Critics go too far
This letter is in regard to Your Views, Tribune-Herald, May 8, “I’m with Obama.”
It seems that there are people who just don’t like Obama. That is a right that everyone is entitled to.
If you disagree with his policies, the decisions that he’s made, that he has date nights with his wife, that’s fine. However, it is not right to attack another person because of their race. It is not justifiable if you are biased because they aren’t a cookie-cutter version of you.
When you believe every rumor regarding their job performance, without questioning the validity of the information, then this is a personal attack that is frowned upon by fair-minded Americans.
With the abuse our president has had to endure, it’s amazing that he is running for re-election. Believe me, the average person would be devastated and eager to complete their commitment.
Perhaps you would like to live in a country where this type of behavior would get the victim prosecuted without representation? Of course, you could also become a victim and would be “fair game” to that same prosecution.
D. Marie
Hilo
Hardly a ‘leftist’
The GOP’s Newt Gingrich was quoted in the Tribune-Herald (in the May 3 edition’s “Notable quotes”) as saying that the upcoming presidential election “is not a choice between Mitt Romney and Ronald Reagan. This is a choice between Mitt Romney and the most radical, leftist president in American history.”
Did I miss something here? Was Newt talking about Nobel “peace” recipient who surged the number of legally questionable drone attacks on “associated terror suspects” and greatly expanded the special operation assassin teams in Af-Pak (Afghanistan and Pakistan)? Or was Mr. Gingrich referring to the neo-con coddler who refused to prosecute any of the top Bush regime officials who authorized and redefined the torture policies that clearly violated international law?
Most revealingly, did Professor (of history, no less!) Gingrich label Obama a “radical leftist” when it was precisely “POTUS 44” (President of the U.S. No. 44) — aka “Punahou Barry” — who bailed out Wall Street’s clunkered capitalist corporate CEOs, with trillions of taxpayers’ money while ignoring and condoning the massive financial frauds that these capitalist bosses created, which led to the greatest credit collapse in human history?
Surely, if the Obama regime’s total capitulation to the Wall Street banksters is considered “leftist,” I truly wonder what kind of crystal-meth that Newt Gingrich had been snorting this past week.
Danny H.C. Li
Keaau
