Contrary to the claim that Republicans are dumb, a recent editorial in Pravda ("Obama's Soviet Mistake," available online) says that President Obama is "a Communist without question" whose voters "continue to follow him like those fools who still praise Lenin and Stalin in Russia."

Obama has tripled every one of President Bush's economic mistakes. His treatment for America's illness is to bleed the patient, and when that doesn't work, draw more blood. That's what killed George Washington, and it is quickly killing us.

Tom Hobson

Belleville