Letter to the Editor
"Bushisms I"

To the Editors:

Last issue, Joe Sarno opened his letter to The Delphian by observing that "people can just be stupid or ignorant" and then proceeded to give us a great example.

He starts by presenting what he claims is fact, that "President Bush is a moron." Now, far be it from me to defend George W. Bush or his regime, but this is an opinion and those who do not think he is a moron are not "traitors and un-American," but in fact very American.

They are expressing their rights to their opinion and their ballot. The author of the letter is intolerant of their beliefs, which is fine; this is the United States and we have the freedom to dislike the president or his supporters, but why lie and claim to be "open-minded when it comes to...opinions" when one is clearly not?

The criticisms of Bush are vague, based on assumption and specious reasoning. While I disagree with the war and don't believe Saddam Hussein was involved in 11 September, I would like to know what Bush's "own purposes" for starting the war were. Furthermore, what religious law has been introduced by this president? He criticizes the Patriot Act without demonstrating any understanding of what it actually says. Maybe Bush had his own agenda, maybe not, but why say it if there are zero facts to back it up?

The letter concludes with Sarno generalizing the entire nation as "the people in this country [who] like a stupid president" and calls the Bush supporters "just plain dumb," an insult to intelligent Republicans, chief among my memory recent Adelphi graduate and former Delphian editor Tom Westerman.

That being said, I respect Joe Sarno's opinion, but I don't believe that name-calling, hypocrisy, and unsupported facts belong in a newspaper.

-Conrad Gangone
Student