Letters to the Editor
Published Letters: 682 Editor's Choice: 9
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I second this:
[Read the article: Peggy Noonan is a serious "grown-up"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]From Sadly, No:
Hümor Me said,
December 28, 2007 at 18:58
I’d just like to interject the term “teabag” into this discussion.
Indeed.
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@Anonymous @05:24
[Read the article: Peggy Noonan is a serious "grown-up"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]In other words, Edwards operates on a simplistic principle and counts on the ignorance and gullibility of voters to validate it. So much for his condescending view that he looks out for the "little people." In fact, he plays them for fools and gets rich in the process.
Tell that to the little girl whose intestines were sucked out of her body in a kiddie pool because someone was too cheap to fit a suction valve with the proper washer. Tell me there aren't victims and victimizers. Tell me there isn't causality and fault.
Tell me, what compensation would you want if your niece, sister or daughter had to endure dozens of painful operations, hundreds of thousands of dollars in medical bills, and shitting in a bag for the rest of her life.
Wealth will be redistributed, either legally or otherwise. That is a fact.
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More Anonymous Cowardice
[Read the article: Peggy Noonan is a serious "grown-up"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Oh, perhaps you forgot all the coverage of Florida Secretary of State Catherine Harris (a Republican) who was mercilessly mocked for her hair and makeup.
Ugly though she may be (and, as far as subjective values of beauty go, I think there is uniform, bi-partisan support on this one), I will personally always remember Katherine Harris as the cunt who rigged the election for George Bush. She could look like Angelina Jolie for all I care, a scumbag is a scumbag is a scumbag.
Its an unfortunate coincident that looks match ideology. It's not John Edward's fault that he's prettier than Mann Coulter, and that it parrots their inner raison d'etre is irrelevant.
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haha I farted
[Read the article: Peggy Noonan is a serious "grown-up"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Anonymous blowhard, what was the dollar amount you were willing to accept for your daugthers' hypothetical mauling at the hands of negligent maintenance?
Also, I will defer judging the science about natal birth defects coming from someone who likely believes global warming to be a myth. I'm not on that jury, but if I were, I would try to set ideology aside and look at the evidence on its face.
What is your motivation for tort reform, greed or just self-disinterest?
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@wabanatta
[Read the article: Peggy Noonan is a serious "grown-up"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]many times over. Vietnam, 9/11, and Katrina, he just wanted to hide.
Indeed. It must be very lonely and frightening when your Dad is a wimp and your Mom doesn't love you.
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@The Officer in the Village People (Mancuso)
[Read the article: Peggy Noonan is a serious "grown-up"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The most cringe-inducing thing about gay men is their terrible, self-hating self-centeredness. In the world their minds inhabit, everything anyone says is a catty cut at the gay man. They must listen with four ears at all times, in all places, for fear of missing a dig. It's a shame. Those gay men, many of whom seem otherwise intelligent (thought not, frankly, well-adjusted) become distinguished by their extreme cattiness - none more so that Glenn Greenwald.
A well worded ad-hominem, but an empty one. Those gay men, gay men unlike yourself, do you mean?
Swing and a miss.
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The Junior Senator from Illinois
[Read the article: Obama's European problem]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Is working in the body that not more than 5 years ago voted to rename "French" fries to "freedom" fries, give him a break.
Perhaps if your benefactor from New York had herself any genuine convictions she would have seen the value of not pissing on our European allies so that we could sell no-bid Halliburton contracts in the Middle East.
Please recuse yourself from any more electioneering on Salon.com, this is not the New York Times. Time Magazine has a new opening, however. Your benefactor's policies align snugly with their stated (and unstated) raison d'etre.
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@anne2212
[Read the article: Obama's European problem]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Nice nickname.
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Clinton Supporters
[Read the article: Obama's European problem]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Stop deluding yourselves. Your candidate is neither "progressive" nor does she stand a snowballs chance in hell in the general election unless so is running against Ron Paul or Mike Huckabee (and my money is on Huckabee).
She represents all that is reprehensible about the beltway, and she just doesn't come off and genuine or likable. To wit, she's got the personality of John Kerry plus the openness and warmth of Dick Cheney.
Substantively, her attempts to triangulate cut and dry issues is deplorable. Notwithstanding the Iraq War vote, why has she not come out more forcibly against torture, the suspension of habeas corpus, our posture toward Iran (I can't believe she voted for the Kyl-Lieberman bill!), telecom anmesty and FISA. Is she even a Democrat? Hard to say. But if I were a Democrat, and I genuinely believed in progressive causes, I would back off from many of her so-called "mature" and "experience driven" positions like they were poison, instead she's pissing on the third rail and rightly being criticized for it.
This is not the kind of "machine" that I want running my government. This is the sort of machine that has been running it for well over 30 years.
Clearly, Barack Obama is one of the alternatives. How good of an alternative? Well, I think Joe can do a little more research and find something more substantive than this frothing over a senate sub-committee no one has ever heard of.
And of course, Dennis Kucinich could never win because he's short and pasty looking, and according to ditsy columns like this one, believes in UFOs and is friends with Shirley McClaine (the Horror).
Nice work, Joe.
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@HRH
[Read the article: Peggy Noonan is a serious "grown-up"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Ghengis Khan - Intellectual
Don't forget, everyone's favorite Classically Trained French Chef, Ho Chi Minh.
Of course, I know you are only having a laff, and so am I. Then again, calling the geniuses who came up with the CIA interdiction plans in 1953 "intellectuals" is a stretch to tragicomic to bear.