I WAS TOLD

October 17, 2017

 Rep. Dana Rohrabacher,

101 Main Street #380

Huntington Beach, CA 92648

Dear Congressman,

Re: I was told…

We have come to expect this, alas, from your “president.” But what an ungracious, tasteless and entirely gratuitous insult not only to Obama but to others of his predecessors yesterday! He casually accused them, in a public forum, of having failed in their duty to express condolences to the families of fallen soldiers. When questioned further by a disbelieving reporter, he retreated a fraction with the tiresomely familiar excuse: I was told.

Who told him? He did not deign to say. But he insisted, of course, that none of his predecessors had done this as well as he does—in spite of the fact that he allowed two full weeks to elapse before even mentioning the loss. He insisted that he had personally signed letters to send out “tonight or tomorrow.” Do we believe this, too? I think not.

The arrogance itself is astounding, as is the casual ease with which the man tells his lies. The accompanying self-congratulation and aggrandizement redouble the crass tastelessness of the president’s groundless accusation.

Is it not time that you, as a conservative US Congressman, stood up to this kind of behavior? Where are your conservative values? Where is your sense of propriety? Where is your sense of responsibility to those who entrusted you with your office? We expect nothing less of you than a public rebuke for this gratuitous attack on our former presidents, and this cavalier disrespect for those who have given their lives.

Hear something? Say something!

(signed) Peter Clothier, Ph.D.