Obama’s power
In years long past, especially before television, people would gather in the thousands to listen to politicians give speeches that ran sometimes three or four hours long. I never understood that until I heard Barack Obama. He has done for the political process in this day and age what no one else could do.
— Jessica Vealitzek
Arlington Heights
Deserted voters
When a United States senator runs for higher office, travels around the country incessantly and is absent from his job in Washington, who represents the constituency back in the senator’s state? Elected officials running for higher office should be forced to resign from their positions before deserting the people who elected them to the “lower office.”
— Donald R. Furth
Lake Forest
Bush’s legacy
We can usually count on columnist Steve Chapman to be brutally honest, and his “Bush’s long catalog of failure; President’s legacy will be far worse than his view of it” (Commentary, Jan. 31) is exactly that. History books will be filled with details of the mistakes made by this administration and the arrogance with which they were made. But the legacy of George W. Bush can be easily expressed in just three words: Worst president ever.
— Michael Renaldi
Woodridge
Bush’s library
Got to thinking what our illustrious president would put in his library. One wall could be the names of the men and women killed or maimed in his unnecessary war. One wall could be a picture of the “weapons of mass destruction”; oh yeah, that would be blank. Third wall could be a list of countries alienated by his “cowboy” diplomacy (a globe would do). And the fourth wall could be pictures of daughter Jenna’s wedding.
There you go George. All filled up.
— K. Arndt
Park Forest
War wastes funds
Here’s an idea for our president as he tries to stimulate the economy: Stop draining billions from the economy for whatever it is we are doing in Iraq. Conservatives say that before proposing a social program, politicians should be required to say how they will fund it. Funny they never demand the same from someone who wants to start a war.
— A.J. Clark
Chicago
