Letters to the Editor
Joel_Grant
Published Letters: 174 Editor's Choice: 13
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Dems and Religious Right have another thing in common
[Read the article: Stop lying to yourself. You love Dennis Kucinich]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Which is: what they say and what they do are not the same.
I supported Kucinich in 2004 and I support him now. He is the only candidate anywhere with whom I agree on almost every issue. No doubt the same is true for all liberal/progressive Dems in the country.
But he has almost no support. Because most Dems are like the religious right: all lightning, no bug.
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Still, not formerly
[Read the article: Prince wants to sue his fans, undo the Internet]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]He is still an extreme narcissist. Some shrink should do a case study of this guy. If he is "formerly" anything it would be 'interesting'.
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Will any of this matter?
[Read the article: Dianne Feinstein -- Bush's key ally in the Senate -- to support telecom amnesty]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Unless an actually independent and liberal Democrat runs against and defeats Feinstein when next she runs, none of this matters.
It boils down to whether or not California Democrats are paying attention.
Any of them out there? What is the mood these days? Can she be dumped?
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Saying it again...
[Read the article: Dianne Feinstein -- Bush's key ally in the Senate -- to support telecom amnesty]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]We need to put our primary focus on comprehensive election reform. Total public financing of elections, even if it takes a constitutional amendment.
Our political process is corrupt beyond any repair short of major surgery.
Unless and until we fix the broken process we wil continue to get politicians (like Feinstein et. al.) rather than leaders.
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Respect not the same as support
[Read the article: Ron Paul distortions and smears]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I am with Glenn on this. I doubt that Glenn "supports" Ron Paul. I don't think Glenn is a conservative Republican.
But that is not the point. People like Ron Paul and Dennis Kucinich, who Paul praises in the embedded YouTube clip, are exactly that democracy is about.
The whole point is to have political leaders (not exactly the same as 'politicians') who state their views openly and honestly and defend them intelligently.
If Ron Paul does not think that Social Security is constitutional and, ultimately, wants to roll it back, I disagree. But compare Ron Paul to Rove and Bush, who want to cripple Social Security but lie about it. They claim they want to "reform" the program.
How much healthier is a democracy with people like Ron Paul? I think he is exactly what the doctor ordered. Not as a person who I would vote for, but as a person who advances the public debate in an intelligent, honest and responsible way.
If my ONLY choice was between Ron Paul and any of the Republican candidates, Paul would get my vote in a heartbeat.
In the end, if we cannot take people like Paul (and Kucinich, who I support) more seriously, we are going to be stuck with the likes of Hillary, Lieberman, Giuliani, and the rest of the "serious" Beltway asswipes.
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The emasculation of Sidney Blumenthal
[Read the article: Goodbye, Mr. Bush]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I have enjoyed your eloquent and fire-breathing columns. But now you are off to sniff at power again, leaving your balls at the door.
How long it takes to build respect; how quickly it is lost.
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@Retired Military Patriot
[Read the article: Rudy Giuliani's messianic paranoia]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]You are right about the 75/25 split; but the 75 must first come to know that Ghouliani (love that one!) that is one of the 25. Glenn and the rest of us need to keep hammering about this.
No need to Swift Boat Ghouliani. The facts are sufficient to rule him out as fit for office.
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Therapist should be for you
[Read the article: My wife keeps cheating but we have two kids. Should I leave her?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Don't make it worse by acting out against the other guy. At least, not unless you can plan something really terrific that will make him suffer the way he deserves but will never be traced back to you.
In the meantime, the revenge fantasies will help you cope.
The therapist should be for you to help you cope with the fact that you are divorcing your wife. Do it. Do it and don't look back.
As painful as it is, there is no question that a wound like this will heal. That is, if it isn't constantly opened.
Your kids will suffer and a therapist will help you soften the blow. But you simply will never be able to trust your wife again, nor should you trust her, and when trust is gone, the marriage is over.
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Another test for media, congress
[Read the article: McClellan's meaning, Oprah's impact and other mysteries]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]This is not a "story"; this is a very big deal. Did the President and/or Vice President of the United States knowingly lie to protect those who illegally outed a covert intelligence agent?
Were the same two people involved in the outing?
Isn't this even more important to understand and get to the bottom of than blowjobs in the Oval Office?
So far, media and congress are flunking, as they have flunked for years. We need to keep pushing for the truth.
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The advantages of a parliamentary system
[Read the article: Good riddance to John Howard ]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]There are disadvantages to a parliamentary system, most notably the tendency to spawn multiple special-interest parties whose influence grows beyond its numbers. (Like the ultra-rich and the theocrats in this country in our system.)
However, the fact that the leader is himself or herself part of the legislature and must face withering opposition on a regular basis is a huge plus for the parliamentarians.
Can you even remotely imagine that someone so ill-informed and inarticulate as GW Bush could ever have become a prime minister in a system that subjected a potential PM to such withering assaults?
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"Time" is hooked. Real it in.
[Read the article: Joe Klein digs Time's hole deeper still]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Nothing can save Klein and his enablers as "Time" except letting them off the hook. There is no question, no objective question, that Klein is absolutely wrong and that "Time" is letting that happen.
Perhaps one of their competitors would be interested in giving this story the coverage it deserves?
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Are they going to win again because they outwait us?
[Read the article: Everything that is rancid and corrupt with modern journalism: The Nutshell]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Do we give up (again) or do we keep at it until this becomes the big story it deserves to be?
This is really a bizarre situation. The "dispute" can be resolved, not by doing backflips or practicing controversial rocket science, but by reading the bill.
It is not a question of opinion. Just read it.
This needs to be pushed and pushed and pushed.
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We figured it out
[Read the article: "Love and Sex With Robots"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]My computer and I had a talk about this and we decided the idea was too far fetched to be taken seriously.
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Dump the friend
[Read the article: A friend is involved in Scientology. Should I interfere?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Don't worry about the friend, just stop being friends. Who would want to hang around with someone who believes the most idiotic, stupid nonsense in the history of lunacy? Just walk away. Don't listen to Cary. Forget it. Run away! Run away!