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PITTSBURG —
Dear editor,
With few exceptions, in presidential elections, we vote for the person we dislike the least. In 2000, no one was sure which candidate they disliked most, except the true partisans. We were told Mr. Bush had won. Will we ever really know? No. Then, in 2008, President Obama won handily because of the recession, but Republicans said, hold on a minute, he couldn’t win that easily unless it was fraudulent. They spent four years using FOX News, Limbaugh and Beck, on a daily basis, in an effort to make Obama the most disliked president they could. Then, they chose a candidate to run against Obama that they didn’t even like. Romney turned an election they couldn’t lose into an election they may lose. Romney knew jobs and the economy would be the way to defeat the president, but he became bogged down with Bain Capital and his tax returns as an issue. He claimed he was going to reform the tax code. Why shouldn’t we know what he paid? Then later he got involved in foreign affairs which he knows little about, unless you count lying on a French beach while men his age were fighting in Vietnam. He had even protested for the draft, but when it came time to be drafted he took an exemption to be a missionary for his church. Any other time, that is admirable, but not when men are risking their lives and even dying in a war. Sorry, I dislike him.
Albert Newland
Pittsburg
Dear editor,
With few exceptions, in presidential elections, we vote for the person we dislike the least. In 2000, no one was sure which candidate they disliked most, except the true partisans. We were told Mr. Bush had won. Will we ever really know? No. Then, in 2008, President Obama won handily because of the recession, but Republicans said, hold on a minute, he couldn’t win that easily unless it was fraudulent. They spent four years using FOX News, Limbaugh and Beck, on a daily basis, in an effort to make Obama the most disliked president they could. Then, they chose a candidate to run against Obama that they didn’t even like. Romney turned an election they couldn’t lose into an election they may lose. Romney knew jobs and the economy would be the way to defeat the president, but he became bogged down with Bain Capital and his tax returns as an issue. He claimed he was going to reform the tax code. Why shouldn’t we know what he paid? Then later he got involved in foreign affairs which he knows little about, unless you count lying on a French beach while men his age were fighting in Vietnam. He had even protested for the draft, but when it came time to be drafted he took an exemption to be a missionary for his church. Any other time, that is admirable, but not when men are risking their lives and even dying in a war. Sorry, I dislike him.
Albert Newland
Pittsburg
