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Published Letters: 39 Editor's Choice: 1
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To Me, It Is Simple.
[Read the article: Hillary Clinton always comes prepared]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]And we know know that Clinton didn't even read the NIE, which is a patently absurd abdication of her oath to the Constitution.
Either she knew exactly what was going on in the lead-up to Iraq, in which case, her disengenousness and callous disregard for what millions of other (intelligent) people knew is appalling, or she didn't, meaning, she played the fool who is not qualified to be President.
I'm a JFK Liberal, but Hillary Rodham Clinton will NEVER get my vote.
Of course, neither will that disgusting bunch of white men who deign to call themselves "Republicans", either.
If any of you who support Clinton think that she will not totally polarize not only the Democratic Party, but the entire country, you are completely deluding yourselves. Sorry, but that's MHO.
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Short Republican Memory.
[Read the article: Quote of the Day]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Offstage, beforehand, Rove and Bush had had their library tours. According to two eyewitnesses, Rove had shown keen interest in everything he saw, and asked questions, including about costs, obviously thinking about a future Bush library and legacy. "You're not such a scary guy," joked his tour guide. "Yes, I am," Rove replied. Walking away, he muttered deliberately and loudly, "I change Constitutions, I put churches in schools ..." Thus he identified himself as more than the ruthless campaign tactician -- as the invisible hand of power, pervasive and expansive, designing to alter the fundamental American compact.
http://dir.salon.com/story/opinion/blumenthal/2004/11/25/clinton_library/index.html
Not to mention the man engineered TWO STOLEN PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS.
Big talk, indeed.
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Isn't It Interesting?
[Read the article: A tragic legacy]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]You have the nakedness of the fraud that is George W. Bush's Presidency, his lovers, enablers, and the downright ignorant, on the one hand, and then you have, as illustrated by many of the letters here, deeply thoughtful, caring, angry (justly) people, whose minds are greatly free, even within this horrible social system that is American right now, and who remain, to a great degree (though not all), somehow, deeply humanistic, and even optimistic?
After all, with regards to the latter, what choice to we have? Are we just going to give up to the endgame of this NeoLiberalCon movement? Why would we? How would life be worth living?
This is the year 2007. Remember, when we were children, what we thought the future would be like?
This is not it. This is a reality without a future. Its only end is the destruction of humankind.
The Founders were amazing men, gifted in so many ways, and also just men, as you, and I, and others, and Bush, are, but it was their humanity that provided the basis for the document that could yet still save us, the Constitution.
With regards to the latter, what is extremely sad about the current situation is that it is a situation that is so precisely the basis for the Impeachment clause, that we might as well discard the notion that the clause is even valid any longer. Perhaps, as someone pointed out yesterday, for example, as well, that was part of the basis for the absolutely baseless impeachment of Clinton stemming from an illegally taped phone call. There is supposedly no "stomach" for it any longer--except if one asks the American people if they would support impeachment if it could be demonstrated that the War was started through deception (among the countless examples of high crimes and misdemeanours)...
To which we all know the answer.
Anyway, maybe, just maybe, we will survive. Maybe, just maybe, we will have truly said to ourselves at that point, "Never again."
America is really not much great than many other democratic or parliamentary republics or democracies, and indeed, particularly at this point, is amazingly lacking in many, many areas. But if we try; if we hold onto our humanity; if we honor the Constitution and all those that died to defend it; if we recapture our sense of optimism, our sensibilities, our respect for ourselves and others; our ingenuity, our sense of what we had once thought the future might be like; maybe, just maybe, we might survive.
I am given hope by those that I read here, those that still care about what is right, and what has been going on for the last six years that is so horribly, horribly wrong.
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Harrington,
[Read the article: Hillary and Celine, revisited]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]You are slightly, though not totally, incorrect.
Beyond Love Canal, the other prime examples of Gore's "lies" - inspiring the male lead in Love Story and working to create the Internet - also stemmed from a quarrelsome reading of his words, followed by exaggeration and ridicule rather than a fair assessment of how his comments and the truth matched up.
The earliest of these Gore "lies," dating back to 1997, was Gore mentioning a press report that indicated that he and his wife Tipper had served as models for the lead characters in the sentimental bestseller and movie, Love Story.
When the author, Erich Segal, was asked about this, he stated that the preppy hockey-playing male lead, Oliver Barrett IV, indeed was modeled after Gore as well as after Gore's Harvard roommate, actor Tommy Lee Jones. But Segal said the female lead, Jenny, was not modeled after Tipper Gore. [NYT, Dec. 14, 1997]
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/032207I.shtml
With regards to the Theme Song Silliness/Absurdity, it reminds me of when Howard Dean came to New Hampshire before the primary and this feeling of dread came over me as the young Suits ran about the hall and crafted this special Photo-Op of multicultural, multi-aged, multi-union people standing behind Dean as the C-SPAN cameras rolled.
I immediately knew his goose was cooked.
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Voted for Bush?
[Read the article: Bloomberg's ambitions]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Then he is a Schmuck.
Fugettaboutit.
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Interesting Responses.
[Read the article: "Sicko"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]But the film's title is absolutely terrible. Childish.
However, we need a single-payer system. There is no question. 82% of Canadians say their system is fine. And Canada is looking more and more like a beautiful country compared to what we have become.