The American Spectator

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Bobbie Walden seems to have generated the usual feeding frenzy from your ultra-right readers — those who keep loaded semi-automatic weapons on their bed stands just in case al Qaeda manages to break into their bunkers while they’re asleep. Although I would agree that Walden’s letter was not well written, I would argue that her complaints are intelligible and are shared by millions of non-Trotskyite Americans.

Despite A. DiPentima’s economic optimism, one should be extremely skeptical of the figures he quotes, since most war-related costs are excluded from the budget. Then there are the hundred-million-plus people who will be reaching retirement age within the next few years, the majority of whose savings will be insufficient to stave off bankruptcy.

Ironically, one defect of George W. Bush that incenses many Americans is that he isn’t really a practicing Christian. How well has Bush followed these teachings of Jesus (from Matthew)?

“You have heard that it was said, ‘An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth.’ But I tell you, do not resist an evil person. If someone strikes you on the right cheek, turn to him the other also.”

“Again I say to you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God.”

p>Going to church regularly and claiming to be born again doesn’t cut it for true believers. Bush insisted on invading Iraq, causing thousands deaths, against the judgment of the world community. He has all but ignored the financial and medical needs of the majority of Americans who, unlike him, will never live off interest, dividends and capital gains. br> — Abe Grossman br> Pleasantville, New York /p>