In Democrat Washington, D.C., it’s obvious that despair permeates the air. The Democrat “Messiah,” aka the “Great Apologizer,” is in deep trouble … and that’s Trouble with a capital “T.”

He’s been accused of lying about a so-called health care bill; about trying to destroy the CIA; about appeasing our foreign enemies while insulting our friends; about consorting and siding with left wing Latin-American dictators; filling his administrations with tax cheats and generally corrupt characters; attempting to convert our country into a socialist nation; and spending us into bankruptcy. The atmosphere, nationwide, seems to be rife with “voter’s remorse.”

Columnist Maureen Dowd, who writes for The New York Times, a Democrat house organ and echo chamber for the White House, recently vilified Congressman Joseph Wilson, a Republican from South Carolina, for shouting “You lie” when the Messiah was presenting a health care program before a joint Congressional session, whose members are experts in the art of lying.

The pathetic Ms. Dowd thought that accusing Wilson of being a racist was the way to rescue her hero. It was then proof-positive that her gambit was pure desperation when Jimmy Carter, the nation’s worst president (at least until now) was dusted off and trotted out to suport her in charging the opposition with being race-mongers.

Most rational thinkers realized long ago that the current Oval Office occupant was an obvious candidate for failure since he had never even managed so much as a lemonade stand, nor had he ever worn even a Cub Scout uniform. And, in reference to an editorial which appeared in The Daily Astorian Sept. 14 (“Wilson exemplifies GOP nihilism”), maybe the writer forgot how President George Bush was booed during a state of the union address. Would he have classified that as “boorish”? Was that acceptable because the perpetrators were Democrats?

At least Wilson was voicing what everyone knows was true. Why is the Great Apologizer having trouble getting a health care bill passed? He doesn’t even need Republican votes. His one-time stratospheric popularity polls have plummeted rapidly. It appears as if the public has already discovered that, indeed, as the little boy in that fairy tale voiced an obvious fact that no one wanted to admit: “The emperor has no clothes.”

E. ROBERT NASSIKAS

Astoria