Letters to the editor - May 20

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• Published May 20, 2008

Why don't Democrats try to lower fuel prices?

The two Democratic candidates say that upon being elected they will lower the price of gasoline and diesel.

Why are they waiting? They are a part of a Democratic Congress and I do not know one piece of legislation either they, or their party, has introduced to lower gasoline prices.

What these candidates are saying sounds distressingly like campaign rhetoric. If it isn't, then why does the Democratic Party, which is the majority, keep the nation suffering? If Congress passes legislation to guarantee to lower prices the president will sign it. To the doubters — try it.

We could start drilling for oil in our own country rather than buying from terrorists and corrupt governments. But since we are told the people support this national policy not to drill, then live with the consequences and quit complaining.

If we decrease some of our driving we would get a gasoline surplus, which would lower prices — supply and demand is sound economic theory.

To those voting on their belief in all of this campaign rhetoric — you have my sympathy.

Bill Korf, Olympia

McCain associates with problematic pastor, too

I am so sick and tired of hearing the endless news coverage of the Rev. Jeremiah Wright's remarks while having near absolute and continued silence on Sen. John McCain's ongoing affiliation with the Rev. John Hagee and his many inflammatory comments.

John Hagee, as many might not know because of virtual news blackout on him, was sought out by John McCain for his endorsement of McCain's presidential bid. Some of Hagee's more memorable remarks include calling the Catholic Church "the great whore," and blaming Hurricane Katrina "on New Orleans had a level of sin that was offensive to God, and they are — were recipients of the judgment of God for that." There is his effort to raise funds for his Cornerstone Church through a "slave sale" in which his congregation should "make plans to come and go home with a slave." He said a nuclear showdown with Iran "is a certainty" (something he wholeheartedly endorses) and says the Jews' "rebellion" was the cause of the Holocaust.