Voice of the People for August 14, 2009

Friday, August 14th 2009, 4:00 AM

Hear her roar

Spring Lake, N.J.: Nothing pleased me more than to see Secretary of State Clinton stand up for herself when she was asked what her husband thought about a particular issue. You go, girl.

Barbara Barnett

Back to school

Toms River, N.J.: Regarding Voicer Peter Fitzmaurice's letter comparing Sarah Palin and Secretary of State Clinton. He states, "that's like comparing a fifth grader to a college prof." In my opinion, a fifth grader has more common sense than any college professor I have ever known.

Rick Kling

Sounds familiar

New Hope, Pa.: There is an old saying, "The conductors have changed, but the music is still the same." With Mayor Bloomberg still in charge of the Department of Education with his trusted squire, Chancellor Joel Klein, it will be the same old song with the same old players and the same old failing results.

Melvin Band

Down on paper

Jamaica: So our esteemed mayor still thinks that a pencil-and-paper test will tell you whether a student is ready to go to the next grade. The only thing Mayor Bloomberg has proven is that teachers can be conditioned to teach to a test.

Sean Noriega

Where's the love?

Brooklyn: Mayor Bloomberg, your disdain for MTA workers is incredible! You have raised property taxes, water bills and sales taxes, all of which many of us MTA workers are personally affected by. While you and many other residents are so content on bashing us, you seem to forget that we, too, are taxpayers.

Jacqueline Brown

Fool me once. . .

Forest Hills: Mayor Bloomberg must think New Yorkers are idiots. His new campaign ads about how he is going to fix the MTA are a joke! If he had the ability to fix the MTA, why didn't he do it during his first two terms?

Libby Gurgis

. . .fool me twice. . .

Manhattan: Am I the only person who thinks it's scandalous that Mayor Bloomberg boasts of his campaign's many volunteers? He's the richest guy in New York, and he can't pay these little people to help him win reelection?

Eric Lurchburg

Color and Technicolor

Manhattan: Voicer Carmen Scott states that Jake McNicholas was on the money in characterizing black-on-black crime ("I was a racial profiler," opinion, Aug. 2). Has McNicholas spent any time characterizing white-on-white crime? White-on-white crime is romanticized ("The Sopranos," gangster movies, etc.), while black crime is used to justify racial profiling. Go figure.

Ron McZorn

Who's talking?

Westerly, R.I.: To Voicer Brian Todfield, who ridicules Mike Lupica for his understandably high opinion of the Kennedy family: So, Mr. Todfield, what have you accomplished so noteworthy in your life to merit international recognition?