Letters to the Editor
Uncle Fester
Published Letters: 1346 Editor's Choice: 12
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Do I really want to go there
[Read the article: Reexamining the Ferraro fracas]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Did I really understand the implications of what I wrote? Oh No! Where do I think judgement comes from? Does it arise, ab initio, from a vacuous space? Does it spring like Athena from the forehead of Zeus, fully armored?
I would call that a softball pitch and I'm looking for you to hit it out of the park. I'm expecting the badass Tejas Smith, not the coy questioning Smith, or Sacharrine Smith the faux Obama alcolyte (when you disappeared for a bit I was afraid that all that sweetness had rotted your veins).
Do you still think the constitution doesn't matter? That we don't need an advocate for it? We may have already crossed the Rubicon. It's only a republic if we can keep it.
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@won'tgetfooledagain LBJ was self inflicted disaster
[Read the article: Geraldine Ferraro still needs to apologize]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Obama and his supporters let the racial genie out of the bottle with their unwarranted attacks on Hillary Clinton for factual, pertinent statements about LBJ's role in passing historic civil rights legislation.
I don't see how it is possible to think that anybody can critize or diminish a mythical hero like MLK and not expect to land in major doo.
It doesn't matter if it's true or not. Sorry. People don't want to be told their heros are mortals. An Astute politician should understand this.
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@Smith What?
[Read the article: Reexamining the Ferraro fracas]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]as long as you don't argue in Broadsheet, as some are doing, that the mentally retarded should be euthanized.
What?
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@pageiger The Full Context
[Read the article: Reexamining the Ferraro fracas]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Ferraro's comments, though not racist when read in full context
I genuinely don't know if Ferraro's comments are racist are not. But a lot of apologists have explained away any 'problems' by saying we just have to look at the full context. What is that context? Is it like a sekret decoder ring? I read the entire original article from the da breeze. It's online. Her subsequent statements did little to clarify her position other than to say it wasn't her fault and she's being persecuted for truth telling.
To me her words mean that Obama is only where he is due to his blackness. His other talents and experiences aren't enough. That's a lot different than saying his being black has had some advantages.
Also, I don't quite get your 1865 analogy, though it intrigues me and sounds like a weird karmic echo. It's a little too late on my side of the planet, so I might be suffering from a brain freeze. Are you saying we better watch it or we'll end up with nothing?
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@ UberBlonde and James65 Inside Baseball
[Read the article: Reexamining the Ferraro fracas]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]It's interesting that due to your experience with campaigns that you think Ferraro's comments are an inside-baseball moment gone awry. I would welcome any additional details. You may indeed have superior insight to the situation, but the rest of us must draw conclusions based upon the information we have at hand. This situation brewed over a period of days, so there was ample time for clarification; clarification that was not forthcoming. Everybody knows that Obama is black, but a lot of us in the great unwashed horde think that his success is due more to his oratory, his message, and his campaign groundgame than his skin color.
Random quote from the dead:
Napoleon was asked whether he preferred courageous generals or brilliant generals. Neither, he replied; he preferred lucky generals.
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@WES The long and the short of it
[Read the article: Obama can't win general election, Clinton advisor says]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Hutman
You should thank me for doing short posts.....That prevents you from having to go through your normal ritual of pathologically quoting and responding to 25 points. --WES
Few of us are artistes of your calibier. I envy your brevity. Perhaps you are indeed the soul of wit.
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Things that go bump in the night on Talk Radio
[Read the article: Obama can't win general election, Clinton advisor says]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I predict that he won't be elected, because the Rethuglican machine will use, to their advantage, a long list of "scary" things to frighten the masses into submission -- and it will be an easy task, given the available fodder. Not saying I agree with it, but's that's the reality.
You guys really need to listen to Talk Radio if you think there's going to be much difference between Hillary and Obama slimage. You can start here at www.969FMTalk.com 3-7pm EST.
The only difference is that the Hillary Hatred has surged and grown for over a decade and they're having to re-tool for Obama.
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@ShawnWM LBJ v MLK
[Read the article: Ferraro resigns from Clinton campaign]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Shawn, I'm sure you know that LBJ met with MLK several times. I think it is absurd to say that shifting the viewpoint of an entire nation is 'just making speeches'. There is a a MLK day, there is not an LBJ day.
Let's not forget the downside of LBJ either such as his connections to Texas Oil and his escalation of vietnam so that he we wouldn't look weak against Goldwater. I haven't forgotten.
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@SueNJ Bitter Old Women?
[Read the article: Geraldine Ferraro still needs to apologize]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]However, it's also the case that they have been told by many younger Obama supporters, and by many people who openly support him in the media that they are just bitter old women who want to grab power, now, and really, what discrimination did they ever face except they weren't paid the same as men? They never really contributed much that was useful to society, after all. An entire generation of women are been told they are, basically, irrelevant.
As somebody who is in the middle in terms of age, I see things a little differently. Feminists have been successful enough so that while equality has not been achieved, children have grown up in a radically different society from the 50's and 60's. They don't and can't understand the past other than as war stories. They live in a different world. And this has caused lots of frustration. No older warrior wants to consider her mortality, but everyone must put down the sword at some point, or at least change tactics.
And yes, the younger generation is usually rude and abrupt about seizing the reins of power.
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Wright IS Important?
[Read the article: Carville wants resignation cease-fire]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Yes, I know you think so. You and others keep posting this again and again and again. How helpful. I've already watched one of the several internet videos on this guy.
I'll see your angry black preacher, and raise you one armageddeon parsley.