Editor:
There is nothing wrong with being the loyal opposition and critical of government actions that, in your opinion, hurt your community, state or country. This is the very foundation of democracy.
But your editorial of Nov. 12 reminded me of the spoiled little child who cries before any incident affects him. Most of the dire actions you have surmised will occur with the election of Barack Obama, such as the attack on the Second Amendment, forest policy, even the tax increases, have not been implemented and have been denied by the Obama campaign. After all, he does not take office until Jan. 20, 2009. If and when your accusations become valid proposals or realities, THEN it is your duty as a responsible journalist to attack these issues.
Your editorial also had some glaring problems with consistency, logic and facts. In order to be brief, I must point out the most glaring. Marxist theory (radical socialism referred to as communism) advocates a redistribution of wealth, but only after two essential elements occur: the government ownership of the means of production and government control of capital as in the government owning banks, insurance companies, mortgage lenders and now automobile manufacturing.
All of the above actions have been implemented by President Bush and approved by Oregon Republican members of Congress. One of the dissenting votes to this essential socialist movement was our “liberal” Congressman DeFazio.
Another leap of logic was the criticism of Obama for his graduation from a liberal Ivy League school. Obama spent his first two college years at Occidental College, a conservative Christian-based school. True, he did graduate from the Ivy League Columbia University but our current president is a Yale graduate and a member of the infamous Skull and Bones.
You chastised Obama for not understanding rural values and yet he spent his entire childhood in rural areas. I could go on and on.
I am sorry that your glass is currently more than half empty and scraping bottom, Mine is more than half full and brimming over with hope that this change will revitalize our country, our state and our community to help those in need instead of bailouts to renegade leaders, and help us find ourselves in a better place four years from now. So please stop your whining and let’s go to work.
Gus J. Gerson Jr.
Sweet Home