Letters to the Editor
tom payne
Published Letters: 1101 Editor's Choice: 3
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[Read the article: Hillary's bridge back to the 20th century]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]sorry. no diatribe. no insults. there was a letter to the editor in our local paper this morning so breathtakingly stupid that it made all you Clinton adherents sound Lincolnesque. I can't bring myself to do more than this brief summation: all wars are caused by Democrats, and we owe George a big wet kiss for liberating two countries and saving us from the rag headed boogie men. Really. There are some dumb stumps humping here, to be sure, but nothing that matched the unrelenting idiocy of that letter.
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Screw Yoo
[Read the article: John Yoo's war crimes]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]In an administration filled with fascist thugs- Condi, rummy, Perle, cheney, bush, tacobellgrande gonzales, the whole neocon infested brothel- the most despicable, smarmy tool is John Yoo. I am ashamed to say the bastard "teaches" at my alma mater. He should not only be disbarred- that part is clear- but he should be hoisted on his own petard, impaled with the same justice system for which he has such boundless contempt. What Albert Speer was to architecture, John Yoo is to law. Utter disgusting.
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vinnie the one eyed snake
[Read the article: The Obama difference]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Yeah, trouser trout, Obama and Bush are almost exactly alike. Obama could be his stunt double. The only part that's not quite the same is that Obama is taller. Oh, and he was president of the Harvard Law Review, has had a life of unbroken success while George was a cokeheaded deserter, a drunken child abuser, a destroyer of businesses, and became what he is- a smug pride-swollen warmonger incapable of constructing one coherent paragraph- entirely on the backs of his daddy's rich friends. Like the Bin Ladens. Like the Saudi royal family. So, you're absolutely correct: they're the same. Wait- is Bush black? I forget. His presence is so overwhelming, his eloquence to spellbinding, I forget what he looks like. Oh, yeah; a Connecticut preppy prick. The prick part you should identify with. love heywood.
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ethic prof
[Read the article: The Obama difference]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]sire, it was a letter to the editor, and the paper is the Somona Index-Tribune. I think they can be linked on line. If you'd like to see stupidity in its pure, distilled form, read that letter. It makes even Shawn the Pawn sound rational.
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WES
[Read the article: The Obama difference]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I do not convulse over typographical errors.I do twitch at malapropisms and misuseages, which means I basically have Tourette's. Writing has gotten so bad in our culture it's a brainded pandemic. I think it was in the morning SF Chronicle today- an article that cited a statistic that only one in four high school students can write a sentence. It's not just Bush. It's not just ebonics. It is a disintegration, in the full sense of the term. While the end is not inevitable, or imminent, I do think our country is in decline. History is not encouraging about U-turns of empires (which, if we're not, we seek to be) once they pass the tipping point. I'm not despondent enough to think we've actually tipped, but I do think we need a national fire hose enema, and the hose should be inserted in DC. This is one reason I favor Obama, granting even those alarmed by his relative inexperience and what some find as empty arrogant rhetoric. In our country now, anyone who speaks really well is going to come off as arrogant. Far too many want to have a leader just as dumb as they are. Not me. I'm not competent to run the country; I couldn't manage the household without an amazingly talented, brilliant, and diligent wife. She likes Obama, too. Our entire extended, various family. I shan't tire you with the details. Let's just say we don't agree on everything, but we agree on this. For what it's worth (Stephen Stills, 1966) tom
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ethics prof
[Read the article: The Obama difference]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I hereby submit to public flogging for having presumed your gender, when "ethics professor" is neutral, if not neutered. There's a good case to be made that a woman may cleave more naturally to ethics. I needn't recount the public humiliations brought about by public men, whose wives then have to stand, grim and brokenhearted, while the jerk offers an "apology", which, most often, can be translated as "I'm sorry I got caught".
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Ethics prof, others: correction
[Read the article: The Obama difference]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]My bad. The offending letter to the editor was in the April 3 issue of the Sonoma Valley Sun. It's on line. The letter was by an Elizabeth McDonald, who makes Ronald McDonald seem a Nobel laureate. Ignorance of stunning proportions. Read it and weep. arggghhh.
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Deeper
[Read the article: The Obama difference]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]False dichotomy. Charisma (Bush?????) and intelligence can coexist in the same individual. Our national history has some of those folks, albeit increasingly rare. Take Obama to task for inexperience or, if you perceive it, insincerity, but not on talent. Get real. He's at least as smart as either Clinton; and how was big Bill's foreign policy resume when he got elected as Mr. Likeability (with a wink wink nudge nudge history of a pickup truck with velour in the back)? We're not electing a CPA or an MBA. Wonking, and wanking, are overrated.
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caucus race issue
[Read the article: Hillary Clinton's petition ]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]this manure is right out of Lewis Carroll. There were no primaries. There were no delegates at stake. there were no campaigns. There were several candidates still viable at the time, and all of them but Billary took their names off the MIchigan ballot. There is no issue. There is a smokescreen that reeks heavily of hydrogen sulfide. That's bullshit to you hillbots. If you don't think the Klintoonians are ethically challenged, the Michigan and florida two state monty ought to convince you. It won't, though.
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jackass
[Read the article: The Obama difference]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]yeah. right. those same "republicans" have been sending Obama millions of dollars every month, on a scale previously unthinkable, just so's they kin run agin' the darkie. Most horses have two ends, but yours is all ass. Geez, whatta maroon.