Editor:

The biggest and most important difference between Clinton and Obama is not in the programs they are offering, but in the difference between the source of their political financing. Clinton gets most of the money needed to finance her campaign in the form of large donations from lobbyists and corporations. Obama, on the other hand, gets most of the money needed to finance his campaign in the form of small donations from individual American citizens. Now, don’t these two different methods of financing suggest who the new president will be working for, after he or she is elected? This difference in the obligations to be carried by the winner is something the Democrats should be thinking about. Moreover, these same big-money people are now attempting to steal the presidential nomination for their candidate by counting votes from a Michigan ballot that did not even list all the candidates. There ought’a be a law!

Lansing, Mich.

(former Fairhope/Orange Beach resident)