Letters to the Editor
tom payne
Published Letters: 1101 Editor's Choice: 3
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bystander
[Read the article: The difference between Jeremiah Wright and radical, white evangelical ministers]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]no, not you. notorious w e s. but allow me to retract that. I printed and read the text of the Obama speech. Even a 61 year old, me, needs to grow up some. Now would be a good time to start.
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joeho
[Read the article: Obama's speech on race]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]joejoe was a man who acted like a bigot, like a member of the Klan/joejoe found his home in southern alabama, a trailer and a can of spam/get back, get back, get back you knuckledragging clown, get back get back, get back to where your kind belongs (with apologies to Lennon/McCartney.
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sore-one and katetexass
[Read the article: Barack Obama delivers make-or-break speech on race]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]bigots won't be assuaged. There is nothing Obama, or any other black person, could say to mollify you. And the meme that Hillary is such a good friend to de coloreds is just as preposterous and her "35 years of experience". She's a nothingburger with nothing on it. You wouldn't know eloquence if it bit you in your ample ass. Stick with your loser. Watch history go by. Wave. You're the current equivalent of a Wallace voter in the late sixties. pathetic.
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lynyrd synnerd
[Read the article: Obama's speech on race]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]sweet home alabama, what a moron. One short paragraph in the speech spoke of Israel, and Obama spoke the truth that radical muslims do want the state of Israel to cease to exist. that's it. He did not condone Israeli actions in their entirety. He state they are an important ( I believe he said stalwart) and that is so. Do you think he doesn't understand the Palestinian issue, the Gordian knot of our time, far better than McLame or Hillary? You conflate him with LIeberman for that one sentence. Wrong.
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sinnturd
[Read the article: Obama's speech on race]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Obama is supposed to take this occasion to decry the "imperial system". Wacko. He's not Pete Camejo.Read the speech, if you have the brain cells remaining to do so. What was the subject at hand? Imperialism? Chrysler Imperials? Little Anthony and the Imperials. You need professional care, and soon.
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The Best in Forty Years
[Read the article: Was Obama's speech enough?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Obama's speech was the bravest and most eloquent speech I've heard since that cataclysmic year of 1968, when I heard both Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy. Obama's words stand with those martyred men's, and I am more impressed than I though I could be, as old and cynical as I've become. We have tripped over a gold nugget. Are we smart enough to pick it up? We'll see. America is on a bobsled run downhill. Baby steps won't cut it any more. We don't need a pussy or a prig- we need a leader. We have one.
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notebook
[Read the article: Was Obama's speech enough?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Of course race means more than black and white. But the history or America, since her inception, has been dealing with the fundamental "original sin" of slavery. The slaves, I hear, were black. The masters, I've been told, were white. It is the deepest, most profound schism in our country. Was, is, and will be until we look straight at it and really face what it means. Obviously, hispanics, Asians, various subcategories of white (see: no Irish need apply; Little Italy, etc.)l have suffered, but in no wise to the depth and extent of the black population of this country. They were brought here in the holds of ships as cargo. Other ethnic groups have had crosses to bear, but none of this weight. None.
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Honest John for Year Six?
[Read the article: Five years of Iraq lies]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Those of you fratricidal "progressives" or "Democrats" who will not vote for either Hillary or Obama if "your" candidate doesn't get the nomination: are you ready to listen to President McLame string lies together for years six, seven, eight, and nine? That's what you'd be doing if if you sit it out or pout on the sidelines like a four year old who didn't get her way. This is about life and death.
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More Billary Boredom
[Read the article: Clinton "very glad" Obama gave speech]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Who cares what she thinks, unless she has the huevos to give her own speech about race in America, or gender? She's a beginning pianist playing chopsticks, but with the nerve to critique a master playing Beethoven or Chopin. She's a plodding, tone deaf hack.
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stellllaaaaa
[Read the article: Was Obama's speech enough?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Live people alone? All rite. Dummass. Obama wasn't "created" by anyone other than his Kenyan father and his Kansas mother. He's the most eloquent voice for progressive change in a generation. You just see a black guy who wants to take what was promised to a privileged white woman. Boo hoo. Reference the rope in "99's" riposte. love, heywood.
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mike
[Read the article: The real reason Barack Obama's divisive]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]that's not what fuxxsnooze does. it filters news, colors it, taints it, slants it. Do you want a "debate" moderated by Hannity and Trent Lott? Fuxxsnooze is a tool of the RNC, and any Democrat who thinks he or she can go on that network and get a straight shot is deluded. Yes, we should speak to those who disagree, but fux is not the medium, and certainly not the message. tom
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bohica
[Read the article: Was Obama's speech enough?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]indentured servitude was based on the medieval peasant model. Being poor is not being a slave. There's a pretty good argument to be made that we have an underclass today that differs from indentured servitude more in style than in substance. Workin' for the man. and, yes, I will be going to a demonstration at the town square at five. I can do no other. we all need to spend more time organizing and fund raising and doing precinct work than engaging in endless diatribe and riposte on these threads. I indict myself for serial violations of both, but am trying to turn a metaphorical corner. thanks tom
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bumbling pose
[Read the article: Obama's speech on race]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Yeah, Obama, former president of the Harvard Law Review, was trying to soft shoe and Tom his way past being very dark beige. Get real. There was always going to be a tipping point. that was yesterday. we've had 43 alleged presidents, every one of them whiter than white. Obama said it himself: this tide is not going to turn on one election or one candidate. But if we don't start, it will never turn. Ever. Guaranteed.
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Wishing
[Read the article: Hillary Clinton's long strange journey on Iraq]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Hey, Joan, you shrill Hill shill, maybe if you click your heels together and repeat :there's no place like Iraq" over and over Rodham's roundheeled vote will disappear. But you've caved, in Toto.