Letters to the Editor
tom payne
Published Letters: 1101 Editor's Choice: 3
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phillips
[Read the article: The GOP attack plan for Hillary Clinton]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Let me see: a white southern populist. Huey Long? David Duke? Were you there when they changed the name of your "populist" group from White Citizens Council to Concerned Citizens Council? To draw a parallel between Obama and either Lenin or Hitler is transcendent ignorance of the first order. Barack is firmly within the liberal tradition of American thought, meaning liberal in the broadest sense, not as the epithet Limbaugh and you and yours throw around in the way that Germans spat out the word "juden" in the thirties. The whole idea of self governance is liberal. You want conservative? find a dictatorship or a monarchy. Read some history. Please correct me, but my mental image of you is the John Goodman character in O Brother Where Art Thou. He was a while southern populist, too.
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perpective
[Read the article: Quote of the day]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]every time we bemoan the internecine strife 'twixt HIllary and Barack, just read Bush's mangled syntax, his breathtaking stupidity, his utter ineptitude, we should be glad we have a choice left. Bush is, hands down, the worst preznit in Murkan history, excluding only Jefferson Davis.
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courage under fire
[Read the article: The GOP attack plan for Hillary Clinton]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Why, the intrepid, visionary Ms. Rodham served as a Goldwater Girl in the 1964 election. It took steel nerves, a flexible spine, and a high pain tolerance to be able to endure the scathing, withering fire of the LBJ's, on the losing end of a one sided war. Poor Hilary. Fortunately, the "BJ" part of LBJ came in handy later in life when she endured the streamin' semen in the Monica and the Magic Dress episode of the Klintoon Years, an eight year exercise in squandered chances and off color romances. Whatta woman. She has to be president. She simply has to. Bravery like that doesn't come cheap. It is cheap, but it doesn't come cheap. Let's have a hand for our brave girl!!!!
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the more things change....
[Read the article: Polls: Obama weathers Wright controversy ]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]So, after a month of mudslinging and kitchen sinking, Hillary still trails by the same number, basically. Smoke and mirrors and nothing changed. The only sinking that counts is Hillary, fading day by day. Yeah, I'll vote for her if she does a Lazarus imitation. I'm not holding my breath and suggest you refrain also. We need all of our votes, every last one.
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Abfd69
[Read the article: Rev. Jeremiah Wright isn't the problem]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Let's see if you can follow this: the notion of self governance, in the scheme of global political thought, is an emphatically liberal idea. America was founded, influenced in part by the desire for religious freedom, on that principle. So, those Christians, and their priests or ministers, were liberals. If not, they were Tories. Civil rights were driven by ministers. Liberals. Women's suffrage, and women's rights, were championed by liberal ministers. So, your premise is entirely, one hundred percent, completely, dead ass wrong. Let us pray.
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Oh, Kate, Kate, Kate
[Read the article: Polls: Obama weathers Wright controversy ]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The premise, prevalent in the last two elections, was to tack toward the right. In other words, to beat a Republikan, be one. And here I had the notion we had at least a semblance of a two party system. Can you define what separates one party from the other (not, not red and blue on the map, Kate)? Just list the accomplishments of the last seven plus years. If you like that, you're a republikan. YOu should vote for Honest Johnny McLame, serial adulterer and POW, and you'd get four more just like 'em. If you want something different- not guaranteed better, but how could it be worse?- vote for the candidate with the little "D" next to their name. It will be one of two people, in all likelihood. If you want to take your ball and go home, you are enabling the fascists. It's that simple. I'd say simple enough for a Texan, except I know quite a few folks from the longhorn state, and they're quite bright. Of course, most are from near Austin, and are in the minority. We can't blame you for George, though, even though you elected the mumbling fool by wide margins twice. He's a Connecticut preppy peckerwood. Have a lovely evening.
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Uh, Paul
[Read the article: Quote of the day]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]My father was a civil war historian. I am completely aware of Jefferson Davis and the whole traitorous lot, and the 600K lives lost defeating "the cause" and trying to reunite the United States. The job is not yet finished. I only threw in Davis because there are an alarming number of folks, north and south of the Mason Dixon line, that think the wrong side won. I apologize for being flippant, but the reference was meant to show how low this moron has sunk. Grant was drunk and corrupt, but he doesn't hold a candle to Georgie in long term damage to our nation. And he was pretty fair General, I hear, and may have had something to do with routing Lee and the rest of those confederate bastards. Yeah, I'm a Yankee, but an American first. My great great uncle was a Major General for the Minnesota contingent in the Civil War. His truth is marching on, and screw Dixie and the stars and bars. Not the states; not the citizens. just those symbols, and any apologist for them (Barr, Lott, Helms, Bush, et al). My apology again for a red herring dragged across my point, and the thread. tom