America is at a true crossroads

Editor,

With President Bush's latest approval rating down to a low of 33 percent, as reported in the Aug. 7-9 Associated Press-Ipsos poll, it is confounding both the Republican and Democratic parties — the Republicans because they now have great fear for the results of this November's elections, and the Democrats because they seem to be just inherently confounded!.

Perhaps Senator Lieberman has the right idea: Join the Independent party; let both the Republicans and Democrats stew in their own created juices, and do an end run around both. Why not? Might work.

On the other hand, it is my belief that nothing will satisfy a nation of honest, hardworking citizens until attitudes change in Washington and until arrogance is transformed by humility, greed gives way to honesty, and posturing by massive egos is replaced by statesmanship.

I believe that the polls of the American public are reflecting the deep-down desire for our leaders to act and behave, legislate and work within the context of values with which most of us conduct our daily lives; the values upon which our great nation was born and the values which we have been taught in our schools and our churches.

Is this too much to ask? Certainly not. And the polls showing the low approval rating of President Bush not only reflect people's attitudes about the man, George W. Bush, but also reflect people's attitudes toward the entire array of our elected congressional leaders, our Pentagon leadership, our various bureaucratic agencies, and our bloated economic system of massive debt and "bigger is always better."

I feel we are at a true crossroads in America. This will be a most interesting next few years.

Bob McClellan

Polson