Letters to the Editor
tom payne
Published Letters: 1101 Editor's Choice: 3
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Demons v Dementia
[Read the article: Bomb, bomb Iran?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]McLame does not have dementia. I know this from the inside out, having watched my formerly brilliant father fall down the well of Alzheimer's for the past seven years. Honest John did not misspeak. He just doesn't know the issues. Stupidity, and the belief in demonizing a billion or more people, is what's at play here. Johnny the bomber is a simple man really, an angry man. War is good. Killing is an instrument of foreign policy. He believes those things to the bone. So, again, we who claim to be progressives need to vote for Hillary or Obama in November, and not sit home and pout if we don't get our way. If Obama is not the nominee, I will be disappointed, and deeply so. As Governor Richardson said today, he's a once in a lifetime leader. But, if the cards fall the other way, I will vote for Clinton, and encourage everyone I know to do so as well.
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Dodd and Richardson
[Read the article: Hillary Clinton's long strange journey on Iraq]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The two Democratic presidential candidates who knew the Clintons best have both endorsed Obama: Dodd, who Big Bill chose to head the Democratic Party, and Richardson, who was in the cabinet and also UN ambassador. They know hillary and her "experience" better than any of us, certainly. They have no doubts about Obama's ability to deal with the horrendous mess Bush and Dick have left. It will actually take a generation to clean up, but it starts next January. Riddle me this, Walker and your ilk: why did Dodd and Richardson support Obama? Duped? Dazed and confused? They both have far deeper resumes than Ms Rodham's joke of 35 years of "experience". Does watching basketball make you tall? Duh.
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fanatics
[Read the article: Bomb, bomb Iran?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]demonic, no. fanatical, yes. dangerous? Maybe. Depends on if we elect Bombin' John or not. I choose... not.
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joanie's myopia
[Read the article: Moving beyond Obama and race]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]walsh has a problem with the vision thing. she focuses on minutia, and misses the greater truth. It's too big for her to wrap her white little mind around. the speech was the best given by a political figure in this country for a generation. One line about granny and joanie phony gets her supersized pantyhose in a knot. Read some excerpts from the Lincoln Douglas debates. Abe wasn't perfect, either. Today, he'd be sliced and diced by tiny minds for his ambivalence about slavery, his loony wife, and his moles, then his "change of image" by growing a beard. I seriously believe Abe couldn't get elected in today's dumbed down Murka. Pity. As Governor Richardson said today in his endorsement of Obama, he's a once in a generation leader. Six months ago, even four months ago, I didn't think that was the case. Talented, obviously, and an intellectual giant, but admittedly light on experience. Genius doesn't conflate with experience; it transcends it. Poor joanie phony. She doesn't get it, and won't.
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kneepads
[Read the article: The media's special relationship with John McCain]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]the main stream media is Monica to Honest John's Big Bill. The man's age is not the problem; he's been a short tempered hot headed warmonger for decades. Obama will beat him like a rented elephant.
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God? Is that You?
[Read the article: "God talked to me today"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]If you hear a disembodied voice, is it always God? Sometimes? Does Satan speak? What does God say when He talks? What did He say to the Prophets, or to Jesus on earth? Invade Iraq? Kill your parents? I'd want a transcript, personally. I believe in God, and that He does "speak" to us, but it's almost always by means of our conscience, or our experience, and our silence. Beware the facile manifestation of the holy. It's not that easy.
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Billary is Jesus?
[Read the article: Moving beyond Obama and race]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]So let me get this straight, Mr. Car-vile. If Governor Richardson is Judas, then Billary must be Jesus, the Anointed One. When's the crucifixion?
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walker69, boy bigot
[Read the article: The Obama passport snooping and the unchecked surveillance state]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Christ on a crutch, you flaming bigot, how tortured your tiny mind is to find a way to blame Obama for breaking into his own file. Moron. This stinks rethug/fascisti all the way, with the snoop into McLame's just thrown in for cover. Walker thinks the fingerprints were too black. Klan kid.
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Moron
[Read the article: Moving beyond Obama and race]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Wolfs? Beleaves? Moron. No matter your race, you're brain dead. In the words of the immortal Sippy Wallace, better call for the doctor, investigate your head. She was a darkie, too. Maybe we should investigate all them uppity coons. Bigot.
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Deeper Piles
[Read the article: Moving beyond Obama and race]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The three a m ad was this year's Willie Horton. Protect them white wimmin (implicitly from darkies and rag heads). Oddly, Billary's white house schedule doesn't show her doing jack while Bill was doing Jill. Her "experience" is Platte River style, very wide and extremely shallow. Meanwhile, the Klingon Kintonistas paint an honorable public servant, whose endorsement they had avidly cultivated, as "Judas". Jew baiting, there Car-vile? What a pack of triangulating hypocrites.
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no point to miss
[Read the article: Moving beyond Obama and race]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Deep Pile, the personification of wounded virtue, postulates that those of us who disagree with him/her/it are duped, brainwashed, and biased against the Clintons. Before this election began, I thought the Clintons were tepid, DLC democrats, triangulators and calculators, bright but not terribly principled. The Clinton presidency was a mediocre melange of missed opportunities, and moral stupidity of the first rank that gave Bushit a shot to get close enough to Gore to steal the election. I think far less of them now. Ethically, I find no difference between them and the fascists we're trying to unseat. As far as policy, of course she's far better than McLame. so's Ron Paul. She has taken a twenty point lead and pissed it away. That is what we know for sure about her "leadership".
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now, that's the truth
[Read the article: Moving beyond Obama and race]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Amen, Deeper. That's the whole deal, the point of the primaries. I do not intend to take my eyes off the prize: the White House, and increased margins in both houses of congress. If we can take the current whorehouse and turn it back into a White House, we won't need sixty blinking votes every time we try anything remotely progressive. Whatever horse gets to the line, filly stallion or gelding, I'm gonna be riding it.