Letters to the Editor
vishnu13
Published Letters: 72
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Touching, but really?
[Read the article: The real Eugene McCarthy]
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Touching, but really?
[Read the article: The real Eugene McCarthy]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]It appears there was a problem with the posting of my last letter, I have reposted.
That was a nice tribute to a man who must've been a politician head and shoulders above his peers of the day (I wouldn't know, I wasn't even born until 1971).
Though the rest of Mr. Keillor's comments make it seem like old people can judge historical figures only by what good things they may have done, and somehow judging them by particularly horrible things they did is invalid. Is that really the way he wants history to be written?
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Actually, it's a lot simpler than all this
[Read the article: Jolting Joe]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]You can see it in all of the letters, who can't see the hostility in both side's words? This issue is much bigger than Lieberman's support of the war, and anyone claiming liberals want Lieberman out just becuase they disagree with him are being more than a little dishonest.
The different "wings" of the Democratic party have been at each other's throats for awhile now, and the biggest problem the party faces is not confronting that issue and taking care of it (Goldberg's article is a case in point, she seems to present the problem as little more than anger with Lieberman).
Both sides of this intra-party war must stop attacking, and this includes taking responsibility for their part in propigating it. All of this fighting is probably the biggest hinderance to the party going forward, and anyone interested in getting the party moving again need to do their part to end it. And I'm not just talking ot the liberals of the party (since the conservatives are so fond of blaming absolutely everything on the liberals), the attack politics must end.
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Why do some popeple call themselves centrists when they have no interest in holding the center?
[Read the article: Fear of spying]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I have just opened the letters about the article Fear of Spying and all I can wonder is do the so-called centrists of the Democratic party have any purpose but to hyperventilate over liberals? The Democratic party has been tacking more and more to the right in every election for twenty years and have been loosing more elections at the same time. And these rubes say the party is tacking too far left and pile all the blame on the laps of the liberals.
Then the centrist Dem candidate in 2000 gets victory pulled out from under him and the rubes blame it all on the liberals for voting for a third party becaue the centrist candidate didn't appeal to them.
Then the liberals work hard in the Dem party to get it going strong and then the rubes are there again blaming all of the troubles of hte party on the liberals again. Good lord where does it end? They don't want the liberals one way, they don't want the liberals the other way, they are just going to hold their breath until all of the liberals just leave.
Get over it already! Grow up and learn that you don't have a party with out those darn liberals and nothing you say or do is going to change that. Just because you think the scattered rural districts that are conservative and still vote Democrat vastly outnumber liberals doesn't mean it's true. Why not instead encourage liberals, and I mean seriously, to start their own third party then? Then you could get on with your vast scheme to win back the nation by tracking hte Republicans as close as you want and nothing would hold you back.
The real reason is there would never be enough votes for such a weak stance and everyone knows it.
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Nerdnam, True that the Colbert Criticism was mild, but...
[Read the article: A Democrat knocks Colbert, says Bush "deserves some respect"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]To Nerdnam and any others who may agree with him, why is it when the "netroots" disagrees with someone and they put out their opinion you think that means the netroots is demanding everyone march in lock step behind them?
Using your own reasoning you must be saying that the left should not be allowed to express their opinion. Come on Nerdnam, why shouldn't the left express their opinion?
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No really, Colbert was Sooo Funny
[Read the article: Colbert: Not just a flop, but "rude" and "a bully" too]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]It is hilarious that Cohen would call Colbert a bully. Big mean comic makes fun of the poor little national elite, boo hoo hoo. Poor little President of the United States, right.
And it's not just the left-leaning blogosphere who thinks these "beltway insider" types need a little ribbing, look at the poll numbers. Most Americans are frustrated by Washington's culture of elitism. To bad they or Cohen can’t see that, or the humor in making fun of those who deserve it most.
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Shock and Awe in letters about Killing a Nation
[Read the article: Killing a nation, one airstrike at a time]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I have been reading letters to the editor about the article "Killing a nation, One Airstrike at a Time", and I am in complete shock over what the editors have chosen as choice reads.
To pick on one in particular: Fenella's letter leans toward racism, "if the arabs had israel's force they would wipe out israel", relies heavily on the demonstrably idiotic, "what all this comes to is that liberals think israel should allow itself to be destroyed", and ultimately betrays iteself as completely useless in debate about Israel and Lebanon.
Shame on Salon for highlighting such crap, and shame on me for thinking I could rely on Salon's editors to discriminate enough in their choices to higlight letters that at the very least have a slight incling of something worthwhile to say about the article.