Letters to the Editor
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Published Letters: 257 Editor's Choice: 33
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Why Obama
[Read the article: Geraldine Ferraro still needs to apologize]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Part of what Ferraro says is right, he is lucky, and America is very caught up in the concept, but not that he's African-American. That is only a small part of it. America has gone thorough a collective nightmare under G.W. Bush. They want change. Hillary Clinton is offering us a return to the better times under Bill Clinton. At least that is what she symbolizes and has made no attempt to distance herself from. This country is ready to hear someone talk about change, about the future, because, let's face it, the present really sucks. Obama's message probably wouldn't have worked in 2000 or 2004, but he has the right message for our time. The fact that he is half-black half-white with an asian stepfather, raised in Hawaii and Indonesia makes him that much more a break from the past.
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Score one point for the Clinton folks
[Read the article: Carville wants resignation cease-fire]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]And Carville did is so slyly. The point is that Ferraro's remarks are not the same thing as Powers's. Powers made a personal attack on Hillary Cliton, name calling basically. On the other hand Ferraro's remarks reiterated the idea that blacks are a privledged class and whites are true victims of racism. That is much more serious, and needs to be addressed.
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Oh Please!
[Read the article: Memo to Clinton and Obama: Stop spinning]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]If the Democrats can't be McCain in November, with either candidate, I think the party should really consider disbanding due to extreme stupidity. After 8 years of GW Bush, defeating a candidate who offers nothing new should be a slam-dunk.
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So tell me something I don't already know
[Read the article: Of war and cancer]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]With a title like "We can still beat the cancer of anti-Americanism" I was expecting to hear about a solution, even if it wasn't a practical one. Instead it spend almost the entire article describing the problem, and two paragraphs on a solution that basically we already know. Now how can we get there? That's what I want to know.
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Look in your Bible
[Read the article: The crazy uncles in Obama's attic]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]If you read the Hebrew prophets and even Jesus himself you will find a lot of "subversive" comments about their nation and its leaders. Curses would not be an innacurate term. Rev. Wright speaks in this tradition. He does not mince words like a politician. Even if you don't agree with his words, you have to respect the honesty in which they are made.
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An incredible speech
[Read the article: Obama's speech on race]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Obama's speech is not something you can chaulk up to "good oratory". It goes way beyond skill to sincerity. I don't mind saying I shed tears reading it.
I really appreciated Obama's point that we can get along and work together, but you cannot ignore the injustice of the past and of the present. As for me, I don't know if I would condemn Wright's comments like that. Christans do have a duty to speak out against nations and leaders that are unjust, the prophets did it and Jesus himself did it. And the Israel comment was very disturbing, since the world is almost certainly heading towards World War III if we continue with our fanatical support for everything Israel does.
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Read it Hillary, and learn!
[Read the article: Clinton "very glad" Obama gave speech]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The difference in my mind between the two is that HRC is motivated by ambition, BHO is motivated by his vision. If that isn't true, Hillary needs to work hard to prove me wrong.
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Numbers don't lie
[Read the article: "Clinton will not be able to win the nomination"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Thanks to Salon's chart of the primaries, it is very clear that Hillary cannot win in pledged delegates. She must get 2/3 of the remaining delegates to tie Obama. In no primary has she ever walked away with 2/3 of the delgates, not even New York. Her only hope is to lobby the super delegates and they all well know that awarding the nomination to someone who lost the popular and pledged delegate vote, and who is part of the democrat establishment would be very unpopular with the voters.
Hillary Clinton needs to show some grace here. It will earn her a lot of respect which she is rather short on these days and it will help the Democratic party. There's nothing she needs to prove here.
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And how old is she?
[Read the article: The best-laid plans]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]This all might be cute and interesting if the author was 15 or 16. This girl seriously needs to grow up. It reminds me of the phrase "being in love with love" only it's sex. She's excited by the the idea of sex, not by sex itself.
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This is low
[Read the article: Clinton: Wright "would not have been my pastor"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Hillary knows nothing of Jeramiah Wright and Trinity UCC, except the sound bites we've seen over and over. If we are going to condemn a 20 year relationship between Wright and Obama because of a few remarks made a long time ago, none of us could suvive that kind of scrutiny.
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Bloomberg
[Read the article: Obama-Bloomberg '08?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I could see Bloomberg in Obama's administration somewhere, but not as VP, and not anything that has to do with Middle East policy. As for Hillary Clinton, I don't think she wants to be Obama's VP anymore than he wants to be hers. If she can drop out of this race with her self-respect in tact (and the time is running out) I am sure there are some important things she can accomplish in the next 4 years.
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November?
[Read the article: Barack Obama, working-class hero?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I don't know what's going to happen in the primary, but the idea that McCain could carry Pennsylvania, or any other "blue" state for that matter is simply absurd. The fact is that McCain is getting a free ride up to this point because the press is distracted with Hillary Clinton as she looks though the Cliton Book of Dirty Tricks to find a way to win the nomination. Once Obama gets the nomination and can focus on McCain's deplorable record of enabling Bush at every turn there is no way we will have another Republican administration.
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And listen to this...
[Read the article: A bad week for buffalo mozzarella ]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]If you are so blown away that the mozzarella from Naples is made from the milk of an animal that came from Asia, well hold on to your hat... the tomato, staple of Southern Italian cooking actually originated in the New World. And if that is not enough, polenta, a staple of Northern Italian cooking is made from corn, a grain also originating in the Americas. Oh my!