Letters to the Editor
Ladouceur de Vivre
Published Letters: 21 Editor's Choice: 1
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Oh no!
[Read the article: The baby bust]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Here we go again, the eugenic arguement. The poor, the Catholic, the black, the "feeble-minded," and now the right wing - pick your favorite fear - are breeding differentially! Disaster! The end of western civilization! What crap.
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JFK, MLK, BHO
[Read the article: Was Obama's speech enough?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]OK, maybe Obama was pushed into taking a firm stand on the topic of race by the Wright flap. Maybe he would rather have avoided it. Perhaps he was so naïve as to not have known it was coming and had been caught unprepared. Flatfooted. I doubt it, but maybe.
Nonetheless, when the attack came, Obama rose to the challenge and displayed remarkable vision … and leadership.
Remarkable.
I have been waiting for nearly 2 months to have my early faith in Obama confirmed. The stump speech on what seemed like an endless loop had begun to seriously depress me. Was it true, as his detractors were suggesting, that this person had never been vetted and would be easily “swiftboated” by the Republicans if nominated?
I was almost convinced.
Then came this speech. Was it enough? Oh yes, it sure was. This was perhaps the most wonderful and inspirational (and right figgin’ on!) speech I have ever heard, from a politician, preacher or anybody else for that matter. That it came from a politician, a rough and tumble Chicago pol at that, only makes it more remarkable. Miraculous even.
Obama may not win, but that doesn’t not matter much to me anymore, for I have seen the Promised Land!
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Beautiful
[Read the article: "God talked to me today"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Thank you.
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@ thehappychickenwillsmile (page 58!)
[Read the article: Moving beyond Obama and race]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]What chicken said! It's weird, for sure, to talk about race and gender as adults. But we can't talk about either, or anything else that matters for that matter, if we fear how the "media" will interpret our slight misstatements. Or worse, if we perpetuate those misstatements and play the "media" game ourselves.
Joan, remain loyal to Hillary, if in fact you are, but please, stop being part of the problem and become part of the solution!
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@ episcomom
[Read the article: "Clinton will not be able to win the nomination"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Requested link:
http://www.gallup.com/poll/105529/Gallup-Daily-Obama-Edges-Ahead-Clinton.aspx
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How dare she!!??
[Read the article: Michelle Obama on "ignorant" America]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Joan reports on the Obama’s “injudicious” comments (“typical white …,” “ignorant”) as a way to highlight the Clinton’s skills at avoiding the “third rail” words of the God Bless America crowd.
As a former blue-collar boy with many relatives still embedded in the matrix, I know how negatively defining comments like Michelle’s “for the first time in my life I am proud to be an American” can be. She is already cast in the minds of my “laws” and in-laws as a “Jane Fonda,” this crowd’s most brutal epithet. Though many relatives were honestly considering Barack, it took not a minute’s exposure to Michelle to snap them out of it. I seriously doubt they are coming back.
But I will not accept the utilitarian argument that the plain-spoken Obama’s will not be able to win, or if they win, affect change, because they do not buy into the current paradigm. These points might be true, but to accept them is to "naturalize" the current state of world affairs. And that is dangerous as hell!
Hey, I'm still angry that Hillary was politically “emasculated,” forced to demonstrate that she would be a good White House wife after her comments about cookies. However that does not make me want to force Michelle to bend as well, to pander to my relatives and express “gratitude” (Pat Buchanan’s word) for all the “advantages” she’s been given as a black woman.
Michelle is breaking new ground (as is her husband) spearheading “anti-tribalism.” As Hillary did in 93 spearheading health care. As Eleanor did in 39 spearheading civil rights. As a Democrat proud of the better traditions of this party, I plan to support her, and her husband, in their transformative quest.
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Can someone please explain
[Read the article: Michelle Obama on "ignorant" America]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Barack and Michelle Obama are saying things that are pissing off the right wing (including the right wing within the Democratic party). I concede the point. But how is this an argument for Hillary? What does it say about those who amplify the Obamas’ detractors?
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It's OK, you were drunk
[Read the article: Michelle Obama on "ignorant" America]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I don't blame anybody for partying hearty in celebration of the first viable female presidential candidate.
But, when you find yourself in bed with people who believe black folk are America’s real racists, it’s time to get up, get dressed, go home, grab a hot shower and make a mental note to avoid that bar from now on.
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Oh, He's a Boomer
[Read the article: The Obama difference]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]As a "marketeer," I'm bathed in these generational terms daily – Millennial (aka Gen Y), Gen X, Boomer, Mature – and the values and behaviors each is supposed express.
I gotta go with Gizmo, though Obama was born in '61, he is not a Boomer, but a member of Gen X (with a fascinating ability to appeal to Millennials like my 18-year old daughter).
I, like Gizmo, am voting for him largely for that fact (hey, we have to hang our decisions on something). I am sick of my own generation's (Boomer) pretentiousness, smarty-pants solutions, and more than anything, our profound class-blindness.
Is Clinton a bad person? No. Would she make a good president? Yes. Is she the safer choice? Perhaps. But I believe Obama (with fingers crossed) represents the future. A bit of a gamble no doubt, but in my calculus, well worth the risk.
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Huh?
[Read the article: The Obama difference]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Oops, the title of my previous post should of course have read: "Oh, He's a Gen-Xer."
I blame the gin.