Letters from the issue of Thursday, February 14, 2008

Clearly the answer is: "Yes! Yes! A thousand times yes!"

That's disappointing, but Sarah Fenske is entitled to her opinion.

However, don't presume to speak for all twenty- and thirtysomething women when you type up this inane blather. I know plenty who would vehemently disagree with your assertion that gender-based media attacks on Senator Clinton do not evoke sympathy for her.

I am a 31-year-old man, and although I'm not a big supporter of Senator Clinton, I will gladly vote for her just to spite people like you. It will put a skip in my step.

By the way, your pop-psych analysis of Clinton as a guilt-inducing nag of a mother doesn't tell us much about her or the young female voters you claim to represent, but it does tell us a lot about you.

Quick pop-psych analysis of Sarah Fenske:

Sarah Fenske is looking for a Big Daddy to lead her through these frightening and uncertain times. And that Big Daddy is John McCain. Big Daddy McCain is the only one with the honesty and integrity to cross partisan lines and unite this sharply divided country. Big Daddy McCain is the only one with the wisdom and cojones to solve our illegal-immigration problem. Big Daddy McCain is the only one with the manliness and strength to turn Iraq into the flower of democracy in the Middle East.

Sarah Fenske wants Big Daddy McCain to take her on his lap and whisper in her ear that everything is going to be all right. No woman could ever do that, especially the shrill witch Hillary Clinton, who was fooled by Dubya into voting to authorize the use of military force in Iraq. No sir! Big Daddy McCain wasn't fooled by all of Dubya's rhetoric! Consider:

• "I believe that the [Iraq] operation will be relatively short . . . I believe that the success will be fairly easy." — John McCain, September 2002

• "When I voted to support this war, I knew it was probably going to be long and hard and tough, and those that voted for it and thought that somehow it was going to be some kind of an easy task, then I'm sorry they were mistaken." — John McCain, January 2007

Wow. Now that's some hardcore straight talk! Keep writing about politics, Ms. Fenske. It can only benefit white men like me. We need to keep those uppity women in their place!
Jeremiah Scott, Phoenix