Letters to the Editor
Joel_Grant
Published Letters: 174 Editor's Choice: 13
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@shooter242
[Read the article: Things that don't exist in Harry Reid's world]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Who asks: "So what exactly is this post complaining about........that Lieberman isn't Lamont?"
That is not what this post is complaining about.
Start at the title of the post: "Things that don't exist in Harry Reid's world".
The post is complaining about the fact that, for Harry Reid, issues like "...eavesdropping, habeus corpus, telecom amnesty and torture" do not exist.
This post uses Reid's comments about Lieberman as a means to an end. The end is to illustrate that some issues, issues Glenn feels very strongly about, are not important issues to the Senate Majority Leader.
Shooter242 also says: "Believe it or not, saying nice things about a potential ally is more effective than vilifying them in print on a regular basis."
Saying things that are true is usally better than saying things that are false. Reid could avoid vilifying Lieberman, a move Glenn has not called for, by not saying anything at all about Lieberman. Or he could say something non-committal. Or he could say that Lieberman votes with the Democrats on more issues than not.
There is in fact alot of room between "saying nice things" and "vilifying them in print on a regular basis."
This point is, come to think of it, not very subtle.
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She should quit...
[Read the article: What should Hillary Clinton do now?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]... and learn how not to be a warmonger, preferably in another country.
Other than her vicious Republican-helping primary strategy (such as declaring herself and McSame to be experienced enough to be president, but Obama, not so much) the problem I and many others have with her is that she is a warmonger.
Simple as that.
Go away, Bill and Hillary. Go far, far away and never come back. Take your spiritual leader Karl Rove with you.
Go away and leave us alone but leave a big enough beach for all the Clinton lovers to pound sand.
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The bumper sticker war
[Read the article: John McCain's Vietnam-based view of war]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]McWarmonger can and does reduce his views to a bumper sticker. The other side needs to do that as well.
Most people just do not pay much attention. The right wingers who pay attention prove, over and over, that their attention wanders halfway through the first sentence.
We have seen this issue reduced to a formulation such as "generals are associated to the Pentagon, so what?".
There must be a way to make these points that will resonate with the wider public.
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You mean except for all those dead people in central America?
[Read the article: Why Ronald Reagan didn't completely suck]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Amazing. Even a "liberal" historian apparently buys into the notion of American exceptionalism. It is OK to illegally fund and otherwise support death and torture squads.
And still not "completely suck."
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Did anyone else read the DailyKos diary to which Joan Walsh links?
[Read the article: Some thoughts about West Virginia ]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Well? I do urge you to read it. For example, the Obama supporter who is lashing out at uppity big city slickers says:
20% of the adult population in West Virginia are low-level readers. Percentages represent county residents who have difficulty reading beyond a fourth grader level. These adults find it difficult to read basic information like road signs, job applications, newspapers articles, and food and medicine labels.
The diarist cites a study from the State of West Virginia, hardly a snobby elitist hippie peace queer group for his statistic.
The diarist also says:
Not everyone has time to learn about the political process, the candidates, or the issues. The less resources (e.g., time, money) you have, the less likely you are to have the ability to understand the political process or the people involved.
These are tonight's Clinton supporters, by the way. The diarist continues:
These are not willfully ignorant people. These are hardworking Americans who are doing the best they can with the hand they were dealt. These are people who are proud to put a union bumper sticker on their car. They hear the word solidarity, and they think brotherhood, not commie bastard. These people bled for progress. If they are ignorant now, it's because we left them behind. If we believe in the 50 state strategy, then it's time for us to stop leaving these people behind.
So if I or some other epicene Obama supporter points out that some of the people in Appalachia are ignorant we are bigots. But someone from Applalachia can say it and that is OK.
Look. No one I know or know of believes that anyone in the country should be written off or left behind. We actually all believe that no child should be left behind, as a matter of fact and not just as a matter of marketing a disastrous education policy.
We face problems such as internet illiteracy (something the diarist also writes about), poor schools, a terrible health care system, the country being bled by the endless occupation of Iraq and I will stop right there. You get the idea.
There are real problems including the fact that some parts of the country have been left behind. Some people aren't as lucky as the San Francisco and Seattle liberals.
Obama supporters do not want to abandon anyone. But we refuse to be in the logically unsupportable position of saying we want to help everyone get ahead, without acknowledging that some people have been left behind.
So, Hillary bitter-enders, cut it out with your willful misrepresentation of Obama and his supporters. If we cannot acknowledge the facts on the ground, well, I guess we ought to believe that Clinton is doing the right thing still hanging around.
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Football, important. War crimes, not so much
[Read the article: "Actual journalists" as government spokespeople]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I see that Arlen Specter, he who sometimes talks a good game but seldom backs his words with votes or actions, wants more investigation into the football "scandal" where one team spied on another.
Fill in the rest yourselves.