Letter to the Editor

Obama isn't the man next door

To the editor:

In response to John Jusits' Aug. 5 letter, which criticized both the Southeast Missourian and columnist Michelle Malkin: The writer claims Malkin used fear-mongering, shock journalism and attacks on the Obama children to promote her opinion. None of this is true. The letter that criticizes Malkin and this paper is, in fact, a classic example of how many Obama supporters wrongly accuse and defame anybody who disagrees with their candidate.

Malkin's column was about Obama's handlers' publicizing the Obama family in the press in order to make Obama himself appear to be a regular guy and not the tax-and-spend, pro-big government, liberal extremist that he really is. The writer evidently did not read Malkin's article thoroughly. To quote Malkin: "Obama and his political paparazzi are banking on people's stupidity and his cult of personality to carry him to the White House. Unfortunately, the odds are in his favor. Just try talking to one of the millions of people with their noses buried in People or Us about Obama's relationship with Jeremiah Wright or Bill Ayers, his flip-flops on the Iraq war surge and his reckless naivete regarding Iran, and you'll see what I mean." The children were never criticized in the article.

Add Obama's relationship with Father Phleger, Obama's guilt-laden, apologetic, history-revising speech in Berlin and Obama's forecast that race will be used against him to the Malkin comments above, and it is clear that Obama is a cleaned-up version of Jeremiah Wright. Yet the mainstream media promotes the guy as the man next door.

OWEN ELFRINK, Cape Girardeau