Letters to the Editor
Manhattanite
Published Letters: 289 Editor's Choice: 16
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The Former President
[Read the article: Bill, Hillary and Iraq]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The Rovian machine seized upon 9/11 to promote its warmongering slant. Everyone who did not support the Administration stance on Iraq was branded as a traitor.
I do not excuse Clinton and other Democrats for voting to go to war with Iraq. The evidence in favor of attacking Iraq was dubious to all who could (or wanted) to see. The Democrats were definitely guilty of pandering to the mood of the moment.
However, this was then, and this is now.
Whatever their faults -- and they are numerous --, the Democrats are our only chance to push back against an abysmally incompetent, vicious, corrupt, government, that has ruined our country financially and diplomatically. I wish the U.S. could swith to a Parliamentary system, so that inept / corrupt governments could be subjected to a vote of no - confidence, and thrown out of office.
But that is not the system we have. So, let's be pragmatic, and work with the system we have, no matter how deficient.
So, can we all stop beating on Clinton? After all, he gave us eight years of peace and prosperity. And can we all stop beating on Senator Clinton? She is not President yet, by a long shot.
Can we just focus on the November elections? The first step towards restoring democracy is to rid ourselves of the GOP cesspool.
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Bill, Hillary and Iraq
[Read the article: Bill, Hillary and Iraq]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]So we have a choice between holding our noses in November and vote for the Democrats, thus having a chance of clipping the wings of an increasingly out-of-control Administration, or we can take the moral high ground against the Democrats and let Bush and his gang continue to run the country into the ground. Which will it be?
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Just Give up
[Read the article: Bill, Hillary and Iraq]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]If you do not want to lift a finger to cut the Administration down to size, and you keep on abetting an insane Administration that is hell-bent on destroying Democracy, and turning this country into a third-world society, go right ahead.
Put politics ahead of pragmatism,if you can.
The 20's and 30's crowd has nothing to lose. That crowd does not give a shit about the 50+ people, i.e. their parents and grand-parents, who put them through school with loans, second mortgages, equity loans, etc...
God forbids that they would think of the welfare of people who no longer have thirty years ahead of them to build up reserves for retirement! Especially when those reserves went to educate the next generation!
So, by all means, stay home in November, or vote for independents who do not have a chance, and help reconduct the GOP to power. You will have made your point. Hopefully, you can live with it.
Thank you for your foresight! Your parents won't be able to pay for their medical bills, and neither will you.
So, go ahead, vote independent, or stay home in November. The GOP will be grateful to you for the opportunity of dismantling the precarious safety net that barely affords seniors any dignity.
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keyser Soze
[Read the article: Meet the Bush administration's Keyser Soze]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]At the very least, this is a confirmation of what a lot of people knew already: Cheney and his henchmen are running the country. The Decider was chosen by the GOP establishment to be the figure-head because of the fund-raising abilities that the Bush name connotes, and the vicious twit's evident delusions of "grandeur".
Lovely! This country is run by a bunch of brutal sociopaths like Cheney and Addington. Cheney of course, would surround himself with the kind of Addingtons. Addington is clearly anti-social, and a social misfit, therefore dangerous.
Addington is clearly incapable of forming normal relationships. At his age, he is still single, does not date, and spends all his time obsessing over presidential power.
Addington sounds ripe for the insane asylum. So does his boss, who apparently obsesses over newspaper editorials, cuts them out, and spends his time taking them in and out of his desk's drawers to get himself aroused.
This is the crew that is currently running the country: a vicious sociopah of a Vice President, viciously frustrated aides like Addington, and a vicious, imbecile, frat boy who thinks he runs the show.
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keyser Soze
[Read the article: Meet the Bush administration's Keyser Soze]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]At the very least, this is a confirmation of what a lot of people knew already: Cheney and his henchmen are running the country. The Decider was chosen by the GOP establishment to be the figure-head because of the fund-raising abilities that the Bush name connotes, and the vicious twit's evident delusions of "grandeur".
Lovely! This country is run by a bunch of brutal sociopaths like Cheney and Addington. Cheney of course, would surround himself with the kind of Addingtons. Addington is clearly anti-social, and a social misfit, therefore dangerous.
Addington is clearly incapable of forming normal relationships. At his age, he is still single, does not date, and spends all his time obsessing over presidential power.
Addington sounds ripe for the insane asylum. So does his boss, who apparently obsesses over newspaper editorials, cuts them out, and spends his time taking them in and out of his desk's drawers to get himself aroused.
This is the crew that is currently running the country: a vicious sociopah of a Vice President, viciously frustrated aides like Addington, and a vicious, imbecile, frat boy who thinks he runs the show.
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Bring it on
[Read the article: "An Inconvenient Truth"? Doubt it. "United 93"? Bring it on]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Nothing like exploiting other people's misery for political gains...
Meanwhile, that poor excuse for a human being of a President spent 9/11 cowering on board of Air Force One. The Vice was in seclusion. None of these cowardly gasbags was anywhere to be found to address the nation.