I was appalled to read the following description of the President of the United States in the opening paragraph of Scott Carroll's recent commentary in support of public health insurance ("Bring back the public health option," Dec. 12:
"But all that changed somewhere, somewhere after the election of a dark-skinned new president with a foreign-sounding name..."
What in the world does this racially-tinged description have to do with bringing back the public health option, except that it was originally part of the President Barack Obama's plan to provide better care to our citizens?
Nothing. And it should never have been allowed to remain in the article.
I am most disappointed in the editors of The Sun for not asking Mr. Carroll to remove this inflammatory sentence or, if he chose not to, to passing over the piece for publication. About the last thing we need in today's super-charged political atmosphere is a return to these unpalatable denigrations of an elected official of the United States.
Judy Chernak, Pikesville