Letters to the Editor
Uncle Fester
Published Letters: 1506 Editor's Choice: 13
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@odog11 So, what's your point?
[Read the article: Who wants to be a Democrat?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]That Obama is a politician? That he has associations with questionable people?
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KcM Can't Win?
[Read the article: Geraldine Ferraro still needs to apologize]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]So you think Hillary is only waiting around for Obama to step in doo, or to stage a coup?
I agree it would be nice to have some more tags. < table > would be great for all these numbers.
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@dawg
[Read the article: Who wants to be a Democrat?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]my point is that Obama is campaigning on the fact he's "not" a politician. That he's about change from the status quo. "Change we can believe in".
Ok, I think we're getting somewhere, at least from my perspective. You're presupposing a certain naivette on behalf of Obama and/or his supporters. I don't think that is true at all. For starters, you should check out the Audacity of Hope (get it from the library or borrow it if you don't want to send any money to the dude). Obama talks about being a politican and the forces that act upon any politician. It's pretty well written. So he knows he is a politician.
And I know he is a politician. The Obama message is not "Obama is not a politican, he's a rock star, a messianic figure". That's a media creation or a slur by opponents to obscure something else: Obama's a politican that wants to change how we do politics. That's all. Last century politics changed so that women and blacks got the vote. That's a big change, but it didn't herald the return of the Garden of Eden.
So I think you are jousting at windmills.
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@KcM: Sorry, My Bad
[Read the article: Geraldine Ferraro still needs to apologize]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"I don't think FL & MI will be accepted as is, and there is no guarantee a new vote will give any better results."
I should have said, better results for Hillary. I think I agree with your current analysis, but I'm leery of predicting the future. And certainly not on the web, for free! Every once in awhile some crazy non linear shit happens.
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Playing the one String guitar
[Read the article: Who wants to be a Democrat?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]When you play with a one string guitar, you will not get a symphony.
You will get a lot of forehead slamming punk rock.
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KateTex C'mon Kate
[Read the article: Geraldine Ferraro still needs to apologize]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Don't you see how easily your words are flipped around:
[...] in fact the reality, that a huge number of Americans don't favor [Candidate X] for a variety of reasons, all of them valid in their own minds, the great majority of them likely having nothing at all to do with hatred. Like so many [Candidate Y] supporters, you're sitting in moral judgment on anyone and everyone who supports anyone other than [Candidate X]. The rollout of what's looking more and more like Crusades 2.0 is making some of us more than a bit queasy.
I know there a plenty of idiots out there, more than enough to go around. Some people in this very thread think their entire life has been repudidated due to criticism (warranted or not) of Ferraro and failure to vote for Hillary.
I happen to know that at least 9M voted for Hillary over Obama. That doesn't make them Obama Haters. Trying to count the kooks on the internet and separate them from 'the normal' people, doesn't sound like a fruitful undertaking to me. Try looking at the posts on Politico.com. I'm crossing my fingers that's not a represntative sample!
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Greed is good!
[Read the article: Who wants to be a Democrat?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Always good to hear from you Shawn. So you have no problem with Clinton and his $450,000 speach in the UAE? I don't. It warms my heart when others share the light of their reason to shepherd those of limp intellect through this oh so nasty world.
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There's the way it is, and the way it oughta be.
[Read the article: Geraldine Ferraro still needs to apologize]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]So you're saying we're better off with the guy America would rather have had a beer with than his wonky opponent, Al Gore the Bore?
Seeing reality for the way it is, is not agreeing with it.
American Idol gets more viewers than the presidential debates.It may not be right or smart, but it's true. It's certainly a hell of a way to run a country. I always liked Harry Truman (one of my favorite historical presidents) and thought he had a tremendous force of personality. It was just in an everyman persona, rather than a patrician like FDR.
As for Al Gore, I thought his best speech of that campaign was his last. Makes me wonder if he really wanted it. Just where was that Al Gore hiding?
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Obama the Chameleon of Fear
[Read the article: Who wants to be a Democrat?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]When Obama was living in Indonesia, they said he was muslim.
When Obama was raised by white grandparents, they said he wasn't black enough.
When Obama goes to church, they say he's a closet black militant.
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@maureen America, land that I love
[Read the article: Geraldine Ferraro still needs to apologize]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]You [libertyson] seem to be suggesting that Barack Obama has solved the riddle of the sphinx, That's so literal that it cannot be your meaning so you seem to be implying, by mentioning psychology, that one of the candidates has an Oedipus complex or maybe it's an Electra complex.
I think you missed out on a prior post where such psychological analysis did take place and Oedipus was involved. Athene and Apollo have always been my faves, so I sat that one out.
I'm certainly learning. American politicians need spiritual mentors to "bring me to Jesus" or to tell them about the way, the truth and the light, as John McCain also feels the need for some other windbag preacher to endorse him.
That reminds me of one of my favorite Aussie jokes: "The Brits sent all the religous nuts to America, and all the criminals to Australia. The Australians got the better part of the deal". Yes, this is another statistic where poor Hillary is falling further and further behind. Obama only has one militant black preacher endorsement, while McCain has Hagee, who, in classic Protestant tradition, has called the Catholic church, the "Great Whore"; and Parsley, who claims it the destiny of America to crusade against all muslims in a global deathmatch. Hillary needs to close this gap ASAP.
Noble prize winner Richard Feynman and Nancy Reagan came from Queens, so the history of the area is a bit more complex than portrayed.