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My letter to the editor was a response to a previous letter where a local women wrote that Democrats are angry and bitter.
Here is a copy below:
Letters: Democrats have reason to be angry, bitter
Editor, The Post-Crescent:
In response to Ann Grosskopf’s Feb. 20 letter, in which she states that the Democratic Party is angry and bitter, I would have to agree with her.
We are angry at being denied a fair election process in 2000 and we are bitter because we have had to put up with an appointed president who is leading the country to ruin.
Regarding Bush’s fighter-pilot days, she states that we didn’t think that military service was an issue with President Clinton. President Clinton was given a student deferment to attend Oxford University on a Rhodes scholarship.
George Bush, on the other hand, received a high draft number and bounded past 500 men in line ahead of him to use his daddy’s influence to get into the “champagne” unit of the Texas Air National Guard to fulfill his duty to his country by protecting the skies of Texas from attack.
How nice that he was able to take time off to go to Alabama and work on a Senate campaign (with Daddy’s blessing) while others went to Vietnam in his place to fight, be wounded and to die.
Suppose some of our current National Guard members would like to take a little time off and not go to Iraq. I’m sure any of the more than 540 men and women who have been killed in this war of deceit and the thousands who have been wounded would like a little “time off” from their military duty.
The bottom line is that Bush has lied to the American people over and over again and, because it doesn’t involve sex, we are just not interested.
Yes, I guess you could say that we are angry and we are bitter.
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Appleton
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