Letters to the Editor
warrior dowager
Published Letters: 25 Editor's Choice: 2
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Loose Change
[Read the article: Change beyond the ballot]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"Hope is a thing with feathers that perches in the soul." Emily Dickinson
So also with change. Any person who has lived in a large neighborhood or worked in even a small work place know how hard bought any significant change is made.
Having been in college in Montgomery during the bus boycott and having done dangerous things like integrating the home town movies and the libraries, I wonder how Obama plans to bring about the changes he envisions.
How will he address Putin? What success will he have with North Korea? What of our debts?
Hope for change is but one half of the transaction. Is there anyone who does not want hope fulfilled or change for the better?
I am recalled to a saying sprung from my southern roots: want in one hand and spit in the other and see which one gets full the quickest.
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CLINTON/OBAMA
[Read the article: Hillary Clinton's Texas-size moment ]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]THIE IS ALL WE KNOW AND ALL WE NEED TO KNOW
WILL WE HAVE
AMERICAN PRESIDENT: HILLARY
OR
ANERCAN IDOL: OBAMA
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Hillalry our American President or Obama your American Idol
[Read the article: Quote of the day: Obama on boxers vs. briefs]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]For good or bad, we do not know nearly enough
about the man in whose hands will have the power to determine the direction we folow for the next 4 to 8 years--if the state of the nation is even more threatened in all likelihood.
A crap shoot, all the way.
God help us all.
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HEAD FOR THE HILLARYS!!
[Read the article: Quote of the day: Obama on boxers vs. briefs]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Having worked in a man's world during my
entire career,
if it appears that Hillary will be President,
I'm investing heavily in Viagra as an antidote
for the great fear of a woman with brains.
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The Greeks did it first.
[Read the article: The GOP attack plan for Barack Obama]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]At the dawn of democracy in Greece, one candidate
dressed a statuesque woman in a helmet with sword and flowing garment announcing that Athena was on his side.
I began teaching freshman English just after the Korean war when people were afraid of brain washing. A pamphlet on how to spot propaganda was
written in WWII and later used in those classes.
For years, logic, argument, and propaganda anlysis was standard fare in the second freshman semester. In a Montgomery County, MD jr.college, each freshman wrote fifteen essays, analyzing advertising, various religious statements, and
arguments pro and con. Rhetoric used to be the backbone of learning how to understand the world.
Today's students are up for grabs by any person who can manipulate words and the silver screen.
Heated conversations among educated and informed speakers used to be a favorite pastime, now reduced to shouting matches.
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Remember my hero Woodrow Wilson
[Read the article: The Democrats' anti-momentum]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]As a child around 10, I saw a movie about Woodrow
Wilson--and fell in love.
For one thing, he looked lot like my Daddy and his brothers: tall, well dressed, courtly, and always courteous to the ladies.
I could not articulate what my feelings were when
we were at or near the end of WWII, but Wilson's
way of speaking seemed to lift up a transcendent vision very much unlike the war I had known since
six years old.
I spent my dime in the picture show and watched the cowboy show to see Wilson again. He was the pin up in my bedroom. I was already familiar with Uncle Ed's helmet and gas mask.
When Wilson's Repulican Senator made a rip roaring
speech aginst Wilson's vision of a better world,
I cride, just as I did when I thought I had aimed at a blue jay but killed a robin. The speech was not supposed to be aimed that way.
Obama is the man who entrances the crowds from the back platform of his campaign train. A chicken in every pot, an end to war, a car in the garage. His charisma is irrestiable.
Enter Hillary, smiling and pressing the flesh,but
tired and a bit puffy around the eyes. While Obama is lifted up, Hillary shoulders years of knowing how things fall in--or out of-- place in the most inexplicable ways. A lithe young Lockenspur and a tired intellectual, which opponent will make us weep?
Will a dueling pistol or a double barrel shot gun find the mark that mkes us weep?
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hillary the last of the piloried women
[Read the article: The GOP attack plan for Hillary Clinton]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Bottom Line: men are afraid of women
they do not like smart women
they need compliant women's support
woe betide the woman who out does
a man
If Hillary is the candidate and wins
the world will tilt on its axis
THIS IS NOT POLITICS; IT IS PRIMEVAL
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Why did everybody ask?
[Read the article: Why did Clinton wait to release her tax return?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]It stands to reason that a Bill and Hillary are an older couple who have far, far more complicated
documents to file than Obama has.
But, heaven forefend, that is much too simple.
Gotta grind X words for the deadline, why not make
a cause celebre out of this. In fact this may be
one of the only avenues people have taken in order
to seek something, anything about those Clintons.