Letters to the Editor
burlydee
Published Letters: 297 Editor's Choice: 7
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@ Thadeus Crumb
[Read the article: Are we now officially a Christian nation?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I believe that Democrats who don't push progressive agendas should be targeted, criticized and dealt with. I don't think you should remove blue dogs and replace them with Republicans, which is what he advocated in his original article. Greenwald wants to go to the red states like Georgia and take on blue dems. There are plenty of dems from places like San Francisco, Chicago, NYC, etc. who are in solidly blue districts, who are underperforming, and who could be targeted in the primaries by candidates running to the left. I think that would be the most effective way to push the Democratic party to the left. I have no problem with going after Congressional Dems, but I would be far more strategic about it than Greenwald is. In my mind, there is an element of grandstanding to his approach.
And on a second note, Greenwald spent a lot of time attacking the media in 2004. I think he should devote some of his time to doing some of that, because their performance in 2008 has been as shameful as it was in 2004. He seems to seize an issue and than not let it go for 2 weeks. I prefer he "stick and move" much more. But its not my column. And truthfully, reading Greenwald (and some of the posters here) are the only reasons I come back to Salon. It is certainly not to read Joan play the "religion card" a couple days after playing the "race card."
I just wish liberals had more unity. And less ego.
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testing
[Read the article: Are we now officially a Christian nation?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]testing
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"Our party cannibalizes itself every election"
[Read the article: Is McCain winning?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Amen to that. There is absolutely no unity within the Democratic party. 8 years ago it was Gore v. Nader. 4 years ago it was Kerry v. Dean. And now its Clinton v. Obama. You simply can't convince some Clinton voters to vote for Obama, no matter what you do. They don't care about policy, they don't care about a McCain presidency, they only care about their feelings and their candidate. The liberal blogosphere, including this site, has been 3 times harder on Obama than McCain. Well, all the negativity is catching up with him.
We get the government we deserve. If millions of America want 4 more years of Bush, than there is nothing that can be done about it. If they want to live in fantasy worlds of war heroes and a fantasy land where we don't torture, that is their perogative.
I think for the first time I would advocate Obama adding Clinton to the ticket. She does well in Ohio, Penn, and Florida. This is not an election this country can afford the Dems to lose. McCain will drag our economy down and the US into a new cold war. That is what the neocons desire more than all else, a long pronounced military stand-off to feed their military contractor buddies and oil tycoons America's shrinking wealth. While people wonder whether Obama is a secret Muslim, Rome aka the US, will burn.