Letters to the Editor
Uncle Fester
Published Letters: 1346 Editor's Choice: 12
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@rphillips111 You're comparing Mein Kampf to Audacity of Hope?
[Read the article: The GOP attack plan for Hillary Clinton]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Brilliant! Hilter wrote his book in jail while Obama wrote his while a state legislator. The parallels are obvious!
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Chris Matthews is not a journalist and he doesn't play one on TV
[Read the article: How the long primary battle helps Democrats]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]For all his faults (and there are many), Chris is pretty open about his bias. I don't consider Hardball to be a news show. It's commentary. So I can put up with that.
Olbermann is the one who I think is a less upfront about things like that.
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@madam et al Contrast
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]We will have to wait until he is elected to discover Obama's real agenda. And that might be too late, as it was in Germany under Hitler and most assuredly Russia under Lenin. -- Some other crazy poster
Thought I would provide a little contrast on multiple fronts. Yes, there's been a big power grab under the guise of the unitary executive. But that doesn't mean things can't swing back the other way either. And I think a lot of our bad empire building habits are not sustainable anyways. All the work that the neo-cons have struggled to perform to cement American hegemony seem to be only hastening the decline of our Empire.
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Changing society
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]Thanks for the reference to Saul Alinsky! Everybody wants to change society and remake in their own image of perfection. We've had other great speakers like TR, FDR, and JFK, and made it through. So throwing Hilter and Stalin in there is a bit much for me. Especially with the checks and balances in our system that still work after 200 years. Not exactly equivalent to post 1918 Russia or Germany post WWI.
I know most people find this boring, but I think the fact that Obama taught constitutional law at U. Chicago to be significant. I think he will turn to the founders to seek guidance, not socialists; although many of the founders viewpoints are not now popular and polls bear this out. And I'm one of those types who think that the middle class in America is set up to be hosed due to large structural economic reasons that may not be in the US soveriegn interest long term.
Here's an always non-definitive wikipedia blurb about Alinsky and Hillary:
Alinsky was the subject of Hillary Rodham's senior honors thesis at Wellesley College, "There Is Only The Fight...": An Analysis of the Alinsky Model.[8] Rodham commented on Alinsky's "charm," but noted that “one of the primary problems of the Alinsky model is that the removal of Alinsky dramatically alters its composition." [8] Later, in her 2003 biography, "Living History" Clinton notes that although she agreed with some of his ideas, "particularly the value of empowering people to help themselves" they had a fundamental disagreement: "He believed could change the system only from the outside. I didn't." [8] Once Hillary Rodham Clinton became First Lady of the United States, the thesis was suppressed by the White House for fear of being associated too closely with Alinsky's ideas.[9]
http://letters.salon.com/news/feature/2008/03/26/hillary/new/form.html
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@unschooler Right On to that!
[Read the article: How the long primary battle helps Democrats]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I don't think so much about a person should be explained by their gender and by gender politics. We are way too complex a product of the interplay between our genes and environment for that
That's a nugget of gold
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Oh Please
[Read the article: Reid, Pelosi get entangled in the presidential race]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]It's an on-going willfull attempt to stifle all intelligent discourse and to try to intimidate participation.
If I had one vote to boot someone off this silly little Island, it wouldn't be Tom Payne. I'd rather have a foul-tounged jester with a golden heart than sanctimonious bullshit artists, fear mongerers, and concern trolls.
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@madam Homework?
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]And no cheat sheet?
I typically peg the rise of the Islamic extremists (at least the Whahabists) to the rise of Saudi Arabia. The free flowing petro dollars made it easy to establish wahabi madrassa in many Muslim countries, and choke out the traditional main stream sects. Have you heard of the Great Theft by Khaled M Abou El Fadl? A good discussion on this topic.
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@Madam Starting to remember these dudes
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]political radicalism, which started in Egypt
The pan-islamacists, If I remember. Didn't nationalism and dudes like Nassar do them in? I thought Saddam was along those lines, if only as a rationale for him becoming the reincarnation of al-Saladin.
I remember reading Fouad Ajami's the Arab Predicament at some point, but the content is off-line somewhere in the lower synapses.
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The Real Deal is part of the problem
[Read the article: How the long primary battle helps Democrats]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]And you're right that even his supporters are going to be disappointed with him when he doesn't toe some party line on something, and he's already been accused of being "too centrist" or "selling out". They aren't seeing the big picture of what he is trying to do.
Too many people are already asking themselves, "How do I work this". That's Hillary's situation in a nutshell.
I found the section on the Constitution in the Audacity of Hope to be most inspiring, but I think it might be disturbing to some. Beyond certain unalienable rights endowed by our creator, there's no guarantee to a stream of pork.
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Ever since the enlightenment
[Read the article: Reid, Pelosi get entangled in the presidential race]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The US has been a hotbed of radicalism. Concepts such as ixnay on the devine right of kings, life, liberty and the persuit of happiness.
Suppose that's why I think we're not quite dead yet.
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@lj May I (with pinkie extended)
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]Might we then make the same generalization about Obama's supporters? Hmmm, Kansas?
Not only might I, I certainly will. I will make the same generalization about everybody: All Childish!
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Fester's always here to help
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]You know that. One fork in the road leads to dispair. The other to not taking it all so seriously. Late at night, the ephemeral curtains of the world part, and one can see clearly that life's too short to waste on bullshit.
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@madam thanks for the links
[Read the article: Reid, Pelosi get entangled in the presidential race]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I will peruse them.
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Feared at home and abroad
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]Our true ideals, self determination, life, liberty and the persuit of happiness, and the idea that no one is beholden to another man, country or corporate entity that sucks the lifeforce dry, are certainly feared abroad by many who seek to use others for their own ends. But our ideals also feared here as well, as no nation has a shortage of the power-hungry. The founders were hip to that. We just need to remember.