Sick excuse

I cannot believe what you wrote in your column “Honest vs. dishonest corruption” for Monday, May 22. How can you advocate a dishonest conservative politician over an honest yet liberal one? Are you so partisan that you care not for a politician’s integrity so long as they adhere to your neo-fascist party line? Is this some kind of sick excuse for politicians who take bribes and sell democracy to the highest bidder?

Not only was FDR one of the greatest leaders this world has ever known, he was also a favorite of conservative demi-god Ronald Reagan. Roosevelt’s Social Security program, like Lyndon Johnson’s Medicare and Medicaid, has saved countless Americans from poverty and even death. These programs exist to help out people that are otherwise ignored by the rich and powerful; in other words, to enforce a Christian charity that some people cannot seem to find in themselves. If this bothers you, then the next time you’re in church ask yourself whether you should be there at all.
It’s plain to me that your only intent is to get attention by acting like a conservative buffoon. If you want attention this badly then don’t waste your time writing inflammatory articles. Try something more outlandish, like screaming obscenities at the tourists in Garapan. Then again, that could get you arrested.

So maybe it’s safer to hide in your nice little office typing up bits of journalistic tinder. Si yu’us ma’ase for dividing the community for your own selfish interests!

Bill O’Dea

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