Glenn makes a poor choice as a symbol of democracy

0 Comments | Insight on the News, April 1, 2002 | by James E. Marvel

To my amazement and surprise, I found the face of one of Bill Clinton's key protectors in an ad on the inside of your March 4 edition. In it, John Glenn signs his name "former senator and astronaut." After protecting the Clinton administration in the Buddhist-temple money-laundering scheme, voting to uphold the Clinton veto of the partial-birth-abortion ban and receiving a multimillion-dollar junket into space, he wants us to believe that he now has some type of sacred feeling for the U.S. Capitol and "wants today's children to share the same feeling I had."

Glenn obviously believes the hideous practice of partial-birth abortion is not killing a helpless baby. At a prayer breakfast in Washington, he actually used the first part of Psalm 139, not realizing that the latter part of that Psalm contains one of the most beautiful statements about us: The Lord says his thoughts of an unborn child are more than the grains of sand on the seashore, and when we awake we are still with Him.

Glenn has nothing to do with the symbol of democracy in my mind. In his naive, politically correct way he represents what is wrong with a system in Washington that now develops career politicians and people who would protect their own party ahead of their own country.

Dr. James E. Marvel
Jonesboro, Ark.