Jay Ambrose, in his July 29 column, “Liberals concoct Medicare hobgoblins,” implies that liberals are concocting stories to keep the public alarmed.
Ambrose has conveniently forgotten the scare tactics used by Republicans and George W. Bush, including the color-coded terror alert system, manipulation of intelligence to invade Iraq, warning the nation faced a long and painful recession unless Congress passed his bailout plan, warning terrorists would attack again if Congress didn’t pass the Patriot Act, running ads attacking Democrats as being weak on national defense, claiming Social Security will fail without privatization and on and on.
Like most of the conservative columnists featured in The Columbian, Ambrose either has short-term memory loss or selective memory loss.
Kim Clifford
Vancouver
