Letters to the Editor
tom payne
Published Letters: 1101 Editor's Choice: 3
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recto-cranial insertion
[Read the article: Hillary Clinton's petition ]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]better a head in the sand than your head up your ass, juneau nothing. the klinoonians keep burning crosses on the lawn in the public square, then say they're just trying to bring light to the situation. all the candidates knew, all the jurisdictions knew, all 55, what the rules of the primary were to be. 53 of them complied. 2 did not. Now, billary wants "her" delegates, when that is not even at issue. She's trying to make the darkie look like a bad sport, a disenfranchiser of voters. Horseshit. Each party can choose its nominee in the manner it wants. They could hold a drawing, a raffle, a hammer/paper/scissors tournament. Nothing- not one damned thing- guarantees any vote in a primary. Billary's desperation is palpable, her ethics nonexistent, her ambition bigger than Big Bill's Bimbo Book.
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ms. professor
[Read the article: The Obama difference]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Scary, eh? Yes, we do careen about on this forum- I as much as anyone, but perhaps with better grammar. It's just as well we don't meet in person. I've been happily married to a phenomenal woman for almost 38 years and I'd just as soon not have a shorter Elle McPherson to deal with. I believe my catechism said something about avoiding not only sin, but the occasion for sin. Wise counsel, that. For the record, in my youth I was occasionally compared to Paul McCartney. Now, it's closer to Ben Franklin- not the brains, just the hairstyle. And you are correct: there is more that unites us than divides us, and I repeat, again, ad nauseum, my pledge to vote for Ms. Clinton if it comes to that. I will not hesitate, vacillate, ruminate or even wait: I'll be there when the polls open and vote D down the line, starting with Hillary if that's who's there.
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what does "pledge" mean?
[Read the article: Hillary Clinton's petition ]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Now, Gumby Clinton, flexible in the extreme, is really saying pledged delegates are not pledged. Thus, the primary elections and caucuses have meant nothing to her. Not one damned thing. A Lieberman democrat if there ever was one. And there is.
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BFD Smith
[Read the article: Hillary's bridge back to the 20th century]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]So, in Smithworld 50,000 a year is a good income for a family of four. Four what, cats? If you live in western Kansas, inherited your house so you have no house payments, never take a vacation, and all you kids get full college scholarships, you're right. In the SF bay area, 50k a year gets you a shitty rental duplex, both parents have to work their assess off, and they will never, ever own a home. Ever. I presume here we are talking gross income, the usual standard for determining what "income" is. the middle class has been losing ground for thirty years. The days of single income families with a stay at home parent are gone. Done. finished. Kaput. Down the crapper. Over. Get a clue. Please?
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fester, Sir
[Read the article: Hillary's bridge back to the 20th century]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Uncle Sam gave me free haircuts and trips around the pacific from '68 to '72, so I saw squalor. when we first got married (August '70) I was making 180 a month and rent (north shore Oahu) was 200. We ate rice at least two meals a deal. Just rice. But we knew we had an upside, and the poverty of at least 90 percent of the planet is beyond my comprehension. I will refrain from any Texas jibes regarding how far 50K goes. Good people live there too. Some must. The law of averages and all.
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juneau's first amendment zone
[Read the article: Hillary Clinton's petition ]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Golly, juneau, if I'd known God died and left you in charge I'd never have had the temerity to post in Your Holy Presence. I notice you didn't attempt to refute my central premise- besides the relationship between your cranium and your anus- which is (I'll make it simple for you) that Hillary wants to seat delegates from states whose primaries were, and are, invalid. So, piss and moan all you want, ask Mommy to limit naughty posters, or whatever else you spineless wonders want in an alleged free for all forum. That's Bush all over: first amendment zones. Speech where and when you're told you can speak. Sod off.
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fester
[Read the article: Hillary's bridge back to the 20th century]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Monetarily, those four years were a black hole. But I met and married my remarkable wife, without whom life is unthinkable. We are among those bleeding money in the Bush recession, and it may prove necessary to what is euphemistically termed "downsize". But that is not a tragedy. We will still be together, our large extended family is very close both emotionally and geographically, and we are all Bush loathing Democrats, every last one of us, all four generations. so, we're lucky, and that's an understatement. tom
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lara
[Read the article: The Obama difference]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Texas yelled on March 4? What did they yell? Obama got five more delegates in Texas than your heroine (99-94). Pretty damned quiet for a yell. Overall, in case you've lost count along with the rest of the sheep, Billary is behind by more than 160 pledged delegates. Her once huge lead in Penn. is down to five points. She trails in North Carolina by 12. Can you do math? The net result is, by the end of the month, she'll be down by more than 170 pledged delegates. At least Huckabee had the grace to lose with dignity. Apparently, that's not in the cards for "Rocky" or "Bosnian Rambo" or whatever brain dead Stallone character she's pretending to be. PIty she left her class in storage with the famous blue dress.
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walker
[Read the article: Hillary Clinton's petition ]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Far left? In America? In the 21st century? Let's see: Russ Feingold, maybe, Barney Frank, possibly. Barbara Lee, D Oakland congresswoman, for sure. that's about it. There is no left wing, Walker. You seem to think anyone who's not indistinguishable from a rethug can't win. The "electability" think again, eh? Worked wonders for President Kerry. She's down over 160 delegates, champ. She thinks she's Rocky, beatin' the meat. She's done and lacks the class to admit it.
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syphllis spreads the clap
[Read the article: Clinton denies she said Obama can't win]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Check the delegate counts. check the Penn and NC polls. Read the tea leaves instead of smoking them. And you forgot to damn America again. You're slipping. And losing.