Surprise, surprise. New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu does not think Congress should consider impeaching the president who said he could get away with murder (“Sununu balks at impeachment probe,” Oct. 12); the president who has blood on his hands for having cut and run from Syria, abandoning our Kurdish allies; the president who is conducting a fire sale of every arm of our federal government and who has set about to replace it with a pay-to-play autocracy of cold hard cash; the president who has consigned our State Department and foreign policy to his reelection committee; the president who has conspired to solicit a bribe from a foreign head of state; the president who has committed extortion against the people of a foreign nation at war; the president who sends his attorney general on an international fishing expedition to seek out anything that can be held against his chief political rival; the president who makes veiled death threats against those in government who would disclose his misdeeds by labeling them as traitors; the president who has sold his office out to the leader of Russia and is himself a traitor.
Perish the thought that Congress would look in to any of these matters. Because, Sununu says, it is impossible to know the truth. Sure, for him it is. He would not know the truth if it hit him in the head so attached is he to his political patrons, to whom he owes allegiance. But there is loyalty for you, at least. Loyalty to the mother’s milk of politics: money.
TYLER P. HARWELL
New London
If my children weren’t already grown, and didn’t have their own moral compass, I think I’d teach them to admit when they made a poor decision like President Donald Trump does: “(B)ased on both Media & Democrat Crazed and Irrational Hostility, we will no longer consider Trump National Doral, Miami as the Host Site for the G-7 in 2020.”
BARRY WENIG
Lebanon
After reading Steve Nelson’s Opinion column (“We need a candidate who tells the whole truth,” Oct. 20) about his drive through the middle of America, I have to agree with him. My wife and I had a similar experience in September when we took a two-week road trip through the Deep South.
We spent two days in Savannah, Ga., which is a pristine city with beautiful landscapes and homes that bring you back to an era when the affluent flaunted their wealth by building homes that even back then cost a king’s ransom.
We then headed to Selma, Ala., winding through the Main Streets of all the small towns along the way, and the contrast couldn’t be more severe.
I would say that a quarter to half of the storefronts were closed and for rent. The homes were modest and in need of some TLC, and this saddened us both deeply. Selma was no exception. It was heartbreaking that a city steeped in so much history was so run down.
We need a president who will put people to work building back all the deterioration in our towns, cities, roads and infrastructure across the nation.
Sen. Bernie Sanders is the only candidate who has dedicated his entire career fighting for these causes and creating a political revolution that will get them done.
Washington insiders are afraid of Sanders because they know if he is elected he will bring with him a grass-roots constituency that will rise up against the lethargy that exists there now.
After being in Selma and walking across the Edmund Pettus Bridge, where people seeking the right to vote were beaten by police, it reminded me that our strongest defense against a government in disarray is our vote. So if you think voting isn’t important, think again. People died for that right, so don’t take it for granted.
I implore you to exercise that right this election and vote for the only candidate who has been telling us the truth for 40 years, and that candidate is Bernie Sanders.
JOHN LANZA
Sharon