Letters to the Editor
Elephantman
Published Letters: 1318 Editor's Choice: 15
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Left-wing smear campaigns...
[Read the article: A week of petty though typical attacks on Obama produced nothing]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I don't know who it was who was disputing the hanging of a flag by Obama volunteers in an Obama campaign office, but here it is, and it is quite clearly a "flag"; a Cuban national flag with a superimposed image of Che Guevara. (You remember Che -- doctor, revolutionary, murderer...)
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=56293
And compare the reporting of that issue to the mighty kerfuffle over the sighting of a Confederate flag hung in an out-building by an unknown worker, at a private hunting club in upstate New York, where Vice President Cheney, as a visitor only, went hunting...
http://thinkprogress.org/2007/10/30/cheney-confederate-flag/
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Some basic Wikipedia-level education for 'Conservativeslayer'...
[Read the article: A week of petty though typical attacks on Obama produced nothing]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Barack as the "Magic Negro" was not invented by Rush Limbaugh, and if you paid any attention at all, you'd have known that.
So here is your remedial education in the literary notion of "the magic negro" courtesy of Wikipedia...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magical_Negro
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Here's a non-rhetorical question for the Salon readership about Obama: why is he regarded as 'bipartisan'?
[Read the article: A week of petty though typical attacks on Obama produced nothing]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]This letter-writer made an interesting comment:
People are sick of it already
If this weren't the case Obama might not be rising as high as he is.
People on both sides of the "debate" are tired of the childish, schoolyard arguments, the crass and ugly smears and the moronic windbags who are driving the conversation.
Part of Obama's appeal, in my opinion, is the fact that he offers optimism and favors bipartisan solutions to problems. I can't remember a politician running for office recently who wasn't blaming the other side right out of the gate.
And as far as Limbaugh, Time magazine, etc- sometimes people scream and flail the loudest when their influence is waning.
-- DQuintanaNY
So, what are the best examples of Obama's "bipartisanship"?
For McCain, there are huge, serious issues on which he has taken leadership that would best be described as "remarkably bipartisan": McCain was one of the bipartisan "gang of fourteen" on judicial appointments; there's the McCain-Feingold campaign finance reform (so called) act; and most recently, the McCain-Kennedy-others movement on immigration reform. McCain's serious, demonstrable bipartisanship has even gotten him into serious trouble with the right wing of his party. McCain's greatest appeal is to independents. Much of what McCain has done as a 'bipartisan' bothers me as a loyalist conservative Republican.
As for Obama, what bipartisanship has he displayed, other than lurking in the left's back corridors? What votes; what initiatives; what legislative history can any of you point to that makes Obama "bipartisan" or somehow "transcendent" of politics?
Personally, I despise any notion of an Obama Presidency. It would seem to me to be indistinguishable from a Ted Kennedy or an Al Sharpton Presidency. Why should anyone think any differently?
Obama isn't 'bipartisan.' Obama is a biracial liberal.
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Here's my answer --
[Read the article: A week of petty though typical attacks on Obama produced nothing]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"Personally, I despise any notion of an Obama Presidency. It would seem to me to be indistinguishable from a Ted Kennedy or an Al Sharpton Presidency. Why should anyone think any differently?"
Uh... they're not a drooling idiot?
Based on WHAT would you expect Obama's presidency to be indistinguishable from one with Kennedy or Sharpton?
Use specific examples from legislation or speeches.
If you must lazily resort to sweeping generalizations about "liberals", please take the time to explain why the Bush/McCain position is to be distinguished as "conservative" from the "liberal" Obama position.
-- prunes
I think Obama's approach to taxes and the size of government would be the same as Kennedy's -- they have both voted the same way.
I think Obama's approach to judicial appointments would be the same as Kennedy's, as would Hillary Clinton's. We know about Clinton from her partisan positions on the Judiciary Committee.
I think that Obama's approach to foreign policy and Iraq would be to the left of almost any other Presidential candidate from any party. That's based on what Obama has said. That he'd talk to Iran; that he'd begin pulling out of Iraq as soon as he took office; etc., etc.
I mean, that is why so many people at Salon support Obama, right? He's that far left. He's not bipartisan. If you wanted "bipartisan," you'd all be supporting Joe Leiberman, Arlen Spector, Chuck Hagel or John McCain. Those are bipartisan guys. Not Obama.
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So many questions!
[Read the article: A week of petty though typical attacks on Obama produced nothing]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]...a loyalist conservative Republican...
Explain what that means, specifically?
-- Kitt
No problem. It means that I am more of a Mitch McConnel/Jeff Flake/Duncan Hunter kind of a Republican than a John McCain/Chuck Hagel kind of Republican.
But I'll happily support McCain in the general. I think he'll win.
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Bignose, I'd like you to meet Prunes...
[Read the article: A week of petty though typical attacks on Obama produced nothing]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Bipartisan? I hope not, Mr. Elephant.
I hope that whoever the Left ends up with, they have an even greater advantage in both houses, and they take the fear-mongering, war-mongering, race-baiting, environment-destroying, class-warfaring, privacy-invading (Did I miss anything?) agenda of the right, shove it up their ass and send them packing.
You're on the wrong side of history. Elephants are doomed to become extinct.
-- bignose
Right. This is my point, exactly. The Salon readership doesn't really want "bipartisan," and a true bipartisan would actually be anathema to most of the readership.
Salon wants a liberal. Salon likes Obama because he's a liberal.