Letters to the Editor
MCE007
Published Letters: 287 Editor's Choice: 9
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Lies
[Read the article: The fight over Florida and Michigan]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]To answer those responding to Joan's complaint about Hillary bashing and Obama shills launching into their usual diatribes about her lying...try THIS on for size:
More Obama Lies the Media Will Ignore
By John Stephenson | March 30, 2008 - 17:33 ET
Update III: Even more Obama lies exposed by his own handwriting!
Update II: It was then-Sen. John Kennedy that arranged a grant for a scholarship program to bring Kenyan students to America. The rest remains under question.
Update: Video of Obama's Selma Speech
When Mitt Romney stated that he saw his father march with Martin Luther King Jr., there was wall to wall media coverage reporting how he had to start backpeddaling. Even after witnesses came forward claiming they had seen his father march with him, the media story of Mitt fabricating the story still persists.
Will Obama get the same media treatment with his lies? Don’t hold your breath. In a speech to a Selma, Alabama crowd meant to pump up his civil-rights movement authenticity and his Kennedy Camelot image, Barack Obama claimed that the Kennedy administration paid for his Kenyan father to travel to America on a student scholarship and therefore was responsible for his “very existence”. However, the first march on Selma took place on March 7, 1965. Obama would have been about three and half years old at that time. For some reason the media never did the math on this.
The Washington Post Fact Checker delves deeper.
Addressing civil rights activists in Selma, Ala., a year ago, Sen. Barack Obama traced his “very existence” to the generosity of the Kennedy family, which he said paid for his Kenyan father to travel to America on a student scholarship and thus meet his Kansan mother.
The Camelot connection has become part of the mythology surrounding Obama’s bid for the Democratic presidential nomination. After Caroline Kennedy endorsed his candidacy in January, Newsweek commentator Jonathan Alter reported that she had been struck by the extraordinary way in which “history replays itself” and by how “two generations of two families — separated by distance, culture and wealth — can intersect in strange and wonderful ways.”
It is a touching story — but the key details are either untrue or grossly oversimplified.
Contrary to Obama’s claims in speeches in January at American University and in Selma last year, the Kennedy family did not provide the funding for a September 1959 airlift of 81 Kenyan students to the United States that included Obama’s father. According to historical records and interviews with participants, the Kennedys were first approached for support for the program nearly a year later, in July 1960. The family responded with a $100,000 donation, most of which went to pay for a second airlift in September 1960.
Obama spokesman Bill Burton acknowledged yesterday that the senator from Illinois had erred in crediting the Kennedy family with a role in his father’s arrival in the United States. He said the Kennedy involvement in the Kenya student program apparently “started 48 years ago, not 49 years ago as Obama has mistakenly suggested in the past.”
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Obama’s Selma speech offers a very confused chronology of both the Kenya student program and the civil rights movement. Relating the story of how his parents met, Obama said: “There was something stirring across the country because of what happened in Selma, Alabama, because some folks are willing to march across a bridge. So they got together and Barack Obama Junior was born. So don’t tell me I don’t have a claim on Selma, Alabama.”
After bloggers pointed out that the Selma bridge protest occurred four years after Obama’s birth, a spokesman explained that the senator was referring to the civil rights movement in general, rather than any one event.
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Cringeworthy
[Read the article: "Sex and the City"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The TV show and movie have set New Yorkers on edge with the prospect of SATC wannabes descending on us like locusts! YIKES!
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Funny...
[Read the article: "Sex and the City"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]How delighted am I...
that although I live with a wife and two teen daughters none of them is planning to go to this thing, let alone drag me along. Not that they could anyway. I can imagine a few worse forms of cinematic torture, but only a very few.
-- Bravus
I agree wholeheartedly...this film just makes men want to run, run fast, run far...I love that Best Buy was having its Geek Squad hand out quarters for guys who were unwittingly trapped into seeing this feminine Fantasia, so that they can flee to the theatre exits and play a video game...
I wonder, ladies...what film for you would be the equivalent megaturnoff this is to men? Let's see some lists!!!
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Easily achieveable
[Read the article: Will Clinton or Obama be voted off the island?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Madden's predictions are negative at best...I expect her to kick Obama's ass...again!
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Levin said it right
[Read the article: Obama camp willing to compromise on Florida]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Leveling the most sensible argument at the absurd DNC Rules meeting, one of the most ridiculous displays of political nonsense ever, Sen. Carl Levin of Michigan, who is neutral, made an impassioned and eloquent argument for his state...
Levin angrily pointed out the absurdity of two small states, Iowa and New Hampshire, who are not by any means representative of the proportions of minorities in the rest of the nation, has achieved some kind of preferred status they do not justly deserve...it is time to end the primacy of these two minor states in the beginning of primary season.
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Go Gerri
[Read the article: Ferraro wants study on sexism, racism in campaign]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]There is no reason for Gerri to be self-aware of anything...
Her position is exactly right, and I am glad she refuses to be cowtowed by the PC police operating for Obama's favor, yet completely ignoring the insipid, absurd sexist cant that went unchecked on news channels and on the blogs...not so much on Salon, because people here know how to behave compared to the toxic, vicious, vile vitriol of sites like Huffingtonpost and Daily Kos.
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False and specious...
[Read the article: Ferraro wants study on sexism, racism in campaign]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]In short, the desire she expresses to see these problems dealt with might feel a whole lot more genuine if she would have examined the fault on both sides, not just on the one she opposes.
Not on your life...dead wrong.