Readers sound off on a woman’s strength, widening war and ‘Blinded by the Light’

Real spot is much than its specified projection

Mantoloking, N.J.: I support proceeding that galore antheral voters volition ballot for Donald Trump due to the fact that they consciousness the president has to beryllium a beardown man. Really? I callback that we did person a fewer beardown presidents. George Washington comes to mind. Two others I would see beardown are Abraham Lincoln and FDR. Lincoln was tall, but successful the eyes of MAGA, that would beryllium all. He was soft-spoken and considered the Civil War to beryllium the past happening connected Earth that helium would privation to beryllium progressive in. But we each cognize what happened. That is, each but Trump. Ask him who won the Civil War and who knows what reply helium volition springiness you. FDR was not beardown astatine each successful MAGA land. He could hardly locomotion and had to get astir successful a wheelchair. Thank God for his enactment astatine a clip erstwhile the satellite was successful peril.

Now we request different beardown antheral to pb america done these unspeakable times. Is it the antheral who had bony spurs to debar his responsibilities to our federation during the Vietnam War? The feline who calls U.S. troops who died successful France during World War I warring against a well-fortified German service “losers” and “suckers”? Who disrespects our finest veterans, arsenic good arsenic the Unknown Soldier, with his antics astatine Arlington National Cemetery?

I deliberation the existent beardown antheral moving for president is simply a woman, Kamala Harris (photo)! She calls it straight, looks her foes close successful the look and says, staring close astatine Trump, “Putin would devour you for lunch!” Your beardown antheral looked distant arsenic she said it. So, if you privation a beardown man, prime the woman! James Dulong

Game week

Ozone Park: The Mets and Yankees whitethorn play the Subway Series during early-voting week. They volition person to alteration the ballot to read: “Trump; Harris; Mets oregon Yankees.” Ray Hackinson

State seats

Manhattan: Bramhall’s Oct. 14 cartoon was close connected target. Saving the planet, astatine slightest taking clime enactment successful America, is babelike connected a Democratic Senate and House of Representatives. Let’s marque definite we person a Democratic president, too. Trump says clime alteration is simply a hoax. Americans cognize better. The Biden-Harris medication made monolithic investments successful cleanable vigor and related American manufacturing, creating hundreds of thousands of cleanable jobs. Trump would effort to claw backmost these investments, hurting mostly reddish states, and rotation backmost biology protections. His tariff program would cripple upwind power. Tariffs mean large ostentation for consumers. Importers walk the outgo connected to america successful the outgo of goods. New York went astray successful 2022. Elsewhere, House Republicans were defeated portion we had a reddish wave. It’s clip to oust Long Island Republicans Anthony D’Esposito, Andrew Garbarino and Nick LaLota, and the Hudson Valley’s Marc Molinaro and Mike Lawler, and flip those seats to blue. Laurie Aron

Courting catastrophe

Western Springs, Ill.: A 2nd almighty hurricane blasting Florida dramatically demonstrates the effects of planetary warming arsenic record-warm seas make stronger storms, and record-warm aerial loads the tempest with much moisture. For decades, virtually each clime scientists — including Exxon’s — predicted accrued temperatures causing utmost upwind if we continued burning fossil fuels. These predictions person proved accurate. The United States could beryllium starring the satellite battling clime change, inspiring and helping different countries to bash much portion creating millions of jobs successful depressed areas present and worldwide. Instead, Trump and astir Republicans successful Congress are successful denial astir clime alteration arsenic they instrumentality millions successful contributions from fossil substance interests. No portion of our state is immune from worsening storms, floods, vigor waves, droughts and wildfires, which dwarf astir issues that voters are seemingly acrophobic about. Richard Barsanti

Do nary harm?

Greenwich, Conn.: In her rabid op-ed to transportation New Yorkers to ballot connected ballot Proposal 1 (“Vote YES to support termination rights,” Oct. 13), Dara Kass mentions nary a connection astir the morality of the barbaric process of abortion. Why? Because determination is thing motivation astir ending guiltless quality beingness successful the womb. Kass wants to punctual voters that they “have the accidental to basal up for and safeguard reproductive wellness care.” Excuse me, did she accidental “reproductive wellness care”? If she defines reproductive wellness attraction arsenic poisoning oregon dismembering and decapitating babies successful the womb, past we should cognize that the aesculapian acquisition strategy that produces specified indoctrinated alleged physicians has gone wholly woke. What happened to the Hippocratic oath to not administer lethal drugs and to prevention quality lives? That’s intelligibly not successful Kass’ purview. The bottommost enactment of what she advocates is dormant humans. Natalie Barklow

Oppression arsenic peace

Brooklyn: If I recognize Voicer John Francis Fox correctly, what helium truly wants is for Gazans to opt for supporting immoderate benignant of Arab mentation of Norway’s Vidkun Quisling oregon the American colonies’ Benedict Arnold. Basically, Fox wants Palestinians to wholly bow down, beryllium nicely subjugated and buss Bibi Netanyahu’s ringing by supporting a traitor to their semipermanent interests. Well, we tin spot however that benignant of happening worked retired for Quisling. If Israelis don’t similar the mode Palestinians take their leaders, pugnacious luck. This is simply a household paper, truthful I volition not usage saltier language. Zionists bash not get to telephone the tune. I americium semi-appalled astatine the nervus of this benignant of presumptuous behavior. They request to turn up. Nick Smith

Bread and circuses

Woods Cross, Utah: America has consented by default to an expanded Middle East war. Our Constitution says we are expected to statement warfare engagement locally and archer our representatives successful Congress whether to enactment immoderate overseas war. That ain’t happening, folks. Constitutional experts and politicians are hiding nether a stone erstwhile they should beryllium advising america to bash this. To the remainder of the world, it is wide that America volition bare its bloodthirsty fangs successful Lebanon similar it did successful Gaza, each successful enactment of a lunatic, far-right dictator successful Israel. Job 1 of American media is to support the nationalist distracted with each mode of light-minded sports, seasonal TV start-ups, quality of celebrities and run rallies, and tear-jerker stories of idiosyncratic Americans experiencing thing bully for a change. If our citizens person nary clip near to enactment successful democracy, our leaders cognize they person done their job. Kimball Shinkoskey

Best pistillate wins

Brooklyn: Congratulations to Caitlin Clark for winning the WNBA’s Rookie of the Year award! I anticipation that Angel Reese and her pals who intelligibly tried to wounded Clark during the twelvemonth larn a small thing astir people and bully sportswomanship, arsenic they sat location and watched Clark radiance successful the playoffs! Joe Ferra

Not-so-subtle slide

Staten Island: Your far-left-leaning, wide opinions person allowed for Gary Philips’ nonfiction (“Jeter is Jazz singer,” Oct. 13) to see the punctuation by that illiterate Jazz Chisholm, which was: “They present maine similar I’m the f-­-­-ing small member they ever wanted.” I person ne'er seen that successful immoderate decent paper successful each my 77 years. Granted, I lone started speechmaking newspapers erstwhile I was 8, but that’s an awfully agelong time. I retrieve erstwhile you really reported the quality without immoderate opinions but connected the editorial page. Now it’s 1 large sentiment piece, including sportswriters and the comics section. We don’t attraction what those radical deliberation astir politics. We conscionable privation them to constitute comic oregon heartwarming cartoons and fantabulous sports insights. We besides expect the authors of the articles and the proofreaders, arsenic good arsenic the editors, to drawback words not suitable for print. Michael Esposito

Left of what?

Manhattan: To Voicer Frank Brady: I’ve been speechmaking the Daily News for 70-plus years and it has ever been the aforesaid reliable, middle-of-the-road, nonsubjective publication. Because of the New York Post’s rabid, utmost right-wing assault, we’ve each go somewhat jaded. Stick with facts, instrumentality with the Daily News. Neil J. Pollicino

Music history

Waretown, N.J.: Voicer Andrew Rubin seemingly doesn’t similar to cheque facts. Bruce Springsteen wrote “Blinded by the Light” and released it connected his debut medium “Greetings from Asbury Park, N.J.” successful 1973. Manfred Mann’s Earth Band covered the opus connected their 1976 medium “The Roaring Silence.” Mike Pidhirny