Letters to the Editor
cythera45
Published Letters: 729 Editor's Choice: 5
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Intellectual and Moral Bankruptcy
[Read the article: Real inconvenient truths]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]One more of these vacuous screeds from this ridiculous "pundit" and I will cancel my subscription.
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Erik Prince is slime
[Read the article: Red, white and mercenary in Iraq]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Has there been a more grotesquely posturing little rightwing militarist twit as absurd as Erik Prince since the heyday of Oliver North and Iran Contra. He'd better enjoy the gravy train he's on because, come 2009, a new adminsitration is going to slam the door in his smug little privileged face.
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Why? Why? Why? Why? Why?
[Read the article: Queen Hillary's disruptive court]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Why do we have to listen to this shrieking emptiness? I get queasy now whenever the site starts to load on my browser, fearing that I'll see yet again that hideous smirking face.
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Salon needs a new chief movie reviewer
[Read the article: "There Will Be Blood"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I agree with those who call for this reviewer to step down or be reassigned. She has trashed the two best movies of the year now, this and No Country for Old Men. I think they hurt her little head.
On the plus side, she is not as stupid or irritating as Camille Paglia.
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Pats unfit to carry 72 Fins' jocks
[Read the article: King Kaufman's Sports Daily]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]If you honestly believe this Pats team is objectively better than the 72 Dolphins, you are truly an idiot.
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Edwards is an ass
[Read the article: Where would Clinton be without Edwards?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Edwards made a total ass of himself in the debate and with his crass comments about Clinton after her emotional display. Then she kicked him hard in the ass. He is done, whether he or his supporters understand that or not.
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genius!
[Read the article: Hillary without tears]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"The Obamas represent the future, not the past."
This is genius talking, GENIUS! And she gets paid for this...?
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More of the Same
[Read the article: The race vs. gender war]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]More aimless, trendy, vacuous psychologizing. I expected more from Salon, but then again, why should I? You publsh Camille Paglia, after all.
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Just Drop It
[Read the article: Having it both ways]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]We've had enough of this petty crap. Both Hillary and Obama agreed last night. Just drop it.
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This is a misleading report
[Read the article: The knives come out in South Carolina]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]You make it sound as if Obama's attack on Clinton for sitting on the K-Mart board was a response to her low blow about Rezco, but in fact it was exactly the opposite. I doubt she would even have mentioned that if he hadn't taken that cheap shot. And you also pretend that the attacks on Obama were over minor issues, yet I think both Clinton and Edwards scored major blows on him over health care, over his voting present yet attacking them for their up/down votes, over voting against a cap on credit-card rates in the bankruptcy bill. Obama stammered embarrassingly trying to respond in particular to Edwards' criticisms. I thought he had a terrible debate.
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Can you imagine Obama handling the Republican slime machine?
[Read the article: The knives come out in South Carolina]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Twice tonight he said something about taking heat or getting flak from his opponents on the stage, but if he thinks this is tough, my God how will he possibly defend himself against the Rovian minions sure to come out of the woodwork with buckets of slime if he gets the nomination? You can't sing Kumbaya to them, or plead for unity over division, or whisper a few words of ambiguous praise about Ronald Reagan. They will just snarl and rip at you like savage dogs. Clinton knows that, and so does Edwards. Maybe Obama can get better at defending himself, but he has a steep learning curve. At times tonight he sounded positively Kerryesque. Go and replay that explanation for his "present" votes--embarrassingly lame.
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KcM
[Read the article: The knives come out in South Carolina]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Your hatred of the Clintons is obviously intense and you're welcome to it. And if you'd rather sit out the election than vote for Hillary if she gets the nomination, that's obviously your call. But if you can't see the difference between the Republicans and their supporters and Hillary and her supporters, then I guess we must be living in alternate universes.
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Clinton hatred and the Obama lovers
[Read the article: The knives come out in South Carolina]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]It's a bit disturbing to me, speaking as a Democrat first (and a John Edwards supporter second), to hear the intensity of the scorched-earth attitudes coming from some of the Obama fans. It's either their candidate or no-one--and anyone who attacks their candidate is an evil, mendacious, Rovian creep "undeserving of Democratic support" (to paraphrase someone's letter). Speaking for myself, I plan to vote for the Democratic nominee, whoever it winds up being. The stakes of this election are so much bigger than whether we think Obama is a transcendent genius or Hillary a scheming bitch--no-one can seriously doubt that either would be a better President than any of the Republican thugs on offer.
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So you win elections by being nice?
[Read the article: The knives come out in South Carolina]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Good luck to Obama with that strategy. And if you want to sit out 2008, good luck to you.
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OK, fine
[Read the article: The knives come out in South Carolina]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Hillary is an evil Rovian liar. Obama is a sanctimonious lightweight with a glass jaw. One of them is likely to be the Democratic nominee for President, and I will vote for either. If you won't, then take the blame for the consequences. (That said, I prefer Edwards.)
In terms of campaign tactics, if you think Obama has been running an innocent, civil, above-board campaign, you are deluding yourself. He is not as slimy as Clinton by any means, but he has gotten in a number of questionable low blows--such as his campaign manager in Nevada urging Republicans to switch their registration to Democrat to vote against Hillary. He apologized for that, and that's fine. But, folks, campaigns are vicious knife-fights. It has never been any different. Go read some history books and see what John Adams said about Thomas Jefferson. Not pretty.