Letters to the Editor
tom payne
Published Letters: 1101 Editor's Choice: 3
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bohica
[Read the article: Quote of the day: Obama on Clinton ]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]gabby picked her own name. flabby is gender neutral; I know because I am, somewhat. Midol brigade is Hillary's core constituency. Are you humor impaired? Constipated? Watch any evening of mainstream tee vee (if you can stand it; I can't) and check the sexual stereotyping on both genders, or ageism, for that matter. Cant' get it up, big boy? Viagra, you limp old fart. So don't hand me the Steinham crap. I was raised by a strong woman who will be 88 in three days, have been married to a strong woman for almost 38 years, and we raised two brillIant beautiful professional women who are 35 and 32, respectively, and haven't needed Daddy's protection since they were about twelve. In our family, the women don't take assertiveness training; they give it. A gender neutral orifice reference comes to mind, but, hoping vainly for sanity and peace, I will forego it. love, heywood
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Deep
[Read the article: Quote of the day: Obama on Clinton ]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Let's see. Obama is five years older than JFK was when he was elected in '60. Lincoln had been a serial loser in elections, dropped out of politics for several years, and was a compromise candidate at the 1860 election. Obama was president of the Harvard Law Review. He hardly quavers at the thought of debating Hillary and her serial spouting of "35 years" and "day one". Yes, she's qualified. So is he. She energizes the cracker/fascist base like no one else. He does not. He draws independents and young voters in droves. She does not. 16 years of her claimed experience was as the wife of an elected official. How sexist is that? Straight up: I will vote for Hillary, and have some residual respect for her despite the campaign Bill and the boys put together for her (which assumed that the nomination was rightfully hers). I'm a Democrat; I deeply mistrust presumption. I was an Edwards man, as I was in '04, but this was the year the media wanted the brother vs the bitch, and they got it (their construct, not mine; I respect the both of them). When Edwards dropped out, I went to the actual trouble of reading a couple books Obama has written (two more than the current incumbent has read, much less written), and I am impressed by him. Enamored? No. He has much to prove. But we need to get the hell out of the middle of the road, stop triangulating ourselves to loss after loss, and be progressives. She is not, not with Wall Mart in her resume and equivocation after equivocation about her Iraq vote. Never an apology. she's never wrong. Just ask her. Or Bill. Or what "is" is. Way too much baggage, way too little imagination. What happened to the America Whitman wrote about (Walt, not Slim)? Someone needs to call us up to our better selves. He comes far closer to meeting that mark than she does. It's not a CEO job. Georgie is an MBA. How'd that work out? love heywood
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Poor Maureen
[Read the article: Quote of the day: Obama on Clinton ]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Ms. O'Dunglle, or whatever you call yourself, are we supposed to fall over in adoration at a couple of Shakespearean droppings? And you don't think your fashionable drape reference might be construed as veiled gay bashing? Are the Governor and Obama secret closet homos, trading oratio for fellatio? Bring something to the party besides prissy condescending diatribes and maybe we'll talk. Thus far, sound and fury signifying nothing pretty much sums you up. Scarlett O'Hara with a cockney accent is what I'm getting. Correct me. I have every confidence you will. It's you burden: brilliance and bollocks. love heywood
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Dung Hole
[Read the article: Quote of the day: Obama on Clinton ]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I have enough respect for this forum to assume anyone, anonymous notwithstanding, would know sound and fury was Will's. Geez, what a twit. Is that Estuary English. Snob. Pardon me if I'm not impressed by quote droppings. we had a daughter who could do that before she was ten. BFD. Nitey nitolax, Drama Queen. love Whore-ratio
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twitterpated juliebird
[Read the article: Quote of the day: Obama on Clinton ]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]That egg you've laid repeatedly won't hatch. It's not really an egg, it's fecal matter- much in the vein of your picayune and beyond trivial taking to task of Obama for a quote from a friend and supporter. If you doubt Obama's eloquence, trying reading one of his books. You know reading: that's where you absorb words, turn pages, and mayhaps, along the way, learn something. And do yourself a favor about that constipation. It may not bother you, but it bothers us. The American people need someone with real vision. If Obama borrowed a telescope, would have have to lay a wreath at Gallileo's grave? What a thimblewit. love heywood.
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michigan and florida
[Read the article: Quote of the day: Obama on Clinton ]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Both of those states mindfully, premeditatedly ignored the rules of the Democratic Party (you know, the one Hillary purports to represent), and decided to cram their primaries into the early glut known as Stupid Tuesday. Okay, it's not but it should be. That measures only who has most advertising money. At any rate, both states were explicitly told that their delegated would NOT be seated if they defied the party and went, lemming like, along with the rush to have an early primary. Those are the rules of the party. Now, Big Bill, acting more and more like the walking phallus the repulikans accused him of being, thinks Hillary should get the delegates. Horseshit, Bill, if that's not redundant. The candidates agreed not to campaign there. Many, if not most, voters blew it off as an exercise in futility, which it was because of the defiance of the two states' overeager beavers. If anyone should know the pitfalls of overeager beavers, it should be Big Bill and His Big One. For a Rhodes scholar, he sure is acting like a dumbass. love heywood