Letters to the Editor
saintzak
Published Letters: 1459 Editor's Choice: 147
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When I was young...
[Read the article: "Blackwater is our team"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]...the thought that this country would collapse never entered my mind.
About ten years ago I told a friend that we were born at the right time. We'll die before the country falls.
A few years ago I was worried that I'd live to see the end..
Now I have a sick feeling we're experiencing it.
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"It was a guy who put himself in a bad situation."
[Read the article: Quote of the Day No. 2]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]So did Norman Bates.
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"absolutely no intention" of letting a supplemental funding bill for the Iraq war out of his committee until the president changes course on the war.
[Read the article: Obey: Want money for war? Change course]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Actually, he shouldn't let any supplimental bill out of his committe unless it calls for the resumption of the draft. You want to see the American people demand a change? That will do it.
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This was a vote about whether or not to go to war.
[Read the article: Obama: I was right from the start]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Hmm, interesting. However, there was just a vote in the Senate that overwhelming approved the President's classifying the Iranian Revolutionary Guard as a terrorist organization. Many people feel that in hindsight it will be seen as "a vote about whether or not to go to war." Sen Clinton again voted yes. And Sen Obama? This time he had the opportunity as a US Senator to voice his opinion and cast his vote. He did neither.
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O'Reilly and Rush
[Read the article: Limbaugh's "phony soldier" becomes a suicide bomber]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Why can I imagine them together in a bad dinner theater production of The Producers somewhere in Florida in a few years?
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Time to move on MoveOn
[Read the article: MoveOn, Limbaugh and how the game is played]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Why should MoveOn.org continue to support Democrats that not only run and hide from them, but join Republicans in denouncing them? I hope MoveOn actively works against any Democrat that voted for that rediculous resolution. If they need to support alternative candidates or third party candidates, so be it.
I am writing ALL of my representatives and telling them if I don't see a big change in their actions and some results before the election then I'm voting third party (who or whatever that might be) across the board...and no more financial support from me until they earn it.
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and she's the smart one?
[Read the article: Larry King interviews Jenna Bush]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]King: "We're back. So Jenna, has Justin timberlake brought sexy back?"
Jenna: "Oh yes! Uh...I mean..well...yeah...you know, like, I'd shave down there for him...uh..no I mean...he's really cute."
King: "How long did it take you to write your book?""
Jenna: "What book? Oh, umm...I don't know. I like wrote it, but oh...no I mean it was written in a certain amount of time...I don't know."
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"I understand there's a front page ad that's been taken out by this outfit called MoveOn.org
[Read the article: Fred Thompson: Rush is right]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]they send these emails out to people from those contraptions of theirs.
I know he's trying for that down home good ole boy thing, but to me, he just sounds stupid.
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Congresses approval rating
[Read the article: Limbaugh, MoveOn and the First Amendment]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]will be in single digits by the time this is over. Congress has no business involving themselves with MoveOn or Limbaugh.
I really think people have reached their limit. The audience shouted down Rahm Emanual on Real Time With Bill Maher last week when he started his double talk. We're reaching the point where a third party could make a very strong showing in one of these elections.
This country needs a high colonic.
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If there's two questions left," he said, "I'll take them and then let's be done."
[Read the article: Red, white and mercenary in Iraq]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]If I were a member of congress questioning him and he dared say that to me I would have calmly looked at him and said, "Would you like some water Mr. Prince? You're going to be here for a very long time."
The saddest, most frightening aspect of this is that no one cares. I was talking (or trying to) about this to people at work, at the gym, etc. and all I got was blank stares or shrugs.
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Log Cabin Lunatics
[Read the article: Killing him with kindness]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]What do they get from the Republican Party? The Republican Party gets a few more votes from them, and they can smirk at them while those votes are counted. Oh well, P.T. Barnum said , "There's a sucker born every minute."
I can fully understand not voting on a singular issue, and that gay Americans have a wide variety of concerns...BUT the Republican Party actively courts people with a rabid desire to harm gays. The Republican Party is more than happy to use gay Americans as their perennial punching bag. Security, national defence, foreign policy, tax policy, energy, health care? The Republican Party has been a disaster on all fronts. There is no reason in hell for these Log Cabin Lunatics to persist in their insane support of the Republican Party. Personally, I think they're just attention whores.
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I remember when...
[Read the article: Mitt Romney hearts Mitt Romney]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]...middle aged men just bought themselves Corvettes.
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Can he ever...
[Read the article: Judge to Craig: You're stuck with your plea]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]...use a public rest room again? Whether a fine restaurant, conference, theater...truck stop...he will never be able to walk into a public rest room without everyone going, "Hmmm."
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This has no concern for "values"
[Read the article: James Dobson's Rudy problem]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The only way "values" can even be remotely mentioned is that Dobson, Perkins, Robertson, etc. "value" their seats at the table of power centered in the Republican Party. They "value" their unfettered political and financial positions. My guess is that James Dobson's only concern with abortion and gays is how effectively he can rail-road his gullible multitude with hot botton issues. These organizations are raking in tax exempt fortunes, tied in with no-bid contract lavished firms like Blackwater, and have bullied their way into positions of power in the current Administration. The climate is growing somewhat more unfreindly to them. They still command the undying devotion of their braindead flock by appealing to their most bigotted and bitter impulses. They're bullying their way back into the inner sanctum of Republican politics the best way they can: threatening a voter boycott. It might not work this time. George Bush and his disastrous presidency and policies are now the official face of right wing Christianity. I think the American people by and large are sick of it.
This is a venal power play, nothing more. It has no conern with "values."