Kerry’s actions prove he is not trustworthy
Speaking of presidential spin (“Rage against the spin-machine” ODE, Oct. 6):
Kerry should tell the American people that he called American soldiers in Vietnam war criminals because he wanted to boink Jane Fonda.
He should tell them that if he didn’t vote against appropriations for American soldiers, Dean would have won the primaries.
And if he wouldn’t have married Teresa he would just be a lonely senator making $140,000 with a huge monthly support payment.
Maybe then someone would
finally believe him. Is there anyone more pathetic?
Michael Hamilton
Blue Bell, Pa.
Article on vice presidential debate shows bias
I’ve just spent the last few minutes reading your front page story covering the Vice presidential debate (“Facts stretched thin in VP debate,” Oct. 6), and I’m feeling pretty livid. What I’ve read in this article is nothing short of a Republican propaganda piece.
From the start of the article the focus is on, and told from, the point of view of Republican supporters of Bush/Cheney. The entire first page of the article is dedicated to quotes from Republican congressional candidate Jim Feldkamp and Republican sympathizers from the students who attended the event.
Adding insult to injury, your reporters and editors then felt it was appropriate to remind your readers of “the Republican Party’s preference for facts instead of fear.” Hello?
Are you not a student paper receiving a goodly portion of your budget from student fees? Is there not a well-known rule regarding the allocation of student fees, which states that fees may not be used to promote a candidate or party? I don’t think that it would be hard to argue, with a front-page article like this one, that the ODE has used student fees to promote Bush/Cheney, Feldkamp and the Republican Party.
Paul Griffes
Senior, geography
America helps fund the
killings of Palestinians
Imagine America as weak and brutalized by a much stronger nation. Imagine being forced into camps and unable to support our families. Imagine water, food supply, roads and electricity cut off, paralyzing our schools, hospitals and dreams.
Many Americans would hope other nations would come to our aid. Some would form militias to resist an aggressor that shoots even those who defiantly throw rocks at tanks. Certainly, those militias would never say die, even when armed with a handful of missiles against the world’s fourth-largest military — one bankrolled by the so-called leader of the free world.
Of course, the “leader of the free world” is America. We bankroll Israel’s slow extermination of Palestinians. How can this happen when Americans claim to have become cognizant of and sensitive to the tragic genocide that occurred while settling the American “frontier?” How can we call ourselves great while repeating the same disgraceful injustice?
Brian Bogart
Eugene