President Obama is no Mr. Spock
Re: “Is President Obama just another Mr. Spock?” Dec. 1
It appears that the Associated Press’ Seth Borenstein and I have totally different assessments of President Obama and Mr. Spock. Spock reached conclusions based upon unemotional, logical analyses of the facts and had an affinity for the hard sciences because of their basis in logic. Obama–not so much. Mr. Borenstein has confused a deliberate demeanor with timidity. President Obama’s decision-making process suffers from a strong confirmation bias. He appears to purposefully delay decisions until a sufficient number of anecdotes (as opposed to facts) that fit his preconceived position or vision present themselves. Spock would consider all of the available facts in his dispassionate analysis. President Obama filters the facts and discards those that do not fit his belief system. His predilection for Keynesian economics is only one example. However, his na?vet? is understandable; after all, he is a Harvard MBA.
David Frick
Sterling
Church will never compromise on gay marriage
Re: “Church should be forced to compromise,” From Readers, Nov. 30
Monday’s
Examiner contained a letter from Charles Bright calling for the “Catholic Church… to compromise.” He should study the Church’s history. The Christian brand of Catholicism does not compromise its teachings, although individuals such as “pro-choice” Catholics and even Church officials may have done so. When the Roman emperor demanded the worship due a god, Christians in large numbers were killed for their refusal. Compared to the “compromise” Mr. Bright calls for, worshipping the emperor was no big deal. The Church will not compromise. If the District Council passes a same-sex marriage law, the Church will stand fast to its teaching. It wants to provide services to the needy, but it also wants to be faithful to its understanding of God’s law.
Raymond Pouliot
Lanham
What happened in Honduras was not a coup
Re: “Honduras hopes to move past coup,” Nov. 30
What coup happened in Honduras? I can’t believe you ran an AP article about the Sunday election in Honduras that talked about “ending the crisis over a June coup”. There was no coup in Honduras. The then-president acted illegally to change the country’s constitution so he could stay in power, so the Supreme Court of Honduras ordered the military to arrest him. If the U.S. Congress impeached the U.S. president for violating the U.S. Constitution, would that be a coup? The Obama administration was wrong to suspend aid and anti-narcotic cooperation with Honduras over this, and wrong to demand that Manuel Zelaya be reinstated as president.
The Examiner owes the people of Honduras and its readers in the D.C. area an apology for printing this libel.
Craig Truskey
Midland, VA
Editor’s note: In our Nov. 29 editorial, “Democracy is the victor in Honduras,” we called Zelaya a “usurping executive” and praised Hondurans’ heroic efforts to uphold the rule of law.
