Regardless of who wins the Democratic Party nomination, we must make sure it is not just a Republican in a cheap suit.
What Abraham Lincoln said about the invasion of Mexico also applies to the invasion of Iraq: “It was unnecessary and unconstitutionally commenced, and from the beginning to the end the sheerest deception.”
Michael Moore’s Sicko documentary shows how single-payer health-care systems in Canada, Cuba, England and France outperform the U.S. model, where if you’re uninsured you “suture yourself.”
Please continue to be a liberal, progressive voice in St. Louis. During the American Revolution, the British owned the gold and insisted that “who owns the gold makes the rules.” They despised the colonists as “Americans,” poor whites, blacks and Latinos who got their money in silver from Mexico City.
You do not have a “platform” like the St. Louis Post-Dispatch or the Argus, but I think the American says it all. Keep up the good work.
Joseph J. Kuciejczyk Jr.
St. Louis