Stupid Letter of the Week

Liberal bashers are fantastic at taking conservative sound bites and twisting the context to make it sound stupid. Their fellow liberals don't ract logically, but instead agree with them based solely on feelings and how it sounds. This week's stupid letter to the KC Star comes from Robert Haight of Harrisonville. Robert is either airheaded, an extremely shallow thinker, or intentionally twisting the words of Sarah Palin by comparing them to unrelated words of John F. Kennedy.

Palin speech revealing

"And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you -- ask what you can do for your country." said President John F. Kennedy in Washington, D.C., in 1961.

"We should not be working for our government. Government should be working for us," said Sarah Palin in Independence on Saturday (5/2, Local, "In defense of oil").

Two visions of leadership. One inspires us to compassionate service; the other appeals to selfish greed.

Robert W. Haight
Harrisonville

Robert seems to not know the difference between country and government. We should act in the best interest of our country as the JFK quote says. It is called patriotism.

That is not blind allegiance to our federal government. Sarah's comments were directed at our government, not our country. She made a great point. We should not be working for the government. Look at Greece. Their economy has melted down in large part due to the enormous deficit spending generated by creation of government jobs. America seems to be on the same path.

So Robert, the tea partiers are working (doing) for our country by opposing the policies that will fail. There is nothing more patriotic.