Letters to the Editor
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Why David Vitters matters
Dear Joan,
Just saw you on TV tonight. What is with Tucker Carlson? I listened to him talk about privacy of an elected official. I am sure that he wasn't so forgiving of President Clinton.
The problem with people like Vitters, Cheney, Guiliani and others of the moral police, is that we are supposed to abide what they say no matter how uncaring, silly and just plain wrong and ignore what they do because that is private. Cheney can say and support amendments and laws about gay marriage and children of those relationships, but his daughter is out of bounds, because that is personal.
Do you remember the phrase from the 70s "the personal is the political"? How I live informs my politics and allows me to understand issues of others, not tell them how to live.
I'm not for smearing people, but I am for holding them to a standard that they think is only for others.
Sincerely,
Denise F. Alexander