Letters to the Editor
saintzak
Published Letters: 1459 Editor's Choice: 147
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Is it real or is it artificial?
[Read the article: Democrats in big, big trouble because of the Great Iraq War -- again]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I don't trust this bunch any farther than I could throw them, so I'm somewhat suspicious that things seem to be improving at such an opportune time for the Republicans. Are US military deaths really down or are the troops being held back somewhat from their patrols and such? We now hear that thousands of Iraqis are returning. We're being told because Baghdad has turned into the Emerald City and everyone wants to go back home. Well apparently, they're returning because Lebanon and syria are tossing them out, their visas are expiring and they have to return because there's no place else for them to go.
Coming from this administration, I don't take anything at face value.
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Amen FilthyHarry
[Read the article: A Democrat in '08? In theory, yes]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I agree completely.
Nothing in this country will truly change until there is genuine, sweeping campaign finance reform. As long as the same coroprate interests are buying politicians of botth parties we will be stagnant. Add to that the corporate take over of our media outlets and the situation becomes totally toxic. Its no co-incident that the politicians who suck up the most money get the lion's share of publicity (which is what it is, publicity, not news coverage). Issues aren't even beeing discussed. The issues are actually being avoided.
Voters put the Democrats in control of congress for one reason: to stymie George Bush and reverse his disastrous policies, specifically the Iraq war. They haven't even done a good job of pretending to have an interest in changing the situation.
Cut off their corporate cash flow. That's how we'll start to see a change, and even then I'm beginning to be convinced it will have to come through the emergence of a viable third party.
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So John Edwards is kind of like
[Read the article: Yes, and they hired a UFO to stalk Kucinich, too]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Obama's Renfield.
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She's as useless as...
[Read the article: We'll take that as a "no"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]...Harry Reid.
This isn't politics, its bad vaudeville.
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I'll let Patti Smith say it for me:
[Read the article: Mike Huckabee, on a wing and a prayer]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"Jesus died for sombody's sin but not mine...My sins are my own. The belong to me. Me."
Anyone who pointed a gun at an animal, pulled the trigger and said angels carried his bullet to the deer is not in complete control of their mental facilities in my book. Let him go speak in tongues, handel snakes and praise Jesus in some backwater shithole. We don't need that governing the nation.
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"they just didn't have enough GUTS for one"
[Read the article: Senate confirms Mukasey]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]They didn't want to. The Democrats are waiting in the wings to use every power-grab, rape of the constitution and re-imagining of our values (transformation into an official sponsor of state sactioned torture) the bush adminstration has amassed. If a Demcratic adminstration comes in next they'll view all of these aboinations as just "business as usual." Once you pass the threashold on these things you don't go back without an uprising of the common people...and that aint gonna happen. The Democrats will whine and wring their hands and put on a pretty unconvincing show, but in reality they're rubbing their hands together counting the hours untill its their turn.
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Biden, Clinton, Dodd and Obama
[Read the article: The fact that wasn't a fact on Clinton]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]All skipped the Mukasey vote. None showed up to make a speech on the floor of the Senate. None, god-forbid, attempted a filibuster. In other words, all four had the perfect opportunity to stand up and show some leadership. None did.
Of course everyone is obssessed with more The World Against the Clintons psychodrama and Giuliani getting an endorsement from a senile old lunatic.
We do get the leaders we deserve.
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Its a shame
[Read the article: "I'm not going to paint a caricature"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Barack Obama was running for President as votes were being cast to send him to the US Senate. Maybe if Sen. Obama had used his short time in the Senate to build a solid national reputation instead of relying on a maudlin speech that everyone seemed to like more than I can understand, he would be a much stronger and more viable candidate today. His brief Senate career is unremarkable and there have been too many cowardly, defensive missed votes(Mukasey, Kyl/Lieberman, MoveOn...).
He got too far ahead of himself, and he's in over his head. It takes more than saying "We can do better." in a crisp suit.
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I have to disagree with you on this point. Isn't this the Modus Operandi of your typical politician?
[Read the article: "I'm not going to paint a caricature"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Yes, they all do that, but Obama just sounds like he's running on fumes. He really rushed things in my opion.
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When did the Germans finally wake up?
[Read the article: The cost of war]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]when it was over
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Nothing will change untill
[Read the article: Dianne Feinstein -- Bush's key ally in the Senate -- to support telecom amnesty]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]enough people are truly fed up and vote a third party candidate into the White House. There is no cowardice on the part of Democrats. They're as big a problem as the Republicans.
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Do Hillary Clinton and Mitt Romney go to Super Cuts?
[Read the article: Obama goes for the capillaries]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Enough about the haircut already. I'm sure most people would be somewhat suprised to learn how much most candidates spend on groom, style consultation, etc.
I'm starting to think an Edwards/Obama ticket may be what we end up seeing when the dust settles. Hillary Clinton got a huge media push, but she's beginning to get a more critical appraisal, and people are beginning to notice all the old Clinton baggage resurfacing. After two terms of George Bush I think, in the end, most people want (and need) something new. Another go around of the clinton psychodrama just isn't what the country needs.
John Edwards' national experience isn't that much more than Obama's, but he seem much more decisive and clear thinking. Obama is too cautious and seems like he's feeling his way through. He'd be great on the ticket as VP, but he's not ready for the top spot.
Edwards/Obama would be hard to beat, and we'd see a real clash of ideas. If Hillary Clinton tops the ticket the entire campaign (from both sides) will be nothing butt The Clinton Show...again.