Letters to the Editor
saintzak
Published Letters: 1459 Editor's Choice: 147
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captainlarab
[Read the article: "You can car pool"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I've thought that for a while now. Once the big corporations figured out how to buy politicians wholesale (and take over our information vehicles) our whole system rotted on the vine. There have always been corrupt, bought-and-paid-for politicians, but now they all are. They have to be if they even want to run for office. Politicians now are just Renfield to corporations' Dracula. The Founding Fathers must be rolling in their graves.
I honestly think it would take a full-fledged revolution to take the country back, but we're too big, too far-flung, too divided and dispersed for something like that to ever happen. Right now we're just collapsing under our own weight.
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C's vs A's
[Read the article: Joe Biden lets it all hang out]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Biden carries alot of baggage that makes it hard for me to embrace him or get excited about his campaign, but I'd much prefer him over the vapid, empty, self serving Hillary Clinton or Barak Obama. At least Joe Biden as a candidate has taken clear stands on the issues. Unlike the Annointed Two whoare masters of empty double-talk. I suggest Sen. Clinton take her finger out of the wind for a moment and tell us what she really stands for, and Sen. Obama might consider actually saying something of substance before I take a serious look at them.
Biden is doomed to be an also ran which is unfortunate. He is one of the few actually pushing the debate. The media has crowned Clinton and Obama as the only ones worthy of our attention, and it looks like were stuck with two empty vessels.
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Maybe
[Read the article: That's How You Got Killed Before]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]it just took a year to get him back, stuffed and mounted, from the taxidermist.
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Gadfly
[Read the article: Rep. Sheehan?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I sympathize with her, but she reached a point where it all started looking an awefull lot like grand-standing. She made her point in Crawford, but she helped turn it into a circus, now she just wont go away or put her efforts into some concrete usefullness. Its All Cindy, All the Time with her. She's turned it from mission into a career.
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advocating for policies he thought were in the best interests of the nation
[Read the article: Former surgeon general details Bush administration interference]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Again, what;s good for Bush and his cronies is good for the nation, and licking the asses of his out of touch, reality challenged Christian base is good for Bush and his cronies NOT the nation.
I commend him for finally speaking out. However, through him on the scrap heap with Colin Powell and the rest who didn't have the moral center and soul to resign from this immoral administration when they realized (and they all did) what damage was being done to this country. If people had been resigning is disgust and outrage right along maybe we wouldn't be in the mess we're in now.
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What the Republicans are really doing
[Read the article: Webb amendment blocked]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Playing chicken with the military. They'll block any bill or ammendment the Democrats bring up other than giving the President a blank check to stay the course. Why, when so many of them are crawling out of the woodwork to call for a change in policy? Well you know the congressional Republicans are working feverishly to craft something acceptible . They'll offer that up and dare the Democrats to block it. They won't of course. We'll then hear Deomcrats crow about "our friends across the aisle" coming to reason. 2008 elections. The Republicans will slam the Democrats as a do nothing impotent majority that couldn't accomplish anything, but they, in the minority, were the ones who got something done.
They don't care about the almighty troops or national security. They care about winning back congress in 2008. Power that's all they care about, and they'll let the chaos continue as long as they want if it serves their own purpose.
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She seems typical
[Read the article: Cummins: "My professional reputation has already been slandered"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]of the inexperienced, not very bright, far too young sycophants the Bush adminstration staffed the Green Zone with after the invasion of Iraq. Makes you wonder just how paranoid Bush, Cheney and Rove are of anyone with experience and intelligence entering their world. Surround yourself with career ass-kissers like Libby and a gaggle of underaged dim-witted ideologues and you don't have to worry about anyone on the inside turning a critical eye on your far less than moral, hardly noble activities.
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He may have won the day, but...
[Read the article: Behind the scenes of the administration's debate on Iraq]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]...his "victory" sure makes Bush look even more like a clueless fool. By this point most of the country (not to mention the worrld) is shaking their collective head.
The only message this sends is: "I'm leaving the mess for the next guy to clean up." Talk about a legacy.
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Painting themselves into a corner
[Read the article: Bush's worst day ever?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I don't think George Bush is delussional. I do think he's a liar, and not a very good one (yesterday a terible one). Right now his approval ratings must mirror the number of people who think he's a liar.
Its one thing to be a liar, its another to paint yourself in to an ever smaller corner. Iraq isn't going to get better no matter how long the administration tries to play out the clock. The conditions there and beyond will only get worse. Clearly, the recent incidents in England show the chaos is spreading beyond Iraq itself. The constant lies, the boy-who-cried-wolf terror warnings, stay the course policy: the Bush adminstration has left itself no options and no outs. They're stuck in a downward spiral of disaster.
He's worried about his legacy?! Too bad. The rest of us have alot morre to be worried about, namely the consequences of his presidency.