Letter to Jonathan Riskind - Sunday Dispatch Columnist

Dear Mr. Riskind,

Your idea of putting politics aside during the disaster is a warm thought, and it’s kind to make excuses for the president.

But it’s pretty clear that politics caused the problem – the politics of denying global warming, the politics of an unnecessary war (which robbed the dikes to pay our Halliburton & Co. mercenaries), the politics of racial fear-mongering (such as used by Bush against McCain), the politics of marginalizing workers (see WAL-MARTization and outsourcing), the politics that disdains the elderly and the working poor, the politics that is pushing more and more of us into poverty and a hardscrabble existence while cutting taxes for those who already have more than they know what to do with.

I don’t have ANY compassion for our “compassionate conservative.” He is a bungler and a phony, an uneducated clown who struts and frets his hour upon the stage and can hardly read his script. He heads up the gang who claim they “make their own reality.” Well, that works for con men and Neo-Con men only as long as we are stupid enough not to look behind the curtain.

If Kkkarl Rove reads your column, how do you think he will react? “Oh, bless that Jonathan Riskind!” or “Well, at least we’ve still got him fooled!”

- Uke Man