Letters to the Editor
Joel_Grant
Published Letters: 174 Editor's Choice: 13
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Interview style better suited to talk to Britney or David
[Read the article: Hillary's hard-won experience]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Spears or Hasselhoff, that is.
It was a kids-gloves interview.
I would love to see someone ask her really tough questions like why it is legal to invade other countries, countries that are not threatening us. Why, if she has the time and the stamina to prepare for campaign events, she could not find the time to read the intelligence reports before voting to give GW Bush the authority to wage war.
Now Salon is writing gushing teen-mag style pieces about Hillary Clinton. And many of the readers are lapping it up.
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Here is why Glenn is right on the money
[Read the article: Lewis Libby owes his freedom to our corrupt political elite]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Consider the guy in the story I am going to relate to be a synecdoche. He is a stand in for millions of Americans who are very decent, Republican, not neocons or theocrats, salt of the earth and so on and so forth. And they really do not pay enough attention to what is going on.
I work with this guy and I know he is not only a Republican. His son has served in the Stryker Brigade in Iraq. The son is now back in the states and in fact is anxious to return.
My co-worker and I rarely discuss politics at work (for one thing, we are getting paid to work) but we went to lunch today and he brought up the Scooter/Commuter connection.
He said he totally disagreed with what GWB did, thought it was nasty and corrupt and so on. Probing further, though, I discovered he believes something along the lines of "they all do it."
Condensing the story, I can only say that thanks to the corrupt Beltway political and media class, the fact that what GWB and his crowd are orders of magnitude more corrupt, more dangerous, and more un-American than anyone we have ever seen is just plain lost on my friend.
They all do it. A pox on all their houses.
And so this criminal administration will walk. There will be no serious consequences and we all know that. They will not be impeached. They may be convicted of crimes, but the Commuter will bail them out.
There will be no surge of public outrage; my friend is immune to outrage because it is not hammered at and hammered at over and over by everyone in the media. The events of the last six years are not nearly as serious as lying about a blow job.
That - I assure you, that - broke through to my friend's consciousness and he is outraged to this day.
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They Crawl Out from Under the Rocks
[Read the article: Lewis Libby owes his freedom to our corrupt political elite]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Now would anyone stoop so low as to suggest that it is pedophiles or axe murderers who swoop into a blog and anonymously hiss stupid, pissy little slurs against the blogger?
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Remedy is in Congress
[Read the article: Yesterday's ruling on NSA warrantless eavesdropping]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The Dems need to make it clear that illegal spying is, well, illegal and apply every remedy they possibly can, up to and including impeachment.
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To answer the question
[Read the article: Dear Readers]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Michael Scherer asks we the readers:
"Would it be better for Democrats to simply block out of their minds the gendered politics that under-gird the presidential election, even if voters are talking about them on the trail? And if not, why not confront these politics head-on? Why not ask the question directly: What's so great about electing a president because he claims to have the most machismo?"
No, it would not be better for Democrats to "block out of their minds..." gender politics. They should not block out of their minds anything ethical that might help them get votes.
But that is not the question here. The question is: should Michael Scherer publish poorly written and poorly thought out crap articles about gender politics?
As for "Why not ask the question directly..." indeed, why not? Why not write an article about gender politics as opposed to a fluff piece about Hillary is masculine and Obama is feminine?
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Impeachment has to be on the table
[Read the article: Still more White House secrecy -- this time in the Tillman investigation]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Steve W. beat me to the punch but I want to emphasize the importance of watching Bill Moyers' show from last night.
John Nichols and Bruce Fein made an excellent case for impeaching Bush and Cheney. Their goal is not to exact retribution. Their goal is to make it plain to the next administration and all administrations that follow that this kind of reckless and lawless and monarchical behavior is wrong.
Nichols pointed out that it was not just the White House and Congress that have fallen down on the job. The press has not been doing its job. This view is familiar to Glenn's readers, but it was nice to see it stated so forcefully in this forum.
For more than 30 years the right wing has been working night and day to change our government. Changing the government necessarily involves changing the mainstream media, and they have done that as well.
We have to change it back. The blogosphere (while it lasts) may be one of the major players in this effort. I strongly urge everyone to get active in favor of impeaching Bush and Cheney.
As Nichols pointed out, impeachment is not a constitutional crisis. It is the medicine for a constitutional crisis.
Impeachment hearings could serve as a learning experience for those Americans who have not been paying enough attention. It is a step we have to take - Pelosi be damned.
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They are never called to account
[Read the article: Cooking the intelligence, again]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]When even the leading Democratic candidates believe we should continue the occupation of Iraq, albeit with fewer troops, why shouldn't Bush and Cheney and Rove continue to use the same dishonest marketing plan?
They are never, ever, called to account. The Democrats are more loyal than opposition. The Republicans all have guns and the Dems haven't even brought knives to the political fight.
Unless and until we see the Dems get serious (impeachment, special prosecutors, contempt charges, never caving in, etc. etc.) the right wing will continue to do whatever they want and they will continue to thumb their noses at the rest of the world.