My OperaResponses to Maureen Dowd's Dumb-Ass colums
Thursday, June 3, 2010 10:34:08 PM
Re “Once More, With Feeling,” by Maureen Dowd (column, May 30):
Where is it written that the president of the United States should be everyone’s “daddy”?
We elected a president, and this one, for a change, is bright, articulate and coolheaded, and appears to work very hard to understand the troubling problems confronting the United States and most of the world.
This country’s leaders and its people are not participants in a TV reality show or Facebook “friends.” There are many serious issues to be addressed and we do not need a weepy, angry, emotional president “feeling” his way to solutions. It is a dearth of critical thinking, contingency planning and discipline that has brought us to our present sorry state.
Barbara Hood
Louisville, Ky., May 31, 2010
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To the Editor:
It’s discouraging to see many calling for the president to “get angry” or show more outward emotion regarding the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. What would that accomplish?
The president is not some puppet that must lash out as some in the public might find appropriate. He’s the president. And you know what? He’s acting like one.
Dylan J. Taatjes
Boulder, Colo., May 30, 2010
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