Cheap shots no help

The comic strip "Mallard Fillmore" does not present a reasonable alternative view but, instead, offers innuendos and a veiled racism. The artist insinuates, in one strip, that people supporting Barack Obama are really anti-Obama but dare not come out against him for fear of being branded as racist.

That, of course, is sheerest nonsense. Let us indeed have alternative voices; we need them now more than ever in this state of crisis in which we find ourselves. But we are not benefited by cheap shots such as we have been offered by this comic strip.

Norman Davis

Mantua