Letters to the Editor
tom payne
Published Letters: 1101 Editor's Choice: 3
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sub-maureen
[Read the article: Geraldine Ferraro still needs to apologize]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]a segregationist church? How novel. Is is Bob Jones? Have you read a history book without pictures? Marcus Garvey? Fredrick Douglas? Paul Robeson? The African experience in this country is complex; so is Obama. You want Bill Cosby? Knock yourself out. The trend of the election is not his fault, unless you blame him for out-organizing, out grassroot funding, outthinking, out working, and out flanking the presumptive, and presumptuous, nominee. Damn him anyway, first not black enough, now too black. What he's got that you can't handle to too many delegates. Grow up. I know you have the capacity. If Hillary gets it together legitimately (not with the "seat MY delegates from Fl. and Mich. crap) and wins, I've vote for her without hesitation. I fear that what she will have done to get "the prize" will make a third Bush term more likely than not. But that's the black guy's fault, right? Read some Malcolm X or some of MLK's more fiery orations. They're not easy for prim white folk to stomach, but the truth is occasionally inconvenient.
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Dog Style with Shawn, Again
[Read the article: Who wants to be a Democrat?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Mutual admiration is so unbounded between the two of you I think a motel is in order. Something just off the interstate with an ice machine and porn on line. I don't think you're republikans, or idiots; frankly, I don't know what you are, other than disconnected from reality. But if you want to get together and play "hide the super delegates", by all means fulfill your all to evident desires. At least you're not Confederates. I think. fondly, quickylube
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What A Shame
[Read the article: Memo to Clinton and Obama: Stop spinning]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]My wife and I spent the last couple hours watching the first two parts of the HBO special "John Adams". As I've read these threads, including my own superficial and trivializing participation, it has occurred to me that America may already be done, overwhelmed by indifference, materialism, the ignorance inculcated in our public schools (and countenanced by us), by the dominance of money and the concentration of power in the military industrial complex. We have no easy choices, my friends. One thing is clear: the time for half measures is long past. Safe candidates with safe messages have gotten us where we are. Why should we be convinced that another safe establishment candidate can be the one to make the first of many turns away from the destructive course that we have allowed to be set for us. I still believe in this country, and in the ideals expressed by Adams, Jefferson, Franklin, Madison and the rest. We have, in our collective complacency, allowed those ideals to be corroded almost beyond recognition. I'll not delve into specific issues here, but first principles only. There will be four choices in November: sit it out in complacency or cynicism; vote for John McCain and his perpetuation of what Bush/Cheney have brought us (again, with our complicity); vote for Nader and his egomaniacal pursuit of purity; or vote for whichever Democratic candidate emerges from the rapidly disintegrating primary process. That's all we have, unless someone wants to propose a new Declaration, and pick up a gun to back that up. So, I would beseech you, stop asking picayune and self-indulgent questions. Stop denigrating two relatively decent candidates for some trivial and transitory association or slip of the tongue. One one thing counts: who could actually have a chance to begin a transformation that will take at least a generation? I have no trouble making that choice, but I appreciate that other may either wrestle with the choice, revile my choice, or have made a choice no voice can change. Fine. We must agree that however imperfect we find the process-and it is deeply disfigured- that we will vote for whichever Democratic candidate prevails. In this, I implicitly waive the vicissitudes of super delegates, overall popular vote, big states or small states, open primaries or caucuses, the outcome of Florida and Michigan, however repellent we may find what transpires there. It is not that I do not have strong feelings about those issues. The greater good is that we vote as if it mattered, and that the words that those men wrote 230 years ago still obligate us to act as if it were our brothers, our sons, our mothers and our sisters, who sacrificed and dies so that we would have this choice. Stop trivializing this. Cease your mean-spirited one up-manship and petty games. I say this in the full knowledge I've been as trivial as almost anyone on these threads. Are we Americans, in the way we're supposed to be, or do we want to foul the nest we have to live in? I truly believe this is the most important election since 1860, taking into account how important '32 and '68 were, and, indeed, how precious every election is. There may not be many more. Impossible? Read a history book. How's that Roman Empire coming along? Is Greek dominance still at its apex? Austro-Hungarian? German? British? Dutch? Are we of a difference race of men and women? The fact that a black man and a woman are contesting for the chance to be President of the United States ought to give us hope. That seems to be dwindling. What a shame.
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Can't Trust Dem Blacks
[Read the article: Hillary Clinton, sniper fire and Sinbad]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Sin. Bad. Obviously evil. Probably goes to an evil church. Can't trust a word he says. Oh, wait. That's Hillary. Combat veteran. Eight years of White House experience. Liar.