Cal only looks one way

Cal only looks one way

EDITOR:

Calamitous Cal Thomas indicated that racism was a one-way street for the left in a Sept. 19 column in The Vindicator. I don’t know if Cal is in the early stages of Alzheimer’s or just using his ordinary convenient amnesia in his latest effort.

If he weren’t, he would have noticed the right coming the wrong-way down that one-way street during the Holder and Sotomayor hearings in the Senate and the media. He cited a conservative stink tank ratings report which indicated a 3 percent decline in Obama’s support among blacks and further noted the “street cred” of Condoleezza Rice.

Well, Cal, if you recall history, Condy’s cred went out the window when she helped George W. Bush manipulate information and data to start an illegal war; Colin Powell was used as a stooge to go to the United Nations with bogus information to convince the world that an illegal war was necessary. So much for the credibility that Cal worships.

Character, is after all, colorless. Right, Cal? The right has gathered a copious compilation of misinformation concerning health care plans under consideration by Congress; it’s spread amongst America’s citizenry by both media muckrakers and legislators shows that character and credibility are not art of the Right’s conscience.

Looks like that street is open to two-way traffic, Cal!

JOHN ZORDICH

Youngstown

This is unAmerican

EDITOR:

I read an article in The Vindicator that I can’t get out of my mind (16 fired or disciplined for death of Arizona inmate). It was about the unnecessary, horrible death of a 48-year-old woman suffered in the Phoenix, Ariz., prison. It states that she was put in an outdoor holding cell (a cage) for four hours in triple-digit heat. They call it a wait-them-out practice.

There was no cover for shade, and I cannot imagine the agony this poor woman endured.

The policy was to only be left out for a two hour limit.

I could say much more, but my last comment is that the guard who walked her to that outdoor cell and locked her in there and walked away — I’m sure he went into an air conditioned building.

This is something that I cannot begin to understand, how this could happen within a society of educated people. There is no place in society — in America — for this kind of thing.

SANDY TOMLIN

Youngstown

It’s not that complicated

EDITOR:

The issue of health care coverage can’t be resolved to please everyone completely, but, for once, politics should be left out of the negotiations.

Both sides should consider what will do the most good for the most people over the longest length of time.

Enough said.

ANNE PACHOS

Cortland