Opinion
Letters to the editor, Dec. 8
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Published: December 8, 2012
Four-year gigglePublished: December 8, 2012
In his Nov. 3 op-ed page column, "The Obama Admiration Bubble Could Pop," National Review editor Rich Lowry claimed that President Barack Obama is "persistently at 47 percent in national polls." I am a PHCC student who was writing a term paper on the election, so I emailed Lowry and asked him to quote his source, for posterity, but the sore loser would not respond.
This just goes to show that The Suncoast News is part of the Republican echo chamber, lying with statistics. Of course, Lowry's column was printed on the Other Views page, so I took it with a grain of salt.
Any author who writes about Obama "mocking Mitt Romney for the amusement of his easily amused crowds" has lost his thesaurus. As for his claim that "One day (Obama's) supporters might realize that it isn't very funny," I'll tell you what's funny: A bunch of Democrat college kids asked me to sign a petition to legalize marijuana. They outnumber the Republican geezers now and these progressives are already gearing up for 2016. So put that in your pipe and smoke it.
The Obama adoration bubble hasn't popped yet. Four More Years. Ha, Ha, Ha, Ha.
Kristen Lawver
Holiday
Bad idea
State Sen. Nancy Detert, R-Venice, has proposed a ban on texting while driving. It's a dumb law. There is no way that charging someone with texting while driving will stand up in court.
Why?
How is a law enforcement official going to determine from afar if a person is texting while driving or just turning on one's phone, attaching the phone to a charger, checking for email and so forth. The only way to cure this ill is to ban all cellphone usage while driving like so many states have done.
John Tischner
Dunedin
Pulls potatoes
The invasive air potato vine is choking out the native plants in Florida. I see that the cold weather turns them brown. Now is the time to get rid of them. The state should hire temporary help to do this, like they do for taking the census. This would help people out of work and help the environment.
Frances DiPietro
Hudson