Letters to the Editor
tom payne
Published Letters: 1101 Editor's Choice: 3
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ethics prof
[Read the article: The Democrats' anti-momentum]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I, too, found the third episode of "Adams" less compelling than the first two. Going hat in hand around Europe looking for a loan lacks drama, but it happened that way. I guess ol' Ben had a better way around the concubines. Regarding heywood, I'd rather not elaborate. Let's just say it's a shorthand online insult I learned from my sons when they were in college years ago. It's a very rude invitation, shall we say, and I'll leave it right there. tom
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Adams, et al
[Read the article: The Democrats' anti-momentum]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Actually, that might have been the de facto first democratic convention, that many asses in a room. Franklin was dissolute but brilliant, self serving but fiendishly clever, Adams was priggish but stalwart, honest but self-important, and the French dressed well if you enjoy foppery. I do not. The lesson of Adams, for those few watching who know little of American history, is that these amazing, tremendous characters were deeply flawed men. Adams' wife is the most heroic of the lot; any long married man would so conclude. The point, which I have again successfully obscured, is that we expect "vetted" cartoons, two dimensional men/women, not flesh and blood humans. Spitzer took it too far; but if we want heroes or heroines, we might want to actually know the manifold flaws of the statesmen we revere with lip service, and defile with our policies. tom
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maddie
[Read the article: The Democrats' anti-momentum]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]A brooder by nature, I try to project optimism. I believe in the foundations of this country, eroding by the moment. Off to band practice, and back to review the remains in a couple hours' time. tom
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Why Shawnie Can't Count
[Read the article: The Democrats' anti-momentum]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Having bloodied his thick pug against the same wall for weeks now, our dim friend Shawn White Male tells us that Hillary is really ahead. It's a Lewis Carroll argument, a caucus race that Bitter Bill and Hill the Shrill have lost; they just haven't the grace or the sense of national purpose to accept it. Examine, please, the piss and moan about Michigan and Florida, always couched in phraseology that blames Obama for disenfranchising the citizens of those states. To confer upon a simpleton such as Shawn White Male a term like phraseology is calling a turd a diamond. It just needs time and a sufficient amount of pressure applied. The sad thing is that these dupes think they're Democrats. They're Ray-gun damnocrats, which is another way of saying Archie Bunker republikans. There was a movie, Joe, in 1970 or so, in which Peter Doyle played a patriotic blue collar guy who got so incensed at his daughter's liberalism, if I recall correctly, that he killed her. That's Shawn and his fellow lambs, trying to lead us to slaughter. billary is not a leader; she's a weather forecaster, with her middle finger in the wind. She doesn't stake out bold or visionary positions; that would be Kama Sutra Bill, a flexible man in the personal as well as political sense. What the Clinton essence is, is this: move with the wind, blow job or not, and make the best of it. Read the polls and try to get to the "center", wherever it moves. This, my friends is the center of the problem: politics is the art of the possible, and involves trade offs and the occasional capitulation. What Bill and Hill the Shrill do is capitulate to start with. They don't stake out a strong position, and bargain from there. They sell out to start with. IF you call that leadership, you're as stupid as Shawn. To find out how stupid that is, read his posts. They speak, or mumble, or scream incoherently, for themselves. If that is the typical Democrat, we're done. Billary is closer to McLame than to Obama. That scares the shit out of Shawn, and there's a whole lotta shit there to scare. love, heywood.
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zoozer the snoozer
[Read the article: Moving beyond Obama and race]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Yeah, bush and obama are very similar. I think Obama is younger and taller. They both got advanced degreeds from Harvard. If memory serves, both Bush's parents were weathy, stupid and white. Otherwise, flip a coin. I don't know how much you drink, Zeus the Patoot, but it's either not enough or too much. Dumbass.
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Nit PIckers
[Read the article: The Democrats' anti-momentum]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Johnny Walker White dredges trivia out of Ohio. Very big deal. The only numbers that count, you dolt, are delegates. Crossovers, crossdressers, Rosicrucians, crustaceans... it doesn't matter. You don't get it. The heffalump is the freak republikan symbol because it's Dumbo. Thus, your perspective. Just get it over with and hump Honest John. That's' what you want. You and Shawnie the Pawn are plants: kudzu. Invidious imports that spread like the plague and choke native growth. Here's a number, Einstein: Billary is down over 150 delegates, losing key endorsements like Bill Richardon's, and has only one chance to overtake Obama: join John in a menage and screw democracy. That's where you imbeciles are headed. the dumbing down of Murka is ahead of schedule. love, heywood.
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Jon Stewart
[Read the article: The Democrats' anti-momentum]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]In the Daily Show following Obama's phenomenal, seminal speech, Jon summed it up: "at eleven o'clock on a Tuesday morning, Obama spoke to Americans about race as if they were adults." We have only to read through this thread, if you have the stomach, to see how few adults there are. It's a damned shame. But it's not over yet, and he's ahead, and nobody's fool. In contrast, Billary is everybody's fool. The Clintons got together and had their conscience removed. They are part of the Murka that pastor right correctly damned.
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Goldfinger/Earfinger
[Read the article: The Democrats' anti-momentum]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Ram your pinkies in your ears, Fester. That'll change things. Or, read he NYT article about whether Obama,a 'liberal" can change things. In contrast to Shawn the Pawn or Dogstyle, I know you can read. give it a try. We have a chance here, a rare chance, perhaps a chance that will not come again. Messiah? No. No way. But a great shot at a real break from what we've endured? Yes.