Stop the nonsense

Editor: I just read Sherill Calhoun's letter to the editor regarding President Obama's birth certificate. At first I laughed, but then as I thought about it more and more, I became more and more disgusted.

When it became apparent last year that then-Sen. Obama was going to be the Democratic Party nominee for president, we have been hearing that he is either a Muslim, or that he hung around with terrorists. We even heard he was born in Kenya and therefore could not legally become president.

Please stop the nonsense! People from the ultra-conservative Web site, The National Review, went to Hawaii and verified that President Obama's birth certificate was legitimate. I am sure that Mrs. Calhoun already knew that and was only trying to stir up trouble by suggesting that our president is only a charismatic impostor with his own personal agenda for America.

For the past eight years I kept hearing that if you don't support the president during times of war (please don't forget there are still two wars going on) you are un-American or unpatriotic. Does that still apply? Or does it only apply if there is a Republican in office? Stop the nonsense; let's debate real issues that affect our daily lives not fight over issues that are only there to distract us and tear us apart.

Joshua Golden

Hanford

(June 19, 2009)