Letters to the Editor
had_enough
Published Letters: 817 Editor's Choice: 48
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it's not your country
[Read the article: Bush and Cheney walk, too]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]It's probably worth remembering, at this interesting juncture, that for at least three generations of the Bush family, this country has belonged to them. Or, at least, is has been extremely good to them.
The Bush family, purely on evidence easily available to anyone who wants to go read it, has regarded the United States government as a combination food-trough and fiefdom for nearly 100 years. GW and his wife, HW and Babs, and Prescott before them, all regarded the United States as their personal possession.
Ergo, GW's actions. He probably really believes that there was nothing wrong with commuting Libby's sentence. After all, it all belongs to him and his family, so he can do whatever the hell he wants. He always has, right? This is no different.
The Bush family is a family of traitors. Traitors to everything this country ever stood for, in an idealistic way...seen from another vantage though, the Bush family is in the long tradition of guilded-age criminals, who fatten up at the public trough, along with their friends, and make sure no-one is ever held accountable.
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if we can't impeach Bush and Cheney...
[Read the article: "You can car pool"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]...then we can't impeach anyone. Who in the history of the country has been more corrupt, and more incompetent? And more obvious about it? Grant? Maybe, but consider the scale. And Grant was a beloved American hero..for the North, anyway.
I am so disgusted. It's a nightmare we can't wake up from.
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@anon... throwing food around doesn't become you.
[Read the article: Bush and Cheney walk, too]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]anonymous wrote:
Just change around a few names and this sounds just like the Kennedys. Look into how Joseph Kennedy made his millions some time.
--Anonymous
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So what? At least John Kennedy didn't get us into a nuclear war, no thanks to the right-wing nutbags who tried to talk him into one. Had GW been President then, we'd all be molten slag.
However, let's get to the real problem you have: you refuse to address the problem. Instead, you want to tar anyone and everyone else in sight with the sins of Bush and Cheney. This is a typical schoolyard tactic, and if that's all you have--projecting impeachable crimes and misdemeanors onto whoever comes into your pointy little head--why don't you just go over to LGF and entertain the geniuses there?
We're clearly not in your league.
Unless you care to talk about what Blumenthal's article was actually about: Bush commuting Libby's sentence so that Libby wouldn't spill it all to Fitzgerald. How do you feel about that? Do you think people who lie to prosecutors about a felony should go free? Do you think people who protect their bosses from even worse crimes should go free?
Try, if you can, to forget about Bill Clinton and Marc Rich for a moment--and let's leave Joe Kennedy out of it too (who's next? Shirley Temple??)--and just concentrate your delicate brain cells on the problem at hand: a criminal enterprise masquerading as a Presidency. What do you think of it? Lying us into useless, bloody war that has made the world very, very unsafe; lying about why perfectly competent prosecutors were fired from Justice; handing over the entire country to Big Pharma, Big Oil, and investment banking companies--among others.
Concentrate your mind, anonymous, and then maybe you can actually address the problem, instead of desperately projecting the problem everywhere but where it belongs.
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isn't it gonna be fun...
[Read the article: Steve walks warily down the street, with the brim pulled way down low]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]...to read all the revisionist history of this period? The frantic efforts of so many to whitewash the facts, and their selective spin on those facts, are going to be entertaining scholars for decades..
It may not be as grotesque as the spin on WWI (and let's not even talk about how it's taken over 50 years to get the real story of the Soviet Union's dominant role in WWII)...but, with so many journalists, generals, politicians, diplomats, think-tank scholars, and more, try desperately to make themselves look good with so much free-floating guilt and shame to go around, it's gonna take 100 years to sort out the facts, I'm guessing.
It's already started.
And the worst part is that this entire period will be utterly transformed by the right-wing into another justification for the projection of power. Read right-wing papers and essays on this period in our history 30 years from now, and you won't recognize ANYTHING.
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windy
[Read the article: "They don't own the Democratic Party"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]you know, I've always liked Joe as a professional legislator...but, jesus, he is windy. I wish he was capable of simply saying what he had to say, clearly and succinctly. But he can't, apparently. Half the time you have to decipher what the hell he means..and I'm sure that's not his intention.
Anyone who says Biden is straightforward and candid is smoking crack. 30 years in the Senate have turned him into a hopeless windbag.. and, thus, unelectable.