Letters We Wish We'd Written Dept. - "National Trauma" Edition

Readers of the once great Washington Post Bezos Bugle were responding today to Republican/ New Confederate/ Stupid Party fabulist Kathleen Parker's June 17 op/ ed tongue bath of the Family Bush ("Bushes Through The Years"), and in particular this sentence: "After the national trauma of the Clinton years, during which mothers like me were forced to shield our children from the president's deeds, it was a relief to see George W. and Laura Bush move into the White House."

Here's a Letter We Wish We'd Written in response:

Which of these eight-year presidential terms should be characterized as a “national trauma”:

●The Bill Clinton years: Approximately 23 million net new jobs, no major land war launched, one combat-related military death, the addition of $1.3 trillion to the national debt, and the blue-dress sex scandal; or

● The George W. Bush years: Approximately 1.1 million net new jobs, two major land wars launched, thousands of combat-related military deaths, the addition of $4.9 trillion to the national debt, and no sex scandal?

Kathleen Parker chooses the Clinton years. Anyone care to question her priorities?

Samuel T. Goldberg, Bethesda

We  would say her priorities are clearly to whitewash the Dumbya years so she can see Jeb! in the White House after the "national trauma" of an African-American president who expanded health care to millions more Americans, and brought us back from economic ruin and the disastrous war the president she so fondly remembers got us into.