Letters to the Editor
Jebbie
Published Letters: 1030
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Holly
[Read the article: Cokie Roberts speaks out on the war on behalf of the American people]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]No one can claim more concern for our young men and women who have been or are going to be placed in harm's way than I. No one.
I have made no comment, oblique or otherwise, which would leave any reader to believe that I believe in twisting the emotional knife that parents of our troops must feel when their children are placed in harm's way for no good reason.
It also does no good for those parents to be lead to believe that a person aspiring to the highest office in our land would, or has, taken steps to minimize the danger to his own child which would, of course, require that someone else's son or daughter take his place in the line of fire and that is precisely what misguided and unchallenged comments such as were made by Oomex would lead to.
Unless one is advocating that those of us who are against the continuation of this travesty in Iraq should use the parents of our troops as pawns in the political battle, it makes absolutely no sense (to me, at least) for speculation about John McCain's actions with regard to his son's assignment to take place. If there was any downside to Cindy Sheehan's activity, it was that she allowed herself to appear to be manipulated by those who would use her plight for political gain, regardless of what was happening in Iraq and regardless of what was happening in her movement. I guess what I am saying is that I do not favor any attempt to use the parents of our troops as pawns in the larger battle. There's no need to do that given McCain's other activity in support of this war and thus we shouldn't lower ourselves to the level of an Elephantman, Nablshit, or Shooter by doing so.
Again, I'm done here.
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Thank You Cdr. Guinn
[Read the article: Various items]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]for your service and for providing a valuable contribution to this discussion. Some here may not agree with what you have to say but the fact is, most of us here would never hear the "other side" of the story unless folks like you joined in with the discussion.
For the record, I agree with your description of who is and who is not a "hero" - word used much too frequently nowadays.
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Paul
[Read the article: Various items]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Today must be your lucky day. That's twice now that you've been targeted for someone else's doings.
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-- Kitt
[Read the article: Various items]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"I don't know the guts of this case. I do know that you have been very busy bending the bejeebus out of the facts of the case."
Please correct me if I'm wrong here but aren't those two sentences, when taken together, the definition of a non sequitur.
If you don't know about the facts of this case, how in the world can you state with any certainty that the Cdr. has been bending those facts?
What "facts" has he bent?
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Ahhh
[Read the article: John Yoo: Spearhead or scapegoat?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]What an absolutely perfect place to mention ponies.
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-- bungo pony
[Read the article: "Great American Hypocrites: Toppling the Big Myths of Republican Politics"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The right people will read it if those of us who have finished reading it will only pass it on either in the form of the book or through the form of knowledge gained by reading the book.
All Glenn, or any author of a book of this type, can do is present the case in readable and understandable form. The rest is up to us.
Actually, to me, that's the value of blogs such as this. It's not the number of eyes on a blog that counts. It's the number of ears.
Pssst. Pass it on.
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-- Associative Individualist
[Read the article: "Great American Hypocrites: Toppling the Big Myths of Republican Politics"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I'm sorry, but anyone who can't see how mind-bogglingly insulting it is to say of large numbers of Americans that they are using as crutches their religion and/or their traditional hunting and conservation culture, or that they are antipathetic to people "who aren't like them," because they have fallen upon hard times, is either blindly partisan or is stone deaf when it comes to incredibly impolitic remarks.
I suggest that Obama supporters are better advised to defend him in this instance on the ground that he'd had one too many glasses of Chardonnay than that what he said was a defensible, sober observation.
Obama could have better defined what he was getting at. When he said that people "clung" to their guns or religion, he meant that people were more receptive to issues related to guns (Obama will take away your guns) or religion (Obama will make gay marriage both legal and mandatory or Obama will allow your 13 year old daughter to get an abortion without telling you) than they are to economic issues, which they believe will just generate more horseshit promises that won't be kept. Yes, they're bitter about those unkept promises and that's understandable.
One of the problems with press coverage of this sort of thing is the way each story is driven in the direction which it's pointed by whatever press organ first reports it...and too many times, that first report is merely a stenographed report received from some political operative.
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-- William Timberman
[Read the article: "Great American Hypocrites: Toppling the Big Myths of Republican Politics"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"Perhaps the generations should only talk past one another after all."
Huh?
Could you please pick up some Depends at the store on your way home?
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-- William Timberman
[Read the article: "Great American Hypocrites: Toppling the Big Myths of Republican Politics"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Ooops!
Wrong thread.
My bad.
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-- William Timberman
[Read the article: "Great American Hypocrites: Toppling the Big Myths of Republican Politics"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Well, I suppose that if Michael Jordan can share, so can we.
I wonder if Pedinska would like to join us.
I'm told that she gardens in diapers and F-me pumps.
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Jim White
[Read the article: "Great American Hypocrites: Toppling the Big Myths of Republican Politics"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Great minds do, indeed, think alike. ;->