Letter: Bizzaro World exists outside our reality

Monday, Sept. 10, 2007 | 7:01 a.m.

Every time I see a poll in the media that shows one-third of Americans approve of President Bush's job performance, I scratch my head and wonder what these people are thinking. Perhaps more accurately, I question on which planet are these people living. But letter writer Lee Gliddon Jr. ("President is doing a fantastic job," Sept. 6) has provided me with the answer.

Mr. Gliddon resides in an alternate universe, known in popular culture as the Bizzaro World, where everything is exactly the opposite of reality. Up is down. Black is white. Hot is cold. And in this world "the war in Iraq is winding down, and we are winning," "North Korea is calming," "prescription drugs are affordable for seniors" and "things are looking just dandy."

But for the two-thirds of us who still live on planet Earth in a country called the United States, the reality of the real world is quite different. The Iraq war drags on into its fifth year with no end in sight. More than 47 million Americans have no health insurance. Our country is vulnerable to attack, by North Korea and others, having focused much of our military in Iraq. And our basic civil rights are being taken away in the name of fighting terrorism.

There will always be those living in Bizzaro World, perceiving real problems as an "imagined wrong." Sadly for our times, the King of Bizzaro World is sitting in the Oval Office .

Barry Clayton, Las Vegas