CHARTER SCHOOLS
Need to ask who OK’d
biased ballot wording
I applaud Jay Bookman for exposing the biased wording of Amendment 1, regarding state-chartered schools around Georgia (“More to charter measure than what ballot says,” Opinion, Oct. 17).
However, this issue should be addressed as front page local news — not as an “opinion” issue. The wording of the amendment is biased by any standards. We all know Governor Deal supports this amendment, but how did it show up on the ballot in an obviously biased form? Why doesn’t the AJC do some investigative reporting about this important issue? Are there laws about bias in ballots? Who wrote this? Who approved it?
Let’s see some reporting that gives the public a fair shot at understanding what this amendment means, and which individuals or groups want to confuse Georgia voters.
CLARE RUBIN, ATLANTA
POLITICS
Obama performed, but
Romney only promises
Our president has done a good job in bringing us back from a probable economic depression. He has brought home the soldiers in Iraq and will bring home the soldiers in Afghanistan. We have turned around this economy.
On the other hand, the former Massachusetts governor offers nothing but promises. If you dig into any of these “promises”, there is nothing but deception. As a veteran, I want the commander in chief to be responsible, calm, and decisive. Our present commander in chief has these qualities. The challenger has made threats against Iran, for example, that if followed, would lead to World War III, and a waste of our military resources.
ROGER MARIETTA, ALBANY
CANDIDATES DEBATE
In showing contempt,
both sides disappoint
I’m a politics junkie, I admit — but I seem to feel a let-down somehow after watching the debates.
I’m embarrassed at seeing two grown men — the two among us who should be presidential — acting so low. It doesn’t help either one.
I’m reading a biography of Lyndon Johnson, and the book brings clear to memory the election of 1960, which is the first one I can remember, and the Kennedy/Nixon debate. The debates occurred with such drama to my young eyes, and it’s hard to imagine what that boy would have thought of the Obama/Romney fight.
Commentators have talked of the contempt Mitt Romney and Barack Obama had for each other during the second debate, and the way they circled each other — just short of getting physical.
Who won the second debate? Neither candidate.
It’s sad that the temper of the times demanded such a performance.
WILLIAM GILLASPIE, CHAMBLEE
Cartoonist misdirects
charge of dishonesty
If I were called upon to explain “chutzpah”, I would just show the Mike Luckovich cartoon which appeared after the second presidential debate (Opinion, Oct. 17). Mr. Luckovich showed Mitt Romney wearing a Pinocchio-style nose.
That’s “chutzpah,” after President Obama’s big one regarding the Benghazi attack.
BARBARA KRASNOFF, ROSWELL
