Raising Questions on President’s Actions

Re “Bush Gets Tough Queries From Youths in Holland,” May 9: So the “media were then asked to leave” when a young Dutch person, who had been solicited for a donation for poor people in the U.S., asked our president questions like “What’s the balance between the responsibility to the world and the responsibility to your own people?” -- an important question and I want to know the real answer. Where is the freedom of the press? And don’t we have a right to know what our president is saying when he is representing us overseas?

Elke Heitmeyer

Sherman Oaks

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No matter how egregious, the GOP’s extreme right wing continues to pound away at America’s precious institutions, viz: Bush’s continuing assault on Social Security; his nomination of a U.N.-hating man named John Bolton as our ambassador to the U.N.; to say nothing of Bush’s foolish decision to invade Iraq, a country smack in the heart of the Muslim world. And now, a threat to deny debate to the opposition in our Senate over the judiciary (May 11). And, of course, the Tom DeLay matter. The whole tribe of ultra-rightists is backing a man who calls the shots in the House of Representatives. A cheat. But he is their leader and all hands come aboard or else. Is this what America voted for in 2004?

Dale A. Page

Granada Hills