Wrong about first lady

Mary Heinen made a natural mistake in her June 22 letter to the editor criticizing the first lady, Michelle Obama, for being a non-Christian, self-serving person (along with her husband, the president): She failed to think or write based on even a cursory look at the facts. Heinen apparently composed her whole thought process and letter based on a headline that did not do justice to the content of Mrs. Obama’s actual speech.

Before speaking, perhaps he or she should take the time and be thoughtful, courteous, and dare I say Christian enough to actually read or listen to the source material. I had no trouble at all finding the Obama text on the Internet, and thereafter, no trouble at all seeing that Heinen had no actual knowledge of what Mrs. Obama said. I hope she will go to the trouble of reading the entire text, compose her thoughts, and perhaps send another letter based on the truth, not on an apparent eagerness to condemn others. She would be serving us all, not just her obvious biases, by doing so.

Ray Kosse

Sandpoint