My definition of a “friend” is someone who tells you the truth even if you don’t want to hear it, and if it is important for you to know. I choose to call Frank Miele, “FRIEND.”

I just finished reading the Sunday, March 8, Montana Perspectives section. How very interesting. Winston Churchill coined the phrase “Iron Curtain,” and my friend Frank coined the phrase, “Bend themselves into pretzels, all for the sake of avoiding the truth.” In watching the cable news shows that same morning, the “Self-Bending Pretzels” were doing everything to avoid the truth. 

I enjoyed Mr. Lester D. Still’s long comment in the same issue, all true, and certain to raise more Democrats into self-made pretzels. 

A Yiddish phrase states that “a fish stinks from the head.” The “stinkers” are led by the liar-in-chief, who reneged on most if not all of his campaign promises: All bills will be published for 48 hours before voting, no lobbyists in my administration, the most transparent administration in history, and “I am not a king, I can’t just change the law the way I want it to be.” 

Then there is the senator who threw someone else’s medal into the Potomac, and voted against the bill before he voted for it. Now he is negotiating a secret deal with Iran, and he and his boss object to the final agreement being made public before it is signed.

Then there is the presidential hopeful that lost her bid for the nomination to Obama, who brazenly stated “what difference does it make” regarding Benghazi, and now we find she had buried all her emails off the government email system, and for two years was silent about the situation. Was it illegal? WAS IT RIGHT? I guess it depends on “what the meaning of ‘IS’ is.” 

So the Democrats continue to bend themselves into pretzels to avoid the truth. 

Beware, when someone talks about “the greater good”; they are hiding the fact that someone gets injured, but it is OK with them because of the “greater good.”

How can my friend Frank say anything good about Obama, until he changes his tiger stripes and keeps his promises. A fool said to the wood-burning stove, “give me heat and I will give you wood.” The administration must show us good works if it wants to get good comments about its conduct.

Thank you, “FRIEND FRANK,” for telling the truth which even we conservatives don’t like to hear about our country and our “leaders.” Wish we had a Netanyahu at the head of the “ship of state.”

Eddington is a resident of Bigfork.