Letters to the Editor
ydharma
Published Letters: 3
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Not bad. A first.
[Read the article: Hillary's race against time]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]This is actually the first Camille column that didn't make me gag. I think she's improving. Of course, one can't agree with everything. Rush Limbaugh always sticks to principles???? My God, a statement like that should nearly disqualify its writer from further consideration as a rational human. A strange blind spot, that.
And isn't "tactical voting" a reasonable feature of other democratic systems that aren't like our two-party, winner-take-all slamfest? The necessity of forming coalitions among multiple parties in order to create a ruling majority has always required tactics, hasn't it? The U.S. form of democracy may be one of the dumbest, most limiting forms of all.
True dat re: the current fetishized race of models and actresses, though. Peculiar. Makes you realize the advice given in "The Graduate" has finally come to pass. "Plastics," indeed.
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I did not think you could be so blinkered, Joan
[Read the article: A new low in Clinton bashing]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]It is part of the campaign process that we must judge the character of the candidate from what material we have available. Clinton's NUMEROUS "misstatements" (OK, lies and provocations) from "obliterating Iran" to Bosnian sniper-fire to hard-working white people, and on and on, to this blatant (although somehow you don't see it) reference to a (even if subliminally) hoped-for assassination leave most of us thoroughly convinced she is not qualified for any public office whatsoever.
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I can tell you what else is depressing.
[Read the article: Playing soldier]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Hours and hours of cornpone music and hokey jokes and hick theology that reinforce nothing but the smug complacency of disconnected midwestern plainspeople, most of whom wouldn't take the trouble to cross the street to gaze at a pink ballerina, nor cultivate the political backbone to keep a George Bush out of office in the first place. Mr. Keillor's "alternative" values are more conventional and soul-deadening than any motorcycle exhaust.