Your opinions

Oneida Library site should be reconsidered

I think it would be a better idea if the project involving the building of a library on Main Street

were abandoned. Rather, build two or three quality homes on the property and add them to the tax rolls. I don’t think it was a very well-thought

out idea. When I ride by it reminds me of the sand dunes on Cape Cod, minus the water. Perhaps the city could sell the existing topsoil to its residents and recoup some of the money being wasted on the proj

ect. Next the price will probably rise so perhaps the Oneida Castle School should be reconsidered,

plenty of parking, lots of square footage and a beautiful park to re

lax in and enjoy your reading.

Women support Trump

elected them.

Thanks again Oneida County for helping to Make America Great Again! lier The New York Herald called candidate James Polk “ridiculous, contemptible and forlorn.” And the paper had already endorsed Polk!

Lincoln’s immortal Gettysburg address was called by one national newspaper “silly, flat and dishwatery.”

That Lincoln somehow survived this almost daily attack and yet or“He knows nothing and he chestrated the winning of a brutal thinks he knows everything. That civil war must put him in the highpoints clearly to a political career.” est level of presidential greatness. — Irish playwright George BerSadly, in the past eight years, annard Shaw other president had to constantly

In the Brookfield hills my politcombat political partisanship and ically astute wife Lois has the repgridlock above national unity. utation of a pollster wannabe. She It was Lincoln’s cabinet memconfessed to me recently that the ber Simeon Cameron who said reputations of politicians in both “an honest politician who, when parties are flatter and smellier he is bought, will stay bought.” than a week-old roadkill skunk. Cameron has proved to be a seer.

Most Brookfielders only see Thanks to the Supreme Court dethem glad-handing around eleccision in Citizens United, huge cortion time. As Richard Smolik obporations and large donors can litserved, “a politician will always be erally purchase candidates and there when he needs you.” elections. As H. L. Mencken ob

The presidential primary circus served, “good politicians under dereminds me of a comment made mocracy is quite as unthinkable as Donald J. Trump won Oneida by Teddy Roosevelt that “the most an honest burglar.” County with 56.13 percent of the successful politician is the one Congratulations to this newsvote, and 54 percent of that numwho says whatever he is thinking, paper for tickling our funny bone ber were women voters. Thanks to most often in the loudest voice.” with often hilarious political carthe Mohawk Valley/Central New Since the emergence in the 19th toons. Both parties and candidates York Citizens for Trump organicentury of different political parare delightfully lampooned. Huzation, and all your hard work in ties and ideologies, elections have mor calms the daily political indigetting out the vote. Also, many often turned into barroom brawls. gestion that keeps retching from thanks to all our Oneida County This was particularly true in the the primary circus. Republicans who came out to vote mid-19th century, when technolThe Syrian writer Khalil Gibran for Mr. Trump on primary day. ogy such as faster presses and the challenges the politician at all lev

With Donald J. Trump as our telegraph got more news to peoels when he wrote “are you a polpresident, our country will see ple faster. Newspapers greatly exitician who says to himself ‘I will real support for small businesses, panded their political coverage. use my country for my own benFair free trade agreements, a comThe candidate who made the bigefit?’ Or are you a devout patriot mitment to the domestic econgest splash often got the widest who whispers in the ear of his inomy and common sense immigranewspaper coverage and voter atner self: ‘I love to serve my country tion reform that will stem human tention. Partisanship was the as a faithful servant?’” trafficking along the southern borname of the game, and few newsFor democracy to survive both der as well as drug trafficking and papers were known for their objectoday and in the future, we must illegal immigration. We will see tivity and bipartisanship. have as our representatives far a commitment to values that all Abraham Lincoln, even as presmore servants. But these are only Americans can embrace to bolster ident, was called by the Chicago the random musings of a country human dignity amongst fellow citTimes “an irresolute, vacillating man deeply concerned over the diizens, eliminate the national debt imbecile.” The Charleston Mercury rection American democracy is and keep heading.—our elected politicians

called Lincoln the Orangutang at accountable to the people who the White House. A few years ear-

Toomanypoliticiansout for themselves