Cross-posted from The Horse You Rode In On
Take a minute to read the letters to the editor in today's New York Times.
Inured as the public has become to scandal during a presidency that seems to consist of nothing BUT, this past week seems to have pushed people over the brink.
I quote the first letter in full after the fold, but read through the rest of them if you can. It's the first time I've seen the NYT looking like the comments section of a DailyKos diary.
"Secret U.S. Endorsement of Severe Interrogations" (front page, Oct. 4) and "Bush Vetoes Health Bill Privately, Without Fanfare" (news article, Oct. 4) make me feel sick and desperate about what this president has done, and continues to do, to our once-proud country in only seven years. Could he have done more to debase us if he had set out purposely to destroy us, our economy, our moral values and our dignity?
To him and to his minions who tar their critics as America-haters, I borrow Paul Robeson’s words from another bleak age: "You are the un-Americans, and you ought to be ashamed of yourselves."
Monica Mori
Chicago, Oct. 4, 2007