Letters to the Editor
mercury409
Published Letters: 4
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Intelligence and Expertise Both Over-rated
[Read the article: Journalists, McCain and the false Iran/al-Qaida link]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Many pols and journalists are given far more credit for their intelligence and expertise than they deserve. McCain confusing the Sunni & Shi'a and their respective ideological and political relationships sounded like some college student who had just crammed for a final exam after a semester's worth of skipping class and got his facts confused on the essay question. I also believe that there are few journalists who are bothering to keep their facts any straighter, which makes it very easy for these kinds of factual errors not only to go unreported but to be left unnoticed for weeks. Quite frankly, if Lieberman hadn't corrected McCain (corrected him on video, more importantly), these errors most likely never would have been revealed, despite the fact that McCain had been spouting his mistakes all over the Middle East. Ignorance, laziness, bias, bigotry still play a huge role in our attitudes towards the peoples of the Middle East--a sense of "it's so hard keeping track of all these differences--and do they really matter, anyway?" a la Trent Lott. It's political and it's journalistic. In other words, I don't think McCain was purposely mis-characterizing. I think he isn't as smart as journalists and Iraq war sympathizers/rationalizers (who, themselves are lazy, ignorant and who are still willing to let other people think for them and take too much that is in dispute on faith) hope he is. Please America, do your homework this time. Reject cultural insensitivity and laziness; reject warmongers who would pretend to intelligence and expertise and the media who enable them.
And on a "given too much credit for intelligence" tangent, let me remind you all of Hillary Clinton's casting her indefensible votes: 1. The authorization for the use of force against Iraq (she didn't even read the NIE!!!) and 2. Declaring the Iranian Revolutionary Guard a terrorist organization.
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Skinnin' Fat Cats & Clintonian Disinformation
[Read the article: Reid, Pelosi get entangled in the presidential race]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Every single donor who is a signatory to the blackmail note sent to Pelosi should be publicized, named out right. We have a right to know who the fat cats are that are trying to exert undue influence on this election. We should have the opportunity as citizens to make them pay for their arrogance by undermining their business interests. I hope Pelosi gives them all the finger. If Obama has taught our generation's politicians anything, it's that you don't need the fat cats to succeed. Not when you have the internet.
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McCain Democrats! Step Back from the Ledge!!
[Read the article: McCain embraces Bush's radical views of executive power]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]So, this is what we have to look forward to all you hyper-Obama/hyper-Clinton democrats who are threatening to vote for McCain if their candidate does not win the Democratic nomination.
Step back from the ledge before the threat borne of your momentary passions turns into this Democracies second foot in the grave! It is not too late! Democrats unite around the nominee!!