Answer to Ignorance

Quite often the hate mail and hate phone calls I receive in answer to my letters to the editor wind up in the local newspaper, in which they do not disagree with my opinion and offer an alternative, but rather attack me personally. The paper has never published any of my answers to this hateful writing in the paper. But, I keep writing and hoping maybe they will allow me a defense. This is one of those times, and here is what I have written. I can only hope they print it, even though I really know deep down that they won't.

Dear editor:

So very interesting to read a letter in the paper from Michael Ieyoub, in which he spends most of his time attacking me and my writings. To quote Mr. Ieyoub’s warped history and statements on my criticism of President Bush; “All he cares about, with the rest of the Democrats in Washington , is to destroy Bush.”

I have sad news for Mr. Ieyoub. It isn’t just me and other Democrats who are unhappy with Mr. Bush and his war policies, but rather two-thirds (2/3) of the country has expressed that unhappiness. There have to be a lot of Republicans and Independents in that group.

And knowing Mr. Ieyoub’s disdain for factual history, I must point out a quotation from a famous Republican President, Theodore Roosevelt. He stated “To announce that there must be no criticism of the president, or that we are to stand by the president, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American people.” Amen to that Mr. Ieyoub.