Letters to the Editor
tom payne
Published Letters: 1101 Editor's Choice: 3
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blondeone
[Read the article: Obama, Clinton and the black-brown divide]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]As a balding one, and a former decade-long resident of Wyoming (The Dick Cheney was "my" congressthing for a part of that time), I can tell you being from Wyoming is the closest thing you can find to invisibility. It's what keeps Nevada from running into Kansas. It's, at least in the northwest corner, the last and best of the old west, and some of the most beautiful geography on planet earth. So, it surprises me not at all that no attention was paid; I imagine Mississippi will get a little more play since the event takes place on a weekday. Oddly, the net effect of those two state will counter, and possibly exceed, the gain the Ms. Clinton made on her alleged corner turning trio on last Tuesday. You know, maybe folks can't count. The dumbing down of America is, sadly, working all too well. It's the same reason people are angry at Democrats in congress for not ending the war or working other magic, when they have a two vote margin in the Senate, where change goes to die (with Joe Lieberman holding a pillow over the mouth and nose of anything that doesn't make Israel the 51st state). For me, that's the hardest thing about the prospects for November. The number of thoughtful voters is abysmal. As I've talked about at length below, one of the things that can actually turn this leaking ship is turnout. If eighty percent of eligible voters went to the polls, every Depends on K Street would be Bush Brown. So simple, and yet so difficult. Cynicism is so rampant, and pure sloth, that getting The People to realize the power they have is the highest hurdle we have to clear. Thus, my call of Obama over Hillary. We need a national "stat", a jump start, a kick in the collective arse. Who could have known that Obama would be in this position? Any other year, Hillary is revolutionary just because of her gender. Not this year. And it's as critical a year as we've faced in decades.
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Bumbling Rose
[Read the article: Obama, Clinton and the black-brown divide]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]My guess is you got an MBA from a matchbook cover. "Progressive" was in popular use in the late nineteenth century. Such bastions of pinko thinking like the MInnesota Farmer Labor Party were examples. Read a book, for Christ's sake- literally. And the whole notion of self-governance, taken the in proper context, which is worldwide political thought, is LIBERAL. The founding fathers were, yes, liberal. Radical, even. Revolutionary. That didn't go away when the Constitution was finally ratified. It's still in progress, with or without you. fortunately for you, roses do well with applications of manure (watch out for the feed lot varieties, when tend toward salinity). Thanks to the fascist media, goosestepping radio hosts, and mutinational warmongering conglomerates, what passes for "liberal" these days would have been a Rockefeller/Scranton/Percy republikan a generation ago. We've drifted so far reich, uh, right, that any modestly progressive notion brings piss and moan cries of socialism. You don't know jack. Ma'am.
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Madam
[Read the article: Obama, Clinton and the black-brown divide]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Of course, I could be wrong. But Georgie Porgie is an MBA. How dumb is that stump? It just sets me off when ignorami blather about "liberal". Abolishing slavery was liberal. Extending the franchise to women was liberal. Unions are liberal. the minimum wage. The very idea of health care as a job benefit, or paid vacations, and on and on. Arggghhh. With Bushie, the MBA might stand for Mighty Big .... uh, you know the rest. tom
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Ah, Youth
[Read the article: Who would the GOP rather face?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I graduated from High School in 1964, and I'm an Obama supporter. I must have been brilliant to have gotten that degree before I was even born. Now, that's overachieving. What a crock. My 87 year old formerly republican mom supports Obama, and her three sisters, who are 89, 92, and 94. So don't hand me that generational crap. I think it's marvelous that those just eligible to vote are doing so in greater numbers than they have since the sixties. About time.
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madam
[Read the article: Obama, Clinton and the black-brown divide]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]History is so inconvenient. Lincoln was the first Republican president. Regarding the post preceding yours, I have no idea how anyone could assert that blacks did not gain their long delayed rights by the merit of their own struggle. Of course, the Acts of 64 and 65 regarding civil rights and voting rights had unintended consequence (among them making the Confederacy the cornerstone of today's repellent version of the once proud GOP). And, yes, we have a long way yet to go. Thus, this forum, and of infinitely greater import, this election.
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Senator KateTex
[Read the article: Who would the GOP rather face?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The United States Senate is the most hide-bound, rule-entangled, precedent strangled deliberative body in the democratic world. It's meant to be. It's supposed to be slow. What was Obama supposed to do- come in from Chicago and stage a coup? What did the junior senator from NY do? change the drapes? These supposed votes of late "for" or "against" the war are all jot and tittle and tied in Gordian knots. The legislation that would set a hard exit date would never reach the floor, and never pass the house either. so, read up before you bull up. the only way the Democrats could have passed a veto proof war ending piece of legislation would have been with sixty firm votes. How do you think Holy Joe Lieberthing would vote? We have 51 votes in the Senate on a good day. That cannot and will not bring change. The vote that mattered is the one where Hillary, and an ugly number of her equally spineless party colleagues, all capitulated to Georgie and handed the bastard a blank check. Hillary has yet to openly and unequivocally apologize. Russert finally dragged a reluctant "I wish I had that vote back" out of her in debate number 21. No, I don't want her answering a red phone, or a freakin' Princess phone. go back to the senate, Hillary. You wouldn't be there without your husband's name. Feminist my veteran ass.