LETTER: Arrogant as its accusations

Pot calling the kettle, Mr. Membury. I can remember your heated comments on a wide range of subjects, blustering against Jimmy Pappas and his opinions. So I’m arrogant, am I? That’s funny considering that my column was my opinion, you know, MY TURN. If you bothered to read the whole column, instead of picking out words that suit your purpose and point of view, that would be one thing. I did not say that you didn’t have a right to speak about women and their essential rights. What I did suggest is that if you are going to speak out about what is essentially a women’s issue, until you have the reproductive system of a woman, then and only then can you say birth control, as well as abortion, is not something that should be a woman’s choice.

You, Mr. Membury, are entitled to your opinion, as am I. Yet you compare what I wrote to the Holocaust. Why is it that men immediately become obtrusive when they perceive that their manhood is threatened? Comparing differing opinions to the Holocaust, sometimes the Nazis, etc. Was it something I said about Viagra? You say that my column is one of the most arrogant pieces you have seen. I say that my column was confident and opinionated. Your letters, on the other hand, have a touch of superciliousness to them that goes beyond the realm of arrogant.

You’re damn right we like President Obama. All you Republicans, in my opinion, are brainwashed and appear to have no independent thinking beyond the Party line (whichever branch of the Republican Party you belong to). No, Mr. Membury, they still have not found Saddam’s WMD (by the way, well-known by whom?), no matter what FOX News or any other scare tactics Republican politicos employ. Idaho is so red that there is no other opinion that matters about anything political, personal, and most certainly positive about the present administration, the work he’s tried to accomplish, and what he has accomplished, despite Congress. I will continue to speak out about things I read that bother me as a woman and issues solely involving women and their personal choices, as well as any misconception I see in regard to the present administration and its policies. My right, my opinion.

So, Mr. Membury, call me arrogant if you will, but isn’t that a little conceited, narcissistic and egotistical of you?

FIONA GRESSLER

Coeur d’Alene