Letters to the Editor
saintzak
Published Letters: 1459 Editor's Choice: 147
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Marriage is a partnership
[Read the article: The knives come out in South Carolina]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]the Presidency isn't.
I don't like either of them, and I think its time for them to take their disfunctional toxic game and go home, to be perfectly honest. Since the moment she lost Iowa they've turned this into a self-centered, divisive nightmare.
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Surrender will be the theme of the campaign
[Read the article: McCain: Clinton would "surrender" in Iraq]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Surrender. If nothing else, the Republicans sure know how to develop and implement their focused-grouped catch phrases and buzzwords. The Republicans will build their entire campaign around "Surrender." We will hear it relentelssly. And it will work. Fear has a way of crawling into people's heads (that's how they won in 2004). The Democrats have not been giving enough time to foreign policy and national security. In a way, they have "surrendered" the topic to the Republicans. They need to kick the legs out from under the Republicans NOW. By the time the Democrats have finished savaging each other, the Republicans will have made sure "surrender" is rattling around in the darkest corners of everyone's heads. If the Republicans can tar the Democrats with "surrender" before the nominations are set, its over folks.
Turn it back on them. The failed and disastrous policies of George Bush and the Republicans have "surrendered" our future and our security.
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What about Omar bin Laden?
[Read the article: Mission unaccomplished]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]He's available. He's far more strapping and handsome than his father. He'd look fantastic being "captured" and "brought to justice." I think he's trying to get a career in show business started anyway. They could haul him before the news cameras, shirt ripped open, hands bound behind his back. It would be thrilling and kind of sexy, too. Then he could star in some new drama on TNT.
Honestly, Osama bin Laden is probably living in Palm Springs with Pamela Anderson.
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"that's why people tell me Hillary doesn't have a chance of winning here."
[Read the article: Setting the South Carolina bar]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"All these BLACK folks are gonna vote for Obama. I mean I don't think we, my wife...Hillary, I, we can't really be competitve in a state with so many BLACK voters. You understand what I mean. Obama is BLACK and alot of the voters here are BLACK. So when you have a BLACK guy running you just expect all the folks who are also BLACK to vote for him. It would be like that ANYWHERE."
That's the message the Clintons want the results of the South Carolina primary to send.
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A Clinton/Obama ticket would drive a long overdue stake into the disgrace of racial and gender bigotry
[Read the article: In the NYT primary, it's Clinton and McCain]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Clinton/Obama is the only change she has to win in November. It would be a case of more people voting for him than her. If she doesn't choose Obama as her running mate the kiss the African american (who could blame them after the campaign the clintons have run?), the younger voters and independants won't support her.
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Why Edwards?
[Read the article: When principles aren't enough]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I like John Edwards. In the contest between Edwards/Obama/clinton I probably would have leaned more towards Edwards, but Chris Dodd or Joe Biden would have been my first choices. Edwards to me alwasy has a whif of The Music Man about him. I think that's why he has never been able to gain any real traction. His apology over his Senate vote on Iraq was compeking in 2004, but now he's publically regretting his Senate votes on a regular basis. That bothers me. He speaks very well about the "haves" and the "have nots" and coroprate greed, he's very slippery on what he would or could actually do.At the last debate he completely side-stepped the question on economic stimulus plans. He's a compelling speaker, but behind it all there, is to me, a troubling emptiness. I have some issues with Obama and I have no use for Clinton. I have come to those conclusions based directly on the canidates themselves. Edwards is too shaddowy for me to form any concrete opinion good or bad. I'm afraid I see him as a showboater.
I honestly don't think he got the short end of the stick treatment from the media. He has never been able to resonate strongly with the public...and he's been highly visable.
Considering the fact that Chris Dodd adressed the tough issues were facing in a very direct way and was completely ignored by the media and the public is far more troubling to me.
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The cheese stands alone
[Read the article: Who's to blame for the race politics?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I don't think Huckabee introduced race into the South Carolina campaign beyond exposing himself (and many right wing evangelical christians) for what they really are.
I don't think it had any thing to do with the Clinton/Obama circus.
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Think about the fact that the MSM is hell bent on marginalizing Ron Paul.
[Read the article: When principles aren't enough]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Enough with the Ron Paul thing already. Ok he holds a popular anti war opinion, but people are ignoring his documented racist, sexist, homophobic beliefs.
Pleease, enough with this idiot.
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Many Democrats and Progressives would accept four years of McCain (who, I believe, is at heart a decent man, and much more moderate than his necessary rightward election-year pandering would suggest)
[Read the article: Clinton: I'll take those delegates now, thanks]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I think alot of people feel this way, especially since Clinton grows more despicable by the day.
The real danger of a John McCain win in November is that he would more than likely be a great improvement over George Bush. He would resuscitate the Republican Party. The Republican Party SHOULD be wailing and knashing its teething alone in the wilderness for years to come following the disaster that was George Bush. John McCain in the White House could right the Republican ship while the Democrats were left in a complete shambles followinga divisive and crippling primary campaign and a stunning defeat in the general election.
Everyday the Clinton juggernaught moves forward that scenario becomes more likely.