It’s a character issue
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Editor,
I would like to respond to Bob McClellan’s letter in the Aug. 21 Valley Journal. Mr. McClellan’s assertion that Jackie Robinson’s experience is analogous to Barak Obama’s experience is badly flawed. The problem is that there is no question that Jackie Robinson had considerable talent and experience. He totally deserved the job to which he aspired.
Here is a little story of my own to present a different point of view: at the time of the 2008 election, I was in England where my husband John was working. I voted absentee before I left the United States. A couple of days before the election I was having breakfast with one of John’s co-workers, a black man from Arizona. He asked me what I thought about the upcoming election. I thought a minute and decided to be honest. “I love the idea of an African-American president,” I said, “but not Barak Obama.”
“That’s exactly how I feel,” my breakfast companion said. Neither of us was being racist. We were both thinking about the important quality called character. For me, character remains the issue five years later, when I think about our President.
Carol Cummings
Polson
