Letters to the Editor
Uncle Fester
Published Letters: 1346 Editor's Choice: 12
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Except
[Read the article: Rev. Jeremiah Wright isn't the problem]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]If the average poster showed as much distain and complaint for their employer as they do their country, most would be unemployable.
The country is supposed to be working for the citizens, not the citizens for the country.
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WES Coattails argument
[Read the article: How the long primary battle helps Democrats]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Like congressional republicans are not going to use every device and tactic to try and block anything a President Obama tries to do..
This plays into the coattails argument. Which candidate is most likely to help bring the numbers of democratic senators to 60 and to increase the majority in the house?
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Money better spent elsewhere?
[Read the article: How the long primary battle helps Democrats]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]A counter argument could be made that all the money spent ad-buying in the media (a large portion of any campaign expenditures), could be better put to use in get-out-the vote and register campaigns, with funds left over for the general. I realise that there is a make 'lemonade out of lemons' perspective here, but that's no reason to keep buying lemons. Unless you really enjoy the taste.
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@Ricardo Have to wonder
[Read the article: Clinton: Wright "would not have been my pastor"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]If people have gotten carried away at this point. Are the antics of Rev Wright the best way to decide this campaign? Hillary has come out with an economic plan. Obama is giving a speech on economics on Thursday. I'll bet there's going to be some differences between them. Hillary wants to put Greenspan and Rubin on her team. I always liked Rubin's strong dollar policy, but I'm less sure about Greenspan, especially after his bogus ARM advice.
No, let's talk garlic instead One of my favourite fruits!
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Brunhilde
[Read the article: How the long primary battle helps Democrats]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I see WES as playing an aging James Dean or Brando outsider role with his iconic drive by postings (which I find quite funny and astute at times). If you start agreeing with him, he will think he is doing something wrong.
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WES: That's why we love you, baby!
[Read the article: How the long primary battle helps Democrats]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]And it takes an artiste to maintain your concise posting style.
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Adults stepping in? Unlikely
[Read the article: How the long primary battle helps Democrats]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]But the next best thing is you can go to house.gov or senate.gov and send a message to your congresscritters/super delegates and tell them why you think Obama or Hillary is snatching defeat from the jaws of victory.
I just hope some adult steps in soon, and throws enough wieght behind Obama that she loses big enough to get the picture.
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Total Crap 3
[Read the article: A boom in Democratic registrations]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Starring Shawn as the Refutin'nator
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Well Shawn
[Read the article: A boom in Democratic registrations]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Unlike you, I never claim to be the mouthpiece speaking for a vast majority. Speaking for myself is badass enough for me. I don't have to hide behind anyone. One day you claim Obama supporters are fruitloop far lefters, the next that they are all Republicans. That tends to detract from your credibility. If you toned down the bullshit that you speak on behalf of millions, people might actually listen to what you have to say.
And can't you tell that different people are posting based on their use of the English language?
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Noticed by the editors
[Read the article: The GOP attack plan for Hillary Clinton]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Any insight into the business about not having been noticed by the editors? I didn't understand that reference.
If the high and holy editors, those founts of unceasing wisdom and knowledge, and tributaries of limitless awareness, deign to recognise your post as having above average merit, they place a star next to it. Thus you become a star-bellied Sneetch, with a stars-upons-thars. The rest, remain plain ordinary Sneetches (with apologies to Dr. Suess).
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@weeping for brunnhilde Who is Slyvester McMonkey McBean?
[Read the article: The GOP attack plan for Hillary Clinton]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Well, I'm starting to find these threads quite surreal. All hand to hand combat and trench warfare over a nameless hill with little strategic value ala Hamburger Hill. Getting hard to take some of these posts seriously, even though the stakes are dire.
Now, the Star-Bell Sneetches had bellies with stars.
The Plain-Belly Sneetches had none upon thars.
Those stars weren’t so big. They were really so small.
You might think such a thing wouldn’t matter at all.
But, because they had stars, all the Star-Belly Sneetches
Would brag, “We’re the best kind of Sneetch on the beaches.”
With their snoots in the air, they would sniff and they’d snort
“We’ll have nothing to do with the Plain-Belly sort!”
And, whenever they met some, when they were out walking,
They’d hike right on past them without even talking.
http://www.barnabasministry.com/quotes-sneeches.html
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@madamfauntleroy stars upon thars
[Read the article: The GOP attack plan for Hillary Clinton]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]How do I know you really got a star? Maybe you went through the star-on machine? I'm getting ready to go through the star-off machine myself. Stars are so passe.
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Being constructive
[Read the article: How the long primary battle helps Democrats]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]...how to be constructive about such sentiments, or where to go from here?
Well, ended up 'tearing up' my first post. The short 50,000 foot answer is that we need a break with the past. For a certain period of our history, the scales of justice will never be balanced. Our task is to see if they can be more balanced during our times. We need to expose the 'its ok when my side does it because the other side does it too' thinking for what it is. An excuse.
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Shaun of the dead: Rocks!
[Read the article: How the long primary battle helps Democrats]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0365748/
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More Numbers from Exit polls
[Read the article: A boom in Democratic registrations]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Crunched a few numbers from the exit polls (link below) from the start of the race until Mississippi. Sorry, didn't include all contests or independents. I'll leave that to someone else.
The '%' is the total percentage of the vote (repubicans were 3% of total vote in IA). These numbers do show a big jump in the percentage of republicans voting for Hillary post Wisconsin, especially in MS.
It's an open question as to why
- ST % Hillary Obama
- IA 3 10 44
- NH 3 0 0
- SC 4 20 37
- IL 6 36 60
- NY 3 0 0
- CA 3 0 0
- VA 7 23 72
- MO 6 21 75
- MD 3 0 0
- WI 9 28 72
- TX 9 46 53
- OH 9 49 49
- MS 12 75 25
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21660890/
Sorry for the evil formatting.
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Influence those supers
[Read the article: Reid, Pelosi get entangled in the presidential race]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The superdelegates were created to use their independent judgment. That's what the rules say.
I say that it is highly improper for her [Pelosi] to attempt to influence the superdelegates in any way until that time [at the convention].
I'm certainly trying to influence my superdelegates, though it's probably just pissing into the wind.
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soopergrover@ One way or another
[Read the article: How the long primary battle helps Democrats]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The Clinton power monopoly is being put to the test. I bet that the DNC is eyeing the Obama fundraising machine (with close to 2M donors) and asking themselves how they can take it over.