Letters to the Editor
cazador@nnex.net
Published Letters: 25
-
Weather or Not Nader is a Pawn In McCain's Game Is Beside The Point
[Read the article: Ralph Nader loves John McCain]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The simple fact is, he's an arrogant ignorant fool.
Back in November of 2000 I was also a fool. I voted for him.
I thought there was no way that even close to a majority of voters would vote for mental midget George W. Bush, so I thought why not make a principled stand and vote for someone totally untainted by big corporate $.
Bush stole the nomination from McCain and then with the collusion of the Supreme Court stole the election from Gore. All of us who voted for Nader were complicit in this massive double theft.
Nader became a self-impressed tool of the Republican Party, funded to a large part by them, to peal off enough liberal votes from Gore to make the race one close enough to steal. And we all helped. If Nader was a pawn we were all the peons that helped him elect George W. Bush so that his utterly fraudulent wing of the Republican Party could destroy the country, Iraq, Afghanistan, the US standing throughout the world, and the legitimate Conservative movement.
While the Bush/Cheney wing of the Republican party, using the smoke screens of a constitutional ammendment against gay marriage, a revocation of Roe vs Wade, legislation against stem cell research, partial birth abortion, support for school vouchers, the elimination of Social Security, Weapons of Mass Deception, and numerous other movements of which they cared little, they filled their pockets with the wealth of the country and will leave office in January of 09' having bankrupted our nation, impoverished its people, and having also destroyed the true Republican party.
All of us were too stupid to see what they were doing. Many legitimate ethical Republicans even cheered them on. Most Democrats stood on the sidelines with their hands in their pockets.....playing with themselves. Not knowing what else to do.
And now with Nader running again, we're going to entertain more of the same?
Sorry Ralphie and Johnny, not this time. We're hip to the scam. We've all grown up even if you two haven't.
john h higgins cazador@nnex.net
-
Wright Was Right And So Was Obama For Not Disowning His Pastor
[Read the article: Will Wright hurt Obama's chances?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]He and his overtheatrical lapses may for some move them to vote for Hillary or McCain....or at least scare them away from Barack. But my guess and hope is that the US electorate, after the eight years of hear no evil, see no evil, and tell no truth tactics of Bush and Cheney, has had enough of these false maneuvers by the press and goofy conservative pundits who want to attribute Wright's ramblings as Barack's beliefs.
Barack Obama's Tuesday speech on race,religion,and politics.....a speech necessitated by Hillary's and Geraldine Ferraro's claim that he would be nowhere in politics were he not black...[possibly partly true but a foolish assertion nonetheless], set the stage for what they hoped would be a defense or disposal of Rev. Wright by a candidate that they can't figure out how to beat.
Giving him the occasion that they offered him, he rose to the occasion with such a thoughtful and brilliantly delivered speech, that the only loosers after the dust had settled were Hillary, Geraldine, and the McCain campaign.
They may try again to make race a major issue in this campaign, certainly uninformed voters will be encouraged to do so. But for the rest of us, and we will be the majority, we are tired of the issue of race being the stalemate that keeps our country locked in unspoken conflict.
Mr. Obama was correct in everything he said and it's about time we heard a politician speak truth to the power of the people on all sides of the race issue.
From my white Chicago suburban position, where I grew up seeing poor middle aged black women get off the bus and trundle up our sidewalks every morning, shopping bag in hand; coming to clean our bathrooms, make our beds, wash and iron our clothes, care for and help raise us when our mothers were all too often unavailable. I wondered, where do these people live? Was it in those dangerous desintegrating all black neighborhoods where no white person would go without being freightened beyond belief or never come out alive? Certainly Willie Maude Bond, our maid,friend,and protector couldn't live in a neighborhood like that. But where did she live and why weren't we ever allowed to visit her in her home or go to her church? These were thoughtless prohibitions that should never have been allowed and only added to the white fright and flight mentality of the last century.
As Mr. Obama said, we are a United Nation, a people united to strive for the best for all of us. Those that we ignore and dismiss by not going to their neighborhoods and their churches and inviting them to ours, diminishes the standing of all races. Theirs as well as ours. Those that we fail to understand and fear, have the same right to misunderstand and fear us.
It's no wonder that of all nations, we're the nation most apt to go to war against our enemies, now premptively, given the fact that our own civil war and the reason for it, has never been properly discussed, understood, or put to rest. An Obama presidency will finally and forever correct this severe deficiency.
John H. Higgins cazador@nnex.net