Our elected officials need to do homework
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Posted: Thursday, May 27, 2010 12:00 am
Our elected officials need to do homework
How many of us as parents became upset when our children came
home with a bad grade on a report card or a test simply because
they were unprepared; you know, because they hadn't read the
assignments as required?
Such behavior would have often resulted in the loss of
privileges or, at the very least, the issuance of a stern
lecture.
So what should we think (or do) about Attorney General Eric
Holder, who during questioning by a House Judiciary Committee
hearing regarding the recently passed Arizona immigration law,
confessed to not having read its scant 10 pages? Further
exacerbating the situation had been his insistence on numerous
prior occasions that the passage of this law might well result in
very disturbing problems indeed — including racial profiling and
the harassing of completely innocent American citizens.
Upon being offered a generous chance to redeem himself, Holder
further embarrassed himself, the president and "we the people" when
he admitted that he hadn't even been briefed on its content prior
to subjecting himself to questioning. (See www.tinyurl.com/22om5n2, the
content of which should leave all of us who care in abject shock
due to Mr. Holder's lack of professional integrity.)
Is this really what we've elected: a group of nearly illiterate
egotists who believe they're above reading the very laws that they
either push off on us or attempt to marginalize because they
disagree with the idea?
Of course, this is just another of now too many faux pas on the
part of this increasingly pathetic administration. This isn't funny
anymore. And to think, there are those who truly believe that
Barack Obama, et al., have caused the rest of the world to respect
us again. They're laughing and I'm ashamed.
For many right-thinking Americans, we can only hope that the
republic can hang on until the elections of 2010 when as many of
these do-nothing politicians as possible are dispatched home. From
that point it will be a matter of honing our basic survival skills
until on Nov. 6, 2012. We will most certainly awaken from this
national nightmare.
Jerome Kinderman
Lodi
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posted at 3:27 am on Thu, May 27, 2010.
To Press...I have seen where you were encouraged to do your own research and write your own column. Maybe it is time?
posted at 2:59 am on Thu, May 27, 2010.
Mr. Kinderman, does the Sentinel pay you by the column or by the word? For such a suposedly intelligent person and talented writer, you're just the same propaganda machine who is like a broken record.Thanks, Sentinel, for doing away with the one letter per month rule. It makes me think you are paying certain bloggers to compose letters to the editor and then have them respond to themselves and your anonymous employee bloggers, even maybe including your "biggies" and underlings urged to blog or else. Maybe another editorial exposing Mr. Hayes for conning the city of Lodi and including it in his obit? You are disgusting!