For Sherman, experience does not an expert make

The Gazette always uses this biography regarding articles written by Norman Sherman: “Norman Sherman of Coralville has worked extensively in politics, including as Vice President Hubert Humphrey’s press secretary.”

A more accurate description would be as follows: Norman Sherman of Coralville has worked extensively in liberal politics, working for such political losers as Eugene McCarthy, Walter Mondale and as press secretary for VP Hubert Humphrey in his bid for the presidency in 1968. Humphrey supported an aggressive stance to the Vietnam War, one focused less on withdrawal and more on military effort and escalation, in wanting to win an unwinnable war. This would have led to more American deaths in that war and resulted in the 1968 protests of the Democratic National Convention in Chicago. Sherman would have been one of the mouthpieces in support of Humphrey's war effort.

It was Hubert Humphrey and his staff that gave Richard Nixon the presidency and all that went along with it. My point? Just because someone has “worked extensively in politics“ does not always mean that they are on the right side of things.

Adam Cooper

Cedar Rapids