The American Spectator

Current Wisdom

Current Wisdom

By Assorted Jackasses from the December 2008-January 2009 issue

(Page 4 of 4)

Regarding Mrs. Palin: What is up with the ponytail? Does this woman have no sense? She wore a ponytail for her announcement as vice president. And as to mouthing Hillary’s words, let me say to her, you are no Hillary Clinton. Would your readers really entrust global decisions to someone with a pony tail [sic] and the lack of judgment that caused her to have one? I am a Hillary supporter and mourn the U.S.A.’s loss of her as a potential president, but I am a Democrat and Sen. Obama will be just fine.

—Jan Fisher
Encinitas

(September 4, 2008)

From the Archives

Timeless Tosh from Current wisdoms Past

(December 1988)

In These Times

A glance at the epistolary page of a leading lunatic sheet turns up two future Democratic presidential nominees, to wit:

Robert of Carpinteria, at the end of his patience: If you don’t stop harassing Dukakis in every issue, we’re going to end up with the CIA (Bush) in the White House for four more years. Your petty editorial (ITT, Aug. 17) about Dukakis’ mental health indicates your perverse desire to get Bush elected so you’ll have more to complain about. Even Jesse Jackson is trying to help Dukakis in spite of everything. So, come on. Help out a little more, please.

—Robert Dautch
Carpinteria, Calif.

And John of Edmonton, in a revelatory frame of mind:

In your September 7 issue a letter you published written by Lenni Brenner (Berkeley, Calif.) contains a reference to Mother Teresa, with the clear indication that she is some paragon of virtue, some saintly woman of peace.

This is not the case at all, and your readers should be aware of it. What she really is is a dangerous religious fanatic. She has been addressing antiabortion meetings in Canada and holds the view that abortion should never be practiced even when the mother’s life is in peril. She further is of the opinion that women who have abortions and the doctors performing them should be jailed.

—John G. Packer
Edmonton, Alberta

(October 19–25, 1988)

Letter to the Editor