Letters to the Editor
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Published Letters: 39 Editor's Choice: 1
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Mr. Owen,
[Read the article: White House aides face contempt charges]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Your words are very thoughtful.
Often times we in our neck of the woods think along the same lines. The Republic seems so hopeless at this point. Yet sometimes we let ourselves believe it may survive.
You speak of what is most valuable in life, IMHO; a sense of humanity.
Many human beings have lost that. Which is tragic; in the end, it may be all that we truly have. Life without it, again, IMHO, isn't worth living.
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This is All Bullshit.
[Read the article: Pelosi: It's about the war]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The "partisan perception" meme is complete horseshit. The American people, for the most part, are not even remotely thinking that way.
Though, really, the Constitution, and the oath Pelosi swore, requires impeachment of at least several administration officials, that is not part of Pelosi's grand strategy, which is to let Bush the Albatross destroy the GOP once and for all.
Problem is, Bush may get us all killed in the meantime.
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Fezikz: Others Point to What It Is.
[Read the article: The three stooges]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Most of us realize that the United States has actually become a totalitarian state, not quite as bad as the Soviet Union, but along the lines where we, the intelligentsia (assuming), and the proletariat, are powerless. These people would kill us in an instant were we to try to actually do something. Look at the anthrax [US (only) weapons-grade] letters received by--surprise--Daschle and Leahy around the time of the enactment of terrorism legislation back in 2001, a crime not even on the radar screens of this "Administration."
We've just thrown up our hands and are trying live our lives as we can, hopefully as good people, making our little communities better, loving our friends, and families, and acquaintances. It is all we can do, at this point.
The previous letter writer was also right about 1963 and 1968. Justice, compassion, intelligence and love are enormous threats to the MIC and global hegemony.
Brilliant synopsis of the utter criminality of this unelected dictatorship, Mr. Blumenthal.
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What Man or Woman
[Read the article: America under surveillance]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Or, in this "Administration," Ideologue, decides that you have "nothing to hide?"
Ask the East Germans about the Stasi. They had "good" intentions, too.
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After the Bay of Pigs,
[Read the article: Bush and Gonzales, or the accountability moment that wasn't]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]JFK stood right up and said, "I am the responsible officer of the government, and that is obvious."
Resign, Bush, before you disgrace yourself--actually, amazingly not impossible--and your country even more than you already have.
And shame on you, Democrats. If the sword of Damocles is hanving over your heads, and you don't have the courage to fight it, then you cannot do your job. Resign, as well.
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"President" George W. Bush
[Read the article: Hurricane recovery, Republican-style]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]BUSH: Americans want the Gulf Coast not just to survive, but to thrive; not just to cope, but to overcome.
We want evacuees to come home, for the best of reasons -- because they have a real chance at a better life in a place they love.
When one resident of this city who lost his home was asked by a reporter if he would relocate, he said, "No, I will rebuild, but I will build higher."
That is our vision for the future in this city and beyond. We'll not just rebuild, we'll build higher and better.
To meet this goal, I will listen to good ideas from Congress and state and local officials and the private sector.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/15/AR2005091502252.html
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"Democratically Elected Government?"
[Read the article: Three for 18]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]How can you have a functioning Democracy when one-third of the population boycotts the election and the security situation is so unstable that the candidates names are not even known until you see the ballot?
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And, Oh, Please.
[Read the article: The scruffy charms of an insecure president]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The people here who write so eloquently and thoughtfully "can't hold a candle to the intelligence of George W. Bush?"
I guess his intelligence is so keen, so powerful, that is why he speaks in the tongue of some arrogant shithead dunce who makes you embarassed to be a man and a human being.
Hating the fact that we have one of the most demonstrably unqualified men, never even duly elected, to hold one of the most powerful offices in history, and as demostrated by the massive damage to this country is not "Bush Hatred." It is patriotism. Just ask Theodore Roosevelt.
"The President is merely the most important among a large number of public servants. He should be supported or opposed exactly to the degree which is warranted by his good conduct or bad conduct, his efficiency or inefficiency in rendering loyal, able, and disinterested service to the Nation as a whole. Therefore it is absolutely necessary that there should be full liberty to tell the truth about his acts, and this means that it is exactly necessary to blame him when he does wrong as to praise him when he does right. Any other attitude in an American citizen is both base and servile. To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public. Nothing but the truth should be spoken about him or any one else. But it is even more important to tell the truth, pleasant or unpleasant, about him than about any one else."
"Roosevelt in the Kansas City Star", 149
May 7, 1918
http://www.theodoreroosevelt.org/life/Quotes.htm
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Anonymous,
[Read the article: "The Nine"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Souter may be a liberal conservative, but he is not a liberal Democrat, not that there can be anything wrong with either.
The right wing has simply strayed so far to the right that he might be demonized as a "liberal" for adjudicating basically with plain good sense and a healthy respect for the Constitution.
Though Kelo v. New London is a bit of a mystery, unless we ascribe it to NeoLiberal tendencies.
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Four Words:
[Read the article: King Kaufman's Sports Daily]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"If I Did It"
Yeah, Simpson couldn't possibly have killed his wife and her lover. How anyone could believe otherwise is beyond me.
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They Can Try, Mr. Owen.
[Read the article: Joe Lieberman and three Republicans]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]But, I guarantee you, there are a shitload of New Englanders who share Mr. Henry's sentiments, exactly and rather precisely. It'll be about as easy as, say, subjugating Iraq.
As for a recall, no; only expulsion from within the Senate.
And Lierberman can indeed burn in hell, the rat bastard traitor.