Letters to the Editor
tom payne
Published Letters: 1101 Editor's Choice: 3
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Obama's Mind
[Read the article: Obama's speech on race]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]At least he has a mind to make up, and the courage to speak truth. Did you read the speech, "foxy"? He threw no one "under the bus". That's the Klinton way. He criticized himself as much as he criticized either Wright or his grandmother. That's another thing you'll never hear from Billary: self-criticism or apology. I've heard racial comments from my older relatives that would make my hair curl if I had any. Racism has been pandemic in this country. Yesterday's speech was one of the bravest attempts to confront that. What does the Klinton Kamp have to say? Not a damned thing. Pussies.
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ron paul
[Read the article: The difference between Jeremiah Wright and radical, white evangelical ministers]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]ron was dead right about the war. the rest of his rap assumes no one remembers any American history. he wants to go back to the articles of confederation. he's colorful, though. compared to the stageful of idiots he was up against, he looked like Thomas Jefferson.
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more lies from billary
[Read the article: A closer look at Clinton's Bosnia schedule]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]the only sniping hillary's been around comes from her advisors and mindless followers. sniper fire my ass. another baldfaced lie. hey, billary, talk about rev. wright some more. it's all you've got;.
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joeho mofo
[Read the article: The real reason Barack Obama's divisive]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]the DNC set the rules for all 55 jurisdictions. 53 complied. Florida (with the complicity of almost all Democrats, so don't try to hand me the "republikans did it" crap) and Michigan. you hillbot morons want to include the deeply flawed "results" of non-elections. Piss off. It's not Obama's job to organize the race, if you'll pardon the race reference. It's his job to run. Go take a luffa bath with your pal O'Reilly.
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Hillshit
[Read the article: A closer look at Clinton's Bosnia schedule]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]If you've ever heard rifle fire, you don't forget it, especially if it might be aimed your way. This is utter bullshit. Premeditated bullshit. A lie.
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revolting
[Read the article: The worst, sleaziest press corps possible]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]How vile, how depressing, how revealing. The saddest part, and that's saying something, as that the venal bastards know what sells, and then they play it. Over, and over, and over. The lowest common denominator. In the slide down the dumbing of America, the msm is the lubricant.
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Texas democrat, Kattexico
[Read the article: Was Obama's speech enough?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]What is it with your state? Never mind; george ain't your fault. He's from Connecticut. But, as far as preachers or prophets speaking calumny against those in power, read some old testament. Isaiah will do for a start. he ripped Israel in every possible way, including, yes, damnation. So grow up. I think it's too late, but I'm an optimist. The country has cancer, and you and billary want a band-aid. Pathetic.
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johnny walker white
[Read the article: Was Obama's speech enough?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Bigot. If you can't perceive that Murkan media loves a cute white victim, you're even more full of shit than that bird that comes home to roost. As far as racial attitudes, one apocryphal example from Obama's grandmother means jack. No one has only a single epithet in them. I know my grandmother, and my wife's father, were deeply steeped in confederate stereotypes about "colored" people. Read some history, assuming they have books near your trailer. The Klan was a major force in Murkan politics well into the 1940's. In the 20's they were pervasive. Their headquarters was in Indianapolis, not Mobile. Until Gone With The Wind, rife with its own offensive stereotypes (Miz Scarlett, I don't know nothin' 'bout birthin' no babies) and glorificaion of "the cause", the highest grossing film in Murkan history was Birth of a Nation. My money says you don't even know what the hell that is. If ignorance is bliss, you're a helluva happy cracker.
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Ms. FXC
[Read the article: Obama's speech on race]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Our family is immersed in wordplay. It's genetic. FXC says foxy to me, and is not meant as any disrespect. On these threads, as is all too readily apparent, my rancor is about what I find to be ignorant or divisive (dee vice sieve, or dee viss ive, whatever). I'm not an aggressor by nature, but this election, I firmly believe, is the most important in my lifetime, and I was born in 1947. Give your husband my best; even better, give him yours! tom
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FXC addendum
[Read the article: Obama's speech on race]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Sorry. I only read one of your serial posts. All I know about Obama is what I've heard him and others say through the media, and what he says in his two books. I read a lot; not a much as my wife, who goes through three or four books a week. I do not hate Hillary. I hate injustice, the war in Iraq, the economic chasm between the rich and poor that widens by the day, and the erosion of rights that were alleged to be "unalienable". Edwards was my first choice. I have great respect for richardson, and think he ought to be the VP choice, or perhaps Secretary of State. I do think that, of the two remaining choices, Obama is by far the better of the two. I listen, I read, I decide. I've been wrong before, and will be again. My thoughts, if you can wade through the vitriol to dredge them out, are that the Clinton legacy is one of division, diversion, and capitulation to special interests. Obama is a stretch. So was Lincoln. So was Ike. It's time to get the hell out of the middle of the road and run with someone with a huge upside. If you want to endlessly parse pastor wright's sermons over a twenty year period instead of dealing with the issues at hand, be my guest. Today was the fifth anniversary of the invasion of Iraq, which Hillary helped facilitate. She has yet to apologize, as Edwards so eloquently did. If you want to cite character flaws, there's one for you. Bueno suerte.
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jaywalking daisy chain
[Read the article: Was Obama's speech enough?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]cool. read only those who agree with you. Jamestown thinking. Woolier than a flock of sheep. Stay in that parking lot puddle you're in; otherwise, you might get out of your depth. Wouldn't take much. Maybe you can get your fellow sheep together with a bottle of Mazola.