Unity must start with respect

When I read The Herald, there are two things I enjoy — Dana Milbank and Sid Schwab. This is probably because I am a registered Democrat and refuse to be brainwashed by the Republicans and the NRA. I am so sick of reading about that “Good Ol’ Boy” Mitch McConnell from Kentucky, who hates President Obama so much!

I think the disrespect shown our president is so completely disgusting. The Republicans seem to have forgotten the eight years of Bush and Cheney and the Republican Congress. All of you do-gooders, who are living on Social Security and Medicare will be the first to whine when it is cut or completely taken away by the Republicans now in D.C. and here in Washington.

Perhaps if you could get Boeing to pay some of those billions in taxes, the rest of us would not have to “bleed” so much. I was born in the good ol’ USA but I am beginning to wonder what country I am now living in. It is not the same country I have known most of my life. Thanks for listening.

Barbara DeFrees

Bothell

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