Ryan ChartrandIn regard to Ian Nachreiner’s column on January 22: You speak from the most uneducated platform, and I don’t mean as an agriculture major, but as a close-minded individual who cannot swallow his pride to hope for a better tomorrow.
“I am referring to latching on to an empty message of hope” you state in regard to Obama and his presidency. Are you kidding me? Where is this grounded? Where do you find the evidence to say such a thing so as to fling the hope of America across you shoulder and let it slump to your feet? I hope the hope sticks to your feet as you let it fall across your brow, because America will not fall into your pit of “poor-me-imma-yell-and-do-it-uneducated-like,” but instead it will surely grow until you have suffocated yourself in your own misery.
You testify that “the notion that America needs remaking is a faulty one and it is empty rhetoric that leaves the perception that America is not on sound footing.” Yes, you might be right, or it might be that the economy is struggling through the worse recession since the Great Depression… hmm, one of those.
You also say “I predict that people will largely be disappointed with Obama’s record when it comes time to reelect him…”
So I think it is safe to say you are a skilled fortune teller with a degree in crystal-glass-readings, or this is another undertone to your pessimistic attitude that finds fruition within all your columns? But it’s not for me to latch onto the former or the latter so I’ll leave that to you.
“I have joked that I would douse myself in gasoline should this day come.” I just wanted to thank you for this very necessary, positive closing to an already heartening column.
Jason Lindo
English senior