Letters to the Editor
DrEyeBall
Published Letters: 124 Editor's Choice: 2
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Polls aside
[Read the article: The tragic collapse of America's standing in the world]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]How many remember that when Clinton was in office and he visited any foreign country he was received like a beloved superstar.
When Clinton and Bush Sr. were touring Indonesia to spearhead tsunami relief, opinion swung from OBL-favorable to US-favorable. Of course that was not to last.
Compare all that to Bush Jr., who cannot set foot on any soil domestic or foreign without his people and the host government having to control angry protesters?
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That's why we have you Glenn
[Read the article: Our broken political discourse]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I read a letter in the Mercury news this morning from some indignant citizen protesting the totally unfair nature of Libby's persecution. He was still holding to the view that Plame's status "was not established" and yadda yadda.
The problem is you have true believers, but they need some hook to hang their hat on. They can base their prejudged notions on the fact that a major newspaper put it into print, and they wouldn't do that if someone hadn't fact checked it, would they? So Mr. "Yawwn" fills a pretty big need.
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Here's a sobering thought
[Read the article: The GOP is the party of the Iraq war]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]We've already lost the war in Iraq, and the pullout is inevitable. There is just no win there, which is why Cheney and Lieberman are pushing so aggressively for an Iran war. So when the collapse happens, who do you think the base is going to blame?
You guessed it: liberals and the Democratic party. The party of "personal responsibility" sure isn't going to blame themselves for anything.
As for McCain, I have never understood the appeal. I have progressive and liberal friends who are impressed with him, and could never articulate a reason that makes sense to me, other than the fact than he is less obviously insane than Bush/Cheney.
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This is why some people like Bush so much
[Read the article: Judge dismisses Valerie Plame's lawsuit]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]His side always wins, and a lot of people just want to be on the side that wins all the time.
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Is Yoo still over there at UC Berkeley
[Read the article: John Yoo -- then and now]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Can anyone here tell me what they think of his opinions over at Boalt Hall?
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So reading the tea leaves
[Read the article: What Beltway media stars mean by "centrism" and "extremism"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]It would seem that the media narrative that the few of us that read Greenwald/Somerby/Alterman/Boehlert are seeing will flower eventually into a meme that will be hard to stop. "Clinton is this and Obama is that." I don't think it even matters this and that are, just so long as they get to stroke the candidate they like and trash the one they don't.
I remember when the press was spending so much time on Bush's "likeability" when at the same time I was sitting here wondering how anyone could even look at him without feeling nauseous, much less have a beer with him. No matter -- they needed something to balance Gore's awesome credentials so that's what they had.
Right now it doesn't seem too offensive, since most of us could vote for either Hillary or Barack, but just wait until Hardball and Meet the Press tries to "fair and balance" the field between either of them and whomever the Republicans finally settle on. Would that be Thompson? That is a lot of leveling to do but don't think they won't attempt it to generate the horserace they crave so much.
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Hacks vs Civil Service and Soldiers
[Read the article: The leak designed to save Alberto Gonzales]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]You have to wonder what Mueller privately thinks of Gonzales. The FBI Director made no attempt whatsoever to pull Gonzo from the train tracks. The General must be just disgusted.
I wonder if this issue will be busted open not by anything to do with Contempt of Congregess, but instead by Contempt of Gonzales by official witnesses who are ready for a little payback for something.
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Slightly off-topic
[Read the article: Various items]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Is it just me or does it seem that the Republicans -- both Bush and those in congress that may or may not be aligned with him -- basically seem to be following a scorched earth policy?
They know they are going to lose big-time in 2008 and there are no popular issues they can really use, so their only remaining card to play is to make things SO miserable that a big section of the malleable voting public just might decide to blame the Democratic congress for deteriorating affairs and vote them out. That's what these headlines that blame things on the "Senate" as opposed to the "obstructionist Republicans" are all about.
I just can't make any other sense out of their current actions. It's like watching Sarumann wasting the Shire or something.
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How do you get a chance to do these interview?
[Read the article: The truth behind the Pollack-O'Hanlon trip to Iraq]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]What I don't understand is why any of these puffed shirts grant Glenn Greenwald an interview. It is like being cross-examined when you don't need to be.
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Hubris?
[Read the article: The truth behind the Pollack-O'Hanlon trip to Iraq]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Me: "What I don't understand is why any of these puffed shirts grant Glenn Greenwald an interview. It is like being cross-examined when you don't need to be."
Jebbie: Perhaps it has something to do with hubris.
That's a pretty extreme case of it then. These guys are clearly aware of how thoroughly this blog skewers their arguments. When's the last time Bush or Cheney ever put themselves in front of a hostile -- or even neutral -- audience? Half the the people working closely with them will defy congressional subpeona rather than answer questions from someone not on their side.
If there is one thing the right wing has learned, it is to never ever ever put yourself on a level playing field. I am just amazed and wonder what possible motivation there could be for them to even be taking GG's phone call?
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Grover understated it
[Read the article: Enforcing the community's foreign policy orthodoxy]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Bi-partisanship isn't date rate. It is more like 20 years of sex slavery.