The American Spectator

Reader Mail

Republican Surge

7.28.08 @ 12:01AM

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WORLD CITIZEN
Re: Robert Stacy McCain's Hope Against Hope:

Just catching up on my reading, Mr. McCain, and fighting off just about the worst asthma I've ever had in my life. After reading your article, I wondered how Mrs. Obama might be coping on this escapade.

How now brown cow?
Ye filled with country pride
So, holier than thou
With Dumbo at your side

All change and hope
But, he's not the Pope
And, not so different now
From that Arkansan sow

Amidst the Teutonic hoard
You must be really board
You know, it's all been done before
When the "little corporal" swore

And, what will be his end,
If the rednecks will not mend?
When his supporters scowl?
Can you see the difference now?
-- Mike Showalter
Austin, Texas

ELEMENTS OF STYLE
Re: Richard Myers's letter (under "Campus Marvel") in Reader Mail's Unfit for Second in Command:

Professor Richard Myers, Ave Maria School of Law:

As one with a high-school education, of sorts, I will presume to advise you in your letter-writing endeavors.

Expand your sentence structure. Connect ideas in a single longer sentence. Utilize commas and semi-colons. When words flow thoughts may also. Or they might not. You are barking instructions. You are not persuading. Perhaps that's appropriate in your case.

I take it you are not going to Naples.

I believe you have performed the service of convincing anyone reading your letter not to investigate further
-- James Wilson

Letter to the Editor

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