Bill Nemitz can write very creative and wonderful articles on people’s lives. He has a sensitivity and an ability to point out just how absurd humans can be.

Thursday’s column exposes the other side of Mr. Nemitz’s character. Rather than writing a positive piece on Barbara Bush, and what she represented to him and others, Mr. Nemitz chose to write about how awful Donald Trump is compared to Mrs. Bush.

Today's Letters

• Column would have displeased Barbara Bush
• Poliquin, Republicans are hypocrites on deficits
• Not too late for lawmakers to address opioid epidemic
• How about a New Deal to curtail gun violence?
• Progressive candidate Sweet has experience, values to lead us wisely
• Longtime activist Betsy Sweet would move Maine forward

A reader says that while columnist Bill Nemitz is capable of creativity and sensitivity, these traits were not in evidence in his column on the death of Barbara Bush, seen reading to patients at the Barbara Bush Children's Hospital in 2003. File photo by Gordon Chibroski

Mr. Nemitz is the perfect example of “how far we have fallen” in civic behavior and discourse.

Henry Shea

Wiscasset