Letters to the Editor
saintzak
Published Letters: 1455 Editor's Choice: 146
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They've been given their last minute pre-election orders.
[Read the article: Iraq? It's not my problem]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Tom Reynolds tried excatly the same thing on NPR this morning. He gave a very evasive answer suggesting that the war in Iraq was not at all his responsibility. When asked to clarify his remarks he refused several times then quickly cut off the interview.
I would bet between now and Tuesday we will here just about every Republican candidate spouting the same thing nearly word for word.
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It's true there's no single Democratic position on Iraq
[Read the article: It's the war, stupid]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]We don't need a single position on Iraq. This war was undertaken on lies and prosecuted in the most venal and irresponsible fashion imaginable. A single bumpersticker position is what has gotten us into this mess and what has made the mess deteriorate. We need a hard, thourough, honest debate. We need a range of ideas and solutions presented and argued. We don't need just another focus grouped single position slogan.
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He should have just fessed up
[Read the article: Haggard: Massage, meth but no gay sex]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]He's a snivveling, cowardly liar. If he had owned up to it he would have been merely reviled as a despicable hypocrite. Now he's also a pathic joke.
Oh well maybe the mrs. will believe him.
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"I'm not going to judge Haggard, and neither should you."
[Read the article: Haggard: Massage, meth but no gay sex]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Speak for yourself. I'M judging him. He's made a fortune judging people and deomonizing people and fostering hatred. You bet I'll judge him. He's a liar and a hypocrite and he tried to gain power and fortune at my expense. Judgement passed. Deal with it.
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Yes, I do feel sorry for his wife and children who are being harmed in this scandal needlessly
[Read the article: Equality before God]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I don't feel a bit sorry for them Haggard may have been the public mouthpiece, but his family belonged to a movement that vilified and dmonized gays relentless on a daily basis. I feel no pity for any of them.
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where is the outrage?
[Read the article: W. rocks the vote]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"The Republican candidate for state treasurer, Mark Hillman, had told a joke about shooting down a plane with Democratic Sen. John Kerry on board. "Sure as hell wouldn't be a great loss," he offered as the punch line."
I don't hear any demands for apology from a Republican running for office who advocates murdering a senator.
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preaching to the chior
[Read the article: Saddam Hussein is sentenced to death. Is it a lifeline for the GOP?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]It may resonate with the evangelcal Christains whose bloodlust and ingrained thirst for vengance will be turned from their latest disgraced leader. But that crowd was wrapped up for the GOP anyway.
I think everyone else is so over saturated with Iraq that it will just wear them down further. How much of our national attention and concern can be monopolized by Iraq? People are sick of it and want it over. Hanging Hussein is meaningless. It just brings more attention Bush/Cheney's disaster.
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It won't be the voting machines.
[Read the article: Pew poll: GOP cuts Dems' lead]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]If the Republicans retain control of Congress it will be through the stupidity of the American people, plain and simple.
Two prominent Republicans (from both the House and Senate) with approval of the President have a wedsite posted that contains diagrams and formulas for creating nuclear weapons. The website was accessible in September. It was only taken down in November after the NYT exposed it's presence.
John Kerry fumbles an attempt to be glib at George Bush's expense.
Which of these incidents is mentioned in the polls as giving voters concerns about which party to vote for?
If the Republicans retain control then this nation deserves the consequences.
I still think the Democrats will take the House and the GOP will retain the Senate, but that its not an tidal wave in the Democrats favor speaks volumes about the American people.
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re: What I don't understand is...
[Read the article: An inevitable tightening or a cause for panic?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]People are genrally stupid. I hate to say that, but they are. I've heard a number of people at work STILL talking about John Kerry. When I ask if they're more concerned with his failed joke or the website that posted diagrams, etc. on making a nuclear bomb they just stare at me blankly.
What has been on tv for a solid week? Every news cast (broadcast and cable) is all Bush at his manufactured rallies all the time.
When coverage was tough on him the poll numbers reflected that. Now that he's basking in this pre-election Leni Riefenstahl treatment, like sheep, all those people are jumping on board.
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But I do genuinely believe that this guy struggled to push down what he saw as something evil.
[Read the article: "I'm guilty of sexual immorality," Haggard tells his flock]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I genuinely believe he made a choice a long time ago to fleece as many people as he could, and if he had to compromise his personal life in that persuit then so be it. He made a fortune picking the pockets of the lobotomized christian sheep and had his fun on the side. He got caught. I feel no pity for him or his family who gladly bought into the brand of hatred and intollerance he was selling.
I will say the man has good taste, though. Mike Jones is very hot.
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until a special prosecuter is appointed to spend millions of dollars of taxpayer money to produce a pornographic expose of every sordid detail.
[Read the article: "I'm guilty of sexual immorality," Haggard tells his flock]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Or until someone posts a link to Mike Jones' escort ad. We could tell from that pretty much what the Good Reverend was up to. My guess: Jones, top; Haggerd, bottom.
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"There's a sucker born every minute." PT Barnum
[Read the article: After the fall]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Ted Haggard is just picking up the pieces and starting a whole new racket. His new scam will be that of repentant fag, and his buddy Dobson gets a piece of the pie as well. Its all about reaching into the pockets of the glassy-eyed brainless followers. There's a fortune to made fleecing the flock.
Haggerd will be buying himself a nice new friend...there are tons of those escort ads, you know.
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Karl Rove and the Christians
[Read the article: A new contract with America]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]If Mr. Rove wants to survive to battle another day will he have to throw George Bush under the bus? Will we see national Republicans begin that tricky dance of distancing themselves from the rabid Christians?
The fallout from this election could be quite interesting.
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"it actually brings great news for conservative talk radio"
[Read the article: The morning after: Righty bloggers react]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]That speaks volumes, doesn't it. It sure sounds like "conservative values" is really just a gimmick to these guys.
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"knowing that the only way to retake our natural, governing majority..."
[Read the article: The morning after: The GOP reacts]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"our natural, governing majority" that's not too scary is it? They really are clueless. If public opinion has turned against the Republicans just wait untill some light is shined into their dirty little corners (ahem,Dick Cheney's secret engery task force). All the Republicans will have left are their mega church loonies.