Suicide Watch
By Mitch Berg
We MOB bloggers have been dinging on Susan Lenfestey for years, now; she’s got a place of (heh heh) honor in my pandaemon of frequent fisking targets.
But I’m starting to worry about here. I’m not going to fisk anything; just show it.
Remember – it’s her “Mother’s Day” column, a “letter” to the President:
…I realize this is of no interest to you…and yet, you are the only one who can make my day…We’ve never made a big fuss over Mother’s Day at our house…This year I want my children to share with me the gift of hope — in their futures, in their children’s futures. And that’s where you come in…Mr. President, so we were lucky to grow up in the glory years…We grew up believing that we were the greatest, kindest nation in the world…Yes, we also saw our heroes — well, mine anyway, Jack and Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr. — murdered right in front of our eyes….we watched our classmates die in a terrible mistake of a war and vowed never again…through our self-indulgence, shortsightedness or greed, we’ve pretty much trashed things for those who follow…I am asking you to decide to give us hope, because our children are having a hard time finding much of it…For six years you’ve given us fear, and it’s taken a toll…
One wonders how she even finds the strength to wake up in the morning.
If you know Sue Lenfestey – wife of yet another ultra-liberal former Strib editor – render assistance. Between columns like this and her ongoing venting of unrequited bile, she could apparently use a shoulder to cry on.
Or something.
May 15th, 2007 at 6:22 am
Mitch! Please! You have to give me hope, big guy! No really! It’s so sad and scary and gloomy out here in the wasteland that used to be America. How can I possibly be expected to go on without someone else taking responsibility for my peace of mind?
Come on, Mitch, you’re a “usability engineer” or some such, can’t you make the World more user friendly for us all?
May 15th, 2007 at 8:41 am
All of this talk of ‘hope’ elicits thoughts of Barack Hussein Obama’s empty rhetoric. But she’s right, we don’t need a competent leader, we need ‘hope.’
May 17th, 2007 at 11:24 pm
Not so! W. has proven to us once and forever what a competent leader can accomplish. Too bad there are so very few out there to recruit for 08 with his abundance of competence. Forget political doublespeak and rhetoric, forget press conferences or en]ven stringing two complete sentences together in a month – when you got presidential bike riding ability like that.