Bush to Colombia
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Why isn’t there an uproar in this country at President Bush’s determination to go to Colombia (for a summit meeting on drugs)? Like the Panama caper, it is pure machoism, proving he’s not a wimp.
If the President isn’t concerned with his own life, he should be concerned with the effects on his country of a possible assassination. What a challenge, and what a coup for the drug cartel.
Bush, not the American people nor even his party, chose (Vice President Dan) Quayle--so please, Mr. President, don’t risk disaster for us by risking your own life.
And by the way, why isn’t Congress urgently seeking to change the power of a nominee for president singly and arbitrarily to choose for vice president the man who could be our next leader? Because they ran as a team, even those who voted for Bush had to swallow his choice. This is democracy?
MARY JOHNSON
Woodland Hills
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