I read in the papers this week that President Bush’s campaign team plans to treat John Kerry as “an object of humor and calculated derision” at their convention in New York. In part, because the leadership of both the Republican Party and the leadership of Bush’s campaign have deliberately adopted such tactics, I will vote for Sen. Kerry.
I would like to be able to make informed judgments about the plans of each candidate for health care and tax reform, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the war on terror, and the problems of job outsourcing and declining wages.
If Bush would rather crack jokes and make snide remarks than engage my interest as a citizen in his own candidacy that is surely his privilege. But it is not Kerry he insults by that tactic so much as ordinary Americans such as myself.
Bush apparently believes that by playing the class clown, he’ll persuade us to ignore the issues that face our country while we are at war. I hope the American people prove this condescending assessment of their intelligence wrong. We all liked the class clown when we were school kids, but we almost always knew better than to elect him class president.
Margaret Imber, Turner
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