Letters to the Editor
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Don't jump on the bandwagon, GK!
The wagon is very full, the one carrying the writers who lip-fart their justified raspberries at GWB and his crooked, incompetent administration. They blog, they editorialize, they run late-night talk shows, they do everything but walk around the streets in beards and long robes carrying signs. And the thing is, they're all right. Every one of them. George Bush is a disaster and 2009 seems agonizingly far away.
I guess what I'm saying, Mr. Keillor, is there are already enough good writers out there foaming at the mouth about Bush. You don't need to join the club. What you do best, only you can do, there's no one else who quite does it like you do...that sly humor, that wry elbow-in-the-ribs, those insightfully-drawn characters...I could go on. But we all know what you do so well. And no one, least of all me, wants you in a rut. But if you're going to push the envelope, if you're determined to try something new, please don't make it Bush-bashing. It's too easy and we need that sly humor of yours...that sense that Americans are really, fundamentally, pretty good people...to get us through the next couple of years.