Your Prez is back and stronger than ever. I appreciate our Secretary of State posting for me while I was incapacitated this past week. She did exaggerate slightly when she reported my Kleenex box was being depleted at a fast rate on inauguration day. I am proud of myself.....it was only a 4 tissue ordeal.
I do need to prove to the membership that I not only "talk-the-talk," I "walk-the-walk." On January 9 I mailed a letter to my hometown newspaper canceling two subscriptions and stating my reason. I had just read a lengthy editorial stating how in 2008 she had discovered how broken our government was and that was the year she became a liberal and yada, yada, yada. If she had stopped there I wouldn't have blown a gasket. Following is the letter I mailed.
Dear Linda,
I am writing to ask for a refund on the remaining balance of my subscription to the Lake Gazette. At the same time, please refund the remaining balance on the subscription I paid for as a gift for XXXXXX in XXXXXX, Arizona. We have talked and are of like mind that we no longer wish to receive the Lake Gazette. The deciding factor was the following portion of your editorial of December 31, 2008.
“Like others, I look forward with anticipation to the hope that the Obama administration offers, and pray that we have not staked too much in the hopes of one man. But I am reminded that Christians have rightly pinned their hopes and dreams on the one tiny babe born in a manger for over 2,000 years and we haven’t gone wrong yet.”
I am aware, and fully agree, that as editor it is your prerogative to print anything you wish. I am also sure that you would agree it is my right to not pay to read words that are offensive. My pointed disagreement with you is your comparison of Obama to Jesus Christ. That comparison has been made throughout the media in various ways for months now and I have bristled every time it was uttered or printed. As a small, hometown newspaper, I never thought I would see that comparison in print in the Lake Gazette. Monroe City, from my perception, is a God-loving community that prides itself on the cooperation of the various denominations for the good of the entire community. How can you, as a member of that community (and I presume a religious individual considering the references in your editorial to the social value of family and church and priests bringing communion to the hospital when your mother was hospitalized) not feel that the words you wrote are not bordering on sacrilegious? Obama is a mere man who has not come close to proving his character is above reproach and has been associated with some very undesirable characters throughout his political life–do you remember the Reverend Jeremiah Wright? This man you hold up along side the perfection of Jesus got his religion from a man who publicly blasphemed God in his anti-American rants.
No, Linda, I cannot pay to read the kind of words you printed. Please send me a refund for the balance of the subscriptions for which I previously paid.
Sincerely,
(YOU know who - won't put all the particulars here!)
Well......gasp.....she published my letter in her paper with a "how dare you" response. You will read her response and my second letter to her (my real "letter to the editor" which I emailed to her today) in the next post. If she doesn't publish this one, I may have to ask for donations from the membership to put in a full-page ad paid for by members of GASP. Hey, no complaining! You don't pay any dues, do you?
Stay tuned for........the rest of the story.
The Prez
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