Letters to the Editor: Same old lies by Trump. Postal Service problems.
Same old lies
True to form, it took President Donald Trump less than 24 hours after Sen. Kamala Harris was chosen by Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden to be his running mate to start his disgusting birtherism lies about her. What is amazing, though, is how many people believe them and do not see the parallel to his lies about President Barack Obama. Trump’s playbook is old, tired, and patently racist. He has no ability to form a national response to COVID-19. When he refers to himself as a “wartime president” I just laugh. If we look at a real wartime president, Franklin D. Roosevelt, we see a national coordinated effort. If Trump had been president in World War II, he would have had California handle Japan, Virginia take care of Germany, and New York go after Italy.
Now he is trying to stop mail-in voting. Contact our senators and let them know that people will not stand by and allow their voting rights to be taken away. Donald Trump will do ANYTHING to win, and his buddies in the Senate do not seem to care what he does.
Mary Lisle, Lexington
Climate crisis here
Among the crises bearing down on us, climate change has temporarily dropped from the headlines. Yet polar ice is melting, ocean temperatures and sea levels are rising, and extreme weather happens frequently.
All but a few climate scientists agree that carbon dioxide, methane, and other debris that mankind spews into the air causes this. They urge immediate action to control this before we reach a tipping point during the lives of our children, grandchildren, or our own.
There is nonpartisan, popular agreement on climate change as well as expert opinion. Still we silently careen towards climate disaster while fossil fuel lobbyists get political support that blocks progress. We need to react, discuss, write our members of Congress, and ask candidates what they will do.
Make your voice heard. Please.
Margaret Gardiner, Danville
Gee, thanks — not
Kudos, praise, and admiration to President Donald Trump, Sen. Mitch McConnell, and the rest of the Kentucky delegation in Washington for enhancing the U.S. Postal Service for everyone. I used to get a USPS package from Florida in just a few days. Now any Florida package takes a month or so to make it to Kentucky. I really enjoy the new delay. The small business owners here in Kentucky that I talk to also really appreciate how it now takes considerably longer now to send packages to their customers via USPS, and substantially longer to receive inventory shipments from vendors via USPS. My staunch Republican parents rely on the post office to get their daily medications. They really cherished having to plead with their doctor to write supplemental scripts, filled full cost at a local pharmacy, to cover until their mail medicines arrived. Please keep on thinking of new and innovative ways to make our lives here in our commonwealth more gratifying.
If you believe any of that, I’ve got a used bridge in Brooklyn that I’ll sell you dirt cheap.
Gene Lockhart, Lexington
Another view
In his recent column, the Herald-Leader’s Paul Prather insists that pro-life persons must repudiate a whole litany of atrocities (and many of the things he lists are atrocities) in order to validate their pro-life position. Below I quote Christians whose impeccable credentials validate another reality.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a German Lutheran who was murdered by Nazis in 1944: “Destruction of the embryo in the mother’s womb is a violation of the right to live which God has bestowed upon this nascent life…The simple fact is that God certainly intended to create a human being and that this nascent human being has been deliberately deprived of his [or her] life. And that is nothing but murder.”
Pope Francis I, in 2019: “Is it legitimate to take out a human life (by aborting him or her) to solve a problem? Is it permissible to contract a hitman to solve a problem?” Such a decision is “inhuman eugenics.” To do this has “nothing to do” with faith.
It sounds to me like our “great causes for humanity” do have a ranking of importance, despite Pastor Prather’s ranking in order to justify his support for the Democratic Party.
Paul David Nelson, Lexington
This story was originally published August 17, 2020 at 7:53 AM.