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Kudos to Schwab for truth-telling

I am a longtime reader of The Herald and I cannot thank you enough for publishing the column by Sid Schwab, “Worst President ever? That’s a short memory.”

I have been so very angry lately because of all the lies that are being published about Obama, and here for once is the truth. George W. Bush was absolutely the worst president I have ever experienced in my 83 years. Sid nailed it by enumerating all the things he did wrong and the mess he left for Obama to clean up, and to have Fox News blame Obama for all of George’s created problems is dead wrong. Both Sid and Eugene Robinson got it right in their pieces on your opinion page.

I guess when some people hear lies often enough they tend to believe them. Thank goodness for those writers who see the facts clearly and state them from that standpoint. Fox News does not present the news, they present propaganda and just what the corporations want them to report.

Dorothy Charlson

Edmonds

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