Shame, shame, shame

To the Editor,

To say that Willard (Mitt) Romney's self serving speech to announce his with drawl from the presidential campaign was graceless, is one of this political season's biggest understatements. It was frankly the most shameless displays of pandering in my near seventy years. If you so loved America, Mr. Self-Righteous, why did you not serve in Vietnam while the battle raged and Americans were being killed and maimed. I understand that you were out proselytizing Mormanism, in gay Paree, is that right? And when asked in Iowa last summer why none of your sons were serving in Iraq, your response was that they were doing something equally important, working for your candidacy for the presidency. So while the children and grandchildren of hard working Americans are getting killed and maimed in this horrific fiasco, the Romney family receives a hall pass to keep them out of harms way.

Moreover, as an individual who was able to drop about $40 million in an attempt to buy his way into the White House, he was in favor of making Bush's tax cuts for the wealthy permanent. So here we have an individual who so loves America that he and his family avoid participating in war and desire to protect their personal wealthy rather than make a financial contribution to this ineptly prosecuted war of choice. So not only does the former candidate favor sending our children and grandchildren to do battle in Iraq and Afghanistan, but he is in favor of leaving them with the financial burden as well while he avoids paying taxes.

This self-serving diatribe by this political drop out reminded me of an equally self-serving political rant from the Congressperson who it is alleged represents New York's 29th congressional district. It seems the representative took exception to being considered a Bush clone or rubber stamp. While there is no doubt that Kuhl has voted against Bush's demands from time to time, he has proven to be a veritable lap dog on other issues. Just as Romney and his family avoid the horrors of war, Kuhl informed me at one time that he and his family shared that privilege as well. At the same time the Congressperson holds the irrational notion that you can fund a trillion dollar plus war with tax cuts for those that least need them and in some cases may very well be war profiteers. Despite absurd tax cuts and irresponsible war funding, Kuhl's support of the 2005 transportation bill found money to build a bridge to nowhere, at a mere $500 million, or was it $500 billion?

Now, astonishingly the rep from the 29th has gotten his head out of er, um... the sand and has arrived at the conclusion that Bush's budget was not balanced. When did you last vote for a balanced budget, Mr. Congressman? Not in our three year tenure. In case you didn't know, Bush has never submitted a balanced budget, congressman, in the last three years with your blessing.

I've never seen such deplorable political behavior as I've witnessed from these two miscreant Republicans. I'm just thankful they were not around during World War II.
Don Friedman
Prattsburgh