Letters to the Editor
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Published Letters: 2087 Editor's Choice: 3
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Chris
[Read the article: Joe Klein rewrites his role in the 1990s]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Tell me- are any of the charges against clinton made by his evil right wing detractors true? Any of them?
I'm certain that at least one is true and probably more.
I'm also certain that a great deal of them are false.
Clinton's detractors, aided and abetted by the "liberal media" threw poo constantly and vigorously hoping that some of it would stick. There was so much poo thrown that distinguishing between valid charges and flung poo has become impossible.
Even after Clinton left office the poo flinging by the media and the anti Clinton forces didn't stop.. The White House and AF1 were trashed by the departing Democrats.. It was all over the nooz but it never happened.
Compare and contrast the behavior of the "liberal media" during the Clinton administration and their genuflecting sycophantism to Bush. The difference is like Death Valley versus the Garden of Eden.
It is quite clear that Bush skipped out of his term in the Texas Air National Guard, and yet the issue to this day has not really been addressed in the "liberal media".
Hell, even when Bush's DUI record was revealed it was played as a "Democrat dirty trick" by the "liberal media". A DUI will keep you from getting a lot of jobs in the USA, even jobs that have nothing to do with driving or operating equipment. The hypocrisy (not to mention idiocy) of electing a person with a DUI to the most responsible position in the world is utterly stunning.
I think both parties are controlled by the same people, but it's quite clear that those people have a preference for which party should actually govern, they want the "bad cop" in charge because they can get away with more when the government is controlled by the "bad cop".
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It will go on forever and be a constant battle for the status quo or better.
[Read the article: Michael Gordon "reports" on the "only serious" Iraq option: Staying forever]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]What part of "we cannot afford for it to continue forever" do you fail to understand?
Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pound ought and six, result misery. -Charles Dickens,David Copperfield, 1849
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Sol Invictus
[Read the article: Michael Gordon "reports" on the "only serious" Iraq option: Staying forever]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]At what point should the wishes of the majority of American citizens be considered by the policy makers?
Sixty percent?
Seventy percent?
Ninety percent?
Or never?
If never, then why bother to have a democracy, representative or otherwise, at all?
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"Performance"
[Read the article: The economics of prostitution]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]So for long term relationships to work between men and women, men need to be aware of this list of obstacles that many woman face in one form or another at some stage in her development. Men, I imagine also suffer from the pressure to "perform" but their problem seems more amenable to medical intervention than the list above does for women.
The main "performance" attribute of men desired by many (but certainly not all) women is not amenable to any sort of medical intervention at all.
A fat wallet.
"Trophy wives" are common enough with financially successful men to have earned a universally recognized phrase in the vernacular. I know that a few "trophy husbands" exist, but by no means as many as the converse, not enough to have coined a phrase.
Prostitution has been around for a long time and as far as I know is present in every culture. It isn't going away any time soon and anyone who thinks it will go away is engaging in self delusion.
A few of the posters here seem to have a view of women (other than themselves of course) as child like beings who have to be protected from making stupid decisions since they have no idea what is best for themselves.
I have two female grandchildren, I definitely wouldn't like it if they were to become prostitutes.. But I would want them to have full protection of the law if they were to choose to do so.
Passing laws designed to protect people from their own "vices" almost always causes more harm than good. This is abundantly made clear with the drug war in the US.
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PW
[Read the article: Michael Gordon "reports" on the "only serious" Iraq option: Staying forever]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]It is of course part of the debate - Ron Paul's part.
Paul, like Kucinich, is being systematically shut out of the MSM, and indeed even shut out here on Salon.
Most of the more vociferous Democrats on this very board loudly proclaim that Paul is a "kook".
Eventually America will drop the quest for empire, the only question is whether it happens before a total societal collapse or after.
The Butcher's Bill is always paid and the longer you forestall the payment the more dreadful that payment becomes.
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PW
[Read the article: Michael Gordon "reports" on the "only serious" Iraq option: Staying forever]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]All empires collapse, but most last much longer than the US's has thus far.
The pace of change has accelerated dramatically in the last few centuries and particularly so in the last century. My father was born in the year the Wright brothers first flew and lived to see men walk on the moon.
I myself grew up with a very small monochrome TV with but two stations available. Now we have video walls a la' 1984 and thousands if not millions of channels available if you count teh intertubez.
I hope for your sake that you do not have children or grandchildren for they will live to curse your name.
My children know where I stand and my grandchildren will as soon as they are old enough to understand. They also know that I'm doing what little I can to forestall the coming dark age.
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Anonymi
[Read the article: Michael Gordon "reports" on the "only serious" Iraq option: Staying forever]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Your comments might actually carry a little weight if they weren't... you know.. anonymous. And that on a board where handles are the norm
Those who have the courage of their convictions do not need to hide behind anonymity.
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Mona
[Read the article: Michael Gordon "reports" on the "only serious" Iraq option: Staying forever]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]They think that is all horsehit, but as busy working parents of four children they lack the luxury of getting news primarily from the Internet, rather than NBC.
One can absorb far more in a half hour of reading than a half hour of listening to even the fastest talker.
The "I'm too busy to do more than watch the nooz on TV" excuse doesn't cut the mustard in the final analysis.