Letters to the Editor
Uncle Fester
Published Letters: 1346 Editor's Choice: 12
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Smith: Dreams
[Read the article: Moving beyond Obama and race]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The real history we have a chance to make is an utter repudiation of Republican power. My dream -- its a very big one -- is that Texas would actually go Democratic.
That's a good dream. Maybe you're right and it would have been easiest to elect Edwards in the general. Maybe he should have stayed in until Feb 5. And I don't really understand why him and the others didn't do a little better. Perhaps Hillary and Obama sucked all the air out the campaign.
I guess I'm saying that after NC the dems were pretty much stuck with either Obama or Hillary. Now the party has to deal with it.
I'm talking to friends who know solid democrats in the FL panhandle, and they won't vote for either Hillary (woman) or Obama (black). That's just how it is. There are plenty of posters here claiming to vote for McCain and the increasingly apparent forever war, if their fave candidate doesn't make it, though they could just be trolls. So I think we just have to gird our loins and look for replacement voters. There's plenty of people who haven't voted to choose from.
P.S. Do you think Richardson puts Texas in play? He says endorsements don't matter and he's too busy growing his beard to be VP, but I think that's the usual political BS
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Wagner: It's like Shakespeare. (OT)
[Read the article: Moving beyond Obama and race]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I'll see if I can track down a recording. It's a long way from Rainbow Bridge to the Contralto.
I always liked Shakespeare, though I agree it takes work to understand at a deeper level. Maybe because his iambic pentameter and story telling is so badass, you don't have to understand it 100% to be hooked.
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Who's saying what: Searching Salon letters
[Read the article: Moving beyond Obama and race]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I did a little poking around the Salon letters archive and retrieved letters based on simple keyword searches:
ageist 58 results
bush 293,011 results
cheney 16,183 results
cunt 255 results
cunt hillary 156 results
cult Obama 2,385 results
elvis 509 results (control)
mcCain 173,887 results
misogynist 701 results
misogynist obama 701 results
racist 38 results results
racist hillary 3,859 results
racist obama 7,101 results
sexist 3281 results
sexist hillary 2,043 results
sexist obama 3,291 results
What's lacking here is context, though it's hard to see any favorable context for "cunt hillary" or "cult Obama".
An Example from "Racist Obama"
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Clarity, and Opportunity
Letter in response to: "Jonah Goldberg and Glenn Reynolds warn of "social unraveling" if Obama loses"
... these "conservatives" on their coded, and not-so-coded, racist attacks on Obama. ... that means confronting racist smears against Barack Obama, and, as we ...
By Valkyrie607
Jan-06-2008
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@Anonymous
Letter in response to: "What's the Obama campaign's position on superdelegates?"
... guess none of you naive, racist Obama supporters can recognize simple facts ... Obama's speech ... Obama's faith in the reasoning abilities of the ...
By Xrandadu Hutman
Feb-14-2008
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Do we have a Feudal System or a Constitutional Republic?
[Read the article: Report: Richardson to endorse Obama]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Why else would he betray the Clintons?
What's up with that? Bill Richardson is now indentured to Laird Clinton?
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@Maureen Of course we are the centre of the Universe
[Read the article: Moving beyond Obama and race]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]America is not the centre of the universe and there are millions of white people in the world
We're not?
America is an eternal dream in the mind of God. Oops, wait a minute. That was Rome. Sorry. We are a shining city on a hill in the center of the universe. No? I can bearly find New Jersey or New York from here. They make good Guinness in Ireland. Is that a city in Pennslyvania? No matter where we go, there we are, and we can't find anywhere else.
If you want to understand American politics, you need to understand that due to the size of our country and some historical factors, a lot of us are pretty self-absorbed and consider different parts of the country like the midwest and california to be foreign lands. Real foreign lands, for those of us who don't travel, are just vactions seen on T.V.
So trying to single out Obama for not including the whole world in his phraseology is silly from an American standpoint. And a more inclusive world viewpoint would leave him dangerously open to charges from the opposition of being weak, socialist and well, European.
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@manos Spartacus (OT)
[Read the article: Moving beyond Obama and race]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Yes, "Rome is an eternal dream [thought] in the mind of God is from Spartacus, though I seem to recall it from elsewhere. I've wasted enough time trying to google it down. There seems to be some reference to Augustine of Hippo, but I can't find a quote. The Romans certainly considered Rome the eternal city, and still do.
I think there are quite a number of interesting parallels between Rome and America, but that's another post. Suffice to say I thought the shared hubris sufficient to riff off of when describing our political mindspace. The transitional period between Republican and Imperial Rome is worth a second look today (hint hint), especially during election season. Rubicon is a worthy read on that subject.
Spartacus was definitely an old school Hollywood flick!
Rubicon by Tom Holland: http://www.amazon.com/Rubicon-Last-Years-Roman-Republic/dp/1400078970/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1206247207&sr=8-1
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A cynical view
[Read the article: Moving beyond Obama and race]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I find it interesting that people that say all kind of platitudes about Martin Luther King, faced with a black man who is not dreaming [...]
Martin Luther King, just like Ghandi, is safely dead, dreaming the dreams of the dead. Actually trying to get something done back here on planet Earth is a whole other ballgame.
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Well.
[Read the article: Moving beyond Obama and race]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Thanks man, you're a cool cat of boundless humor and humanity.
Your most welcome. Just trying to take it not too seriously, otherwise I'd have to stick my head in the bowl and flush repeatedly. Fester may have shaved his head, but he's not really the best of monks.
P.S.
All you of complaining about Obama and/or Hillary: McCain is probably not the best choice if you are a non-authoritarian type (some dems are). Something to keep in mind whilst the Obama Hillary deathmatch continues.
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@blonde one Steve Doocy (OT)
[Read the article: Moving beyond Obama and race]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Hey, maybe brown-haired-guy-who's-not-Steve-Doocy will become editor here! Just think of the unbiased reportage!
I finally saw Steve Doocy the other day, while viewing a clip of that brown-haired-guy-who's-not-Steve-Doocy walk off the set. Steve Doocy is a Dick!