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Empty rhetoric

To the editor -- At the Republican National Convention on Wednesday, the party lost the decent moral ethics it stood by since the days of Abraham Lincoln. The mocking of community service work, by Sarah Palin and Rudy Giuliani, shows us how desperate the Republicans have gotten to stop Barack Obama. These workers are the very soul and foundation that aid the likes of poor people who are struggling to survive under the mismanagement of an inept administration under President Bush, whose ratings are the lowest of any president.

Instead of discussing how they are going to put food on the table of Americans, they decide to become attack dogs for an inept president. Sarah Palin thinks that all the woman are going to rally around her; she better have a reality check. Women will vote with their consciences, not with gender, and they are better informed about issues than she realizes. American voters are smart enough to see through Guiliani's empty rhetoric and, of course, Sarah Palin's as well.

JIM PALOS

Yakima

Good, true, beautiful

To the editor -- Certainly all men seek one end. All men would be happy, no one desires to be unhappy. But where one might find happiness is as varied as mankind. Yet wise men through the ages, both learned and plain, have proposed a path hard to be denied. Happiness is found in the active pursuit of the good, the true and the beautiful.

This path's truth is so undeniable; how hardened the person who would question? Yet it seems something out of reach, often at odds with our desires. We end up therefore suppressing what we know is true in order to live as we would.

Can anyone deny the beauty and goodness of a newborn infant? Was this little person any less good, true and beautiful nine months earlier?

Barack Obama says he doesn't know when life begins, it's above his pay scale. We all know a smokescreen. Mr. Obama's problem is not his pay scale or his mind, but rather his heart. Any time we depart deliberately from the good, the true and the beautiful, we forcibly suppress this self-knowledge and embrace the bad, the lie and the ugly. Reject a man who has openly displayed his character and yet wants to lead you.

TOM BRACEWELL

Granger

Buy locally

To the editor -- I almost dropped my morning cup of coffee, spilling it all over the Aug. 25 newspaper, which would have made the paper all wet, just like the front page story. Should we celebrate the purchase of a car from Western Washington on the front page?

Please use the newspaper to bolster Yakima businesses, not Seattle's. This lack of caring for our economic situation verges on treason (off with their heads).

The woman leaning against the little car works for a local radio station. I would ask her, how many Seattle businesses advertise on that station? If the station were locally owned, she would have been advised to buy Yakima.

As for the state buying fuel-efficient cars, they buy Toyota Priuses from Toyota of Yakima, where my wife works, as well as other cars.

I find it very sad that not only would a Yakima radio personality do this, but to compound matters the Yakima newspaper would make it a front page story.

Please support Yakima.

JIM BREEDLOVE

Moxee

EDITOR'S NOTE: The closest dealerships selling the Smart car are in Seattle and Portland.