Where is the country heading?

Editor,

Regardless of one's political leanings, friends, background and sacred trust in one party or the other, and one's impulse to anger when their favorite people are severely criticized by others, one thing that usually we all agree upon is that when a person is caught in lies and cover-ups, deceit and hubris [wanton arrogance] we tend not to trust that person any more.

Regardless of what they say, we always have that nagging feeling that says, "What if he or she is not telling me the truth again? I'd better take this with a huge box of salt."

My question is this: Why should we trust anything that either President Bush or Vice President Dick Cheney say?

I just pose the question in light of how many facts are finally being made public after years of cover-ups and denials.

It is a rather sad commentary upon our leadership. Sadly, the present administration is certainly not the only administration guilty of such behavior. And that is the most sad commentary of all. Where, oh where, are we headed in this great country of ours?

Can we somehow recoup, within our elected leaders, the stature, the decency, the honesty, and the values upon which our Founding Fathers crafted the Constitution and the Bill of Rights?

What will it take? This really concerns me. It's a real cop-out just to say, "Oh, well, that's just politics."

That is a dangerous attitude for us, the American public, in my book.

Bob McClellan

Polson