Letters to the Editor
tom payne
Published Letters: 1101 Editor's Choice: 3
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dbs nya kma
[Read the article: Americans more ready for a black president than a woman?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]John Lennon, an amazing songwriter and remarkable individual, used women like toilet tissues. So, no, women are not niggers of the world. Check genocidal patterns: rwanda, niggers killing niggers; cambodia, some cambodians killing other cambodian; India, where female infanticide is a national passtime- try that on for sexism, idiots; America, native "americans'. So today's rich white woman hasn't shit to complain about- especially Billary, who's ridden her horny husband's name to where she is, and become obscenely wealthy in the process. Cry me a goddam river.
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Rampart
[Read the article: Americans more ready for a black president than a woman?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Your point is well taken. Big Bill is more of a C word than Hillary, and Georgie The Decider more than both combined. A person could be both a C and an N, but would not be the C because of the N. No causation. We could broaden the discourse to include the D word, e.g. Kay Bailey Hutchinson is more of a dick than Mike Huckabee. The A word applies to all of the above. Born in '68, eh? A seminal year, that. Cataclysmic in many ways, some that caused ripples going on to this day. Your mother wasn't from Billings, Montana, was she. Nah. That's be too small a world. Waaaaaaay too small. Never mind. tom
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puller flush man
[Read the article: Can Stephen Colbert save America?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]your erection is over. nothing left to pull. back to sleep, as if it differs from your waking state.
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rampart, you poor dear
[Read the article: Americans more ready for a black president than a woman?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]that whole C word N word D word A word rap was blather from jumpstreet. If you think I was serious in my depiction of the Tutu massacres in Rwanda, you can kiss my A work. I wouldn't let you near my D. Good luck with your C. We have 24 more letters to work with. Your turn. It's no BFD. Oh and Smith AKA or whatever you call yourself, 58,000 Americans were killed in Vietnam. Estimates of Vietnamese deaths are more than tenfold that number.
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chhalabi
[Read the article: Americans more ready for a black president than a woman?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Well, call me a bleeding heart- I fervently hope I qualify- but loss of human life does not cleave to international boundaries. dead is dead, or so I hear. so, yeah, I actually check icasualties.org almost every day to see what our military madness is costing us- by us I mean the human race.
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chhabili/heffalump
[Read the article: Americans more ready for a black president than a woman?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Chhabili, my apologies for my dyslexic exposition of your name. And, thanks, but I haven't run for anything since high school cross country, better than 40 years ago. Now, braindead Heffalump, I'm sure all de darkies be linin' up to join dat big tent where the house coons like Colonoscopy and Cunnilngus Ricearoni do their patriotic tap dancin' for da man. How many blacks are there in the rethug congressional caucus? None. Zero. Zip. Nada. So, you laid another gigantic pachyderm plop on the thread. Learn a new trick. Please.
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fredrick
[Read the article: Americans more ready for a black president than a woman?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Absolutely right. Our daughters' generation- they're 35 and 32 respectively- is replete with smart, assertive, confident women. It's a joy to have watched, and to have been around them and their friends. Wicked smaht, those ladies. Brilliant, but without the chip on the shoulder or the sense of victimization that seems to burden the feminists of my generation. It's not a zero sum game; yes, some men do flourish to the detriment of women, both in professional and personal ways, but the game has changed. Our daughters don't need to take assertiveness training. They can give it, as can many of their friends. I'm proud to have been a part of it, at least genetically. Both, by the way, are strong supporters of Obama. I'd love to watch one of you Clinton supporters call them dupes or sheep or latte sipping elitists with no sense of reality. You'd discover assertiveness first hand.
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reality counts
[Read the article: Americans more ready for a black president than a woman?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]All we can expect from one another- besides the pledge to rout McLame- is the admission that we might not be right. God knows my track record needs serious redacting- kinda like Hillary's schedule. It may be true that there is a naivete about hope, and the desire for true, not superficial, change. This may be just another election, another that we'll find yet another creative way of blowing. I pray that it isn't so. But I will do everything in my extremely narrow sphere of influence to make sure those I know vote D from top to bottom. If it's Hillary, our friends and family will NOT take the "I didn't get my way so I'm taking my ball and going home" attitude. we cannot, this nation cannot, afford that petty petulance. I was not an Obama supporter to begin with. I though he seemed green, not black. But I no longer do; to me, he has grown before our eyes in the last year. His campaign is a marvel. I have no illusions about messianic change, or magical transformations. I lived through '68 as a college senior, and that bitter taste has never left me. I know there is, at least, a generation's worth of work before us. The Bush cartel, those warmongering bastards, has left the world in literal and figurative shambles. I do think this much is true: that the election of a black man would, visually and conceptually, change the image of this country in a single stroke. Is that enough? Hell no. But it might create a space in which the rebuilding of goodwill and our national honor, can begin. The election of a woman, while unique for us, is hardly novel in the industrialized world. I shan't insult you with a list of the countries who have had female chief executives, nor the fact that their personal plumbing seemed to have remarkably little positive effect on their policies. One exception, now tragically lost to us, was Ms. Bhutto in Pakistan. How Hillary can be so glib about exposure to gunfire in the light of what happened there is disappointing, to say the least.