Letters to the Editor
tom payne
Published Letters: 1101 Editor's Choice: 3
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You might be a Jackass
[Read the article: Hillary's bridge back to the 20th century]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]if you walk around the pasture with shawnie boy the sheep, you're gonna get shit on your shoes. It then works its way up, into your posts. Let me see an exposition of Billary's 35 years of experience. Are we granting full credit for 16 years of first ladyshit? How 'bout those six or seven years as a Mall Wart broad member? Those years as a shill for an all white corporate law firm? Six years in the senate, granted. The rest is origami, thin and folded to look like something when it is not. She is a very smart, and very able woman, and would be echelons above the drooling fool she's be following. But, if she's so much more experience (and by extension, smarter too) than Obama, how has he taken the election away from someone who had every possible tactical advantage? Is that an example of her leadership skills: to take a lead, and a huge, nationwide least it was, and blow it? Much of campaigning as it's currently done is absurd, demeaning, overlong, tedious, illogical, and undemocratic. I don't like it any more than any of you do. I mean, Texas had a primary AND a caucus. But, here's the truth, like it or not: they both knew the rules, knew the schedule a year or more in advance, and planned and organized accordingly. Obama took nothing and made something- if you grant that virtual certain nomination is something; conversely, Rodham took a virtual guaranteed, a cakewalk coronation, and pissed it away. That sequence of events would suffice to differentiate between the two, even if you give Clinton a pass for handing the keys to the war in Iraq to bushit- and I don't. For the hundredth time, I will vote for her, no doubt, if she's the nominee. But she does not measure up, and her 35 years of "experience" is worth half that, tops. How's that fast food job workin' for ya, shawnie boy? A hint: you're supposed to flip the burgers with the WIDE end of the spatula. kisses, tommy
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Kate
[Read the article: Hillary's bridge back to the 20th century]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The ordeal through which you and your husband went through, and are still going through, is alarming, touching, dead wrong, and all too common. My prayers to him, and to you, for as full a recovery as possible. That the American health care system is a train wreck for all but the wealthy among us is undeniable. I do not know the source for your quote regarding Obama's positions on the particulars in this, but I'll assume what you say is Gospel. It still does not change the fact that the leading Democratic contenders, including Edwards, who had the best plan of all as far as I could tell, are incomparably better than anything McLame could ever come up with. None of this excuses in any way the evil way in which your family was treated. It does seem a stretch to tie it directly to Obama, as you seem to want to, and to imply that he was the one who denied full coverage, or was involved in the abomination of your husband losing a pension that should have been his unalienable right. Our son in law is an Oakland policeman, who yesterday pulled seven people from a burning building. Thank God he's okay, but that's no guarantee. He only has two years on the force, and would be in dire straits if he were severely injured. My personal view is that nothing less than a full coverage single payers system for every last living American is satisfactory. No plan by any candidate does that. It cannot happen in that dramatic a fashion because of the greedmongers lined up against change of any kind. This is not the place for recriminations, or for my usual insults. In candor, and with all the authenticity I can muster, I fervently hope things turn for the better. you and your husband and your other loved ones deserve no less. I don't care if it's "off topic". It matters. The jots and tittles between the two remaining plans are very difficult to weigh, in how they would impact a particular situation. If we do not get a Democratic president and an increased margin in both houses of congress, odds are nothing of consequence will change. I pledge to vote for every Democrat at every level in this, and every foreseeable election. God be with you. tom
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Kate
[Read the article: Hillary's bridge back to the 20th century]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Hard as it may be to believe, I meant, and mean, every word I said. Most of the time I use this forum as a vent. I'm not proud of that. Most of what I say is glib, occasionally obscene, and rarely of the depth and consequence that true political discourse requires. I went to Cal (Berkeley) when Berkeley was Berkeley, and learned to be passionate, iconoclastic, but, most of all, to give a damn. And I do. Kate, I asked for forgiveness after our initial interchange a while back. My behavior was shameful, and I said so. That matters, relatively, not at all. what has befallen you and yours matters as much as human affairs can matter. How this country can call itself, even remotely, Christian is a mockery of what Christ taught, and expects. Whosoever does this unto one of the least of these my brethren has done it unto me. I am a Christian, and, as best as I can determine, a liberation theology Catholic. I do not act the part here, obviously. But, at the deepest level, it does inform what I think about politics and politicians. Here's a cyber kleenex, Kate. I am very sorry. tom
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shawnie's scatology
[Read the article: Hillary's bridge back to the 20th century]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]you want turds, shawnie boy's your guy. aka and kate are genuine- wrong, in most instances, in my utterly fallible opinion- but they try. the only things shawnie baby tries are our patience and his pet sheep. Repeatedly. Baaaaa.