Readers share views on Hillary Clinton, self-hate, President Obama
Candidate Clinton
Isn’t it interesting that upon the death of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, Republican Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell stated in no uncertain terms that the Senate would not consider any nominee put forth by President Barack Obama, regardless of the stipulations of Article II, Section 2 of the U.S. Constitution?
In this erratic and unprecedented election year, why would McConnell be so adamant about waiting until the next president is elected when all polls point to a GOP White House defeat with its demagogue presumptive nominee Donald Trump?
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton is poised to be the Democratic presidential nominee despite her unfavorable ratings and horrific foreign-policy record. Why would McConnell want Clinton to appoint the next Supreme Court justice?
Because Clinton, in keeping with her neocon policies and militaristic record, would appoint a neoconservative. And Republicans are just fine with this in spite of their rhetoric.
Democrats, you’ve sold out. It couldn’t be clearer than this.
You’re as much a pawn of big money, elitist politics and the status quo as any GOPer. I will never be “ready for Hillary” nor will she ever earn my vote in November.
Rosemarie Woods
Kansas City
Self-hate is real
My grandfather once told me to never forget where he came from.
He entered the U.S. with a passport and one nickel in 1924. He started his own business.
I was born in Laredo, Texas, 100 percent American. So many have forgotten that our grandparents had to put up with racist remarks, putdowns, violence and racial profiling.
They put up with it so we could call ourselves Americans. It was in south Texas where my wife got her degree after raising three great kids.
Many parents worked hard on the farms to see their kids finish college. Many parents were outside looking at their kids with their degrees in hand. The parents were dressed in work clothes.
Their kids told me in English so their parents wouldn’t know they were ashamed of their parents. I lost it and told them, “Do you know how hard your parents worked so you do not have to work on the farms like they did?”
What have we done? We have college sons and daughters who are ashamed of their own fathers and mothers. But they called themselves Americans.
It makes me sad to hear so much hate from our own people.
Florentino
Camacho Jr.
Kansas City
Apology needed
When the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor in December 1941, they selected only military targets.
We, however, attacked two hugely civilian targets. We could have warned them so the thousands of women and children could have been moved to safety, but we did not. And we most certainly could have delayed dropping the second atomic bomb, but we did not.
The killing involved in any war is horrible enough, but the slaughter of innocent women and children with an atomic bomb is another thing — an act of terrorism that begs an apology from President Barack Obama during his Friday trip to Hiroshima (5-17, Commentary, “Why Obama can’t apologize for Hiroshima”).
Arlin Buyert
Leawood
Spider-Man hero
So Stan Lee’s motivation for creating Spider-Man was greed — he needed to keep his job. (5-22, A4, “Stan Lee has his day in KC”).
From my viewpoint as a messed-up teenager during the Vietnam War, Stan Lee did something that Batman and Superman could not. He gave me someone I could relate to.
Superheroes who had been around since the late 1930s, like Batman and Superman, were a lot like my World War II dad’s generation — stoic, bigger than life, impenetrable.
But Peter Parker? He was a nerd. A skinny teenager who was picked on and who carried guilt for things he couldn’t control. Like me.
So even if Mr. Lee’s motivation was purely selfish, I stand by what I told him when I got my photo with him.
I thanked him for all he’s done for so many people like me.
Clyde Waltermate
Raytown
GOP in Kansas
People ask me who I will vote for in the upcoming presidential election. I tell them it really doesn’t matter because I live in Kansas.
Because of the Electoral College system of electing the president of the United States, the GOP can nominate the devil himself, and Kansas Republicans would vote for him. And they are about to do just that.
I am appalled at the number of Republicans who rightly questioned presumptive GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump’s qualifications for becoming president but who are now rallying around the candidate. You see, for Republicans, it’s all about winning at all costs, not about who is best for our country.
I am no fan of Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton, but even if I were, my vote as a Kansan would be meaningless.
What a sorry state of affairs.
Ted Steinmeyer Jr.
Overland Park
Ending abuse
We can find a leader of the Taliban in Pakistan and incinerate him with a drone but we can’t stop child, sexual and spouse abuse to save our souls.
The cost of these abuses and the ongoing generational illnesses secondary to them is heart wrenching.
Mental health care falls short of adequate.
We need to put our money into ending the terrorism of abuse here in the families of this nation.
Valerie Jansen
Lenexa
Wind-blown Trump
I have several concerns about presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump becoming president. The biggest is what will happen to his hair if he has to greet a visiting head of state on the tarmac with the wind blowing.
Darlene R. Wiltanger
Kansas City
Candidate Clinton
Do the math. Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton has been a daughter, sister, friend, church-goer, student, scholar, attorney, employee, new wife, mom, first lady of Arkansas, first lady of our country, champion of children’s rights, champion of women’s rights and advocate for health care reform.
She has been a tested wife, U.S. senator from New York, secretary of state under President Barack Obama, Bernie Sanders-strengthened, Donald Trump-despised, proud grandmother and is poised to be the next president of the United States.
Hey folks, she just adds up.
Sue Wright
Liberty
This story was originally published May 25, 2016 at 3:00 PM with the headline "Readers share views on Hillary Clinton, self-hate, President Obama."