Bush simply lies about Democrats

Regarding the Oct. 6 article, “Bush lashes out at Democrats”: President Bush says that Democrats don't think we ought to be listening to conversations of people who could do harm to the United States, intimating that if you vote for a Democrat, you are voting to weaken our national defense. This is not just a stretch — it is a lie. As far as I can tell, not a single Democrat has ever held this position. They never said it; they never will. While Bush likes to paint Democrats as morally corrupt and soft on defense, I think that we ought to be able to hold the president to a standard of at least telling the truth sometimes. I don't know if he has told the truth about anything during the past five and a half years of his presidency. I have lost almost all faith in our government to report the truth about anything. Bush is the one who is morally corrupt and soft on defense. He goes after the wrong man, starts the wrong war, then defends his actions even after they have been proven wrong. Bush has taken the art of partisan rhetoric — or lies, as I like to call it —to a new level. Can we never expect the president to tell the truth about anything? David Daniloff, Dorchester - Published in the Atlantic City Press, October 14, 2006