What candidate Donald Trump isn’t
Donald Trump survived an assassination attempt when a bullet just grazed his ear.
For years now, Donald Trump has been the subject of some of the greatest hatred and vile verbal abuse ever seen.
So does this rabid hatred and vitriol make sense? No. All Trump wants to do is secure our border, bring economic prosperity to every American, restore energy independence, help end foreign wars through negotiation, and so much more …
He is not Hitler. He is not a vile, despicable human being. He is not going to end our democracy. So it is time to end this outrageous rhetoric and get back to debating the issues.
J. Johns
Ringgold, Ga.
President’s speech not given prominence
The front page of the Monday, July 15 edition of The Times Free Press was rightly dominated by coverage of the attempted assassination of Donald Trump on Saturday. It was definitely newsworthy to report that event and Mr. Trump’s responses to it, and it deserved front page “above the fold” billing.
There was another important news event over the weekend, though. President Biden made a short but impressive address from the Oval Office on Sunday night, denouncing the attack, praising the response by the Secret Service and others, He lamented the wounding of Mr. Trump and the death of one of the bystanders, and called for unity and an end to partisan rancor on both sides. I would have thought his address also merited prominent coverage, “below the fold,” perhaps, but nevertheless on the front page.
I paged through the A section on my iPad, noting the entertainment news, the reports of other world leaders’ response to the Trump shooting, and other news stories. Finally, on page A6, I found a story on President Biden’s address, at the top of the page, certainly, but without a photograph. This doesn’t seem equitable to me, though perhaps I should be grateful that the president’s speech was covered ahead of the comic strips.
David Cofield
LaFayette, Ga.
Parental influence: Where does it stop?
If so many across America are in favor of allowing parents to significantly influence the hiring and firing of K-12 teachers, in favor of allowing parents to be able to manipulate the folding and unfolding of day-to-day classroom coursework, in favor of allowing parents to determine which books can remain on school library bookshelves, supportive of encouraging parents to decide “which and what” American history is appropriately mild enough for K-12 minds to absolve, then are they also in favor of allowing parents to significantly influence the hiring and firing of K-12 team sports coaches, in favor of allowing parents to have school sports budget allocation input, in favor of allowing parents to play an invented role in deciding who should be the starting, backup or third-string quarterbacks on the school football team, in favor of allowing parents to have input in the design of game-day soccer match strategies, supportive of the idea that a parent can, hypothetically, tell the girls’ softball coach which girl should bat “clean-up” and which girls should keep the bench warm?
Earl S. Braggs