Editor:

I couldn't help but notice the intrusion of politics into my comics this week, and I'm not talking about Doonesbury or Prickly City. Add Pickles, Baby Blues, Mutts, LuAnn, Blondie, Family Circus, Dennis the Menace and many more .

It's no accident. Everyone knows our president wants everyone involved with community service. It starts out innocently enough. Help Your Neighbors -- Volunteer. I saw a CSPAN-2 video interview of Rahm Emanuel after he had been appointed tentatively to the chief of staff position by Barack Obama. He was being interviewed about a book he wrote called, "The Plan." His plan called for mandatory basic training for three months for all 18-25 year olds. "To give them a sense of what it means to be an American," he explains. He says, "If you're worried that everyone will have to do 50 jumping jacks, the answer is 'yes.'"

Before he was president, Obama said, "We've got to have a Civilian National Security Force, just as powerful, just as strong, just as well funded." That's a far cry from Help Your Neighbors -- Volunteer.The Obama administration will have our kids volunteering, then enlisting into a Civilian National Security Force won't seem so mandatory if they already volunteer. Your children's student loans will no longer be made from the local bank or Sallie Mae. Obama has a special office in the White House to take care of those student loans. While they do some mandatory volunteer service, their student loans will be put on hold. If they do some mandatory volunteer service for 10 years their loans will be paid in full.

I wonder if they'll be singing, "Barack Hussein Obama, Mmm, Mmm, Mmm!" while they're marching?

SHARON STOTT, Green River