How pathetic is it that the best assault the liberals can launch against President Bush is rehashing and distorting his military service record and whining about his trip out to sea welcome home our victorious troops (May 12)?

Even more absurd is the fact that letter writer Paul Macri implied that we would have been better off with “robot boy” than our current commander-in-chief.

Al Gore would still be using his invention, the Internet, to sift through the results of focus groups and public opinion polls to determine if we really needed to respond militarily to the attack upon the towers.

What the writer fails to grasp is that intellectualism without the accompanying moral courage to act makes one better suited for academia than leading a nation.

The fact that Gore failed to carry even his own state or Clinton’s determined the election long before Florida even became important.

The left wing can refer to Bush as the “un-elected” president if it helps them sleep at night. It is the same type of self delusion that allowed them to believe that Ted Kennedy was actually only testing the buoyancy of his automobile.

Robert D. Beauchesne, Lewiston