Letters to the Editor
tom payne
Published Letters: 1101 Editor's Choice: 3
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Cabobama
[Read the article: Hillary's team crosses the line]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Truth be told, our youngest son runs the tasting room at the BV winery about two miles from here and the bottle was gratis. We're stony assed Bush economy fixed income broke, so we take it where we can get it. I can't afford to be a wine snob. The sole benefit of being in the Navy 6a8 to 72, beside meeting my bride and marrying her after about six dates (if you'd seen or known her, you'd understand, and wonder why it took me that long), was that PX liquor prices were ridiculously low- like two buck St. Emilion instead of two buck chuck. I will raise my glass to Hillary if she wins, and to Barack, if he can get that far without being shot, and to at least five more senate votes and 20 more house votes. I'm a Berkeley political science grad who served in the military, a white guy who's a blues musician, so, as Kris put it, I'm a walking contradiction, partly truth and partly fiction, seeking every wrong direction on my lonely way back home. Great lines, those. Disclosure: most of what happens here is cardboard, and I'm as two dimensional as the next. but, when it gets close to the bone, I'm a progressive born and raised, and our entire family, though currently for Obama, will vote the straight D ticket in November. Or the gay D ticket. Whatever. thank God for free wine during these months. We HAVE to win. If it takes Hillary, I'll pull the lever with gusto. My doubts have been long expressed herein, but McLame is a warmonger through and through. He likes it. best tom
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new kew ler meltdown
[Read the article: Hillary's team crosses the line]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Her rightful place? Jesus H Christ on a rubber crutch, you're a Tory. This ain't a monarchy, bucko, and I spent four years of my life defending what's supposed to be a democracy. Flawed, and deeply so, but for any one to think elective office is a "rightful place" is chock full of shit. Who died and left you, or Hillary, or big bill and his big one, in charge. Not on goddam person. Vote as you wish, but take your royal lineage notions and shove 'em up your bum. Fold them first, if you like, but stuff it. Your opinion is valid. Stupid beyond belief, but valid. Yes, the young are dumb. The system is designed to turn out placid compliant consumers, or cannon fodder. Our country was founded on contrarian ideas of dissolving power that abrogates rights. Otherwise, the whole damn thing, this once noble experiment, is done. If you think with your gut, you're Stephen Colbert without the ironic genius. What a tool.
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Bill Moyers
[Read the article: Hillary's team crosses the line]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Before I converse with Uncle Fester: I just watched the last half of an interview, Bill Moyers with the mayor of Newark, NJ, a Mr. Booker, who is eloquent and forceful and well worth watching. I will not insult you by paraphrasing what Mayor Booker said, but those of us actually concerned with the substance of what this election is, or could be, about, would be well advised to watch it. Of course, it's on PBS, that incubator of elitist latte sipping chardonnay chugging perspective. Seriously, give it a shot. Doesn't matter who you're for. We all have a lot of work to do for a long time. Now, Fester: no, the Haywood is a lesser local vintner, and has no relation to my clumsy, and childish, sign off when I'm flaming someone. I wish it were that erudite. It is not. Now that the secret is out, and the stalkers among us have a bead on my general whereabouts, we do live within ten miles of truly amazing vineyards and wineries. Of course, none could exist without the skilled and diligent labor of almost entirely immigrant (legal and not so) workers. It is very hard to buy a bottle of bad wine here. Or a bad loaf of bread. We are blessed beyond measure, even though we all, the six of us (now thirteen through marriage and procreation) still miss Jackson Hole, our former home. We are, in our diversity of personality and opinion, all Democrats who voted for Obama in the California primary, what seems six months ago. We are coming up on the 40th anniversary of the 1968 California primary, in which I did basic precinct work for that idealist with not much experience, Robert Kennedy. I will never forget April or June of that year, when we lost the vital, visionary leadership that could have changed history. Call me a dupe, but I see in Obama the closest thing to that heartbreaking year that I have seen. We've looked. We've hoped. We've voted. We've lost. but it is not over. Enough from me. Watch the Moyers hour and see what you think, or if you think. thanks tom
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fat chick 22
[Read the article: Hillary's team crosses the line]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Yeah. obama is just another lazy darkie tryin' to take what de white wimmin gots. You live in Wallyworld. Hillary was the one with all the money, all the power, all the name recognition, all the leads in all the polls in all the states. Now that she blown the lead like Big Bill got blown by God knows how many bimbos, you Hillbots wanna cry that the process hasn't been fair. It's been as fair as Billary's hair is blonde. On every level, every objective measure, he's beaten her: votes. delegates. money. endorsements. She's lost at every level by every measure. Her only mantra now is me, me and me. If she gave a healthy daily dump about her party or her country, she's at least have the grace of Huckabee, for cryin' out loud. Sure, she's closer. But she cannot win, cannot overtake Obama without guaranteeing the third Bush term. If that's what you want, piss into that wind. Bring your own paper towels. The dumbing down of Murka continues, hillbot post by hillbot post. You're done. Obama or McLame, a shot at peace or a guarantee of war. Your call. love heywood