my new car at Waldo Pafford and left a dent in it and then pushed my mirror in, thank you. I guess it was too much to expect you to do the right thing and come in to find out whose property you had damaged.

It’s amazing. Before the election everyone was talking politics, in the office, at the store, on the street. Now that Pres.-elect Barack Obama has taken the head honcho seat, nobody wants to talk about it anymore. What’s up, America?

Our national anthem is not “God Bless America.” Our national anthem is “The Star Spangled Banner.” That caller that wants to change it needs to get the facts straight.

I don’t know what country you’re from, goofy, but America’s national anthem doesn’t have the words God bless America in it.

Why deprive yourself of a whole newspaper because of a Doonesbury cartoon? Grab a black marker, black out the cartoon and then enjoy the rest of the paper. Huh, how easy.