Opinion: In Wednesday’s Letters to the editor
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Wednesday’s correspondents to Letters to the editor sound off on last week’s G20 discussions, the need for current textbooks at LAUSD schools, and a ‘fun tax’ for California.
The possibility that Hillary Clinton might be elevated to secretary of State in an Obama administration got readers’ juices flowing, too. From Paul Rockower, of Los Angeles:
For secretary of State, I propose Billary Clinton. That’s right -- co-secretaries of State. It would be the perfect combination of charm, experience and panache for the position. It is the two-for-one we never fully received. Moreover, it is the shrewdest move Barack Obama could make. Talk about keeping your friends close, your enemies closer, and the Clintons....
Santa Monica’s Judith Searle saw the potential pick more darkly:
I am struggling to understand how a woman who used the phrase ‘hardworking Americans, white Americans’ in a primary campaign, no matter how bitterly fought, could possibly be considered by our president-elect as secretary of State when a majority of inhabitants of this world are nonwhite.... Even John McCain, at his worst, never played the race card so blatantly.