Letters to the Editor
KateTex
Published Letters: 579 Editor's Choice: 4
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Raising my hand
[Read the article: "Money (That's What I Want)"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I have made four substantial (for me) contributions to Hillary Clinton's campaign so far, and will be sending more money in the coming weeks. I attended one of her two rallies in Austin immediately prior to the TX primary vote. I caucused for her on election night and represented her at our county convention this past Saturday as an alternate delegate. I have made phone calls and signed numerous online petitions, sent messages to the DNC, Nancy Pelosi, superdelegates...the list is long. I have also written letters to the editor in support of Hillary (one was published in the Austin paper several weeks back). I have been zealous about e-mailing links of interest re Hillary Clinton to friends and acquaintances. I post on a number of sites, including Taylor Marsh (one of the least toxic political sites in the blogosphere, and the NYTimes caucus page. I have a big shiny Hillary pin permanently affixed to my handbag, and a yard sign out front. All this, in addition to posting here on salon.com as an undercover Republican operative.
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@payne
[Read the article: "Money (That's What I Want)"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]For someone who professes to be a liberal, you are filled with a good deal of hatred, especially for women, a group which you demean with astonishing ugliness. I'm not sure if you're to be pitied or despised, but simply ignoring you is probably the wisest policy and this I plan to do, beginning now.
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@MacK
[Read the article: "Money (That's What I Want)"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]You Obama fans are some of the scariest political supporters this country has ever witnessed (with the possible exception of George Wallace's admirers). Anyone who disagrees with you is a) a racist and b) a Republican infiltrator. There is a deep misogyny implicit in this witch hunt, something which makes your side even more alarming. Maybe Michelle Obama was right: this country has a whole lot of ugly going on, more than many of us realized before this particular election cycle.
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@Uncle
[Read the article: "Money (That's What I Want)"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]You say: "This is just like any hard fought political contest where some on both sides get a little rabid. It's not devisive to point out mistakes made by one side or the other, despite what some posters think"
We're not talking about pointing out mistakes here, but rather the nearly constant stream of douche bag, fat ankle, witch, bitch, old hag, cackler, pimp, racist, KKK descriptors which have been very much in evidence on this site and all other 'progressive' blogs out there, when it comes to attacking and demeaning Hillary Clinton and her supporters. This isn't healthy debate, it's sheer ugliness and destruction, and it's taking a much larger toll on the Democratic party than its practitioners will ever admit.
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Whatever happened
[Read the article: Rocky is not running for president]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]To the new 'making nice' theme? That one lasted all of a NY second.
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Obama's record on medical malpractice
[Read the article: Hillary's bridge back to the 20th century]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Last night, I read an excerpt from an Atlantic article which upset me quite a lot. But first, the back story:
In 2005, several weeks before Katrina hit, my husband underwent emergency surgery in a small town in northern IL and came within hours of dying from horribly botched colon surgery (which may well have been unnecessary). Though a surgeon at UW Hospital in Madison WI thankfully subsequently saved his life through a series of ghastly surgeries stretching over five months, my husband ended up with chronic health problems. When we returned New Orleans in mid-January '06, he had to take early retirement from his job as a New Orleans firefighter after 26 years, in the process losing a huge part of his pension. We then had to move out of New Orleans, having lost three-quarters of our income.
The IL surgeon and hospital (which it turns out had a notorious reputation) were horribly inept and I wanted them stopped, so I tried hard to find a plaintiff attorney to take his case. Though plaintiffs need to meet only one and we met all five criteria for medical malpractice in IL, I could find only one attorney who would even talk to us. Though the attorney admitted ours was pretty much a slam dunk, he eventually declined because of considerable up-front costs, which we couldn't afford.
Two and a half years down the road, my husband just recently had what will hopefully be his last major surgery stemming from this ungodly mess.
Would you like to know who has helped put untold numbers of Illinois medical malpractice plaintiffs in this bind? Read the following, please:
"LIMITING NON-ECONOMIC DAMAGES:
These seemingly unusual votes wherein Obama aligns himself with Republican Party interests aren't new. While in the Illinois Senate, Obama voted to limit the recovery that victims of medical malpractice could obtain through the courts. Capping non-economic damages in medical malpractice cases means a victim cannot fully recover for pain and suffering or for punitive damages. Moreover, it ignored that courts were already empowered to adjust awards when appropriate, and that the Illinois Supreme Court had previously ruled such limits on tort reform violated the state constitution.
In the US Senate, Obama continued interfering with patients' full recovery for tortious conduct. He was a sponsor of the National Medical Error Disclosure and Compensation Act of 2005. The bill requires hospitals to disclose errors to patients and has a mechanism whereby disclosure, coupled with apologies, is rewarded by limiting patients' economic recovery. Rather than simply mandating disclosure, Obama's solution is to trade what should be mandated for something that should never be given away: namely, full recovery for the injured patient."
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@tompayne
[Read the article: Hillary's bridge back to the 20th century]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Thank you for the kind words - I do appreciate them. I would write more but sometimes the tears won't stop, as un-Salonlike as it may be to say that.
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Jerome Zeifman - some perspective
[Read the article: Rocky is not running for president]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Zeifman has had it in for the Clintons for years. For a little perspective, check out this 1999 Zeifman piece:
http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=16040