Joan Verner – 10/27/06

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On the eve of destruction; Joan Verner; Beaver County Times; October 27, 2006.

Below is a detailed critique of the subject letter.

“I am confused. I opened the newspaper the other day and saw a picture of President Bush campaigning for U.S. Rep. Don Sherwood. Wasn’t it just a number of years ago that the Republicans were all up in arms about Clinton’s moral standards, or lack of them regarding our country’s leadership?”

[RWC] Unless you follow this stuff a little closer than I, you probably didn’t know what Ms. Verner was complaining about because she never told us. In 2005, Rep. Sherwood admitted to an extra-marital affair.

“I agreed with them. Now, Republicans have the same problems in their own back yard and, according to our president, it doesn’t matter because we need Republicans.”

[RWC] I don’t know where the “according to our president” comment came from. President Bush didn’t nominate Rep. Sherwood – voters did – and I don’t recall anyone asking him about Rep. Sherwood’s affair.

“Well, I am fed up with both parties and their so-called leadership. All they seem to be good at doing is pointing out the demise of each other’s moral standards. It appears to me that one party stinks and the other party emits a bad odor.

“Abraham Lincoln said it best, ‘America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter, and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.’

“We have major problems facing our country’s future. Our government should be working together to find solutions to the problems that we face instead of spending all of its time worrying about each other’s moral standards.

“This has divided us into blue and red states. Unless we learn to work together and bridge our differences, we are allowing the two-party system to destroy our country from within, and we, as citizens, are helping in that destruction.”