Warding off attacks against Gov. Palin
Two Sept. 14 letters condemning Gov. Sarah Palin and a letter condemning the campaigns for "making fun of the other guys" demand response.
In a world where politicians often try to tell everyone what they want to hear, it is fair to challenge them.
I know nothing of Sen. Obama's accomplishments as community organizer; he should inform us that we may congratulate him.
Gov. Palin's comment on her work as elected mayor of Wasilla town and borough (county), "I guess I was a community organizer, only with responsibility" seems a reasonable challenge to Sen. Obama.
The two letters attacking Gov. Palin are litanies of half truths and untruths. The "bridge to nowhere" was a project to develop a link from Ketchikan (15,000 people, Alaska's fourth largest city) to an adjacent island to reach the airport and expand the city.
However, tour ships, often more than 10 stories high and a big part of the city economy, use that channel; the bridge, although needed, would be almost inconceivable as a project.
Gov. Palin, in any capacity, never tried to ban or remove books from Wasilla library; this is a slander.
Gov. Palin is pro-life; therefore radical feminists hate her. Abortion at best is a stopgap solution with endless long-term problems in and to the mothers, fathers, doctors and nurses collaborating in such work.
Having been pro-abortion in my youth, I have grown up to be a pro-life traditional family doctor who delivers babies and did practice in Alaska 1970-1981.
Peter S. L. Rosi
Prospect Heights