Letters to the Editor
saintzak
Published Letters: 1459 Editor's Choice: 147
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Pace and Petraeus are two leaders who have spent their entire lives in service to their country
[Read the article: Tempest, meet teapot; pot, meet kettle]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Like politicians, they both have leveraged 'service to their country" into a might lucrative careers.
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Carol H
[Read the article: Reporting for duty, sir]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Unfortunately, I fear yours is a minority opinion. I wish military personael and their families would wake up as a group as see this fool for what he is, but I'm afraid he still has very strong support amongst that group.
Comment's like Snow's (the administration's really) are nothing more than mockery.
And can there be anyone who doesn't believe he will be remembered as the worst President in US history?
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I can hear the conversation...
[Read the article: About that pardon ...]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Actually I can hear her on the phone with a friend right now:
"At least I don't have see that dick poking in my face for 2 1/2 years...the money? Oh that's fine. No worries for me."
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noillusions
[Read the article: Joe Lieberman outspins the Pentagon]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I think you're right, and I think Lieberman is just an example of what is cancerously wrong with this country. How many politicians must we listen to who tell us what's good for america when in fact the very opposite is true. Whether is Lieberman putting Israel before the needs af America and draping it in "the war on terror" or politicians beholden to the oil companies and whats good for them and Saudi Arabia or politicians that tell us our trade policies are actually good for the american worker (they just don't mention the american workers they refer to are wealthy corporate executives and ceo's).
America no longer exists. It a big clearing house for the corporate elite and a threadbare slogan for the red stateminions.
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"And at the end of the day, that's all you can expect"
[Read the article: Bartlett on Bush: An "A" for effort]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I expect someone who is elected to the highest office in the land to leave the country in at least as good of shape as he found it. I don't think that "benchmark" is too unreasonable. But I do think we should expect a departing president to beable to say things are better.
When he was "elected" in 2000 I doubt anyone, even his detractors, thought for one second he would turn the country and the world into a cauldron of unrest and disaster.
Even if 9/11 had never happened, his end story would have been the same. He served (our presidents aren't kings) with contempt. 9/11 merely put him on the fast track.
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Pace: I was forced out
[Read the article: Pace: I was forced out]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]And don't let the door hit you on the way out.
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Preaching to the chior
[Read the article: Maybe they saw the president on the front lines]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Keep in mind exactly who Romney expects to impress with that little gem of information: right wing Christians. They've already mixed God and military to a frightening degree, so equating the Romney boys' church service with military service is no stretch for the freakshow that has become the Republican base.
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they won't have to get married or have children to avoid military service as our VP did
[Read the article: Maybe they saw the president on the front lines]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]And the good Lord in his infinate wisdom blessed Cheney with a lesbian daughter. If there is a god I hope he really is that ironic.
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Ask them about the...
[Read the article: What the Democrats would do about Iraq]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]...gigantic embassy being built. If we're not planning on being there for a VEY, VERY long time then why are we building a gargantuan fortified emabassy and permanent bases? Alot of talk from alot of people about ending this mess, but we just keep digging ourselves in deeper and deeper.
My guess? The next president, whoever that may be, will not make a move to get us out.
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So...
[Read the article: For Clinton, a warmer reception]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]...you have to ask yourself, does she have a real plan or a real position, or does she just not want to get booed?
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He traded a scotch on the rocks....
[Read the article: Notes on "A Tragic Legacy"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]...for Jesus on the rocks. Just another crutch for an addictive personality. Now he's traded Jesus for power (also highly addictive). The Christian drag just plays well with his freaky right wing base, but he's moved on.
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"while setting the Republicans up for victory"
[Read the article: A Cheney-Thompson swap?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]What Republican presidential hopeful would EVER want to step in and cover themself with the shit of this adminstration? That would be a great big present for the Democrats. The last thing anyone would (or should) want is to be associated with George Bush's horror show. Its too late for this administration to turn things around whether or not Cheney is kicked to the curb. Anyone signing on at this point would be committing career suicide.
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who pays attention to how they vote?
[Read the article: Tough talk on Iraq, but will any action follow?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Hardly anyone. So Lugar, Spector...any politician (look at the big talk spewed from the Democrats only to have them genuflect and bow to George Bush) can say what will be popular or balming to inflamed public opinion, and then turn around and vote in just the oposite way in the chamber. No one pays attention to how they vote. People pay attention to politician's mawkish and choreographed performances when cameras are pointed at them.
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What did he wear to dinner with Pat Robertson?
[Read the article: Rudy amid the evangelicals]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]His Marilyn outfit?
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Praise Jesus for Don't Ask Don'tTell
[Read the article: Iraq, Bush and the new moral majority]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]At least they can still support the troops. Imagine if there were homosexuals in the military! They would have nothing left to them.
I'm sorry, but all those "values voters" would vote for Bush in a heartbeat if he could run again. I think they may be disappointed with the course the Iraq war has taken, but I really don't believe for a second that they don't support it. Bush's 32% approval rating and the support for the war roughly illustrate the "values voters." I think for years we've had these far right conservative "values voters" shoved down our collective throats as the dominant ideolical force in the country. We've been bullied by a group that isn't all that dominant. Time to take the country back.
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"You have pretty eyes"
[Read the article: Do you have to be gay to tell another guy his eyes are pretty?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]He's a jerk, gay or straight. The best way to deal with a jobber like that would have been to say, "Thank you, alot of people tell me that."
I dated a guy for a short while how insisted he was straight (even with my legs thrown over his shoulders). It got to the point where he was getting insulting about it. Of course he wasn't straihgt. I broke up with him and told him that I didn't feel comfortable dating a straight guy. He sputtered and flustered, and I went on my way. I still see him around the neighborhood always with a new boyfriend...he's still straight, by the way.
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sactorob
[Read the article: Do you have to be gay to tell another guy his eyes are pretty?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]give it a rest. you're getting creepy.