| Dear Denver Post |

Dear Denver Post,

Every day, I get the newspaper. Every day, I scan the front section for some news of substance. Today, in your new "Politics West" section, the story I get is this: Gennifer Flowers, who had an affair with Bill Clinton years ago, said that she might vote for Hillary Clinton.

Really? You think this is something that your readers care about? You think this passes for news? Really?

Let me tell you what I'd like to hear about in your newspaper. I'd like to find out how our President is going to get away with declaring war on Iran without Congressional approval. I'd like to find out more about a bill that the Democrats passed in Congress last March that had a provision stating the President could not attack Iran without Congressional approval, but that crucial part was stripped because of pressures by the Israeli lobby.

This is disturbing on several levels. First of all, this happened last March, and I just found out about it on the Internet. Second, how did Colorado's Congresspeople vote on this? Third, how can the Israeli lobby pressure us to compromise our interests for theirs? Don't you think this is important news?

Here's a clue: your readers can get all the gossip they want, as it happens, on TMZ.com and PerezHilton. We can get every story you print in your paper from Yahoo headlines the day before your paper comes out.

Give us something relevent. Ask our politicians what they're doing in Washington. Come on.

Sincerely, Liz

Comments

[James]

Baby, you are on the money! Gennifer's possible voting habits are the least of our worries.

Let me ask you this: how has it happened that in the thirty-odd years since Watergate, we have become a people who will impeach a great president, (in the historical as well as colloquial sense), for lying about a blow job, and let one of the most abysmal of all time go scot-free for lying, systematically and deliberately, in every conceivable venue, to get us into an illegal and costly war for control of the world's oil? And why is it that after so sorely neglecting the development of alternative energy resources that would have made it unnecessary even to care about control of the global oil supply in the first place, we can still just barely dip our toe in the water?

And while we're on the subject, why couldn't they have chosen a more capable son of oil barons, if an oil baron president was what the empire needed to lie its way into a war for its survival? They do have more capable sons, don't they? If this is the cream of the crop, I have to wonder if the neocons and the unfortunate drones who are dumb enough to elect them might all be put to better use as a source of biodiesel. God knows they are bound to remain a maddeningly renewable resource.