Letters to the Editor
Aycharaych
Published Letters: 2103 Editor's Choice: 3
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Heh..
[Read the article: Michael Bloomberg: Trans-partisan savior]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]He is an unrestrained advocate and enforcer of the War on Drugs (despite his own acknowledged use of marijuana, of course)
Matthew 23:23 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye pay tithe of mint and anise and cummin, and have omitted the weightier matters of the law, judgment, mercy, and faith: these ought ye to have done, and not to leave the other undone.
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Jim White
[Read the article: Michael Bloomberg: Trans-partisan savior]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The kind of bipartisanship we need, in fact, would require the few remaining people of principle within the Republican party to lead the charge for impeachment and imprisonment.
Given that the Republicans have marched in lockstep I can't think of any Republicans of real principle.
Perhaps you could name one or two?
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CMcC
[Read the article: Michael Bloomberg: Trans-partisan savior]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Some have already become Democrats. .... But most are not yet ready to make that step. My plea to you, to Krugman, and others is this: welcome these people. At the very least, don't make the transition even more difficult for them.
Given that most Democrats are part of the problem why should we care whether those who voted the neocons into power join the Democratic party?
At most, voting Democratic will only slightly slow the already precipitous descent into the already rampant authoritarianism so ably pointed out by Glenn in his article.
And not a soul yet has addressed my point that Obama the candidate would imprison Obama the teenager/young adult.
Not to be a Chicken Little but the sky really is falling and we don't even have a ragged umbrella under which to shelter.
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Jim White
[Read the article: Michael Bloomberg: Trans-partisan savior]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Hagel voted for the Iraq war. Now that it has become an utterly unmitigated disaster and politically unpopular he is changing his tune.
Anyone who had the slightest knowledge of Republican "ethics" would know that "rule of law" chant was sheer propaganda.
Don't forget, before the rule of law chant Bush 41 preemptively pardoned Cap the knife Weinberger in order to keep concealed his own eyebrow deep involvement in Iran Contra.
I don't recall the Republicans chanting rule of law then..
I can't think of another example of a preemptive pardon, can anyone else?
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The brave sir Anonymous
[Read the article: Michael Bloomberg: Trans-partisan savior]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Wait until a piece of the sky falls on you or one of your loved ones.
Your lack of moral courage would gag a maggot.
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RMP
[Read the article: Michael Bloomberg: Trans-partisan savior]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]once they've been through the political system long enough and realize how corrupt it is
I think Hagel is in that category. Need I remind you, he quit. I don’t believe he is such a talented actor that he was faking his senate rants. If he is, he better get into the acting business immediately. Right Dirigo?
Perhaps he is not acting, if so then his lack of moral courage heretofore was enough to make a dung beetle turn up its nose.
Just how damn long does one have to spend in the political system to realize it is corrupt to the core?
I've never been involved in politics other than some dealings with the local school board and other aspects of local government and it blindingly obvious to me that politics is corrupt.
My level of respect for those who wait until they are out or going out of the system to criticize it is just about nil.
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RMP
[Read the article: Michael Bloomberg: Trans-partisan savior]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Obviously, the time differs for each person. Hagel was living with and seeking voters in the more corrupt side of the equation. Probably, it took the horrors of a stupid, unjust war and sufficient casualties for him to realize the price was too high.
That the war is stupid and unjust was obvious before it ever started. I'm just Joe Sixpack with an internet connection and a cursory knowledge of history. I knew damn well that Iraq was going to turn out a disaster for the US. Schwartzkopf knew it, Ctheney knew it, anybody with a functioning brain knew it.
If a US Senator didn't know it then he had no business being dogcatcher, let alone a Senator.
Dodd, Biden, Feingold, Kucinich, Holt and others choose to try to work within it and find a way to keep from being corrupted.
Very damn few others. Entirely too few, the little Dutch boy with his finger in the dike.
Until we make much needed changes to the system, we need to identify and support those who choose to fight in an unfair battle ground and as many have previously said, support candidates who seriously believe they can change things without being corrupted.
Even in fiction the good guys don't always win. Empires always fall and the fall is seldom pretty or comfortable for those involved, particularly so for those on or near the bottom of the ladder.
And once more I point out that no one has responded to my point about Obama the candidate wishing to imprison Obama the teenager/young adult.
Until America stops making war on its own citizens then the slide to totalitarianism will continue, Obama will do nothing to halt the slide and neither will Edwards, Clinton or any other candidate who supports making war on our own people.
As for Chicken Little, he only has to be right once.
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Obama doesn't want to change anything truly fundamental in America.
[Read the article: Barack Obama's nouvelle vague]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Obama the candidate would imprison Obama the teenager/young adult.
Until America stops making war on Americans, the slide toward totalitarianism will continue apace.
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xychro
[Read the article: Mike Huckabee's leap of faith]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The fear of God is similar to the reverence one has for regarding traffic laws while driving across town. You obey the laws, but at the same time you literally fear breaking them. You would be horrified to run red lights or fail to signal when turning.
Try driving the speed limit where I live and you will be passed by innumerable expensive vehicles with fish symbols on the back, the vast majority of which might as well not have any turn signals at all for all the use they get.
Did I mention I live in a very red portion of a very red state?
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sysprog
[Read the article: Michael Bloomberg: Trans-partisan savior]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]You forgot the hog jowls..
In the turnip greens, I mean.
Happy New Year everyone.. And if you are a designated driver, try to keep it shiny side up and rubber side down.