I agree with Michael A. Levy.

Hillary Clinton should not become a senator from New York. Nor should a Boston Kennedy have been. I have always thought (hoped) that senators and congressmen were elected to represent the people of the state or district. How can a newly arrived carpetbagger, with no local knowledge, effectively represent local constituents? Moreover, it is downright insulting for New York to be used as a temporary steppingstone to higher national office.

That said, why Mr. Levy's need to carry on for two columns about "nuttiness and nutty people," about legal skills earned in "a jerkwater town in downtown Arkansas," about phony campaign literature on the Web imagined-by-himself, and on and on and on?

Mr. Levy's prejudice against Arkansas as a "jerkwater" is as true as some Arkansans' view of New York as "fast," i.e., equally based on ignorance.

Lee Drucker