Friday, March 17, 2006

Tribune Letter Writer Idiot of the Week

Congratulations, Nancy Foulke of Chicago!

For two weeks, I have silently read Voice of the People Letters that have continually bashed and trashed our President. It has been personally difficult not to respond to some of the truculent comments printed without valid reason. Some articles claim Mr. Bush is stupid and is creating hatred of all Americans around the world because of his ignorance. No person can be that idiotic and still win two terms serving in the highest office of our country.

Yet most polls indicate that he is blamed for failure to find "weapons of mass destruction" in Iraq, Hurricane Katrina's devastation and undoubtedly will be faulted for the next earthquake that strikes halfway across the world. Criticism is good and debate is healthy, after one has done their homework. Shall we invade the entire Middle East to prove that Iraq really did have these awful weapons and used them on their own people to vindicate Mr. Bush? How much more money should we keep giving Louisiana to build golf clubs before all their residents are safely returned to their home state? And should we incarcerate the governor of that same state for failing to accept help from the National Guard? Easy to point out failure, but oftentimes difficult to substantiate all the angles.

1 comment:

drmagoo said...

I wonder if Ms. Foulke would like to travel down to Louisiana to help them with rebuilding their "golf courses". We have a group of students who spent winter break down there and are going back again, to help build homes and such. Now, maybe the Liberal Media got to them, but I seem to recall the students discussing the total devastation and ruin a little more than the dogleg on the 5th that had gotten torn up.

And, Ms. Foulke, if you have any doubt that the liar in chief wouldn't invade every country on the planet to satisfy his ego, you are missing something grey and lumpy in your skull.