Letters to the Editor
Uncle Fester
Published Letters: 1506 Editor's Choice: 13
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@maureenodonnell
[Read the article: Obama should be proud to be named Hussein]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Has hypothesis now become fact, even if the hypothesis makes no sense at all?
You are posting on an American site, after all. Lot's of us do three hypothetically impossible things before breakfast. Are you sure the Hanoverians had no connections (however indirect) to the Spanish royalty and thus the moors?
I really don't know myself. The European royals have been much too promiscous for me to keep up with their family trees. I lose track after William of Orange.
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Cease fire with Reductionist B.S.
[Read the article: Is Obama playing the race card?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]If the only analytic tools we have are sexism and rascism we're not gonna get very far beyond filling pages and pages of Salon letters and maybe tenure at Princeton.
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@heathen Bias
[Read the article: Are Barack Obama and John McCain hypocrites?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I don't see how being both literate and published removes one from claims of being biased. But then I tend to see everyone as biased about something. Hamilton and Jefferson were certainly biased, disagreed strongly at times, and remain our Founding Fathers.
But I think that you are hearing what you want to hear about Obama's campaign pledge, rather than what he has actually said. Obama is not going to unconditionally enter into a suicide pact:
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Under a draft proposal released Thursday by the Federal Election Commission, Sen. Barack Obama would be allowed to raise private funds for the 2008 presidential general election while keeping open the option of returning that money should he later decide to accept public funding
http://www.cnn.com/POLITICS/blogs/politicalticker/2007/02/fec-may-allow-obama-to-preserve-public.html
will aggressively pursue an agreement with the Republican nominee to preserve a publicly financed general election.
http://www.midwestdemocracynetwork.org/templates/media/MDNPresidentialQuestionnaire.pdf
Finally, I've thought CNN had a Clinton bias, and that MSBNC now has an Obama bias. But that's my bias for you.
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Twilight Headline?
[Read the article: Hillary at twilight]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I thought the headline the clever part. Nobody knows yet if the twilight will lead to a new dawn or if darkness will fall. But the article itself, Hillary is a fighter, and she is fighting now. Not exactly advancing the story...
Maybe Salon should lighten up on the political coverage until there is actually something to report. There is plenty of other stuff to write about. Turkey is invading northern Iraq, what about post-election Pakistan. Is that surge really working?
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@barrister89: NAFTA means fewer illegal immigrants?
[Read the article: Bush chides Clinton, Obama]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Mexico continues to develop economically and prosper under the agreement, which should mean in the future fewer illegal immigrants streaming accross our borders to find a way to feed their
Not everyone agrees with the above statement. In fact the opposite could be true. Farmers in Mexico are rioting because they say they can't compete with subsidized corn from US and Canadian argi-business imported into Mexico under NAFTA.
http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5hDUCfa3JCjUuDZcRUdkTGGP3dRvg
Mexico's New Bumper Crop: More Illegal Immigrants?
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/laplaza/2008/02/mexicos-new-bum.html
NAFTA is essential to the future prosperity of out continent its passage was hard fought by George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton. It may well stand as one of Bill Clinton's greatest accomplishments in office.
All trade deals like NAFTA and MFN for China have unintended consequences. And yes, I can't be as absolutist as you because my magic 8-ball sez "Reply Hazy, try again later"
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@ljwalker53 Incessant Campaign to squelch process?
[Read the article: Obama's got ground game]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Obama's followers should a) stop the incessant campaign to squelch this process [...]
Do you have any links to support this? I'm not searching the entire internets, but based on what I'm reading here in the letters most Obama supporters, with exceptions, think Hillary should stay in at least until March 5th, if not longer.
Yes, there are knuckleheads in the media like Alter saying that Hillary should get out. It sounds a little bitter to extend that into a vast left wing (or bong smoking wing) Obama acolyte conspiracy.